Remodel Masterclass: Field Rose

0:00Hello everyone, welcome to Dear Alice. Today we have another remodel masterclass for you. This one we titled Field Rows. This is a project that we took on in 2019.

0:30I know we do. We have a lot of behind the footage, like behind the scenes footage on our iPhones. And we were looking at it. I was sending Jess an example of a color drench the other day. And I'm like, my gosh, like the people have to know about this project because it's beautiful. And so we're like, we, yeah, here we are. We're unveiling it to you for the first time. Yeah, there's so many learnings on a remodel and you guys might be embarking in new projects for the new year. And so we just want to be able to show you what we kept and what we got rid of, what we worked with, because those are always the questions like, do we throw the baby out with the bathwater?

1:02You know, what can we save? What can we not save? And this home was one that was probably built in the eighties, I would say. And here we are 2026. And so what would we keep from the 80s is one of the questions today. And we'll be driving you through those answers. We'll be hitting up four different spaces is what we'll have time for today. Just really beautiful spaces. I love how these turned out. Again, cell phone footage, but really, really worth sharing it with you. So I'm excited to take you through it. I feel like this is the footage that you would like, I don't know, send to your best girlfriend and just be like, so case in point.

1:36Yeah. Yep. It's going to be a lot of fun. Can you give us a little bit of background on it? Like yeah who just mentioned it was 2019 but yeah yeah the circa 2019 um it was a family of five they had three little kids and they had relocated to utah and they just wanted to like have a beautiful a beautiful home beautiful property and it sometimes you just you want the neighborhood you know and so you find the neighborhood and then you find whatever house is available and that was this case they love the neighborhood they love the schools but the house was dated you know it was you know 40 some years old and they were a younger family so probably Yeah, have like more modern taste than what their home was.

2:15Modern, super fashionable. Like fashion was important to them. Color was important to them. That was a big thing. As we walked into this house, it just kind of felt just like, I don't know, unbaked rolls. You know, it was just kind of boring. And it felt really dated. And it was definitely someone else's dream home. No doubt about it. Like this was a dream home when it was built. But the shell of it was beautiful. And we knew that like there was enough square footage to like be, had enough rooms for their kids. It had enough room to grow. oh, I have enough room to entertain. And so I checked all those boxes.

2:45And really, we just need to scrape off the onions and the pickles and redress it in something a lot cuter and tastier. So thank you. Yes, we're really, really excited. So let's jump into it. I feel like whenever we're starting a design for anybody, we always start with the kitchen. I feel like the kitchen is just, it's like the nucleus of the house. Once you can figure out what your kitchen should look like and what like as far as your ethos is like I think it's the most functional but there's also a lot of opportunity for style points and a lot of those finishes lead on to the general spaces in the house so your paint colors your wood flooring you know the general like vibe if you can figure that out then answers start to present themselves so it's really great if you're embarking on a remodel the kitchen is a really good spot to kind of like figure out who you are if you're wanted to pull some, I don't know, some, some tricks and things.

3:38And then I don't know, I think it teaches you a lot. I think that's a great tip because I think people, if you're just, you know, in a silo looking at your primary or something, you can probably get a little feel a little lost as far as direction goes. Yeah. And kind of siloed. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. The kitchen, everyone, I think it has ideas for like what they want in a kitchen. I think some people need to be pulled, you know, a little bit further in a certain direction, but yeah, I think that's a great point. So. And it's fun because the kitchen, it can, it takes a long time to implement.

4:06So even when you start searching for kitchen ideas, you're inspired like, ooh, I like that. Ooh, I like that. And the more you start to look, the more you see and the braver you get. So I will say majority of kitchens, when we start with what the client wants to what we finally end up on is a lot braver than they would have ever thought that they would be. Not because like we pushed them uncomfortably, but just because they got excited and they started to see things with a little bit more open mindset and they just realized how fun they were. And so, And then after the kitchen, then it's just like, you know, hats off.

4:38Like we're getting into it. No guardrails from there. No, and then we're going to show you some really opinionated spaces. So I'm really excited to dive into it. So should we get going? Let's show them the before. Okay. Here is the before kitchen. This was, again, it was a classic white kitchen. I'm sure this had like probably seen some remodels since the very, very beginning. Maybe not. Well, you can tell if you're tuning in on YouTube or Spotify and you're watching this, You can tell, I feel like a kitchen for sure in this era because they didn't take the cabinets all the way to the ceiling.

5:07So you're looking at your uppers are all hanging on the wall and they're probably at least 18 inches or two feet when you say, Corey, off the ceiling. So today we bring cabinets all the way to the ceiling and y 'all are going to be surprised, but we replaced a white kitchen with a white kitchen. But you'll be able to see the difference. And it might be hard to justify maybe to your partner to be like, why am I putting in another white kitchen? But the difference is extraordinary. Even the cabinetry styles and how dated they look, even though you are replacing it with a white kitchen. But one thing that we rescued and kept from this kitchen is we love that they laid the hardwood floors on a diagonal.

5:46These are oak floors. I think the stain color looks great. It's just kind of that medium sort of walnut tone, which is always classic. This sort of walnut color never really trends. And the diagonal thing is such a power move. I'm so happy that they dared do this in the 80s, 90s, you know? So we kept that. Yeah. We kept this. The one thing when we looked into this kitchen, we're like, where's the range? They have an induction range, I believe, on their island. And then they had some wall ovens. But really, when we were like designing the kitchen, the range is like, it's the most expensive appliance.

6:19It usually has the most fashion points if you're going to get a French range or a 60 inch. Like it's like expensive, expensive line item. And that's like the, that's what we want to see. That's like the hood and the range. Yeah. that's our money shot the money shot and so anyway we're like okay if we if she's giving us free rain like let's reorient the kitchen completely and repurpose a really beautiful range moment where on that back wall where the fridge is kind of hiding back there you can also see on this you know just that cityscape where you were up then you were down then you're up then you're down on your cabinetry again we're going to take it all the way to the ceiling and we're actually she's a big entertainer we had a lot of vacancies here and so we're like we could actually get two islands into this space.

6:58If you're not able to see, there was an L-shaped island in the middle of a pretty big kitchen. The countertops do cantilever on one side, which would allow you to have bar stools, but it's this sort of perpendicular island that's cutting right through the middle of the kitchen instead of being horizontal with the width of it and making it feel wide and grand. This makes the kitchen feel so much smaller. So when you see the afters, I think one of those biggest take homes is orienting that island so that it's going to really make you feel sort of the breadth of the kitchen. It's just such a more grand shot.

7:33You really, I don't know, you really want to orient your kitchen the way that you're going to enter the most. And I know there might be more than one traffic pattern, but orienting that island so that it's parallel with your range is usually what you're going to do. And it's just going to just make it feel so grand. And so this just isn't doing it any favors. And I love it because it's a really great before. It's a great before. What I was going to say, it's kind of like when we tell you the bed should be like, we should be able to see the face of the bed. We should be able to see the range. Because right now I feel like I'm walking to the side of a messy nightstand.

8:06I agree. And so you're walking into a mess and it doesn't feel organized. So look at your kitchen like that. Even on a messy day, look at it and be like, is this the shot that I want people walking? Is this the shot I want to walk into after a long day with kids and all the things? And really consider what will hide the mess? Isn't it amazing how far kitchen design has come? No, just, you know, high five. High five. Because I'm like, even functionally, like your work triangle of your fridge to your range to your sink. Having that right across, I think, right across the sink and the window. And it's just so much better than how this is laid out.

8:44This is like kind of a stretch. You have your ovens here. You have an induction. You have like two sinks over here. I don't know. And then like over here, this is a catch-all completely over here on the left side, which I think all of our mom's house had that catch-all thing that they realized this is not where the command center should be for my office, right? And then like on the prep side of the island, you're staring back into the side of the kitchen as well. So it's just like that doesn't, I don't know. The vantage points are all wrong. Exactly. In this before kitchen. Let's show them the after.

