Full Home Makeover & Architectural Redesign | Highland Manor Remodel Masterclass

0:00This is a three-level home and we did it all in one year and one month. As you're remodeling, think of like, what experience do I want to have? Is there a different like way to enter into a space to experience that space to give this space back a little bit more like richness and like presence as the entry? This is one of those things designers out there listen in. This to me is one of the things that separates the good from the great. Hi, guys. Welcome to Dear Alice. Thanks, Jess. I'm happy to be here. I am too. We're going to do another one of our remodel masterclasses. People love the last one.

0:38I know. I'm obsessica, as they say. We're deep diving into another one of our projects from ALID. That's the design firm side of our business where we're doing full remodels and full builds. And so we're focusing in on the remodels because there's so many things to learn. And I know you guys are in the middle of projects. and we want to show you some of the things that we figured out along the process because it's kind of remodels are a little bit build it while you fly it you know what I mean it's a design build it is a design build yeah and this house um that we're about to show you it's our highland remodel project on the portfolio and it is near and dear to sue and I it's actually one of our dearest girlfriends homes and she had been single her whole professional life into her early 40s single like executive yeah yeah just amazing and i decided my mom's voice came into my head and it's like don't swear sue yeah anyway anyway she's that yeah i'm talking about high praise we love her so much and we get a phone call from her back in 28 2018 yeah and she's like where were you guys actually i'm getting married we were we're actually at a matinee which is like our favorite thing right we're just never at a matinee with our design team like as a reward goal for like hitting a number or something and it was like the very the credits and we get a text from our girlfriend and she said i think she sent a picture of him yep and said i think i think we're and we're gonna get married i'm getting married and i want to know if you have room to take on a remodel and we were like the best news ever and we start crying and we're covered in cold chills and we didn't even know she had been dating this guy and all of a sudden they're going to combine in their life.

2:20She's never been a mother. He has four children. His wife passed away from cancer years ago and they find each other. So now all of a sudden she's going to be this mother of four children, preteens and teenagers, and they need a home to raise this family in. And they want to combine their households and how they feel about life and everything else. And they happened to purchase a home in my neighborhood. So now I get to be neighbors with her. That's awesome. Which was so fun. And anyway, so she had all this inherited architecture that we're about to show you. And there was sort of this, for the first time, you know, she has somebody else in the kitchen with her in the, with the finances.

3:02And so we've done other homes for her and she's always like all gas, all in, just really thoughtful, wants it to be meaningful. And now she wants to bring us in to make this meaningful for the whole family. But, you know, sometimes men and women feel differently about finances. And so for the first time, we're like, well, let's be reasonable during this remodel and let's make sure and hear his ideas and let's reuse a lot of what's there. And let's just really try not to throw the whole baby out with the bathwater. And I think this is a really great remodel to talk about because we want to share with you all the things that we reused and just what we felt like we needed to replace to be able to get the look.

3:41So a lot of This is cosmetic. We didn't really move many walls. We just closed off a doorway to be able to make a really great closet for her. Changed up finish work as far as just like some things that were just like really bad architecturally for your eyes as you're kind of meandering through the space. The shapes needed to change. So we were able to, again, structurally we kept the post there, but we changed the cosmetic around it so that it would make sense, better sense for the space as a whole. yeah so i feel like there's a lot of practical learnings here and that's why we were like even though this remodel was completed this was a one-year remodel i'm guessing which is insane it's insane because i bet the house is like eight to ten thousand square feet yeah so it's a large home we didn't do a lot in the basement we just did a couple bedrooms for the kids again all cosmetic but really spent the budget on the main level so this is a main level there's a smaller upstairs and then there's a basement.

4:38So this is a three level home and we did it all in one year and one month. So we're going to get into that. But first I just wanted to tell you guys, we have a really fantastic service. If you are not in the middle of a big remodel and you're just in the furnishings portion and feeling stuck, we have a fantastic team of interior designers. They have degrees, they are working in AutoCAD and they know all of the lines and all of our resources here at Alice Lane, all of the original product we're creating, as well as the 200 vendors that we create or that we work with. And they can get a really beautiful look.

