The ' Nailed It ! ' comedic star does n’t take her home too seriously , and she does n’t think you should either .
You ’d recollect that as a host of a bake competition show , Emmy - nominate comedian Nicole Byer would be into baking — but you ’d be wrong . Or that as a Virgo , she ’d be a hand - on , “ Let me get that for you ” type of legion . Wrong again ( thoughtrue to her star sign , she ’s vehemently against wear shoes in the house and drive into bed with outside apparel on ) . What the comedian , author , and podcast hostisinto : maximalism , Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam , andEntourage(oh my ! ) , which you ’d pucker if you stepped inside her plate .
Referred to by a friend as “ Pee - Wee Herman ’s home but for girls , ” Byer ’s infinite is filled top to bottom with personal novelty , colorful wallpaper , and patterned carpeting . While her humor leaning dry , her pattern style is the opponent of downplay .
And while you ’re more probable to find her painting her ceiling than poring over a recipe for ahomemade patty , Byer has make some Wisdom of Solomon fromNailed It!that she carries into hosting at home .
Nicole’s House Rules
Byer likes what she like , and that ’s the whole philosophy behind how she decorates — an musical theme as dim-witted as the rule she live by .
Shoes off at the door . I do n’t like horseshoe in my house . I recollect it ’s unearthly . I mean you ’re bring in all of the outside . It ’s double-dyed .
If you want something to wassail , go get it . aboveboard , just go get it . If you ’re in my theater , it intend we ’re friends . It means I experience you .
give your rubbish away , please . It ’s so vexatious when you have people over and they just allow poppycock everywhere . You have it away where the trash is . It ’s by the cesspit . It ’s where most people ’s trash is .
Q: Do you have any house rules that were instilled in you growing up?
One of our theater rules spring up up wasshoes off , and I ’ve carried that on to my own home . My mammy did n’t really leavedirty dishesin the cesspool , so I seek to not leave behind dirty dishes in the sink overnight . I have a dishwashing machine , so it ’s easy . You just put it in the dishwasher . When I did n’t have a dish washer , that was much , much , much harder to uphold .
I but do n’t like to see dirty dish in the dawning . Like , when I see my coffee , I do n’t desire to see honest-to-goodness dishes from yesterday in the sink . So before I go to bed , I ’m like , ' Okay , this is gon na take you 30 seconds — just [ redacted ] do it . Just do it . ' So , yeah , I infer it ’s like , if it take less than two minutes , just do it . Also , I survive alone , so I ’m like , ‘ Who ’s gon na see it ? Who ’s it for ? ’ It ’s for me .
Q: What does making a house a home mean to you?
I cogitate make a house a home means set up all the thing you wish in your family . hoi polloi buy a planetary house and then decorate it or renovate it in a way that they ’re like , ' Oh , this is gonnaup my resale value'—and I ’m like , ' Okay , so you ’re already thinking about not live there . '
Paint the wall , put hole in the wall , hang up pictures . Make the place yours . And also , who cares what other multitude like ? You have to care it . You have to look at it . You have to live in it . So , I ’m all about colors . I do it that ’s not everyone ’s cup of afternoon tea . In another room , I have a Panthera tigris mark couch , and that ’s not everyone ’s cupful of teatime . But for me , I calculate at it and it make me smile .
Q: Would you say you’re a maximalist then?
Oh , absolutely amaximalist . I have tsatske everywhere . I have thing and impression hung up everywhere . really , everywhere you expect , there ’s something that brings me joy , and I ’ve decorated in such a unusual way — like I see the whole series ofEntouragethis year . So I boughtEntourageDVDs , and they ’re just [ throughout my house]—I do have a DVD player . I also have a VHS player . take heed , I love vintage . Go thrifting ! I hate when people are like , ‘ Oh , you recognise , I ca n’t yield this , ’ but it ’s like , you may . Go thrifting . Facebook Marketplaceis unbelievable for finding material . Sometimes multitude do n’t know what they have , and they ’re selling it for so cheap . Getting disembarrass of stuff too — just because you have a rug that you do n’t like , does n’t mean you have to keep it . Get a new rug . Sell yours on Facebook Marketplace , and get a unexampled one .
Nicole Byer
Paint the bulwark , put cakehole in the wall , hang up characterization . Make the post yours . Who care what other citizenry like ? You have to wish it . You have to look at it . You have to dwell in it .
Q: Have you always had the mindset of ‘I’m gonna do what I want to do’ and put your personal touches everywhere?
I ’ve always liked colors . My way grow up was , like , different shades of purpleness . Yeah , I ’ve always been a person that present my personality through where I populate .
Q: How do you turn your house into a home?
frankly , I in truth think you could go to like three different home goodness fund , then a thrift store , and spend $ 50 to $ 100 and have a lot of style . A lot of people draw a blank that title your home does n’t signify a bunch of al-Qur’an that you ’ve never read just place around or whatever . It ’s like , what do you like ? Do you like peacocks ? Get a peacock stained glass affair , border it , and advert it in your house . Or , if you wish flowers , get some flowers , press them , put them in a frame , attend them up . you’re able to also make things for your house .
The whole millennian gray affair , the beige affair — it bums me out . I finger like we lost the formula in the ’ ninety to fun material . Sure , maybe you do n’t like that avocado or Au or chocolate-brown from the ’ 70s , but some of it is an aesthetic , and it ’s the vibration , and I be intimate it .
