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Hello, everyone. Welcome to Dear Alice. Today we have a personal episode. This is our remodel master class. But this is a special host series. Sue's Master Bedroom Remodel. So fun. This has been in the works for. I don't know how long you've been wanting to work on the primary in your bedroom.
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Gosh, I feel like over. I didn't think it was gonna happen when it did, but again, I laugh. I love to just jump in, but, I mean, we've been talking about it for a long time, how when we moved into this house, you quickly recarpet things. You paint, you know, just make it feel like yours, not the old other person. And the boys got dope colors on their wall. I like being in their rooms better than I liked being in my own rooms because I went neutral and I don't feel anything when I'm in a neutral space. So it was just like one of those, wah, wah. I guess Tom already painted it. We'll wait. I'll hold my ideas until I could, you know, a more timely year. But I painted that room. It was fine. It was a fine bedroom, but I just felt nothing. And so in the last six months or so is when we really started to think about.
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You feel the drum beat coming.
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B
I could feel it coming. It's like, it is time and boy, are you. Nothing is flooding. Nothing. Like mom was getting a new room.
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A
Yeah. Well, you guys are in for such a treat today, because I got to stand in this room on Monday and just. Just feel it. We were shooting it at Susan's house, and it is the gooiest, warmest, most just sensational remodel. The before and afters are really, really bold. Yeah, I mean, it's not a huge space, but what you did with the finishes are just so incredible. I cannot wait for you guys to see this. So if you're embarking on just cosmetically remodeling something this year, I think you're going to love this episode. And also, if you love Susie, you're going to love it because you're going to be so excited to see what she did her bedroom. But first, I wanted to tell you guys to give us a follow on Instagram. I know it's funny that our podcast is called Dear Alice because our. The name of our design firm is Alice Lane Interior Design. So follow us there. Alice Lane Interiors on Instagram and then our home site at Alice Lane Home. It's our store. It's where we sell all the products that we're designing and creating, making and you can follow us over there for that type of content. So give us a follow at Alice Lane Interiors and at Alice Lane Home. And then I also want to tell you that you should become an insider, if you aren't already. We have a launch that is happening in about three or four days, and it's going to be called the New Classics. So excited for this. Corey and I have been in the works with these pieces, some of them for two years, and they're finally here, and I can't wait to show you the new classics collection. So if you sign up to be an insider, you'll have early access to shop that before anybody else does. And some of these launches, we don't always know what quantities to get, so you'll make sure and get a piece before it sells out. If you sign up to be an insider and. And how do you.
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B
It's gonna sell out. I'm gonna call that right now. Anyway, get on the insider list. Yeah.
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A
How do they sign up to be an insider, Corey?
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C
So if you just go to our website, alisonholm.com, there'll be a little pop up and you can, you know, that'll prompt you to do it there, or there is a form on the upper line. Click the insider and then drop down to the form. Fill that out. Good to go.
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A
Amazing.
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B
That's great, Suze.
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C
Like Jess mentioned, we've been talking about this for a little bit. You've been thinking about it for even longer.
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B
Yeah.
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C
But what spurred this remodel?
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B
What spurred this remodel on its call to action for myself, was the caviar. I think that's where it started. In our House Lights collection, we have this caviar. If you haven't listened to that podcast, you should go back and listen to that because we kind of deep dive on all the new lights. But when I saw that caviar, I was just like, jess, we need to put this in my primary. I know for a fact I felt nothing in my room. It was neutral. And I also know, like when I talk to clients, when we give any advice on this is that with crystal and transparencies, you feel it more when it's against a color. Well, Tom, we're gonna do the live. This isn't gonna look great. We're gonna remove our fan that was gifted to us when we bought the house. Right. And we're gonna get this really cool fixture. But I had it for me, for my internal soul. I needed it to be against something dark, and I wanted to do this forever. I know that it works when you're trying to do something that's going to give you a calming environment. And at the end of a day, I was jealous of my kids rooms. And so therefore I'm like, how am I going to one up these dudes? I'm like, make this feel like the primary across the hall. That's kind of what started it is just. I know the light that I want to use. And it started with the caviar and then just kind of like domino.
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A
For those of you listening, it's called our caviar flush mount. And it just launched with house lights like sue said. And it's about 18 inches in diameter and it really projects quite far. I'd say probably like 8 to 10 inches into the space. And it is this beautiful amber glass that just makes up a ton of little bubbles. And it's almost got an iridescent to it and definitely feels vintage. This big brass bullnose. And it just totally. I love that you loved it so much for your room and we needed to shoot it somewhere. And so the fact that you said that you'd throw your whole body at this, at this shoot and.
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C
And Tom's.
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A
And Tom's. And Tom's whole body and your mom's whole body because she made the drapes
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B
like 80 year old.
