Property Brothers Accused of Elitist Gatekeeping After Brutally Trashing 2025 Kitchen Trends as “Tacky Garbage That Screams 2020s Regret”. The Property Brothers just detonated a full-scale war in the design world, and the internet is already on fire.
In a blistering new podcast appearance, Drew and Jonathan Scott doubled down on their tear-soaked confession from last week, going nuclear on current kitchen trends with zero apologies.
“Most kitchens being installed right now will look cheap, dated, and honestly embarrassing in five years,” Jonathan declared. “We’re ripping out brand-new 2023–2024 kitchens weekly because homeowners already hate them. Flat gray slabs, fake-waterfall islands, matte black faucets that show every fingerprint; it’s all going to look like the avocado green of the 1970s. Mark our words.”
Drew didn’t hold back either: “People are spending $80k–$150k to make their kitchen look like every Airbnb from 2022. It’s wasteful garbage. Gullible homeowners see it on Instagram, beg for it, then cry when they realize it photographs well but lives terribly.”
The backlash was immediate, and it’s vicious.
Top interior designers are now publicly accusing the Scotts of weaponizing “timeless” as a cynical marketing ploy to scare people into their own overpriced renovation packages.
“Calling everything ‘trash’ unless it’s white Shaker and brass is the ultimate gatekeep,” raged L.A.-based designer Brianna Holt on TikTok (a video that’s already at 4.2 million views). “They’re shaming regular people for liking color or modern lines while pushing the exact same safe, beige aesthetic they’ve sold for 15 years. It’s hypocritical and elitist.”
Another prominent designer, known only as @luxemoderne
on Instagram, posted receipts: side-by-side photos of the brothers’ own Las Vegas spec homes from 2018, complete with (wait for it) gray floors, matte black hardware, and the same “tacky” waterfall islands they now condemn.
“They literally built and flipped houses with the trends they’re now calling ‘garbage,’” she wrote. “They made millions off gray LVP and quartz that looked like bad marble. Now that those houses are hitting the market looking dated, they’re pivoting to ‘timeless’ so they can sell the next wave of renovations. It’s a scam wrapped in fake tears about their dead mom’s hardwood.”
The fury escalated when Jonathan clapped back live on air: “We admit we got sucked into the gray trend like everyone else. We learned the hard way. If calling out a look that’s already aging like milk makes us villains, fine. We’ll be villains with kitchens that still look perfect in 2040.”
As of this morning, #PropertyBrothersScam is trending in the U.S., with thousands of homeowners posting photos of their own “2020s regret” kitchens, many admitting they now feel stupid for following trends the brothers themselves once installed.
One thing’s clear: the Scotts just drew a line in the hardwood, and half the design world is ready to burn their white oak empire to the ground.
