Hi, I'm Rudy Saunders

hey, gurl.

I have at least 9 of those Ikea "Billy" bookshelves*! After decades of holding 1000+ books, they are still in like-new condition!

*Not in public view, however.

She seems.... nice.

I love her and her apartment but all I can think of is how do those Currier and Ives plates survive after a night with a special trick?

In all seriousness, I hope he never fries anything.

what happened between minute 2:00 and minutes 18:00?

Too much shit in it. Esp on the wall

Too much clutter and useless decorative pieces.

I think he'd be very...reserved in bed, R4. Dear Grindr man, before we get down to business, let me just forewarn, these fabulous Wedgewood plates designed by the brilliant artist Caroline Williams are scenes of Cincinnati collected by darling grandmother. Should ANYTHING happen to them, well... Grindr dude puts his shirt back on and quietly says peace out.

what are the 100 pieces of folded colorful fabric?

I like him, seems sweet. He must be really tall.

He likes blue more than me.

God, I hate New Yorkers' delusions about their lives.

R10, They are all folded Lilly Pulitzer Bermuda shorts, from when he once worked in an LP boutique.

I'd rather Rudy hadn't told us about the glue gun, PVC pipe, and contact paper!

I love that he mentions needlepointing in bed…..so in keeping with the apartment!

The smiling pig done in needlepoint says it all.

Oh, Rudy.

Oh, dear, dear Rudy.

His commitment is admirable. In another life he would have been an enamelist, a watchmaker, or perhaps a big ol' mo with OCD!

Lemme at 'em!

Snort!

Looks like a bric-a-brac shop.

I assumed his apartment was a dress he was making for Eureka O'Hara.

I like it

He seems sweet. I could never live in such a small crowded space.

Ok, I'm going to get shot down in flames here, but I think he's very cute. The gaff is too cluttered though.

R18..."His commitment is admirable. In another life he would have been an enamelist, a watchmaker, or perhaps a big ol' mo with OCD!"

Savage!! PMSL

Like many untalented designers his space is atrocious. Obsessively overly busy. Every square inch smothered with old lady style. The plates, the figurines, the f-ing needlepoint. No place to sit. No place for anything. Framed artwork in the shower for chrissake. Useless cheap tchotchkes taking up valuable visual and living space. Extremely claustrophobic. What horrible taste. Let's not mention the pants...

One has to look at his shoes on a shelf while eating in his "dining room," sadly.

(It's basically an overstuffed NYC hotel room).

I have always wanted to live in a 92 year old's garage sale.

I am assuming he is under thirty and working for Draper's firm is a big deal. He's obviously learned the preppy aesthetic, but he needs to start figuring out his own taste. He reminds me a bit of me when I was his age and a young designer. Let's throw it all together and see what sticks. The Palm Beach/Draper aesthetic needs actual luxury. He's got a semi-decent eye for being able to find McGuire chairs in a dumpster and pick up some other interesting tchotchkes, but this Maximillism currently trending with 20 and thirty-somethings has to have some good pieces grounding the space, most of what is there just feels like unplanned clutter. Let's hope he continues to refine his eye and style.

What is the rent on something like that? No microwave or coffee pot or toaster.

There can be no room for a microwave or coffee pot or toaster when there has to be room for the flea market painted wicker elephant.

His shoes look large& he is very tall...I'm betting Rudy is well-hung!!

R30 is correct, I would need a coffee pot-toaster, hate Wedgewood, and in LOVE with Lily Pulitzer shorts and the wicker Elephant

I find it fascinating that Americans rattle off the square footage of their house/apartment. In Europe it's measured in terms of numbers of rooms- certainly UK and Ireland. I wouldn't have a fucking clue how to visualise 300sq ft, but if you told be you lived in a two bedroom apartment with separate kitchen, living room, bathroom and balcony, I'd nail it.

The place seems well laid-out for its size, and I can understand the urge to make such a small space seem bright and fun, but that video just made me want to be given an hour in it with a roll of trash bags and permission to chuck out half of the shit he has crammed onto the walls and shelves.

r33 you sound like a moron

This guy is ADORABLE! Far more real and human than Nicholas Fairford. Rudy collects stuff because he likes it and obviously has sentimental attachment to old bits and pieces his granny owned. A lovely guy. The apartment is way too small for all that stuff. He needs to find an eldergay who'll offer him a sizeable home he can go nuts on with all that Palm Beach, faux Chippendale look he likes. Am green with envy over the collection of Swatch watches and neckties.

