Villy's New Set Debuts on The Young and the Restless! (PHOTOS)

I must be in the minority because I never really notice or care about sets. Everyone on Twitter is always complaining about the couch and how "tacky" the sets look....but I just want good stories and to be entertained.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.......

Well, at least Victoria has some decent digs, now she is up their with Adam's mansion that he bought off of Genevieve. Nick looks like he lives in a cracker-box apartment. I'm sure Abby doesn't have the same home that Ashley came and cried over 10 months ago when Tucker cheated with Harmony.

So, I'm glad that Billy and Victoria have a nice mansion to live in. Now let's just give Billy a story-line worthy of Billy Miller. If it were up to me, I would have Miller on every day, stripped down to the waist, giving the gals something to watch.

He's far more believable as a human being that Stevie Burton ever will be. And I know that amongst almost all of the ladies and many, many guys; Billy inspires that 'aw shucks' reaction because he really seems to be an endearing sort of guy. Even in his worst moments, a guy wants to sit down with him and have a beer.

If you go to plays, you quickly realize sets do matter! The furniture and items do indeed help to tell a story.

I know this is a soap and perhaps I'm overstating in this case, but coming from the theater world, each piece of furniture or set piece should have a significance in relating the life of the characters.

If you read or see a play by a playwright like Eugene O'Neill, who has huge voluminous descriptions of how his plays should look, you quickly realize that sets do indeed matter.

FINALLY!!!!! Slowly Y&R looks like a soap opera that is airing in the 2010s. Say what you want about JFP but she is good when it comes to things like that.

Thanks. That couch/sofa, whatever the proper word is, was way beyond being just plain ugly. I have not yet seen today's show, but will enjoy whatever is new in their house. Thanks to whoever did this.

I not a fan of the new color, but so far other than the penthouse, I'm not raving about the new sets. Not bad, but I guess I still prefer to see the show in familiar surroundings.

I get Jill's desire to put her stamp on it though.

Just keep giving us the vets, please.

OMG this is SOOOO much better. That old set was a dump and 100 years old. Never bought that a cosmetics exec wanted to live in that. Much more modern. VILLY is HOT foreva

how is this explained? I know they were attempting to paint and Billy showed Johnny color streaks on a wall, but I love that new wall color.

I loved today's (Monday's) episode.... when people start a proper thread on it, I will jump in as I have a lot to say and I need to clean up all of the rumpled Kleenex around my couch...

This looks MUCH better! Very modern and stylish. Glad they got rid of that hideous yellow couch with the pink blanket and the granny knick knacks.

Now they need to update Nick Newman's "tack house". That barn is atrocious and way too cramped for Nick and all his children.

Well done, JFP!

MsAgentProvocateur1: Now can they get Neil out of that kitchenette apartment? After all these years it is time he gets 4 walls a garage. He has been living in the West Genoa City Public Housing Projects for too long.

Neil has GOT TO GO TO GOT to be next!

Now can we get a new Victoria?

It's nice looking. I'm glad we saw Billy and Victoria doing some of the work on it themselves. I wonder what Maria thinks when she watches the show and sees almost all her ideas tossed out?

I wonder what Maria thinks when she watches the show and sees almost all her ideas tossed out?
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@Jamey Giddens: That is about correct. I'm sure she is on FB talking about how she never dumbed down sets!

Everyone knows when Ma' Hell was there she had Billy living in trailer! I mean a trailer! Like from the trailer park with full 80's old furniture and hick items alike. And she said they were doing things they had never done before. That was true right down to carpets they used.

@Jamey; That's awesome! Short, sweet and oh so true!

@everyone: On another note, here is when the REAL VICTORIA slapped Victor! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rL5znQMdG0

Too bad we don't have that anymore....

and another one: http://youtu.be/uvqIO7Fzrtg

"This is so crass! This is disgusting!" -- Heather Tom as Victoria

I saw the new set, and will say it did look good.

However, I didn't think there was anything wrong with how the set looked. As I had no issue with the old Newman Ranch, the Abbott house, the Chancellor mansion, Abby's house, etc. They are all CLASSIC sets! I cannot fathom why people would complain about them. Y&R is not a show that needs to have modern sets. That is not what Y&R is about. Y&R's feel should be a lush, elegant, luxurious. Not modern, geometric, and dull. There is absolutely no feel of life in the New Ranch. It's a plain old ordinary house, that could belong to anyone. Like someone suggested, I could imagine it as Nick's or Paul's house. Certainly not as the Newman Ranch. The penthouse was nice in itself, but inhabited by totally the wrong people. Again, a good fit for perhaps Nick, Devon, or even Neil. Not Victor & Nikki. Avery's apartment is just not fitting for Y&R. Nor should the character have a set in the first place.

Im only with Y&R for 2 years and I loved the rustic type old homes. I am upset the newman ranch was burnt down. not everything has to be glitz and up to date. I hope they leave the other sets alone. Sooner or later the brainiacs that are doing this will be gone and will have changed everything cause they had nothing else better to do. Give it a break.

