They’re showing famous people’s living rooms again

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Thank you to Bombas for sponsoring this video! Head to https://bombas.yt.link/aEiTend and use code KENDRA20 at checkout for 20% off your first purchase. Have you been wishing someone had parsed through a series of celeb photographs. Well, it’s your lucky day. I made a spreadsheet based on The New Yorker’s photo series “Power Houses: Inside the living rooms of notable New Yorkers.” In the portfolio by Gillian Laub you get to see inside the possibly staged living rooms of Lin Manuel Miranda, AOC, Spike Lee, and Agnes Gund. But by looking at these photos we learn a thing or two about New York apartments, white walls, and wood floors. We also compare it with a 1995 version of this photo series by Dominique Nabokov and see what has changed in 30 years. Not as much as you think. Read and view the New Yorker pieces here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/12/power-houses https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/10/16/living-rooms Check out my Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/kendragaylord The latest episode of my podcast, Someone Lived Here: https://youtu.be/Uh2At1w3oCk And idk, follow me on instagram if you’re into that kind of thing: https://www.instagram.com/kendraggg/ 0:00 Intro 1:48 Spreadsheet 2:04 Pets 2:27 Portraits 2:58 Sitting or standing 3:23 Shoes inside? 3:36 Bombas Sponsor! 4:41 Interior design 5:01 White walls 6:02 Wood floors 7:22 Prewar apartments 8:00 1995 Photos 9:08 Dominique Nabokov 9:45 Living rooms then 11:25 Comparing ’95 to ’25 12:46 Frown vs smile index 13:28 Sarah Orne Jewett house Sources: The 2025 New Yorker photo portfolio by Gillian Laub: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/12/power-houses The 1995 New Yorker photo portfolio by Dominique Nabokov: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/10/16/living-rooms Sherwin Williams Top 50 Colors: https://www.sherwin-williams.com/en-us/color/color-collections/top-50-colors#top-interior-colors New York City’s Rental Housing Market, Jan 17, 2024: https://comptroller.nyc.gov/wp-content/uploads/documents/January-2024-Spotlight.pdf Where We Live NYC - Draft Plan, Jan 2020: https://wherewelive.cityofnewyork.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Where-We-Live-NYC-Draft-Plan.pdf The American Academy in Berlin - Fellows & Distinguished Visitors - Dominique Nabokov: https://www.americanacademy.de/person/dominique-nabokov-0/ Dominique Nabokov Books: https://www.apartamentomagazine.com/product/new-york-living-rooms-dominique-nabokov-4/