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A
Yeah, yeah. Absolutely stunning. So I just wanted to set the stage on what the caviar is. I didn't want you just to think that Sus laying around eating caviar. I mean you can think that because she does have a fabulous life. But anyway, this caviar flush mount kind of spawned and spurred on this remodel. Sorry. Keep going.
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B
Yeah. And so. But that, that's what like started it. And then. And trying to think about what do I want that light fixture to be reflecting on, I thought about a few different things. Right. I still live in a 1971 ranch style home that hasn't changed. And that has influenced like how I did the bathrooms. The mint bathroom. That's right off my primary. Right. Our little. What I called it was, I've always joked, my little camper bath. So small, but it feels like a train car. Like a high end train car bath. Now I just want to know, I'm just. Am I like traveling somewhere exotic? Because that's what it feels like when I'm in my bedroom now anyway, thinking about just like what do I want that color to be? And I. And I knew I want to be dark. I like warmth. My color on color astrology. If you guys don't remember is tandoori spice. The more I deep dove into that, I'm just like, I have so much of that. Like, we looked at my purse collection. All tandoori spice.
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A
Yeah. It's so true.
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B
It hits on boots, on purses, on all these things. I love that color. And it just feels like abuelita hot chocolate mixed with a cinnamon stick. And it's. I was just like, I think I want to go that direction. So I ordered a grip of paint samples, and I pasted them all up on my wall to try and see. I'm like, okay, I could go a little bit more berry, or I could go a little bit more clay, or I could go a little bit more deep brown. And it was funny because as you. I looked at the paint color, there were certain things I'm just like, well, I like that color better, but what are my window treatments going to be? That was a big indicator of where the paint color need to be. Because, like, when Jess and I started talking about my room, I had these two windows, one of which my headboard sits on. And I never had window treatments for them, aside from just blackout shades. So I was like, okay, window treatments. And we've all. We goo and God and, like, just gush over the rooms that have majority panels. Ripley folds of panels, like you're a Greek goddess. Right. And so we're just like, well, I gotta go big. That's what I preach. You go three to five times the width of your window to get something really full.
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A
Yes.
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B
On your window treatments. I'm like, I got. That's gonna be a big player when you look in my room. So not only is the paint color, like, such an indicator both on the walls and on the ceiling, but what is that window treatment color gonna be? And so I started looking those samples, and the paint color just jumped out, completely obvious. When I found my window treatment fabric that I loved, which was kind of this really pretty, kind of like peachy corally color. And when I put that fabric against what's called Hidden Valley, Hidden Valley is what I landed on for my walls and my. For just my walls. Yeah. And when I put this before, it just looked like a brown. Cool. But could just look flat. But when you put that coral against it, you're like, oh, my gosh. That is the obvious winner. That's. It's cool, funky. There's this richness to it. And I landed. It was a fabric. I think it was a fabrica faux silk, so. Which was nice just, like, for Sunrot and things, I wanted something synthetic, but that looked expensive. So that's the fabric that I landed on. And yeah, when you got the combination of the two, which y' all know, we love to color block. And so this was kind of my version of color blocking, like within the same family, but in a funkier way. And then Jess is like, what are you gonna do your ceiling? I'm like, good question. What am I gonna do my ceiling? And so with all these paint samples, we decided to do the ceiling again. I could have just done it. You know, the Hidden Valley that I'm doing on the walls, I'm gonna do something that feels so cool and crazy. We're gonna do potter's clay.
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A
So the wall color, I'm just gonna really quickly give you those of you that want to know. So it's Benjamin Moore, right? Yeah, it's called Hidden Valley, and the color is 1134. So I'm going to hold that up right now. And you can see it's.
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B
It even has dust on it.
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A
Remodel. Dust on it. It's fresh. Fresh off its remodel. And then this is her. This is her ceiling, which is Potter's Clay 1221. Also, Ben More.
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B
Isn't that a great name?
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A
Yeah. Potter's clay. So look at that combo together. And then your drapery, it kind of leans more towards your ceiling color. Yeah. So, so great.
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C
I feel like that's pretty. In the photos, it doesn't look as far apart. So when you see it like that,
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A
are you like, okay, this same thing happened in Susan's bedroom. Where. When you put boys bath bedroom.
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B
Yeah.
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A
In your boy's bedrooms, you chose a lighter shade than the wall color. And you cannot tell.
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B
No.
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A
Because the plane of that ceiling makes the color darker. I think this is interesting for a remodel masterclass because we are so much treating the ceiling now as one. Nobody's leaving their ceilings white anymore. I don't know if you guys heard that. I'm sure you knew because you guys
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B
all love to say that again.
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A
Well, nobody's leaving their ceilings white. And so you're like, well, what do I do? And I think this is really worth calling out, because what you normally do or what a lot of designers will do, is they'll take that paint color, and then they'll use it at 25 on the ceiling or a percentage of the same colorway. Well, Susan's doing the color blocking thing where she's choosing another color that's lighter. But you'll see in these Finished photos. In some lights, you cannot tell.