5:12All they do is furnishings and they're really good at understanding you, your story, and how to put a home together. So if you are stumped and you'd like help from interior design designers, service is completely free. It's called Home Furnishing Design. Corey, tell them where they can fill out the form to get started. So just go to alicelanehome.com and at the top bar there is a design services tab. Hit that and go to home furnishing design. The form will be there and we'll get back to you. Yeah that's great. Amazing. So good. Okay we're gonna get into this but we're gonna fit we're gonna save Suze's favorite space for last.

5:48So stay tuned for that and yeah let's get into it. Okay all right we're gonna show you some just like some general befores right now so you can kind of get a flavor you're going to kind of walk through this house a little bit to kind of see what we started with so you can appreciate where we ended with it okay okay all right so the tile's fun okay we walk into this house this is you walk into the entry and there's a medallion do you remember those guys let me just say this house was probably built in the early 2000s so we're walking into i think it's a fake travertine yeah and they did um you could get those big tile medallions that were like 36 inches round it looks like a compass like northeast west south on the ground right under the main chandelier in the home so you're you're walking in to that and it's very brown the world was Tuscan at the time so we've got a lot of knotty alder we've got a lot of brown we've got curly iron railings um and then this homeowner was trying to take the house I think a little more contemporary with a few updates so then we've got um a polished like chrome chandelier a silver chandelier in the entry possibly yeah yeah so we've got a lot of different ideas going on no one idea serving any master um but one of probably our favorite details of what needed to change was that there was so many flooring flooring patterns happening in one area and this is the area that transitions you from the kitchen the entry to the great way and the entryway and they decided to create with flooring not with walls um some divisions yeah pathway yeah it kind of feels like a floor and decor you know like when you see like it's a sampling style showroom yeah they were trying to show off a few things which could have been the result of like different remodels at different time but they just like ignored that or maybe it was like initial decisions much like every dear alice podcast you tune into we always say you're really going to want to check this one out on either Spotify or YouTube.

7:50The visuals are just so fantastic. You're going to love it. So anyway, we're looking into on the in the one image with all the different flooring samples, it feels like this is actually a residence. These are choices that were made. And you're looking toward the entryway. And you're standing in the kitchen. And you can see all these different flooring patterns happening. And to make matters worse, they went ahead and put columns boxed columns yes square columns yes to sort of um create walls um for each room like and support the load like we couldn't get rid of them even though it's an open floor plan it feels closed off because of all the flooring changes and all the columns yeah no it was it was it was heavy and you were just like you know like when you like a pinball you know when it's just like hitting an angle and hitting an angle and hitting an angle it kind of felt like that because like it just like wasn't harmonious and like let's like I want to like I was about to remind you but tell you that this client she loves like non-directional she loves like peaceful space she's an engineer so she deals with exactness all the day long so straight it's like if it's not exactly straight like it's off her brain just sits and looks at it and tries to re-engineer it to make it right but you you can't change it unless you go into construction so she let us know that on her first project just that she she deals with exactness all day long so she needs these soft soothing spaces and plaster walls are for her because it does give you that beautiful soft movement and it kind of pillows around you so not just even the walls but the ceiling everything plastered so it just completely encompasses you in a feeling like that is the client so to have all these like jogs and straights and everything was just it wasn't for her so i I think understanding yourself when you buy a property, you're buying it for a reason, whether it be location, size, it functions some way.

9:39But just like understanding who you are, what you love is so key as you start to make these big, expensive decisions. Also, she went with a remodel instead of a new build because this is a brand new relationship, right? They need to be able to move into something pretty quickly. And so if they would have had to embark with an architect in finding land, this is a lot for a brand new marriage. to have to come in too. Often they say this is the most stressful thing you're going to do is build a home together or remodeling too. This is a ton of huge permanent decisions you're making and it's probably the most money that you're going to spend on a project together like this.

10:17So also time frame was important. So getting an existing home and making it theirs made the most sense. Okay, now welcome to the great room. This is in the living room and again you can kind of see those square columns we're looking we're in the corner of the gate great room looking into the kitchen on our left and into the entry kind of goes down that little hallway the yellow brick brick road to our right and you have this upper thing with all these really romantic juliet balconies um which they were lovers they're just lovers not once but twice and third time just for funsies anyway so again you do have like just a lot of things happening that just needed to be mitigated and cleaned up so anyway so you're gonna see see that's where that flooring came in then okay the railings i think that that was a big let me let's i'm gonna show you before right quick right here so this on the this is the railing that we were working with it's iron it's fancy it's it wasn't our client nobody liked the railing they needed to go so So I remember like being in the design center and looking, Jess and one of our seniors, Maddie, who was on the project, they were like, this is calculus.

11:31Because like the client had a very specific as far as just like ethos and like mission statement to like their relationship and how they met and all these things. And it was kind of this like eternal non-ending. And so that was, I think, a theme that you use as far as when designing this that really came into play. Yeah, we wanted to this eternal round idea. so we wanted to use circles also those non-directional shapes to sort of soften all the angles of this home so you can also see in the after image the floor tile that we used two marbles and then we had water jet cut the black marble circles and then that same size circle exists in the railing you get this circular detail and then these never-ending sort of arcuated lines at the top, long straights, which made it feel a little bit more cleaned up, a little more modern, organized.

12:23That's a great word. And I just think those soft shapes, they really do feel Parisian, I think. And it felt like her, it was very original to the project. We haven't seen anything like this before. And I'll tell you, this was hard math. We worked on this so, so long. And once we got it, it was like, oh my gosh, that's it. Yeah. Those black circles that you're talking about and kind of them being the same diameter radius as the ones in the railing was like cohesion top of mind because it was it was the exact opposite before. Especially when you work for an engineer, right? Because these things are all playing into her mind.

13:04And so, yeah, I mean, you can see here's the afters of the entryway. We use two marbles. Three. Or sorry, three marbles. It's black marble that make that circular shape. and then we've got a really beautiful veiny black and white Calcutta or Carrera and then a warmer cream marble in the middle and that warmed the whole space. Yeah make it more organic so it didn't get too cool. Too icy. Yeah definitely. Kind of see like these are just the cell phone images which are probably almost truer to the actual color of the marble than. And you know what we did reuse in that entry go back the front door.

13:39We did. We kept that front door which felt sort of it now all of a sudden feels Parisian and not Tuscan because the railing isn't in that gang fight with the front door. I was a gang fight. Yeah. This was a rough foot before. And then, um, the other thing that we did in this entry was we sealed off. There was a door that you would go into to go into the, his office. And we just wanted to create a sense of entry because this whole room was just never ending. Um, lots of floor changes, lots of columns, lots of things going on, but lots of directions. Yeah, but you also didn't know where to rest your eye.

14:13And there wasn't a sense of entry. So closing off this door gave her a closet because that connected with the master suite. And girl loves to shop. She has a really great collection. So we used his office. Probably the best I've ever seen of all the closets we've ever done. Yeah. So we used his office as her closet. And we got to wall off that whole thing and put a large mirror there, a beautiful chaise. and we all of a sudden have this great entryway. This is funny because we, in our first Remodel Masterclass on Lover's Lane, we did the very same thing. Because I think a lot of homes you walk in and you have like a room to your right and a room to your left and a room in front of you.

14:52Yeah. And so again, as you're remodeling, think of like what experience do I want to have? Is there a different like way to enter into a space to experience that space, to give the space back a little bit more like, I don't know, richness and like presence as the entry. Because I do love a good entry. I do too. And it really, it just completely cleaned that up and you know where to go. You're like, okay, I can like go right to go toward the kitchen or I can go up the stairs to ascend. And like, I only have two options. I also want to teach this little point. You can see in that stairwell, there's a sconce in the before, which is a single sconce.

15:25In the after, we used a single sconce that has three heads, three different shades on it. Stairwheels are really big walls. They're running two full heights from the bottom floor all the way up to a top floor. and you've got to do something with more commanding presence this is where you call on those triple sconces you can do the single ones over your fireplace mantle or in smaller areas but when you have these big areas you've got to go larger on those sconces and we pulled um golden and brass finishes in for her the sort of the icy the icy fixtures that were there and i'm just going to say this this is general rule for the most part in every remodel we've ever done we completely scrap the lighting it is one of those features that will really date your home and so I would always plan on having a really healthy lighting budget that is going to change everything paint's going to change everything and then I love the tip for the door that we gave them right just have your finished carpenter come in and add that little that little molding detail right and then your railings I also feel like are something that can go in and out of fashion.

16:34Let's say, I mean, we do this when we're styling where we like pull everything back and like edit the whole thing. We kind of did this and we do like in public spaces, most of the time you're going to be fairly neutral just by that first spray before the plaster even came on. You walked in and you're just like, oh my gosh, I see the bones. I see what we're working with before. Like it was so hard to see past the yellow brick road of tile and like all the weird plaster. Anyway, there were just so many hard stops. so you're just like you just like can breathe like when you do have that edit so sometime like i did it in my own house like you you kind of like you paint everything i paint everything white so i can feel it i can understand it i can work with it and see like what my how my stuff interacts with this space and then you can start to incorporate color where it feels like you need a moment and experience so i think that's a really really hot tip especially when you're dealing with the previous choices of a different owner who loved different things than you did in a different time and allow yourself to i think it's a really nice i think a grace thing that you can allow yourself to kind of figure out who you are who you're becoming or what you want this space to be by just like just give it a clean wash like paint the place white for a second until you understand where you want to go with it so like that i want to do one more call out in this entryway um you can see that before has tile that runs all the way to the base mold in the after you can see that we added a border just probably like six inches off the wall and the stair because this fireplace or I'm sorry because the stairwell comes down and that bottom step is rounded it's arcuated we had to water jet cut the exact template to get this border but look at the difference with that little liner this is one of those things designers out there listen in this to me is one of that separates the good from the greats.

18:22If you have borders around your tile areas in your bathrooms, in your entries, a lot of people don't do it, and they just run that tile all the way to the wall, and it doesn't feel complete. It doesn't feel finished. This really defines the shape of that, and I just feel like it looks so much more classic. Like going to a tailor, too, do you know what I mean? Because it's so well-appointed. And again, doing this, like, again, there's not a lot of curves. There's a lot of straights, but this is like where you actually get some of that arcuation with how that barrels up on the stairwell. You don't see it in the left.

18:57Like you have square tiles that are meeting up with this curve and you're like, what curve? But here you finally get to see it. It feels intentional. It feels intentional. Yeah, that that's scribed around the whole shape of the room. And also because that is a soft shape, those non-directional shapes that we're talking about, it really pulls attention to it. Right. those things are it's always going to be more affordable to build something straight than to do it round so the fact that we have that echo on the ground of that shape I feel like just makes this entry feel so so sophisticated and just finished it's it's funny you say that too because I'm like when we're when we're styling and you're looking around and your eye your eye kind of starts to travel and your eye stops sometimes it can be a good stop because you're trying to draw the eye's attention but a lot of times like it's just like if it stops at something you're not happy with it then that needs to go i think that's just like a good exercise because i'm like in that before shot again your eyes stop so many different times where when you are able to like call it out in a really edited way with the border it's just as a fluid organized movement that you can understand this space and like carry on to the next space and like you know what to expect so i love that good points Right.