Never would I have thought a man lived there. I like the cane furniture, but it’s hard to believe they spent 18 minutes filming in there standing in one place.

We love it!

And you R35 sound like a provincial eldergay yank. No one uses square footage as a measurement anymore. Europe has gone to decimalisation with the last forty plus years, you dinosaur. Furthermore, could your fat ass guess the size of a property simply by being told its measurements?

He looks better in the video. Cutie all the same.

R39 - I’m not R35. In America square footage is almost always given - usually it gives up I a rough guide of the overall size of a house - a 3 bedroom could be 1400 sq ft (modest) or 3500 sq ft (quite large) but the number of rooms is more prominent.

In NYC however it is the primary guide as to how big an apartment actually is and we always use it when looking for or describing our places - again a 550 sq ft studio will be a lot bigger than a 300 sq ft one - both are only one room (plus a bathroom)

With his dad. Rudy is such a sweetheart! Someone take Rudy away from all that clutter and to some big old mansion.

Out of kindness I shall say nothing about the clothes. Nothing.

Why is everything miniature in Rudy's Place but Rudy?

I hate his place. He talks about large scale but everything there is teeny-tiny and sitting stop something else only just big enough to support it. It's like a sofa completely piked with precious little needlepoint sayings and "flights of girly whimsy" that you can't tell if in fact there's actually a sofa under all those itsy-bitsy cushions, bright and shiny and comfortable as a plate of ribbon candy. He lacks only a skirted table laid tight as sardines with bibelots and French enamel snuff boxes is shades of Lily Pulitzer.

He says he works for Dorothy Draper [Fabric & Wallpaper] Design]. Draper did indeed use some of his bright pinks and yellows and pop-ish colors, but in the Carlyle and the Greenbrier hotels - bold floral prints but also big expanse of bright solids and a sense of scale and contrast and texture that's missing in this little shop of little shit of little consequence or value. In any case, Draper has been quite dead since 1969 and the eponymous firm seems to have gone another direction.

There's very little in the place of a size greater than a giant fat cock, which maybe explains something.

Rudy's nose, chin, big feet and general giantism are all giving me total BDE vibes about him.

Carleton V's heir apparent?

Funny you should mention that R47......Rudy on Carleton;

Mr. Varney, you believed in me when I was just a kid and made those dreams come true. Decorating with you has been such a privilege and the most incredible, inspiring, and magical journey, thank you for everything. We will continue to dream & to color the world in your honor"

There are men besides Rudy who like all that kitsch and clutter - we've seen quite a few homes like this...but it would be hard to have a partner in that small space, especially if it's a fellow collector. It's a hoarding situation waiting to happen.

It’s too bad his apartment isn’t big enough for him to stand up straight in.

[quote]I find it fascinating that Americans rattle off the square footage of their house/apartment. In Europe it's measured in terms of numbers of rooms- certainly UK and Ireland.

I find it fascinating that R33 doesn't know that the area of a property features critically in property listings in the UK, in Ireland, in France, in Spain, in Italy, in Germany, in Sweden... In the UK, dual measurements of feet and meters are given, and if the width of a facade or the height of ceilings or the depth of a rear garden is stated, it is more usually in feet than in meters. You do see some listings where the area is described entirely in metric form as X square meters, though usually this is new construction or new renovation. Feet and inches maintain a substantial hold in UK residential property even today despite having largely disappeared from other realms.

[quote]I wouldn't have a fucking clue how to visualise 300sq ft, but if you told be you lived in a two bedroom apartment with separate kitchen, living room, bathroom and balcony, I'd nail it.

Or not. I've seen 2 bedroom apartments of 30 square meters (322 square feet) and a balcony, and studio apartments with no separate bedroom but 70 square meters (750 square feet) and no balcony.

The number of rooms and even their partitioning as fully separate spaces tells you only so much, but when you see that the studio apartment is more than twice the area of the two-bedroom, you at least understand that the two-bedroom is a very mean space.

He’s lovely! Not a huge fan of the apartment but he seems like a genuinely sweet guy

I agree, #19. The cops will be knee-deep in tchotchkes when they investigate another Grindr murder.

My monthly rent?

[quote]No one uses square footage as a measurement anymore.

Bless your heart, Pumpkin. Have you been on Zillow? Realty.com? Or any other site that sells houses in America?

“Interior designer” for hoarders? He couldn’t design shot for me.

Bathroom in the fucking kitchen 🤢🤮I bet it’s $3,800 a month

Regular-Sized Rudy or Pocket-Sized Rudy?

I'm surprised he doesn't have one of those clear toilet seats with seashells encased inside.