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B
No.
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A
That you. That you changed, you know, at all.
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B
And I thought. And I thought, I'm just like. I thought I was being drastic enough.
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A
Like, just know your ceiling's gonna go on and feel so much darker.
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B
Yeah.
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A
So consider that and maybe even sample your colors on your ceiling as you're trying to decide that contrasting color. Another trick we'll often do is in a powder bath where there's wallpaper, we'll choose a color. We'll bring our paint deck in. We'll choose a color out of the wallpaper to put on the ceiling. And as the trim. And that always. That always works. It always stands out, and it feels different because it's a solid color instead of the movement. But this is so surprising in the afters. Some lights, your morning light, I feel like you really get it. Like, you get the payoff at night. You can't feel the difference.
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B
It just, like, bleeds into each other. Yeah.
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C
Where your bedroom is, is probably getting more morning light than it is.
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B
It's actually west facing. It's kind of a my trip throughout the day. Like, just different corners. I see a corner. I'm like, I see you contrast. I see that was worth it. But it's crazy. So my husband's a painter. That's what he did before, what he does now, anyway. But he, like, cut everything in, and he painted the ceiling. P.S. we went high gloss. I think we need to, like, note that backdrop. Okay. We went high gloss, so not satin, not semi. Want high gloss with your. I know that we've talked about, like, you're in your living room, you want high gloss. And they had to take it to a level 5. Mine was already pretty smooth in.
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A
And do gloss. Yeah, you have to. Well, it depends on the look that you want. You could put that high gloss on top of your textured ceiling, but you're really going to see the texture. The texture which isn't always as desirable. So sanding the ceiling down and getting a perfectly smooth finish so you can get that lacquered look is always desirable. So Tom actually took to it and sanded, didn't you?
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B
No, no, because we did that when we moved in. Oh, did he? Oh, we did. No, it was, like, heavily textured, and we scraped it all off to just, like, base level. So we had done that.
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So you didn't have to do that over.
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B
We didn't have to do this, but, like, there was a weird texture on it that we had to scrape off, like, to get this, like, Final destination. Right.
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C
And then if I was going to take something from heavy texture and try to make it smooth, I would just add joint compound to that. Rather than, like, having sanding, you know, trying to get through paint to down to the texture, I would just add that on. Done that like myself. Yeah, right.
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A
And then you still probably have to sand that a little.
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C
Yeah, you got to sand that and maybe, like, another coat, just, you know, to kind of make sure it's.
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A
I think that's a really, really great remodel tip joint.
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C
I think it's going to save you time and. And heartache.
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A
Yeah.
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C
Yeah.
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B
So we went high gloss, and when we just put the ceiling paint on it, I was like, this looks peach. Like, this is so cool. It's fun. And then we put on the hidden valley on the walls, and they just started to adapt to each other just like a chameleon. Just, like, melting, you know, on top of you. I'm like, well, that's not nearly as drastic as I thought it was gonna be.
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A
Yeah.
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I remember sending you videos, and you're just like, wow. Like. Yeah.
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A
Not to skip too far ahead, but once you started putting the furniture and the drapery in there, everything started becoming the same color, which is so fascinating. We know this in design. Yeah. When you bring things into the room that they all start kind of playing with each other and adapting to one another, it's still so fascinating. It's like seeing. Watching magic happen before your eyes. Like, you try so hard to get that perfect shade of silk for your drape, and you did, but it all sort of became each other, and each of them are individual colors.
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Yeah.
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A
Right.
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B
It's nuts.
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A
Like Hidden valley in the brown family harmony.
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B
Yeah, That's a good song. All right. The hair, totally amazing. Real fast.
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C
Let's.
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B
Let's hop back and show them a before. Should we show them the before? Really? So you can see. Okay. So when we purchased the house, the year's 2020, we bought it from a couple that had lived here since they built it in 1971. And they were. They were a treat. And they had a waterbed, which is so fun. And they had it on the wrong wall. So we initially scraped off the texture, painted it that reticence, and we put the bed where it should go, and it was fine.
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A
Yep.
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B
Lovely room. It's fine.
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C
Yeah.
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A
If you're looking at the after of Susan's first bedroom that she remodeled in 2020, reticence is a tissue pink shade from Ben Moore. It's really beautiful. Very light. Very restful. It almost reads as. As a shade of white in her after photo. And then sue has a green bed here. And you can see she reoriented her bed to be in front of the window, where before the waterbed faced to the windows and on the small wall.
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B
So they didn't have any nightstands or anything. So that's lesson number one. If you were just, like, looking to, like, make your bedroom better, just look at the space planning.