Even if you have those gray-haired hardwood floors or faux hardwood or whatever that ’s in every apartment , throw rugs over it . I get it ; it ’s tough . You ca n’t always pick where you engage , but throw a [ redact ] colourful rug over .
As part of her partnership with Wayfair , here are some of Byer ’s favourite colorful piece .
Q: How did you earn the title of Wallpaper Queen?
I literally have wallpaper in every room . I sleep together it . This room has two dissimilar wallpapers and a 3D flower wall that ’s used for backdrops at a marriage ceremony or whatever . But I was like , I like how it looks , and I hung it up , and it took me always , but it looks arresting .
You could get wallpaper sincerely anywhere . Andpeel - and - stickis tenant - friendly , and I know that because I ’ve slay it and it did n’t damage my walls or anything , okay ? And you’re able to shift it out ; you do n’t have to keep it forever . I just jazz patterns and texture , and I know that ’s not for everybody . Like right now , I have so many different texture in the background of this [ video call ] .
Q: You do! I was going to ask about that stuffed tiger behind you.
I got very intoxicated and ordered it online . I see it in a thrift store . So I took a picture , image - searched it , was drinking , and I was like , ‘ I believe I desire a large tiger for myself . ’ And then when it fare I was like , ‘ What is this ? Who receive this for me ? ’ Then I had to look through when I bought it , and I was like , ‘ Oh , yep , that stool sense . ’
Q: Do you have a home project that you’ve recently tackled that you’re very proud of?
I intend , my office looked very unlike than it does now , and I hang up Robert Peel - and - stick wallpaper on this wall , and then I had peel - and - stick wallpaper on the other wall that I had done myself , and I was very , very proud of it . And then I decide to exchange it up , because I had a hole in one of the wall , and it got sealed up . And I was like , ‘ Oh , well , the wallpaper do down , so I ’ll deepen it out . ’
So I take up painting . And I waspainting my ceiling , and I did such a regretful job that I ended up have to call somebody who then tell me how bad of a job I did , and literally , all the things I did wrong . I was like , ‘ I get it , sir . I get it . ’ Technically , I did not do it myself , but I am proud of how it turned out .
Q: What exactly went wrong, might I ask?
I do n’t recognize ! Looking on Instagram , paint a ceilingseemed very , very easy . These hoi polloi are like , ‘ You just do this and this , ’ and then they ’re doing it . It was so arduous . I did n’t tape anything off — I should have . And then paint flecks were flying on my glasses , and I ’d go out into the worldly concern , but I ’d be like , ‘ Why ca n’t I see ? ’ Then I ’d face and my glasses would just have blusher all over them .
Q: When you’re designing a space, what do you start with? Where do you look for inspiration?
It ’s kind of a free - for - all . I dolook at Pinterestand am like , ‘ Okay , so that ’s the aesthetic I like . ’ And then from there , I go , ‘ How do I make it my own ? ’ Like , I know I wanted a leopard print couch in my living room , but I had to incur the pure modular because I do n’t love a sectional . I like being able to move material . Then I found this fabulous tiger photographic print one , and from there , I was like , ‘ Ooh , maybe I ’ll do this wallpaper with it . ’ After that , I was like , ‘ Okay , I ’m gon na paint the cap this . ’ So it ’s just like , chunk by lump what I think is gon na expect honest .
Q: Do you have a favorite room in your house?
I do n’t know if I have a favorite room per se . They ’re all really fun . I have wallpaper in every way . I have tsatske in every room . I have a circle of weird hooey . I found three brass instrument giraffes , and I put them in the living room , and then I found two swelled , giant brass giraffes . I was like , ‘ Oh , my God , they ’re all family . ’ So I wish them , and they make me smile . Really , my house is insane . I did have a Quaker come over that was like , ‘ Your firm is like Pee - Wee Herman ’s sign for girls . ’
Q: Are there any baking tips you’ve gathered from hosting Nailed It!?
Yeah , read the directions . A passel of times , citizenry do n’t read the directions , and that lead to a little bit of a calamity . But I ’m not a big baker , really .
Q: What about a boxed mix?
perfectly . I do n’t want to make acake from scratch . I mean , I ’m sure I could find the recipe , but I just do n’t have ingredients . My larder is literally esthetically pleasing : There ’s wallpaper in the larder . The shelves are this unbelievable Orange River to go with the wallpaper , and there ’s literally bounder food for thought , alcohol , and cereal . That ’s all I have in the pantry . I do n’t have , truly , anything to make .
Q: What’s your hosting style? Are you more laidback or do you like a theme?
I ’m not quite a theme girly , but I will host dinner party parties at my mansion . Usually , the root word is , ' I ’m not cooking , so you have to wreak something or order something . ' But mostly I ’m like , ‘ you may cook in my kitchen . '
I had my supporter over and a bunch of other girl , and she made uslasagna . She made three different lasagna , meat and a veggie . And that was delightful because I have a go at it lasagna . And then in the summer , I ’ll have one or two parties : one for my birthday , and maybe one for the Fourth of July , and that one is like , nobody come in the house . You all outride out of doors . If you do n’t wish the music playing , I take requests . My friend will grill . I ’m pretty hands - off ! And if you need something , I ’ll try out to find it .
Q: Do you have a go-to meal or treat that you like to provide when you’re hosting?
Wine . I have John Barleycorn . I have inebriant , and I ’ll have club soda as a sociable , and that ’s all you get .
Q: Red, white, or rosé?
I do white or rosé . I ’m not a violent girly , unless it ’s a Lambrusco . That ’s skillful .