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22:00That's something we all can do. And it's so impactful. Yeah. And look at now the pathway. It runs straight from the front door all the way to the great room. No diagonal pathways trying to take you into the kitchen. Right. This is a straight shot. You get to see these big, beautiful commanding views. The eye knows where to go. We have plaster finishes, which you can't fully appreciate in the images that we're showing right now. But it also completely softened the whole look of it. You've got the Doric columns, which are feeling really classical. I mean this before and after is so great we did not involve an architect in this we just switched out some columns the flooring the railings the lighting right plaster anyway you can see the old in the new but I just this feels so gorgeous so much more organized to the eye and I say classical too because I can't think of a time in history as long as we've been doing interior design you and I over 20 years where where this wouldn't be so beautiful yeah like i think forever and always i will always love this entry me too it's so stunning yeah okay okay let's take you to the kitchen okay here you are in the kitchen we're again a lot a lot we're in the before shot right now and there's a lot of things happening you have like a dark problem i'm gonna i'm gonna say it's an alder it is i'm gonna say an alder maybe in a couple different finishes we have a light one over the hood kind of again just kind of compressing you in there and putting you in time out you have a dark one on some of the perimeter then we went to it they hopped to a black paint on the island you have this combined family you know where you know you have mom and daddy have four kids and they they needed seating at the island and there just wasn't that and it just wasn't a beautiful space for her to actually like consider herself home and like live there and cook there and have this new family so we scraped it all off yeah we did um here's another angle of the kitchen again you can kind of see the site porcelain porcentile that looks like dirt i'm gonna be straight um you have two islands there's only two barstools that's strange to me entire yeah in the entire so their kid they must have been empty nesters their kids had fled and so there was probably just mom and dad in there and that's probably where they sat and feel lonely just shoulder a shoulder while they're at their dinner yeah imagine when looking into the cabin when daddy's at work and you have to sit there by yourself for like this yeah serious oh man okay they did dark trim too yes i will say that wooden trim and we have done remodels where they decided not to allow us to paint the trim and that's the thing that just like that's that's the hill i should have died on i should have yeah because we're gonna go ahead and again this is the thing that we kept yeah you didn't swap the trim out yeah we just painted it yeah we did just paint it but it makes a big difference okay here's your after so here's here's what i want to say that we kept yes you're not even going to believe us when we say this but we kept the perimeter cabinets we just we just painted yep we took out that big that big range hood element that comes down to the countertop on both sides we removed that and we put in a new stainless steel really awesome rain um range hood and i think we did a new stove too we did a new stove and we kept majority of like the bottom perimeter cabinets there's that little the left and right side of the actual hood we expanded that whole thing just to make it feel more gracious put a new range in expanded that footprint and then lifted your eye out without with removing the walls and adding the stainless yep and then And we completely got rid of both islands.

25:40Of course, we got rid of all the lighting and go back to the afters. My pleasure. So we still did two islands in the end. But you can see we've got this model that we worked with, European marble here in Utah. And they're one of the best fabricators of slabs. So good. And this is a study we did with the slabs that we selected. The rep was so thoughtful. we mocked it up so we could figure out exactly where to use each slab how we were going to marry these together in the middle to book match them and when which you know which one would be best for each of these elements we completely clad the entire island that you're looking at right now in slab which was kind of a baller move right baller move no i remember sketching this one out i'm just like i think it just needs to be all slab it could have been caverns but by doing it like this it feels more parisian we've got that brass bar below to hook your heels on especially if you weren't doing new cabinetry elsewhere the drawer rhythm on that existing island was nuts so I think yeah right call and on that like we have the all stone one and then but the other one we actually did keep that we took away like this like some funky weird like barley twist columns on it we kept the boxes again we kept the boxes yeah and then we ended up again our client loves Paris and loves Frenchy things we're like what can we do to like extend that because it would just ended there which like felt like a short sentence or and so we actually created this like walnut butcher block with these like this iron work that we just assembled on site and then we had our plaster worker he gold leafed everything so to just kind of create this like little moment which turned out I think so beautiful love it I love it so much yeah but okay so okay then in the dining room we did the same thing I just wanted you to see just like that trim it kind of disappears when you can just like let it melt we're not calling attention to it before it was contrasting and the wood stain let it let it kind of like especially if it's something that you're like we're not going to replace it you know we're going to be kind gentle to our finances um just hope it to disappear that's the goal yep same paint finish and paint color obviously as the wall we're plaster on the walls and so we're um more of a satin probably where we usually go semi-gloss yeah on a trim just to help this melt into that plaster look and yeah i think it i think it worked but new lighting and then just it speaks right to the kitchen okay now next to the kitchen is that family room and i have a before picture of it on the screen right now and again here we see again alder naughty alder dark stained and really really heavy we have like two closed and built-ins on each side of the fireplace we have a mantle in that same wood and we have a tv housing unit above the fireplace on the over mantle with speakers mounted on both sides and then the built-ins had these bonnet tops these arced tops um so really tall room i just have to say like this is a two-story room this is something that is it needs a lot of grandeur and so we actually were like you know what let's keep the lower built-ins let's rebuild the tops and do open shelving we'll just spray everything um and then let's also just spray that existing mantle and little gold leaf uh the beautiful finish work you know box box panels within them so this is the after you guys that's pretty dramatic you can see the lowers camera two camera one camera two yeah big mirror of the fireplace this is always a trick we like to use in interior design it's feng shui we don't always talk about it um but this is a really nice balance for a fireplace because they say the fireplace is a hole in the house where energy can escape and then the mirror brings that balance back in what i love about it is that you can see the upstairs library in the mirror and you get to see the chandelier again so you get two of them yep which is great and we did remove that before a picture that had all those like bonnet like julia balconies those were all scraped off and we just did railing on that whole thing so when you are up there you just can like overlook and like when you're down below you can see it yes exactly it brightened up the whole space yeah um and then felt really smart we had built up there and kind it created a study you're smart smart too thank you did you so you opened up the pathway up there like the hallway it was like such a gorgeous day when the builder's like you can get rid of all of it and we can just do railing we're just like praise that's jesus man that's a miracle it was a miracle for this house and i want to say we do this trick a lot and i think this is one of the best like cases where we have the tv not over the mantle but over in this built-in that it is like again we kept the base cabinets we had those painted we had those leafed and those that pinstripe detail but then we just kept the top open and then just floated a frame tv on top of that and so we built a block to mount that onto it so it can kind of pull out and like actually angle so that everybody in the room can see it but it's not like the headliner of the room you have the mirror so i think this is a really really great example of that trick oh i just love how this room turned out and then we went ahead and did hand painted um drapes like linen from italy or something crazy.