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A
Yeah. And note in both of these images that whoever's taking the photo is standing in the doorway to the bedroom. So you're going to enter in. And in the. Before you're really focused in on their TV and their mismatched case goods and these beautiful transparent purple draperies.
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B
Shears.
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A
And then in Susan's space plan, you're walking in, and you're seeing the headboard and the n night stands, and. Yeah. So I think that's a more beautiful presentation of the room.
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B
Okay, so now you have the groundwork for where we started. Enter. We want to caviar. We want to, like, go deeper on our walls. So here are some of the concepts that we really started to jive with. This first concept. I saw this. I was just like, that's the gloss. Yeah, that's this. Again, magic trick. When you have a glossy paint, light reflects differently. Differently. You see two of everything. It just feels, like a little bit like you're underwater. So I just loved, love, love, love that color and the richness. And I'm like, oh, that feels so great. And so I did a little mashup showing just. I have the green of my bathroom that I need to be talking with. So what is that? How does that color jump with that? I have paintings.
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A
Can I just interject and say the wall color plays with Susan's walnut burled, very extraordinary vanity so beautifully. So that deep train car tobacco. Yeah. Train car of a vanity is definitely, like, right in the pocket with your wall color and everything happening. And then that mint is just, like, a cool escape.
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B
I know. Yeah. Mint. So rad. But there are just certain things. So again, when you're doing a remodel and you have certain key, key components that you're wanting to make sure that everything's going to start going together. That's what we do. We'd put together these little collages to be like, okay, I'm at my North Star. This is where I'm going. Adding these other things. I know where to shift and where to take away or what to add
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C
and what to consider. I love the point of that. In your little thing there, like you have a photo of your bathroom. So you're like, this is a part of it. Even though it's technically not the same room, it's just. Yeah.
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B
And I know when I'm looking into that, that bathroom with that burled walnut vanity I didn't want to have, that's where my dresser wall I see when I'm sitting in my bed, I can see my bathroom and I can see whatever dresser I have. So I knew I'm like, I don't want to have another walnut dresser next to that. So I need. Knew I needed to do the cloud finish from our Millie. So also in consideration, you look at your furniture when you're doing a remodel and you're just like, well, that's. That's got to go by the wayside. And luckily we have a really beautiful furniture store called Alice Lane and the Jay Bennett Collection. So cheers to that. Put all those things in there. I had a painting that I wanted to have reframed and so that also springboarded a Christmas present to me.
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C
That's awesome. I was gonna actually gonna ask you that if you reframed that for. For this bedroom or if that just happened to.
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B
Okay. I was planning on it. I. Not yet, but then I'm like, I have a spot.
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C
Exactly. Yeah.
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B
Yep, exactly. And you can kind of see this is that there's a picture of the wall color again, the hidden valley with the green. I pasted a bunch of these samples everywhere just to make sure I liked it with the green with the window treatment. So that's a. I think that's a smart tip too, is order several samples or like make a paint on a big board that you can kind of move to different walls at different times of day to really study out how this color is going to play with everything. So when we started to paint, we painted the ceiling the potter's clay. And then it was my mom, my mom, my 80 year old mother, she was doing the window treatments. So I ordered the hardware, I ordered the fabric. Like everything was in motion. And she was just like, how wide do you want this to be? And I was like, you know what, I need to study this out. So I had a sharpie and I just started to draw on the walls one morning. And it was so much fun, you guys, to do this because I'm like, I needed to do it for my mom for the window treatments, but also for the electrician. I had to be at work that day and he needed to know where to, why. Or some sconces that I also decided to put on. Yes. So, yes, I think that that's something too, that we love. Layered lighting.
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A
If you guys can tune into this on Spotify or YouTube. So you can see Susan's drawings all over the wall to scale. Life size, really what these pieces look like. And you drew exactly where you wanted. The new. Our new Lulu sconces to land to flank this brand new piece of art that you've been so excited about, which I.
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B
You guys. It was funny when you're. When you start a remodel and you start. You're like, hey, we'll paint, we'll get new furnishings, we'll do window treatments. When you start to think about it, you're like, well, I'm doing this. We're already going to be putting a new light. I'm like, is there any other lighting things I want to attack? And I think sconces are becoming our favorite. Yeah. Our favorite pony trick in a room. And the layered lighting.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And just the idea of just being able to have. You could have. You have the caviar. And it's beautiful on a dimmer. So pretty. I just like, what if I had sconces? Yeah, that would be next level. Should I, Jess? Should I? And she's like, you should. So here we are.
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So beautiful. I'm so glad that you did, too. It added so much dimension to that wall. And it really sits between. This wall sits between the two doors in your room, one door into your bathroom, one door out to the hal. And I just feel like this is one of my favorite walls in your whole bedroom. And it's your vantage point when you're laying in bed. This is what you're staring at. And it just looks so extraordinary, the combination of things. I can't wait for you guys to see the after.
