Trump is much richer and more famous than me. But in one area I clearly come out ahead—bad taste.
In the recent secret document case, Trump got a lot of ridicule for pictures showing that he had a fancy chandelier in his bathroom. Here’s a Bloomberg headline:
Berlusconi Would Have Loved Trump’s Bathroom Chandelier
I agree that it’s bad taste to have a chandelier in a bathroom—the scale is all wrong and there’s something especially tasteless about combining chandeliers with basic bodily functions.
But I can think of even worse examples of bad taste—indeed I have one in my own house. As you can see in the picture below, I have a chandelier in my half bath right off from the entrance hall:
Trump has the sort of ostentatious bad taste that one often sees with the nouveau riche. But I’m even more newly rich, and ensconced in the global center of nouveau riche excess—Orange County, California.
PS. It was hard to get a good picture, as the room is tiny (sink only) but has a 12 foot ceiling. Notice the tasteless “crown molding” that was added to this tiny room.
That same crown molding disfigures much of what was intended by the architect to be a mid-century modern home. See how in another room it crosses an opening for a cabinet:
