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Colorstrology | What colors are you drawn to? Apr 06, 2023

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We have a fun episode for everyone today. We had an event at Alice Lane that was so fun and we wanted to include you guys in the Alice Lane Galentine’s Spring, Easter party. We did colorstrology, which is where we assign a color to someone depending on their birthday. What we learned from studying this little book called “Colorstrology” by Michele Bernhardt is it’s 100% true to all the people that we’ve read colors to and we probably read over 50 colors. Some were surprised by the colors they were assigned because it’s not always the first color they choose, but often that color would complement the chosen color, so we’ll be talking about color and each of our own colorstrology.

Jessica’s colors 5:40
Cori’s colors 10:50
Sue’s colors 14:15
These 7 colors will be everywhere in 2024 and what’s next 19:45
Susanne’s favorite color 28:05
Cool lavenders and lilacs 34:50
Orange 40:40
Mustard 47:40
Rose 51:10
Powder blue 53:50

“We’re not doing gray anymore at all. If you guys are choosing gray today, it’s just such a terrible choice right now because it’s already clotted and we need to get on the bleeding edge because these choices you’re gonna make right now are gonna last the next decade. If you’re doing gray, you’re gonna be feeling like a lagger the minute it’s dried on the walls.” 23:03
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Sconces | Best Practices and How to Use Them Mar 30, 2023

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The reason we felt like we should do a sconces episode is because Jess got a text back in December from a good friend in real estate who said that his wife can’t see herself when she’s putting makeup on. Jess asked him for a picture of his setup and when he send over the image, she noticed he had the wrong type of sconces next to his mirror, which was a really beautiful, very elegant sconce, but it had a linen shade on it and one candelabra bulb in each sconce. The window was behind her, so there was no light on her face. Jess told him he had the wrong type of sconces for a bathroom and this got us thinking that there may be a lot of other people out there that don’t know about all the different types of sconces and what they’re used for, how to optimize them for lighting, and where to put them in your home.

The bathroom 7:40
Picture light, art light 17:05
Theater or rec room 21:15
Night stand 27:00
Mantle 29:15
Pendants 31:00

“There’s still differences in as-built than the plan and you still wanna eyeball it even though you have it drawn in CAD mathematically correct. It still feels different in person with your eyeballs, with the height of the people viewing it. Maybe the wife is 5 feet tall, maybe the husband is 6 feet tall, maybe the husbands that are married are both 6’8” or something. We all perceive things differently depending on the height and we try to design to that as we have a stick figure of a person their height.” 24:22
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Spring Refresh | Out with the Old, In with the New Mar 23, 2023

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Today we’re talking Spring and we are so excited because we’ve grown tired of this long Winter. There are things we do in the Spring, and things we do in the Fall and Summer, so we just wanted to sort of Martha Stewart our way through this situation and talk about all the ways that we’re doing all our own Spring Refreshes, such as stocking the pantry and letting go of all your junk, or just giving stuff away. We each have different areas that we’re working on, so this should be a really fun conversation.

Getting the clean reset 3:30
Giving clothes away 13:30
Decor 15:20
Music 18:55
Smells 25:15
Plants 33:05
Predictions about the marketplace 39:15

“I really do love switching things up in the house. I definitely take some of those heavier feeling Winter pillows down and I bring up the brighter fresh ones that just give me a feeling in my house, which is great. I light a Spring candle in a few different spaces.” 25:00
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Listener Questions | Answering Your Inquiries Mar 16, 2023

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We’re doing listener questions again today, which means we are gathered just to answer your questions that we’ve received in the last little bit. These are the questions that weren’t long enough to make a podcast out of, but were enough that we could give a short answer to. If you have any questions that we haven’t answered yet, just send them to dearalice@alicelanehome.com and we will answer them here.