I can't even press "play".

[quote]I have always wanted to live in a 92 year old's garage sale.

Actually that sounds like fun.

[quote]Furthermore, could your fat ass guess the size of a property simply by being told its measurements?

Dearheart, that’s precisely *how* one determines size. The number of rooms is meaningless because the rooms could be the size of a closet or the size of the Sistine chapel.

R59 that’s actually kinda neat. The dead seahorse is a cute touch

I wash my dishes in the shower.

I pity the immigrant who has to clean and dust this apt!

He’s like the queen you start off being nice to, but then find yourself crossing the street to avoid.

Okay, so maybe this is a stretch, but this apartment has so much prep worship that it's borderline white supremacist. I don't want to be that guy, but seeing this guy's apartment is like finding out your blonde friend is REALLY into Vikings and Germanic paganism. Like there is a difference between liking preppy clothes, and transforming your apartment into a shrine for Vineyard Vines. Maybe he's developmentally arrested in his fraternity days? IDK, it's just weird af. PS I'm not going to cancel someone and/or accuse someone of actually being a white supremacist outright because of the way they decorate their apartment. I'm just curious what is going on in the background of his brain that makes him go gaga for prep

I don't know many Americans who wear yellow pants. I've only seen people from European countries wear yellow, green, pink pants et

The worst part for me is the lighting, particularly the one on the ceiling. Maybe they needed some bright light for filming, but it put a garish, clinical spotlight on everything.

A couple nice lamps tucked here and there would be best.

R68, Golfers.

Is r67 a parody post?

Yes R67, that is a stretch! Jeez, the guy likes preppy stuff. Would you prefer he went 'wigger'?

He has a nice social life.

I get the impression that he adopted preppy style as an aspirational thing.

Does anyone get the impression that Rudy may be posting from (sotto voce) inside the house?

I think he's fun and cute.

He's from Ohio, so of course the Preppy fetish is aspirational.

Neither his style nor Nicholas Fairford's styles I can relate to as far as my own living environment goes - too twee for me - but I respect them and think they're both creative, kind people. No reason to be cunty about them.

Methinks...

He's leagues ahead of Fairford. Whatever we think of his style, Rudy actually 'makes' and designs. Fairford by contrast buys a few bits he thinks have a cache or class attached to them. He's really just scraping by, probably on welfare but trying to be an influencer.

He has influenced me not to go to his place.

I'd spray paint his sugar walls a shade of Sticky Pearly White™

Looks like Iris Apfel threw up in there

i swear some of these so called designers just throw all the shit in the world together, call it avant garde, and the design world goes potty over it, but it's just kitschy crap,

He's an interior designer!Oh my .Throw half that shit out boy.

i don't trust anyone that doesn't have a TV, especially in NY. Watching the news or emergency reports on a phone or tablet doesn't cut it.

He decorates his apartment like a college 'aesthete' decorates his dorm room, just fucking glad to be out of Igotmydickinmysister, Arkansas and only just starting to find his way in the world. At 27, he should have passed this embarrassing stage of preppiness/preciousness almost a decade ago.

This one adopted this look trying to pretend he is from old money. Very tiring and common. He must have Lilly Pulitzer, he must have bamboo accessories, he must have needlepoint, he must dress as “preppy” as he can to portray someone he aspires to be - a life he wish he was born into. I’m guessing he’s from Ohio and his parents are lower middle class. Poor guy, he will never be truly accepted by those he hopes to resemble.

I wonder if all those shorts still fit. He's not exactly prep school thin.

What did he say he does for a living?

I don't want to shoot that ambulance, but I don't believe he's an INTERIOR DECORATOR as in, people pay him to decorate their home. It's not possible. But then again I've only ever spent 4 days in NYC and the was 30 yrs ago. could it be true New-Yorkers of DL ?

Thinking about having to dust all that shit gives me fits.

In that tiny place I would have done the exact opposite. A beautiful blue on the walls; some classy paintings and mirrors; a couple attractive couches (one a hide-a-bed). Plants. Pretty lamps here and there. A bare floor with an expensive rug.

That wall colour at R91 is mouthwatering.

R68, R70 Golfers but also Southern frat boys. Southern frat boys are that special intersection of Lily Pultzer and Brooks Brothers, likely bought by their mothers complete with bow ties, that boggles the mind. Salmon-colored shorts paired with a navy blazer while shotgunning Old Milwaukee’s Best in the parking lot of a football stadium. I’ve seen it a thousand times.

where did he go to school? he wishes he was an interior designer. I would never hire him in a million years.