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B
And one fun thing about the Lulu is just that pink gloss, which is like such a highlight of it. And again, it kind of like melts with the potter's clay in the Hidden Valley. And how cool it was. Because when you look at the Lulu, you see the. Our Alice Sconce in my bathroom and you see the caviar that's up on the ceiling and just like, how beautifully, like, these pieces are. Like, they're designed individually, not necessarily, like, all together. They're just things that we're drawn to, that we love that, you know, you riff off and you make available for everyone. But it's so dope to see them all lined up like soldiers and sing so beautifully together.
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A
Oh, they look so good in your house too. And it's so fun, I mean for Corey and I to sit here and look at, you know, these lights that we've launched over the last couple collections and just see them all live in one spot in a home, not just on the showroom. Yeah, they really play off each other so beautifully with the vintage brass and the bullnose shapes, the soft shapes, they brought so much dimension. And I wouldn't have thought to put the pink sconce on the Hidden Valley wall color. And they look so good together. They look so good.
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B
So good.
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A
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B
Now we're going to show you some pictures of in the process with the potter's clam ceiling and. And when that hidden valley and you guys. Can you see the line? I can't. It all looks the same.
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C
It's crazy.
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They complement each other so beautifully. The Hidden Valley is almost like this leathery, you know, toffee just really. And the wetness of it, the glossiness of it is so infinite. We have the in this middle shot we've got the caviar flush mount on top of that beautiful potter's clay color and you can see the caviar Reflecting back in the high gloss paint. So it's almost like you have two of this fixture, you know, fun and eight foot ceiling's fun.
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B
It really is.
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A
It really. Yeah. Like, you really do feel it, especially in this lighting. And it's just the warmest hug. This space is so, so good. I'm so happy for you.
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B
I also. The high gloss ceiling was. I. Obviously taking the winter treatments up to the ceiling helped with, like, feeling the height in there, but the high gloss made this space feel so much bigger.
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A
Way more voluminous. Yes.
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And grander. But also. Oh, gosh, I don't know how to
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A
express it, but, well, lighting, it reflects the light. The light bounces around it. I mean, I was holding. What do you call it, diffuser with the photographer on Monday over that big window in front of your bed. Because the wall was just so glossy and good, it was hard to even capture the sconces at one point. It's so mirror. Like. Like the way this is so fun,
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C
the way it's absorbing light right there. You can see this wall that isn't getting any, but the contrast right there is bananas.
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A
Isn't that dramatic?
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B
So we use. We. We got all new furniture. We have the. We'll talk about all those in a second. But we got the Francis lights on, the Francis crystal. Thank you.
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A
Yeah.
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B
The Francis crystal table lamps on top of the Brooklyn nightstands. And those things were magic in, like, concert with the high gloss. I think they've never looked.
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C
And then sitting in front of the silk, the layers there, it's insane.
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B
Here are some shots from our photo shoot. And.
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A
Yeah.
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B
See the window treatments, how they go all the way up to the ceiling, how they pretty much take up the whole width of the nightstands on each side of the bed, which was so important to me.
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A
Yeah.
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B
That fullness. Yeah. They're stationary because we have blackout shades, but those will just always sit and feel again, just like you're upholstered, like you're lying.
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C
You know, I'm gonna say this too. This is how I feel looking at this photo. The other one, your mid before, like, after you moved in, didn't have the drapes on either side, and it felt incomplete. Now looking at this, it's almost like you don't. You don't even notice that it's in front of a window anymore. And. Yeah, I mean, that's doing something about
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A
all those drapery folds and softness that really envelop you and feel bedroomy and opulent and cozy and tall. Your ceilings feel tall. Not to Mention the reflective ceiling now, and the light bouncing around. It's so rich. I cannot believe that every one of these shades are different shades. The wall color, the ceiling, the bed is like, right in that same color range. The terra fomo.
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B
Yep.
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A
Yeah. And even your lumbar, that sort of walnut colored velvet. Oh, it's just. It's such good color blocking and color drenching. It's so, so sophisticated.
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B
I will say that that's the thing that I feel the very most of. I. I said that thing about. From the camper bath to the train car bath, this bedroom, I feel like, has elevated the way I want to live, like, in other facets of my life. How I dress in the morning. I don't know if it's all, like, the award shows that have been, like, popping off, but I'm just like, yeah, I should, you know, I should try harder just because, like, you. You want to live up to the space that you're surrounded by.
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A
Isn't it so. Interior design is so powerful.
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B
So powerful.
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A
It really does change the way you feel about yourself and how you show up in the world, which is even falling asleep at night, you know, just being in that beautiful environment, I'll bet you feel so. Just special and cozy going to bed in there. It's got to be so fun waking up.
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B
Told you. I'm just like. I feel like I've been buried, but in, like, a really great way. You know, just like, you have no choice but to just, like, close your eyes and just go into complete rest. It's so great. And I asked Tom last night. He wasn't volunteering this information. So I'm like, what was the biggest surprise? You know, you painted this room. You live in this room. You've seen it all come together. What's been the most surprising? And he told me that he's never had. He's like, we've had nice rooms. We've had nice things. We have nice art. We have all those things. But he's like, I've never felt a more inviting space, a more restful space where I really just felt the room took care of me. And I was like, that's really beautiful. Of all the spaces that we've ever had or created or anything, I've never felt that before. Yeah, I'm like, what do you. What about the boys room? He's like, they're fine.
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A
Yeah, they're good.
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B
He's just like, but this is different. And I like, it has to do with the high gloss. Has to do with the Whole suite of combination of all the different colors and. And I think it's the lighting. I really do feel like it's that lighting story. Having one off certain times a day and then turning it on and dimming it on. And it's just. It's magic. Yeah, it is straight magic.
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A
Design makes you feel something.
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B
Gosh, good design makes you feel something.
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A
Isn't it so powerful?
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B
Yeah.
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A
I mean, we know this because we do this for a job, but it's really powerful to get to experience a big change in your own home and just reminded of how important, important and dynamic the work is that you're doing on a daily basis for people to tell their story. Because I feel like our stories change. They. They come and go through the years. And so that's why we. That's why we do remodels is because we're. We're in a new phase or we know we like something different. We want to feel something different. Right. What you had before was fine. You could have added white. White drapes to it, and it could have been fine for a decade, but you didn't feel anything. And it wasn't you. When you look at this, you're like 100. And this is also Tom and you. Yeah, it's not just you, you know, which is. Which is so fun because it is. It is a dressier version of both of you who can. You guys can both be casual, but this is like your dressed up version. You're beautiful. Handsome couple going out on an evening. Yeah, it's beautiful.
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C
I just kind of wanted to tie into that. And then what Jess was talking about just before that, after I. After Jess sent me these photos, obviously my mind was blown. But then I started thinking about my primary bedroom. And, you know, I have, like, every day I have a goal of I want to feel a certain way leaving the home and just like ready for the day inspired all of that. And I think a lot of people do. This is. You focus on the main spaces of your home where everyone's going to see. It's like, we're going to put our money there because then we're going to get the credit for it, you know? But after seeing your primary, after you did this, it kind of light bulb in my head. I was like, man, we really need to work on our primary bedroom. Because to wake up and feel inspired like that, like, that's the. That's how you want to step out of bed. You know what I mean? To be like, we're doing it, you know, like, yeah, and if you feel nothing, like you said, you feel nothing, then that's waking up isn't adding anything to your day. You have to kind of manufacture that inspiration.
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B
Yeah.
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C
But if you wake up in it, you're ready for the day.
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A
Yeah.
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B
So thank you. And even if I just had painted, say, like, none of the other things, it still would have been a massive improvement. All the other stuff, obviously, like, made. Has made it incredible. And I will say I'm a bed maker. I always make my bed because it starts me off, but I feel put together. I really, really do. In this space. It's been really attendant. It's not an old dresser. You know, it's like we had our whole marriage that went by the wayside anyway. It's all. It just feels fresh. And so I just feel like it's just a new chapter of just, like, excellence.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And I'm excited.
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C
If you haven't painted, though, I don't know if everything would have worked as well together.
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B
Not the green. At one point, I'm just like, we'll keep the green bed. And then we started. I'm like, I've always loved the Tara. The kit bed and Tara. Like, that's always been one of my very favorite things that we've had. It seemed obvious when you look at the Tara that fomo, it's like the same color again. It's like, it's the same color as the window treatments. So anyway, I was just like, well, that's destiny. That's. I can't bite that.
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A
Yeah.
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B
And then just like the walnut Brooklyns and Matt. A priest to the walnut. The Brooklyns. Okay, guys, I. I knew I needed more storage. I have an old house, so storage non existent. And so you have to create your storage. You have to create your closets and where you're going to put your clothes and your socks and all those things. Because we have this one little cutout that we took the ugly accordion doors off of when we moved in. And I have a. Like, we'll do closets eventually in there, but right now it's fine. It's like this, like, little fashion rolling rack. Those case goods do a lot of heavy lifting for us. And so I'm like, I'm gonna go to the big. I think you were shocked. You're like, you're not gonna do the big ones, are you? You're gonna do the small Brooklyns.
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C
You have a king or queen bed?
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B
Queen.
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C
Okay.
