Ranking Architectural Digest Celebrity House Tours

Who can spend their trust-fund the best?

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The thumbnail photo of Emma Chamberlain’s tour with Architectural Digest.

Grace Shafer, Staff Writer

I feel like everyone has moved or re-decorated a room with their parents. You have to just smile and nod your head and silently judge every decorative decision they make. Of course, you’re a child, so you have no choice or control, but it was always particularly irritating for me. I don’t think designing should be impractical, but I do think people should curate their home to reflect their personalities and character.

“Architectural Digest” is a monthly magazine that follows the latest interior decorating trends and innovative home tips. More notable for people our age though are their celebrity house tour YouTube videos. In these, the person basically just walks around the house, describing each room and the feel they have tried to perfect.

I’ve decided to randomly select five of these videos and intricately review and rank each one based on architecture, design, originality and personal depiction.`

5) Kendall Jenner

Not surprisingly, Jenner is sitting at the bottom of the tow pole. The whole house just had a very basic, modern flow with few original takes. The main color scheme was the classic white and black, sometimes white and burnt brown look- which is just completely not my thing.

I did appreciate that much of the furniture was versatile, but a lot of it just didn’t work together. I actually really did like the archways in random places of the house; it added a fraction of the quirks this house needed. There was definitely a variety of colors in terms of decoration, I just couldn’t acknowledge it as much because most of it didn’t attempt to follow a theme. If you’re a modern girl though, you would probably love it.

4) Cara Delevingne 

Only one word came into my mind: chaos- and not the good kind. Throughout the video, Cara describes the house as some twisted interpretation of “Alice in Wonderland,” a kind of Mad Hatter Tea Party thing. While it definitely has elements of that, it is just drowned out by this awful jungle presence that refuses to leave every room.

Creativity (even if insane) beats unoriginality any day. This hideous Gucci flamingo hot pink wallpaper surrounds the house, making even oneself feel cluttered. I don’t have many positive things to say about this house except one: experimentalness. She made her home her little play house (I mean this literally). It is riddled with secret doors to random ridiculous play rooms like “the hat room” or ” the swing room” or even “the ball pit room”.

3) Dakota Johnson

The epitome of cozy mid-century modern but it surpasses even the standards for this term. It’s the perfect blend of the modernized cabin and boho plant feel. Much of it could almost pass as an office; an office you could just lie down in and read books for hours.

Out of all of the houses I’ve reviewed, I definitely think hers had the most personal decor. Remnants of her and loved ones are displayed all over the house, just adding to the homey warmth. It had just enough oddities to keep me interested and just admire her style even more, like her teak garden table that is originally made by for Winston Churchill’s yacht. Overall, this house is very adorable and endearing and leaves hope for “mid-century modern,” which are words muttered every 5 minutes on HGTV shows.

2) Troye Sivan 

The fact that he lives in a “studio” says it all, this is the hippest man alive. Sivan blends eras of art and history that make it feel like you’re in a museum, but not in a cold, emotionless way. If anything it’s the opposite, it brings vibrance and celebrates these elements.

At certain times, there’s even a primal, neolithic-aged elegance that only Sivan could lace together with the contrasting, eccentric art that envelops the house. It almost comes off as minimalistic, but there is the perfect amount of decor with the meticulously curated art pieces he has chosen. The loft upstairs also has completely different tones from downstairs, but they complement each other well.

1) Emma Chamberlain

In a modest $4.3 million Beverly Hills beauty, Chamberlain has created the most wholesomely glam home that I could wish for her. I have trouble describing the style, but I also think this is why I chose her as number one. The house itself is an eclectic modern cabin-y piece of art. Much of the ceilings consist of stunning skylights that provide a beautiful soft Californian light down the long corridors of the house.

Every room also has a different feel from the next, but there definitely is some cohesive aesthetic that encompasses Chamberlain’s taste. She combines different decades and niches into what I can only describe as “summer camp” with an off-cottage undertone. It doesn’t sound like it would work, but Chamberlain executes it so well to the point where my literal dreams take place in that house…not in a creepy way though.