I love the new set and I love Villy! I didn't mind the old set as much as some other people but that's probably because I actually got to sit on that couch and on Billy Miller's lap no less

as long as they NEVER touch the abbott living room or Chancellor mans i'll be fine. but the VILLY house was dullsville and tired

can't wait for the rest of you to see Carmine's room..... LOL

It's about time,thank you very much because,their sofa was so awful it hurt to look at it.

Yeah but that piece of furniture called Amelia Heinle is still there. They need to get rid of that too.

I will hand it to Jill and company, finally producers redecorate a house without giving the characters a brand new one without explanation! This is the same house just freshened up! Same walls, same staircase, same windows and dining room leading into the kitchen JUST all new furniture, colors, decorations and the like!

Now this is how it should be done! Do I love it?! Yes, only because they used what was there and it still feels homey!

NOW... Jill, in no tall order, have Michael visit and see the dramatic change in Billy's place and have him run to lowes OR better yet, have him hire Dylan to refurbish his place in the hopes it will make Lauren happy... sorry, Michael, only Italian salami packed tight will make your woman happy!

Then while interviewing with Neil for a law job, he tells Neil about Dylan and Neil has his place redone.

As someone said earlier, Neil needs a new abode! His place was the same from the time he FIRST married Dru and then they slightly renovated after they remarried and it's been the same monochromatic place ever since!!! BRIGHTEN the joint up for a brotha!!

I like it better then the last look, I hated that ugly site.

Lets get to today's episode...ASHLEY & PHYLLIS! We need Ashley back in GC somehow...Salem can still have cray cray Kristin but Geona City needs regal Ashley. That tit-for-tat between Ashley & Phyllis was great! Phyllis held her own, asking Ashley where Ashley was when Jack needed her! It continues tomorrow!

The wedding was intimate and nice and the setting was good but where's Katherine? If Lauren & Michael was there I don't understand why Katherine was missing? Other then that, I loved MTS today, she looked gorgeous! Everything is building around the "reception" I assume because Adam crashes, Sharon crashes, Ashley in town for the wedding, so probably we should see Katherine. I'm looking forward to this...

If Wheeler isn't going to be at the function to be shot, then maybe Senator Wheeler is quite done yet but could be just the beginning starting to unravel...

Loved seeing Reed...how can you not love Villy? and NO I DON'T WANT AH to GO anywhere, it's starting up again trying to replace Victoria...sorry the fact is Amelia is Victoria now and not changing...

I'm another one that didn't mind Villy's old set. It was refreshing to have such an unusual house. I haven't seen Monday's show yet, but I'm guessing the new decor will be as boring and cookie-cutter as the rest of the new sets.

If they make-over other sets, I hope they will have more personality to them and not just look like all the rest. It's nice, though, that they are spending the money on sets. Don't think they would be doing that if the soap was going away.

harlee490 ... is was painfully obvious why Katherine was not at the wedding; she forgot and there was a scene explaining that. What I wonder more is where were all of her helpers to remind her to be there??? Also ... why on earth would Eric Forrester travel all that way just to be at yet another of Victor/Nikki weddings? And Ashley being there did not seem proper to me at all even if Abby insisted. Ashley allowed to be there but Adam not even invited.

Now that Phyllis seems to have been toned down I'm liking her quite a bit more and I'm glad she took Ashley to task for being the sister in absentia. Billy thought it was better not to be there? Come on, that should have been the warning bell to pop right in and even more so for Traci.

I'm with alstonboy4315 on the sets; it really should be the story we are paying attention to. However I'm also with SZima regarding the Villy house which is the last place that really needed a makeover. Plus the ranch house did need a major overhaul but I'm not sure about the new one at all.

I agree with harlee490's entire post!

Villy's place is a huge improvement over that tacky look previously.

Regarding the actual episode, Billy were lovely and adorable. I could NEVER see Heather Tom play this pairing and it works because of the chemistry between Amelia Heinle and Billy Miller. AH is a fine Victoria and a soap veteran of over 20 years. I just don't get why so many are "anti-" this woman.

Back to the episode, I enjoyed how understated and lovely the wedding of Nikki and Victor was. Her hair and dress were beautiful. I loved all of the scenes of Nikki prepping for the ceremony. I did not like fashions worn by Victoria, Abby and Summer. Kay not being there was a glaring absence. Perhaps the actress was sick the days of taping?

Now, the Ashley v. Phyllis scenes were okay but I would have rather seen Ashley at the wedding. Her being there would be odd but soaptastic!

Forget about the house, we got to have Billy in more of these story-lines.

The guy is fantastic, and has that 'cute' factor when he enters the room. All the girls go cra-cra crazy over him. Shoot, I'll be a-bettin that Chloe would hunker down pretty xxxxx@xxxxx.com quick if Billy even gave her a sideways glance again. She'd forget about Kevin in a Motown Minute.

Sharon would be perfect as Billy's next conquest. You know that man-crazy Sharon still has that gleam in her eye remembering that one-night stand they shared back in 2009. I, for one, would be all over that pairing, and it would set up some serious Billy vs Nick, Billy vs Vick, Billy vs Adam, Billy vs Jack situations.

Billy and Lauren. Billy and Summer.

But let's bust up once and for all Billy and Victoria. Bring Amelie's real husband (JT) back to GC to take care of Victoria.