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B
Yeah, I'm a queen. Anyway, and so we did the larger Brooklyn nightstands on each Side just, like, maximize, you know, storage. And you guys, I had no idea. If y' all haven't, like, looked at our Brooklyn lately, pull it up. You'll see them on these, like, shots. But just on our website has the top little trade drawer, which we always have crushed on, and we line that in. That faux terra, you know, FOMO hair on that top. And I always thought I'm like, that's cute. We love that trick. I'm like, I could put a magazine or like, maybe it's like, my earrings. Whatever. They are so fun. That. Okay. Biggest surprise giant around the corner was that little tray in the Brooklyn taking on my jewelry. I'm just like, let's see what will fit. Well, my spit level on my glasses. Yeah, I put a bunch of readers there. Oh, my gosh. They can fit. Okay. And then I'm like, all those necklaces that get tangled even in this, like, jewelry case.
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A
Whatever.
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B
I'm gonna see if they can lay flat. That would look chic. Lined them all up. Looks like a family picture. And then I started throwing brooches in there and my rings and my earrings and. And I was just like, this is so dope. Like, this is so much fun to just, like, not only style, but just to live like that. We don't style to not live with it.
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A
Right.
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B
You know, it's not supposed to be fake or, like, I use that every day. I pull that in. I pull that out all day long.
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A
Like the world's biggest jewelry box, guys. It's so much fun.
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B
And you want to know what was even more fun? Was looking and seeing what Tom put in his, like, your partner. Because I was just like. I fell in love with him all over again. I'm like, he just had the dopest collections.
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A
Yeah.
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B
I took a picture of just like. I'm like, just look what he put in there.
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A
We've got a little. A little peak of Toms. But he had, like, pocket watch or pocket knives. And he had your sonogram from one of our babies.
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B
Like a little one.
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A
Yeah. He had patches, stickers.
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B
Yes. Some cinnamon. Cinnamon toothpicks. I'm like, where'd you get those? That's cute. Some colored pencils.
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A
Everybody needs a top drawer like this. It's just a treasure trove, I think so.
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B
I'm like, this is as far as.
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A
Sounds like your profile pick.
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B
Like, what's in your top drawer.
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A
Yeah, totally.
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B
That is what it should say.
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A
What's so nice about this, though, is it's not super deep, and so it doesn't get messy.
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B
No.
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A
Because you can only have a single layer of things and. And it makes it so useful, too.
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B
Yeah.
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C
It doesn't become a junk drawer.
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A
Exactly.
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B
Which I guarantee. Yeah, that definitely happens below. But anyway, that. Yeah.
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C
And then you get three more drawers below that.
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B
No.
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C
So I'm so excited. You made the right choice.
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A
Yeah.
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B
Made the right choice anyway. But yeah, here's. Here's some more shots of that. The Lulu sconces. So this is a piece of art.
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A
This is that wall that sits between Susan's bathroom door and her bedroom door with her white dresser on it. Her brand new framed piece of art in the Lulu sconces. This is just. This is what sue gets to look at every morning when she wakes up. And what a masterpiece this is.
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B
You said. I remember when you first. You're just like, oh, my gosh. You feel like you've been like, like wrapped in fruit leather. And I'm like, I do. It does look like a fruit leather.
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A
Dark apricot fruit leather. It's so foxy because there is a
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B
little bit of texture to. To the actual wall, which is giving fruit leather.
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C
And the high gloss is going to, like, you know, Exaggerate. Yeah, exaggerate that. Which I think is actually cool. Like, that's what you want is to kind of see the, you know, it bring that wall to life a little bit. The high gloss does that.
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B
If it was orange peel, not so like glory for no one, but like, just like that regular. Just. That's just the texture of wall, like.
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C
Exactly.
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B
Yeah. It's still relatively smooth. But you. I know that you do this in your entry, Jess, where you have the sconces and then you put a table lamp there, too, and we talk about those lighting layers. And so anyway, we did that where I had this, like, torchier and those lamps, earth sconces and the chandelier and our, like, nightstand lamps, and all of them have different times of day where they get to glow and they're all.
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A
They're all in different layers. You know, one against the wall, one pulled out. You know, your. Your lamps are obviously pulled forward, and it's just really cool what lighting can do. And, you know, even the pink glass is a different type of light than the torchair. And it's just. I don't know, it's just all so beautifully composed. It's like a symphony of favorite things.
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B
Yep. So that's. That's my bedroom.
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A
Congratulations.
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B
Yeah.
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A
It is stunning. Thank you for sharing it with the listeners. I know this is a personal Space. But there's so many takeaways. And really quick, I think, a learning for. For you guys. If you're going to embark in your own remodels or even if you're helping somebody, like a client with their remodel, Tell them about your carpet, what you did there.