How can anyone live in that...i will never understand. too much shit in it!

R36 and R42 = Rudy

Highly questionable anal hygiene

R96 !!!! I was thinking EXACTLY the same. This guy gives me "nasty hole hygiene" vibes. Can't explain

Not that I disagree with the observation, but who cares about his hole enough to ever, maybe, find himself in any sort of proximity to it?

I too have plates from my great great grandmother, but A) they're quality pieces, it's actually the "service Rousseau" , in old Paris china, it's a museum quality set, quite a landmark in fact B) they're hanging on the KITCHEN wall B) THREE of them, not the entire fucking collection !!!

R95 I'm 36 and 42, I'm not Rudy, but I would totally smash his back doors in.

I love that apt and could live there easily

I was getting claustrophobic after about 90 seconds and could not watch anymore.

My inner Marie Kondo just wanted to throw all that shit out.

He or his cleaning person must need to spend hours each week just dusting off all that crap

If it were a two/bedroom, would the tour have lasted 54 minutes?

Unclench, tutti. He worked retail for years. He has tons of experience folding and shelving items of clothing.

I like a lot of his stuff, and I find his organizational skills, well, I wish I had them. I like the shade of blue he used on the walls, how he's arranged his "dining room," the way he's filled his Billy bookcases. I have those bookcases, and they don't look nearly as nice as his.

As for how "aspirational" he might be, it seems he went to a school called Cincinnati Prep, and started a Twitter account for it ten years ago. Make of that what you will. I'm not a twitterer, so I can only see the first couple of entries.

He doesn't bother me at all.

This guy is a bit nutz. He has no space or air conditioning and instead of getting a perfectly fine small window unit where the guts hang OUTSIDE, he gets a nosy portable interior unit that takes up space.

The AC unit is indoors so that it tackles the waves of poppers that emit from the bed right beside it. Underneath the blood orange loafers, acid lemon chinos and neatly pressed shirt is a total super freak!

You just know he took all their loads after this event. Next morning, his Dorothy Draper bedspread looked like a Jackson Pollock painting.

I like to pee on guys wearing yellow pants.

Does Rudy have the monkeypox yet?

Yeah R109, dumb punk caught it from me.

I like him and while I don't like the apt, he genuinely seems to. It's just too small. I know that's repeated over and over again with these NYC pads, but it just is. Even 600 sq feet would make a big difference. I wish he had room to include most of his beloved things AND have some space left over just for living. I'd like to see his style with room to breathe.

My biggest thing about maximalism is the stuff ON everything. I like stuff, but if I had a bunch of stuff I wanted to display, I'd need it to have boundaries - like a large shelving unit where I could go wild displaying it within a "frame" so that it doesn't all seem so messy, cluttered and haphazard. I need actual living space - surfaces and areas that aren't cluttered so I can use them.

[quote]I like him and while I don't like the apt, he genuinely seems to. It's just too small. I know that's repeated over and over again with these NYC pads, but it just is.

It's not too small, it's too cluttered. Every wall covered. Who puts framed pictures in the shower. Just silly.

It's too small AND too cluttered

He shops like a little girl. When you have a small space, it's all the more important to understand scale and not to make the common mistake of buying everything in sizes of cute, tiny, teeny-tiny, and ridiculously diminuitive. A good small space has some full size adult furniture -- and it doesn't make the space look smaller, it makes it look bigger by avoiding the dollhouse effect where everything is slightly off scale to everything else.

Just avoid big puffy furniture, the sort of stuff sold by the side of the road in the U.S.; and keep the lines if the furniture simple, without swells and elephant ears and ugly embellishments. Once the furniture is in place, buy some good art and chuck out all of that tawdry preppy SWAG bag detritus from the Bowling Green, Kentucky Garden Club. It's shit, it looks like shit, and it makes everything else look like shit.

Rudy, you're not a 6-year-old girl.

R114 exactly. NOTHING valuable in there. just 9yo gurlie junk. WTF ???

He made whatever remote semblance of a maternal instinct I have flare up. He's endearing within his decorative clutter. I bet he's a good neighbor.

How does he clean? You can't only use the feather duster you know. I'm just curious.

Those tiny ass apartments floor me because I'm really tall and nearsighted. It's like they mess up my depth perception or something.

Overall the gentleman seems to be making things work well enough. He comes across as an absolute dear and I want to bring him some homemade cookies and lemonade and just chat.

Marfan syndrome?

Seems like we all feel the same; his apartment is too small for what he's done to it. And we'd all like to fill his poop chute with our copious man seed.