Floor outlets 5:00
Keep your home from looking like a yard sale 10:30
What pieces should match/coordinate and which ones should contrast? 16:35
Painting the exterior of your house white and painting the trim 22:55
Hiding from the neighbors with art glass 25:50
Organizing mismatched furniture and using rugs 31:10
Renovation and looking for an authentic designer 37:00
The colors in our showroom 39:50
Exterior Christmas lights 40:55

“ I have a handful of friends that have been designers that do this work and I trust them, so ask them ‘If you can’t, can you point in the direction of somebody that would be capable of doing interesting work of just a couple rooms at a time?’ I would just ask people that you respect, ask firms that you respect.”
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Inspiring Women through The Ages Mar 09, 2023

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In this episode we’re celebrating international women’s day. There's a lot in history that women have done and trails that have been blazed that are cause for where you’re at right now. We have the opportunity to go to school, work, and express ourselves, which is a huge privilege, and it’s a good exercise for anybody to think about the women in your own life that have inspired you and just be super grateful for what they’ve done. Join us today as we discuss these amazing women and their accomplishments.

The first international Women’s Day 4:32
Viola Davis 6:24
Oprah Winfrey 12:22
Anne Frank 19:53
Carol Kaye 23:15
Mother Teresa 26:00
Martha Stewart 28:30
Anna Wintour 31:30
Julia Childs 35:25
Beyoncé 37:52
Michelle Obama 39:05
Mindy Kaling 41:00
Elsie de Wolfe 47:15

“‘My new motto is when you’re through changing, you’re through.’ I think that that takes great humility and I think naturally women have a lot of humility probably based on where we’ve come from, and I keep saying innate, but I think most women are soft/softer, and they want to adapt, and they want to mold, and they want to become better and there can sometimes be a pride that stops progress and open mindedness, and I think that’s what she was talking about.” 29:14
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John Woodley on Real Estate and the Economy | Investing Basics Mar 02, 2023

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We have a special guest with us today by the name of John Woodley, who is a real estate expert here in the Wasatch Front area. He runs a company called Woodley Real Estate with his brother, specializing in the high end luxury market as well as class A office space. We felt like it would be a great idea to bring an expert on this show to discuss this market because this comes up in conversation for us socially and in business all the time. We talk about what this market is doing not just in Utah, but everywhere else and kind of where it’s going.

Are we headed for a downturn? 2:45
Buyer confidence 5:45
Things that are the most important to upgrade 8:10
Is it better to play it safe, or put some money into it? 12:30
Best ways for homeowners to mitigate equity or value loss during the economic downturn 14:05
Helping clients grow their wealth through real estate and why so many people use real estate to grow their wealth 16:55
The best way to get started in real estate for someone with 100k, 500k, or 1 million 20:45
Tax benefits for making it an investment 23:50
AirBnB 27:20
Annual contracts 29:05
Understanding regulations 32:40
What can previous downturns teach us about opportunities in real estate? 33:35
When the market turned back around in 2020 36:55
The cycle of peak and bottom in the market 39:00
Hottest real estate market right now 40:25
difference between residential and commercial real estate 44:25
Has there been a decline in commercial real estate recently? 48:35
Defining luxury 51:45

“We say make it look nice and classy, or in good taste, and then let whoever buys it put their own personal spin on it. You go spend a ton of money on something that you think’s just gonna knock their socks off, lights out, and they’re looking at it going ‘We’re gonna have to tear that out.’ You’re adding the cost to put in and they’re subtracting that out and adding in what they’re gonna have to put back in.” “They’re gonna have to repaint that cobalt wall.” 13:32
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Designs Through the Decades Part 2 Feb 23, 2023

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Today we’re continuing to talk from our last episode about design through the decades. We got you through the 1940s and we’re sitting here in the 1950s, so we’re gonna take you through what it was like, the political climate at the time, and then of course fashion, then getting into interiors and Cori’s going to give us a little bit of info of where music was at during that time too.

