8 Things We Love to Look at, But Would Really Hate to Clean

As a young girl, and budding design enthusiast, one of my favorite things was to go to the Parade of Homes with my mother. I was in awe of all the over-the-top early '90s design we saw, and particularly in awe of the enormous bathrooms, with their wall-to-wall carpet and luxuriously massive whirlpool tubs. My mother did not share my enthusiasm. Yes, she said--but who's going to clean it?