9:15Okay, let's get there. Okay, here are some after shots. Again, these are iPhone shots, so like patient with us. But you can just see just by orienting like those islands in a more organized way, giving that wall something like beautiful to focus in on with that range and the hood is everything. Also, this hood is probably one of my most favorite hoods that we've ever done. I agree. Super cool. You never see a soft shape as a hood. No. And so you have this big bullnose as the top of the hood shape, and then it comes down the sides are also they also arcuate back to that to that slab wall and then I think the straps the brass straps on this beautiful um stainless hood is just so beautiful I love how this turned out it's so atypical and I want to say like even the production was like process was awesome because this was like the metal worker working with an auto body shop to make sure that that arcuation was exactly as it should be because it's floating it's not sandwich with so also i think that it's a creativity moment too that you don't have to sandwich it flat with your like your actual cabinets on the side because storage was an issue we needed to have like uppers and things to like get everything that we needed to store in this kitchen these were tall ceilings and so you can see that we even we brought that soffit down because functionally it didn't make sense to have cabinets go all the way up and so we put it to like a really normal height.

10:42I think at the top of this was at nine feet. I think we're at like 10 and a half total height here, but it just made all the difference. It's super functional. It's beautiful. And you know, I say that's one, a couple of things. I'm going to go to a couple more after pictures for you is I want everyone to notice the scale on these pendants. Yes. And let me just really quickly say, we searched in the chandelier category for this. This is not a kitchen pendant. And I just wanted to pay this forward to all of you designers and any of you embarking on a remodel. Sometimes pendants can be a little underwhelming.

11:17And when you're working on a grand size kitchen, especially if you have 10 plus feet like we have here to work with, you have to go, you have to employ a new scale to be able to get a big, gorgeous result. And I have to say, this is a light that we've used in entryways before. This is a great entry chandelier and using two of them. I actually have this in my home office. I have a barrel vault ceiling in there I have this same fixture in bronze and I just think it's so handsome as a pair over a kitchen island it just breaks all the rules and I just wanted to pay that forward if nothing else listening to this episode do that trick and you're gonna get grand applause for it a couple another trick too I just love you have this just too is the shelf yep I love that even like styling it I was like this is like the best kept secret that like everybody should know about is the little shelf above your range that can hold your salt and pepper your oils and like in this case we put a little piece of art with some of the things just to kind of build and get her started as she moved into the home and I know you use yours all the time it's like one of your favorites what we did was we used her countertop material which is marble we use that on her counters and then we did a whole slab wall as a backsplash that went all the way up to the ceiling you use that same exact marble as a shelf above your range.

12:34And I really think like six inches, just projecting off the wall. What they did at my house was they had to use rebar and that was sticking out of the wall. And then they made a sleeve of marble to go over the top of it. And that supports it as deep as you can get it. Because as you know, from styling, you do like to layer things. Mine's probably only four inches. So mine ended up just, you just lay, they don't layer in front of each other. They're more in a row but all of my olive oils and you know vinegars and salt and peppers and that kind of favorite stuff is right there and it looks so culinary I love this trick yeah minimum I would say like four no less than four yeah six is awesome to do the layering thing yeah um also to keep in mind if you have like big stock pots like what is going to be sitting underneath it too so like really work with your person to make sure like how you cook is like the steam and everything like where it hits height wise the projection there it's not going to hit into anything so that's just like one thing to just like have a note of it like four to six inches is like money so anyway so i love that if you're going to do a um tile backsplash like what material would you use for that like or you just wouldn't do it i'll take my countertop material probably and put it up there okay yeah cool i mean you could tile up and over it but yeah it gets more complicated but i'd probably just use my slab material um i do love the little detail too that we added on this like little shelf it looks like furniture yes so beautiful yes definitely tune into this visually if you're listening to it because i think it's turned out beautiful one fun thing is we went slab shopping and we initially had a more wild vein in here client last minute she's like i think i want to go to something calmer so we chose a chaldea which is beautiful and it's calm i feel like this is a very timeless look also it's 2019 2019 and so the wild slabs weren't quite as prominent in vogue or or prominent i mean we could feel that's under coming and we were and we wanted it and we wanted it but the client hadn't seen it and so she went with this sorry sue continue no and and i just asked him just like is there anything that you would change and she's like i wish you went with the bauder slab so isn't that interesting i'm like this 2019 2020 that you know you you may like feel a little bit scared you may feel a little nervous and be like am i gonna get sick of this but if you love it if you love it then you should do it if it's in your if it's in your taste and you know i i don't know i just i i wish that we this is beautiful i wish you went with the bother slab.

15:05I'm with you. I'm with you, with the client. And this might go without saying, but I'll just say it anyway, for those of you, um, maybe that aren't designers or maybe you designers, um, you probably already know this, but once you choose that slab, then you're going to get your paint deck out and you're going to choose your shade of white. If you're going with a white kitchen or the tone that's going to look best with that slab. So you can see here now that we're up close, even though these are iPhone photos, this kitchen is actually not white. This is a really neutral shade of kind of a taupe-ish gray tone that looks really beautiful with that Chaldea slab.

15:39Had she gone with the Wilder marble, we would have used probably a slightly different neutral, you know, shade that still felt like the white kitchen that she always dreamt of, but in a tone that relates really beautifully to the slab. So keep that in mind. And also, if you're doing your bathrooms, you're going to get your paint deck out and choose your color once you choose your slab for your cabinetry, if you're going paint grade. That can always be shifted, which is really great. One last little corner I'm like, we got to put this in, is she had this window where like her main sink looked out over and she has this amazing backyard.

16:10That's like, that's the nice thing about buying an existing home is you're landscaping and your trees are mature. And actually you can go into our portfolio and look at their exterior spaces because that was featured in a local magazine here. It's under our field rows under portfolio. You'll see that backyard and it's stunning. but the thing that I loved about this is that we made sure to like utilize that space we have a window in front of the sink and I love it I love it when actually the actual windowsill runs in with my countertop completely this was existing so we didn't move the window but just having all that space is amazing because we were able to like put her herbs there planters we have all these cutting boards I just this spot where you can just like have extra footage to like actually have things on your countertops and have it not feel like clutter, I think is so beautiful.

16:59Yeah. I love this corner. Those of you that aren't seeing it, what we're talking about, there's probably almost two feet behind the faucet before you get to the window. It's a pop-out window, I'm guessing, right? Yeah. Even there isn't a window casing around the opening. We round the slab, we turn the corner around the slab all the way into that depth, both on the countertop as well as on the wall. And so you've got this huge depth of beautiful window lit space that you can grow an herb garden. You can layer in all your cutting boards. It's just a beautiful depth of surface that nobody has. I've never seen this before.

17:35I just love it so much. So if you are embarking on a remodel, this is a really great trick. Maybe add a pop out on your window. Architecturally, it makes sense on the outside, I consider. This is a good point of taking the architecture that you have in your home and just using it to the max, right? I feel like you guys did the best job on that. Celebrate your assets. Yes, exactly. Yes, you celebrated these so well. Okay. Jess, when the holidays wind down, what's the one thing you crave most? I kind of crave a reset. I feel sad when I take holiday down and everything kind of feels empty. And so I always look forward to getting new sheets and new towels.

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19:25And the mom was so fashionable. And so this, okay, here's the befores. I'm getting ahead of myself. Here are the befores. You have, again, that wood floor running through. That's great. You have this really pretty parquetry border, which, You know, it's fun. You see that in that era. Totally. You know, a little bit more of those borders, which we didn't want to get rid of. I thought it was beautiful. We have finish work that like they were still really happy with. It was in great condition. They had a lot of really great like the moldings and things around like their windows. Whoever originally built this home went for it.

19:56They did. This was a dream home. I have to say the finish work and level of detail is really high, especially for this time frame. And the parquetry floor, like amazing that they went to that. to that extreme and even the medallion on the ceiling where the chandelier is so these befores are not dreadful in this living room the windows I think are beautiful and interesting I don't know I feel excited I know what it turned into but I'm like excited to get to work with this house you know when you're walking through it for the first time yep okay so those are the befores these are some here's a picture of as we start whenever we're like working on a space we're like trying to cue into like this the client's style and like what do we want to feel and she loves wallpapers or like and she loved a mural and so we went to gucci and because like historically you can kind of get those scenes from gucci for not as crazy of a price point you can't really customize them at all and you can't get samples of them p.s you just have to buy a roll and so we loved this scene from gucci and we're like okay we have an interesting thing here is that we did have a reinscoting that we were keeping in this home and so we're like okay I still think even if we had a trim off a little top and the bottom we're going to do some like major color drenching moments and have a lot of heroes to celebrate in here I don't think anybody's going to notice that we clipped a little bit off the bottom and the top to fit the mural in that pocket yeah I mean you lucked out because it's like a one-third now and then here's a process picture we and because she wasn't afraid of going colored and like doing more color drenches and painting her trim like we went for it and so again inspired you find your just like you find your slab before you pick out your cabinetry color you find your wallpaper before you pick out the rest of your color drench so we had this we ordered our roll sample we started throwing paint at it and we realized like how fun because she had you know three little girls how fun it would be to just like go like a really like I don't know fashionable thing that you wouldn't get sick of this like tone of like this almost It's like rose, raspberry, mauve.

21:57Just that color that we're all crushing on that looks so, so good with the paper. Did you go through like multiple colors for the trim in the ceiling off of the mural? Okay, cool. That's rad. I feel like this is one of the bolder ones you could have chosen. I know. Which I think is super cool. I think it's really, really cool. And I think even with the warmth of the floor, everything. Okay, let's get to the afters. Let's just go. Okay, here's the after. You can see, because I want to show you here, that on the ceiling we went with, again, it was a strip of paint. So when you're picking out your paint, like with your wallpaper, whatever the hero in that space is, you can kind of like from the darkest at the bottom to the lightest, you can kind of pick what are the ones that are working the best with the wallpaper and make your heart sing.

22:42And you start to sample those, and that's what we did for this dining room. So with the darkest color on the string, we went for that on the trim and on the wainscoting, and we even like matched it with our drapery. I mean you can kind of see we just wanted that to be a continuation on those panels in the space and then we decided to go to a little bit more lighter coral color that you still see in the wallpaper or the ceiling which I love and then even on our chandelier they allowed us to do a custom spray that's so fun when you do find a vendor that like will custom the spray powder coated get the shades the right color we did that same color from the ceiling onto the chandelier so cool and again this used to be a very like traditional I feel very home alone about the befores of this home and I feel like the transformation is into a secret garden I just feel like this is so editorial yeah and this space alone is the one that haunts us that we're like oh I wish this I wish this could be shot because it feels like the cover of a magazine and we felt like it was worth sharing it with all of our closest friends on the podcast just to see how this this very traditional 80s 90s house turned out in 2020 2021 you know yeah this would still It'll be so extraordinarily relevant.

23:52I would choose these exact same choices today. I would too. Yeah, it's so great. And I think paired with the chair with the yellow upholstery just also brings another one of those hits out of the Gucci wallpaper. Your Gucci wallpaper in the scene is like your rug. It's so foundational. You're going to continue to choose, you know, paints, upholsteries, everything off of this palette. It's so good. Yeah, it's fun to color block. But then it was also fun when you're trying to find the right rug for this house, because it's one of the main things, rooms that you see off the entry. when you walk into the space.

24:21So first impression was really important to the client. And so we wanted to bring some of that antiquity, you know, and so between like the floral on the wallpaper and the antique, you know, rug that was vintage. I love that. But then I also love the color blocking, like you said, of that camelline yellow with the double-toned pink. Like it just, it feels very, very in vogue, very, very fashionable, and I cannot be happier with how it turned out. So that's the dining room. Super cool. Not to mention that convex mirror. Let's talk about how to preach for that with those gold buckles. So even like when you're like a mirror would be lovely, you don't always have to go traditional.

24:56Try and twist it a little bit. I think you're going to get a lot more points and people might not be able to put their finger on it when they walk into a space, but they'll know that like the mix is what's making it so dynamic. And you know what? Back to the I loves repetition. Yeah. The back of these chairs have a circular shape on them. The cushion is a circle. And then that convex mirror lives above the, lives above the console. and it's a circle and I just think the play it's a dimensional circle um and I think that those those two playing together just really echoes this beautiful soft shape along with all the soft bending bows of the Gucci paper you get all of this organic movement in the space not to mention a nod back to those windows which are a true arcuated window not just an eyebrow which is which is really great I mean yes we kind of hate the eyebrow but we love the full arcuated shape of this true arch which true arch yeah we're dealing with a true arch here which you didn't really get the full payoff of those when they were just all in white yeah like that's exactly selling celebrating your assets you know like if you're inheriting this architecture point it out to people draw that bold line around it don't you feel this feels more historical i think they did true arches back in the day in castles and all of the big beautiful homes on the east coast in europe you're not dealing with those little funny eyebrows and i just i just have to point that out that the circles and the arches in here are just lovely and celebrated and when you like with your molding and things i know that there's a time and a place to do it like classic white and it feels very again classical but when you do like beautiful moldings like this in a darker color in that semi-gloss in a gloss you actually feel it so much more the depth and the shadowing of each one of those hand carvings um and the turn of that so much more celebrated yeah so i love thank you for pointing that out that's actually beautiful okay that is the dining room okay let's hop into the living room so the dining room and the living room mirror each other on the floor plan so when you walk in you get you see this beautiful staircase and everything's kind of based in like finished work but it is like lighter like most general spaces are in homes right but then when you get into these spaces you know that are experiences like a dining room or like a formal living room we were lucky that they had such beautiful like finished work to really like isolate a mood and a whole scene and so that was the same kind of thing when you walked in it was like neutral but you had open casing into a dining room and into a living room and we want to feel something that kind of pulled you into those spaces so here's the before of the living room again you have that on the exterior you see those three repeated true arches on the front this kind of takes you we had this really strong it was a cast mantle with an over mantle that wasn't like it was still beautiful very federalist just wasn't the client style they wanted something more fashionable so we tore it out quick shout out to the light fixture in the yeah just one just one flush maybe they have one over here if we're lucky we got two but you know this is just the difference between what happened back in the 1980s 90s versus what's available today you know what i mean yeah like these guys didn't stop look at the finish work in the before they went for it everywhere they did not just the mantle but the over mantle you know it's just like the details were there it's just so funny that this is the lighting that ended up in this house boy am I grateful to be alive I know sorry I know not very productive to talk about but I just had to give it a shout out if you're watching you'll get a good a good giggle I love that so those are the befores this is kind of the process of you kind of felt the colors and things that we did in the dining room so that was designed before we did the living room I think we kind of did them in tandem just because they were kind of mirroring each other and so you can feel some similar tones happening here but we did want it to be just like more since we had the pattern happening over there we wanted to feel a little bit more like a suction cup of color just kind of like pulling you in and so again we went deep and dark and movie moody we started with our rug you can see the dining room wallpaper here just so we made sure it talked to the space um with the paint colors but we had a rug that we wanted to like we did a really traditional vintage rug on the other side we're like it'd be really fun to do something that felt a little bit more abstracted or exploded from a traditional motif.

29:06And so we brought in this like oversized plaid with all the colors that we were using, even like almost to, there's a corally piece in here, but it almost feels like a little neon orange, orangey, which is so fashionable. Also, you have like a little Gucci tag on one of your bags that's that the handles, like the neon orange. And oh gosh, I feel like you got that around the same era of this. And I was just like, oh, we need to bring like just a little bit of those highlights. It feels fresh. Yes. In a traditional space. Totally. You can make a traditional space feel fresh through color. I feel like, I mean, we've talked about this before, but it's like, you know, the Tory Birch scene where everything's English rolled arms and everything, but she's doing it in a lime green.

29:45And that's what makes traditional feel like new trad instead of your grandma's house. And I feel like we were taking her style was traditional, but it was so much more global and fashionable. And I think through the colors and the patterns, that's where we were able to really achieve sort of this level. This was a little mock-up we did on her wall because it was COVID. Everybody was in masks and we were giving more space to be able to work rather than bringing her into an enclosed conference room. So we mocked this up on her wall with all of the different elements taping it. So we could all just sort of stand back and make decisions together.

30:22Which is always smart. If you're in the middle of a remodel, start taping things on the wall. You do this a lot when you're like mulling over ideas. And like, I'm doing like on my primary bedroom. I'm kind of doing that right now. It makes me alive. I feel like it's something like this living gallery. It's not just stuck in your computer. Yeah. Yeah. So if you're in the middle of a remodel, bring things home, print things off, tape it up, overlap it, get paint strips, look at it at different times a day. I know you've been working on paint for your bedroom. And so you're coming home at night and it's dark, but then you also want to see it morning light.

30:55These things need to be considered at all times, different times of day. And this is just a really fun, fun way to see it, Eddie. Plus, I think it gives you a sense of like how it's going to feel living with it a little bit. You're like, oh, is this really what I'm attracted to every single day? It's physical. Yeah. Yeah. And anybody else that's living with you can like object or just be like, just so you know, this is what you look like in the morning. You're welcome. Thank you. Oh, beautiful. Okay. Hello. So that's process. Now let's go to the after. one thing I just want to know about those befores is that it was a really long room so we had to be really clever with our space planning so we're going to show you some afters that hopefully start to capture you can't even like get the whole thing because it is such a long room but this is showing you just some pictures I was taking at Christmas but shows you that rug of just again that kind of exploded scale which is so so cool as it stretches we had mirroring sofas one on one end and one on the other end with two swivels that kind of shared they could swivel over to the conversation on the right they could you know swivel to the conversation on the left again not your typical space planning like in front of a mantle but like experiencing it live don't you feel like it was just it was really creative and I'm like I could see a party happening here and like you know chairs being shimmied over here to like whisper secret to this person or you know hors d 'oeuvres being served over here while there was a kids were working on the puzzle over on the right so we got a little pull-up table on the right so it's a little more like a study like if you were just there by yourself you could sit over here by the window have you know a drink book whatever but when you are having a party and you're hosting a lot of people you can really I don't know seat everybody yeah I think it's fantastic and I think this space planning the way you laid like yeah space planning the furniture is amazing like they're in the befores we were talking it kind of looked like they're they were storing furniture in that room and And everything was too far apart.

32:46It's like you're having a conversation like 30 feet away from someone, you know. So that's, yeah, you did such a great job. And just creating two different like spaces almost in one big room looks amazing. I want to move in. Yeah, and large art. And just, it was fun because the client loved antiques. So we went antique shopping. So even this, these little notes, I'm going to go to some of these continued afters. Here's some more of those at nighttime. We did pattern. She wasn't afraid of doing pattern shades. and so we did custom and then we like match those shades to like additional pillows on the sofas and it was just it was a really fun especially before this like era of like everybody's loving pattern on pattern on pattern we were feeling it then that we're just like we need to embark in more of these english traditional moments and so vintage lamps with pattern shades with matching pillows and again just these antiques this like little stool nestled underneath this cocktail table is like one of my years too like our favorite little moments if you're like going shopping for something like that and you like do you do you see cool stuff and you find a spot for it or you're or you're like going looking for something specific governor it finds you yeah yeah and you're you're admiring it i know when we were just barely at high point an antique shop they had this little triangular mohair ottoman it was tiny the cushion on it was only like an inch thick but these really long iron legs and I was like yeah you just buy those and then you find places to tuck them in whether it be under a center hall table or next to a bathtub or nestle it in next to a cocktail table or in between chairs like these are the things that make a scene and everybody comments on it's like your cool earrings that were vintage like where'd you get them like I'm so sorry I they're vintage it's there's only one you know these are one of one this feels like a very one of one thing and um when I think of the living room I oddly think of this little brass table nestled under the coffee table poking out as another layer for books it's a memory point it really is a memory point yeah I love that and even you can't even see the whole view of this chair there's like an acrylic modern like post-modern chair next to it too so I'm just like the juxtaposition again that tension people might not be able to put their finger on it but it's the combination of the old with the new that like makes a pulse in a space and it's just it's so good and she was cool with like doing sculptures and pedestals and just all the layers like really added to the whole vibe of this space here's some more up close here's those pleated shades just so much fun and again this was like facing the exterior so like she's like when the lights are like at nighttime when people are walking by she's just like i just want them to see a scene and so this was like a front-facing scene which is so much fun those of you that can't see it.

35:26We had candlestick lamps that are like palms, brass palms, and the palm fronds are all out of brass. And the lampshades is what we continue to talk about. They are in a really beautiful kind of a mustard floral. And they have a peacock tape on the top and the bottom of the shade in this room that's like a mulberry color. So it's just such a scene and really beautiful from the back and from the front. Also the art where you had this like some really beautiful like modern photography of classical locations around the world. And so anyway, just such a scene, both like walk into a space of living in the dining room.