1950s fashion, interiors 2:38
1960s 6:46
1970s 14:53
1980s 25:29
1990s 37:18
2000s, 2010s, 2020s 46:20

“Furniture designers, architects, and product designers also began to create work that we now recognize as mid century and modern like we said before. This movement looked to combine sleek lines with organic shapes balancing modernity and naturalism. Bright happy colors were in every room of the house. Popular hues included turquoise, coral, pale yellow, mint green, and light blue. Pink was also at peak. It’s the rainbow you guys, it’s the whole rainbow. In the 1950s you see pink everywhere in kitchens, bedrooms, but especially in bathrooms.” 4:18
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Designs Through the Decades Part 1 Feb 16, 2023

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This is something we’ve had on the list to do for a very long time. There’s so much to talk about because we’ve just seen so many things come and go through the ages. We talk about each of the decades and kind of what influenced them to be in fashion at the time. We do this for fashion interiors, and then Cori throws in some things about music that happened at that time and how that relates to fashion or interiors. Your grandparents were likely alive for one of these decades, so you might even be thinking about them at a certain time when we talk about it and remembering grandma’s house, and what it was like.

Design through the decades 5:09
Design is an art of situations 9:46
1910s fashion and decoration 12:30
1920s fashion 22:43
1930s 33:42
1940s 40:32

“They would use steel, glass plywood, and plastic in their creations. While unconventional materials at the time, they fit with the Bauhaus, ethos, and practicality. Ultimately however, the 1920s were all about the bling. People craved luxurious components in their lives, whether it was leather upholstered furniture or a lucite clock. The Jazz Age was majority glamor and glitz.” 30:46
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How To Design Around Ugly Necessities | Tips to Hide and Obscure Those Unattractive Items Feb 09, 2023

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Today we’re going to be talking about those ugly necessities. We’ve had a lot of DMs and questions about how to help disguise some of the things we have to live with that make our lives more comfortable, more easy, but aren’t very attractive. So we thought we would compile them all into a list in one day and just talk about all of them here. If you’ve written us a question in the past, we’re not ignoring you. We’ve been saving it for this moment. A lot of times, we remove those ugly things from the scene when we do photo shoots of the homes that we design, or we have figured out a way to disguise it in a permanent way, so they can still have the convenience, but they don’t have to have the eye sore.

Laundry baskets and hampers 4:18
Flat screen TVs on a large wall 9:52
Office chairs and computer monitors 14:51
Chargers and cables 20:38
Wall mounted coat rack entry hooks 23:33
Solutions for shoes 27:01
Air conditioner vents and ceilings, canned lights 28:55
Kids’ toys and high chairs 31:43
Electric toothbrush and CPAP machine 33:20
Toasters 38:10
Baby gate 39:03

“How about air conditioner vents in ceilings?” “What we did in the showroom is just paint them the same color as the ceiling.” “I would say that for anything, and that goes for your vents in your powder room, some of them always have that heavy, bold plastic. You just paint it the same color as the wall, or the ceiling.” “AC returns, same thing?” “Same thing.” 28:54
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Interior Design Fails | Lessons Learned Feb 02, 2023

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In this episode we’re talking about design fails, which is something that happens to everybody in the industry. Jess got a DM from a new designer and she said she had some really bad feedback from one of her clients that said she shouldn’t even be in the design industry. They felt like things went so poorly, so she asked if we ever get discouraged. Boy, if we could only tell you the struggles we’ve had! Our failures have been some of our greatest teaching moments, so we decided to share with you guys about our experiences to help those of you in the design field.

Talking about design fails 4:00
Lessons learned meeting 7:00
The delivery process 8:00
A claim 9:00
Designing a whole carpet wrong 15:25
Furniture that doesn’t fit 17:18
Handling everything for the client 20:38
Couldn’t get the furniture up the stairs 25:02
Find people with a sense of humor 28:48
You don’t want be the smartest person in the room 34:34
Use your vendor representatives 40:32

“There are things that are teaching moments that you learn from, and there are some things that logistically, that are out of your control, that unfortunately make you as the business owner look bad, and that’s just with everything. Those to me are the most frustrating things.” “#Covid.” “Yeah, exactly.” 5:38
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