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B
Oh, yes. Okay. So we got our room in the boys room. We put in new carpet when we moved into this home. Since then, that was in 2020, so it's been five plus years, six years now. When we did our bathroom remodel, I had, like, guys. Even though you try and, like, line it, you have guys going back and forth. You know, when and when that was finished, I was like, oh, gosh. There's like. You can see the seams of the carpet starting to pull up the traffic pattern. I was like, do I have to replace my carpet? Like, I just want to paint the stupid walls, you know? And then Tom's just like, no. He's just like, let's just get them restretched and cleaned. And I was just like, okay. Like, so I scheduled those people to come in. It looks brand new, and I didn't have to replace my car, and my room is too small to do a rug. I don't have a rug. You're the same way. Anyway, we're directly on our carpet, so it has to, like, look decent.
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A
Yeah.
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B
You can't cover it up, right?
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A
Yeah, exactly.
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B
And so, like, that's just, like. That was a huge, like, learning. We came home, we're just like, oh, my gosh. It looks like we got new carpet,
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C
like, and you just saved a bunch of money.
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B
Just saved a grip of money. Anyway, they just re stretched it, and, like, they did it in, like, an hour. And then we had it cleaned, and it was just. It was amazing. So I'm like, if you are like, oh, I'm gonna have to, like, replace something, look at, like, what other options there are to just have it cleaned, definitely.
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A
So I just thought that was worth it because, you know, the. The biggest impact you can have while doing a remodel or trying to fix up a space is just painting the walls. And sue was lucky in that her husband used to be a painter, and he could take on this challenge. And so she had the free labor of that. You were able to. To wash and re. Stretch your carpets. And so this is something that could. You could easily take on in 2026 is painting a space, going glossy with it, because that's the direction that everything's headed right now. And maybe updating your light fixtures like that alone. Or maybe you're going to get a few new pieces of furniture in the mix. But you really can experience a whole new version of yourself by doing a few of these things. It's really powerful. And you've heard sue and even Corey talk about how different, you know, how different you want to feel in your room and how different it is to wake up like this. And just how do you want to get dressed differently? Like it's really inspiring.
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B
Want to pay attention to it. Like it's not. You're just not going to call it and be like it's reticence is fine. You know, like you want to try harder.
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A
Totally. Quick honorable mention. While she was doing this remodel because as we say, you give a mouse a cookie. Sue's also updated the fixtures in her hallway she's using here. Our Alice flush mounts the. The smalls. This is a really good trick to like replace can lights. You can take out those cans and you can use this small flush mount. And they're so charming. I just feel like there's so much more you than what was there before. And then you use the large Alice flush mount in the boys room and it looks so great on this eight foot ceiling. They really project down far. You get that double brass bullnose which is giving it really projects. The real brass finish is just so handsome and they just feel so vintage and you. And original. They are. Yeah. So you updated more light fixtures because you know, you give a mouse a cookie.
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B
I know. And that's, that's a fun little thing too because I'm like, yeah, we did the boys room like pretty recently and like obviously the hallways just like painted our neutral color. But like having new lighting is a really like fun thing you can do now to give you a quick update and like, and I had already used the Alice sconce in my bathroom so I knew that like the vibe was there for like my style. And the cool thing about these is that they don't. They're interesting and they have that old school cool but they don't take away from other heroes. They complement them so, so well. If you want interest, these are a really great way to get something in there. Or you need, you need light anyway. But I just think just that white glass that you did.
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A
Yeah.
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B
With that brat. The real brass bullnosing. It's just, it's so cool. Like in. There's a lot happening in the boys bedrooms. There's usually toys, all those things. This is like a, a Plane of peace. The ceiling, the melatonin ceiling with that. It's always clean up there. And so it's, it's, it's interesting, but it, you know. Yeah.
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C
I'm feeling this so hard right now.
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B
Yeah. But it just always looks good because the ceiling's paid attention to. Yeah, there's something to it, guys.
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A
So beautiful. And a really fun honorable mention. Go to go to your bathroom lights. So we started with our Alice Sconce. And Suze has these in her primary bath. She used four of them. And this is the big bullnose edge in brass. And then you get the alabaster little button in the center. And then you can see now with the new flush mount that she has in her boy's room. Same DNA that double bullnose. We did a double bowl nose on the flush mount instead of a single just to get more projection down into a space. Because flush mounts can sometimes be sad or forgotten. So getting more depth on a flush mount and a lot of width. Having this be 18 inches wide. 17 inches. It. It just really shows up in a space. So you can kind of see the DNA of the sconce becoming the small flush mount and becoming the large one. And they all look so good in your house.
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B
So good. And I love repetition. So being able to see that down the hallway, then look right to the boys bathroom, then to discover after you go through the sea of tandoori to my bathroom.
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A
Yeah,
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B
tandoori soup. It's just fun to see that shape repeated in different ways. All of them are different, but they all are related.
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A
So beautiful. Sue. What a gorgeous remodel and a beautiful house. Yeah. Congrats. Thank you for sharing with all of our listeners.
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B
Yep.
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A
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B
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A
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