30:53Anyway, sure did. Taking them all the way up to like kind of soften that arc in the window too. That two-story drape and the contrast of that black chandelier, the black railings, and then these open weave gauzy black linen drapes. And then the artist that does the plaster, he came in and did like botanical, like flower-like details, dry brush on top of the drapery, which I think it looks really great up close. You can't really appreciate what's happening here, But it's got a real laid back attitude. We've got the rug brings in the blue from the kitchen bar stools. And no one chair is the same.

31:29We did twin sofas in here. Big Moroccan ottoman in the middle so people could kick their feet up. And it makes the space feel more casual for that, you know, conducive family living. And I just think this room turned out so great. You can kind of see in that top right corner, like where all those balconies were removed. and you can see that railing kind of like up there overlooking. So I'm like the shared light again, the shared space. I just think it's so great. So great. Okay. The last of the spaces we're going to talk about in this remodel is the primary suite. We, again, she had a great relationship with this fine artist that did a lot of the gold details and the drapes.

32:07And he did work in her last home. He's a fine artist as well as plaster. Like a magician. He is like a magician. He just started putting like butterfly dust on his thing. And he's like, I think we can do this here. And I'm just like, cool. It's always a fun conversation with him because he changes your brain. But this is a vestibule that goes back to the primary suite, if you're watching. And she had one of the things that she inherited from her grandfather was his paintings. And they were on this like almost like rice paper rolled up in these in these canisters. And when you pulled them out, they were chrysanthemum calligraphies.

32:44And so chrysanthemums have always meant so much to her because it reminds her of her grandpa. And the artist said, let me do a take on chrysanthemums in this hallway. So what you're looking at is not wallpaper. This isn't a muraled wallpaper. He paneled off with gold leaf pinstriping and made these separate panels. And then within those, he did different chrysanthemums, different really extruded large scale. So you're completely enveloped. and when they come home from a day of exhausting, you know, engineering, technical, both of them are executives, and you get into this hallway, you just kind of let your shoulders down because it's like you're entering another world.

33:24You can't think a normal thought while you're walking through this. It just takes your breath away, and even the ceilings are plastered. You can see there's no can lights. We use these little alabaster, tiny little flush mount pendants that are like four inches around and the beautiful um flooring takes you back to the primary suite it's like the high-end version of just like walking in alice in wonderland and having like all the flowers like just kind of singing to you yeah yeah that's awesome more magical plastered kind of way oh my gosh so good so good okay now we're going to enter into the bedroom okay so here are some before pictures of the bedroom again we still have that heavy heavy the plaster on the wall that the previous owner had um again the dark casings dark casing that are outlining those windows yeah the views are amazing yeah the views are like unmatched but you can see like you have these kind of eyebrows but then they're meeting up with angles and so again how do we soften the space and one thing that the client there was a fireplace that we did keep i just want to say that in both spaces we kept them but we resurfaced them so and we kept the wood floor in the primary suite as well we have the wood floor here and the caseings yeah yep yep we just changed the over mantle detail to create some drama yeah and then of course modern yeah and of course we got rid of the lighting and i just want to give a side note here if you're watching there's really no need to ever do a square chandelier i think what you want in the middle of a room is to sort of take the edge off of walls and just to keep your eye moving around it so this is um i think i think this is a really positive move to get rid of all the hard angles is one of the objectives of of creating a really restful master suite okay all right one thing that the client her directive was just like she wanted her room to feel just like like a dark nice guy like and so we had this picture that we had exchanged back and forth and we're trying to figure out like what we knew we want to do plaster again because the artist was already there and And again, with all those angles and everything, plaster just has such a pulling effect where it can just like soften the edges and just like make it feel like you're in a cloud.

35:31And that's what the goal was. And so we had our paint. We gave that kind of midnight sky color to him. And this is kind of a process picture of the team going to work. It takes advantage of the height, but then also like kind of distracts from the angles, which is exactly what I feel like you need it in that space. Yeah, we said this on previous podcasts too, but like people don't, don't be afraid of color in your bedroom or like in a space where you have a focus. When you go to your bedroom, it is to sleep. You spend a lot of time there. If you paint it white, like the mind just keeps racing.

36:07But when you can go somewhere dark and like go to study in an office that's deep or go to sleep in a space that's deep, you can actually like allow your whole body to calm. And so I'm so glad that she was like cool with us going to saturate it as we did. and that's why this is one of my favorite spaces again you just feel you feel something when you walk into this room this is a study of this that over mantle that jess was talking about where um again they're they're young still they have a young family and so this was a really cool way and it's been fun to like be with her through so many homes because like what she's like purchased in art what like things that she started to express herself and like this whole discovery has become like more modern more funky and so that kind of gave us some liberties to do something like this um which i think turned out so great but i love i love this over mantle in this fireplace again we kept the actual the existing mantle and it was really yellow and kind of dirty before but our plaster guy he just he worked his magic on this and you can see one of the details we did on the over mantle it's this big bullnose effect which you feel on that precast mantle itself and we bullnosed the edges we arcuated those back to the wall because when you enter the space you enter this and you see the fireplace mantle from the profile and you can see in Suza's sketches this is where we were studying it out what we were going to do how that would feel and we felt like if we could really arcuate the wall surrounding it to bring you around front that it would soften that edge which was of course the whole goal of this room was to deepen it soften it pillow it and I think it also turned out great to really love it okay and this is the after so again you see that midnight blue you see that kind of more like limestone-y limestone-y color on the actual mantle and we can you can even see that he he's brilliant we even are the hearth there too so it matched that over mantle at the same depth and the same width also matches those beautiful columns in the front entryway where all of these details feel like limestone now yep instead of travertine i love too just that small little mirror there i just think it's just like a little a small punctuation yeah yep exactly and then this is the room so I love this room again you got rid of all the angles you have a circular you know chandelier dropping we I love the four poster again with the space with this much volume it's four posters are awesome because it creates that room within a room and so you don't get lost in your space you think this is so romantic it can still sort of feel intimate even within a grand space with a ton of volume I think if you do have a room this big you've got to use the four poster trick to just create some intimacy yeah this is a space too we're able to like use her pink chair from her last house anyway just like you're reusing like the key pieces that you love in your collection as you go through so that that was the last of the spaces we get to share with you today yeah i think we did a really good job of reusing what we could um and making making really lemonade out of so many of these things i feel really proud of us for for the reuse of so many things and then also making it feel completely new and like her and and just getting to have those um use be the feature and the focus in some of these spaces without having to compete with all these dark lines of the molding where your eye stops inside the house instead of continuing into the outside yep anyway you guys that completes our second remodel master class again this is called highland manor on our portfolio if you want to check out how the rest of the home turned out.

39:38Thank you so much for tuning in. I wanted to also point out, this is the work of ALID. This is our interior design service where we do full remodels and builds. And if you are embarking on a full scale remodel or a new build, we would love to help you. We just completed a whole ton of projects this year. And so we have a little bit of room to let a few projects in the back door. So we wanted to offer those up to you first since you're our closest friends. You listen to us each week and I just wanted to thank you for listening and for tuning in. If you are interested in any design work, Corey, how do they get a hold of ALID?

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