"I get the impression that he adopted preppy style as an aspirational thing."

Yes. The pic with dad... I mean, you just KNOW that Rudy bought him that shirt, and made him wear it that day, and that the dad never would have bought it for himself. HOWEVER, Rudy does seems like a nice enough fellow and I love that his dad accepts him and loves him for who he is. If it were only so for all gay people.

Rudy's authenticity aside, who-- preppy or not-- wants their home to be "shop-able" and "store-like"? Why, in God's name?

“New York’s hottest new club is Rudy Saunders’s Studio Apartment and it’s got everything: wall plates, needlepoint, a spray-painted elephant, garbage chairs, rattan, a half sink, refrigerator wallpaper, fabric samples, a love seat, thrift store art, a lemon-colored Cuisinart stand mixer. Everything, and more!”

LOL R120....seriously there 's no excuse for calling himself an interior decorator...in his own mind perhaps, but IRL, no way

[quote] we'd all like to fill his poop chute with our copious man seed.

thanks but no thanks, you can have fatso smelly assed ginge all to yourself, I like attractive men

My rent controlled midtown Manhattan studio is much better than this one. It’s not cluttered at all. The walls are simple beautiful cabinets. One opens and has a queen sized Murphy bed. One opens and becomes an office. Close them all and it’s a lovely living room to two medium sized recliners. A square island bar level table on wheels plus two bar stools is used to eat on. Small kitchen with vertical blinds to cover it. One closet. The cabinets offer lots of storage. My husband teaches. When everything is closed, it looks like a beautiful recording studio.

You're an insane interpreter of evidence and consensus, R118.

I wouldn't touch his poop chute with your stubby dick.

And the problem with his apartment is bit foremost that it is too small, it's that he has fermented shit for taste.

No sex can happen here

His bed looks tiny. Is it a 3/4 bed? He certainly isn't having any sleepovers....

Rudy = A DLer waiting to happen

R122....."One opens and has a queen sized Murphy bed"

Upon which a DL queen opens herself for Murphy

"seriously there 's no excuse for calling himself an interior decorator."

Isn't he actually an interior decorator? I assume he could be at least half-way decent at his job, even if I don't find is own digs that well-executed. I'd like to think he's not imposing that on clients,

OK, show me one thing he's done

He looks over 6 foot tall but the bed looks 5 feet long at the most.

This is the DL Fashion Scold, tut-tutting you for wearing jeans or Converse!

R129, "OK, show me one thing he's done"

My colon....with his elephantine dick....pronto

R132 good luck with that...I don't see anything in this gaff that screams "TOP"

He has some cute friends. Maybe he tops. Those three perky little butts all cocked in the air on his little bed and he lobs it into each one, raw. Shame about the fish in this pic- boner killer.

His friend is cute and also a designer. The friend looks European uncut.

these guys are hideous enough without having to picture them being topped by SmellyHole

Only on DL would a dark, sardine can apartment, poorly executed and decorated get over 130 posts.

I guarantee he sleeps in the fetal position only, R130. Just like mother taught him.

Here's some sort of short video he did on his old alma mater. The background music is Downton Abbey!

Is it a gay fraternity?

Rudy is such a True Gentleman per the downton video

R140 Is now!

Has there ever been a society event group photo that made you think “I wish I knew those people and that was my life!”

Me neither.

I know his type and like it! People from all over move to NYC to live their dreams. He's come a long way from Ohio- living in the city, working in his chosen profession and meeting people far more interesting than in Ohio. Unlike the jaded NYers haunting DL, especially ones who moved there more than 20 years ago and snobbishly look down on people from flyoverstan; he hasn't lost his enthusiasm and midwestern kindness. That said, he's got too much stuff in that tiny place.

In the U.K. the sq ft of a house or apartment is always mentioned these days on internet listings and property details, it has been that way for at least 25+ years now. I have bought and sold many apartments over the years, I can remember that in the 80’s property boom people were seduced by the number of bedrooms in a place regardless of size.

When I am browsing properties on the internet the size and plans are the first things that I look at, after that the pics if the size seems ok.

But how we manage in that apartment once he meets a lady and has children?

If you think this is bad, mosey on over to the former Ralph Lauren designer's teeny little hoarding hovel in Harlem. I had a seizure.

^ Link to hoarding hovel in Harlem.

R147 I thought about that too, these two are peas in a pod. Interior designer my ass. Hideous taste.What's the point of DECORATING a fucking shoebox like that ? just let it breathe. Tragic