Remodel Masterclass: Transforming the Sugar House Kitchen & Beyond

0:00We've got to pay this forward to our design loving audience because you're going to love how we solved and reoriented this space and created a lot of storage and you know how those historical homes are. they don't have a lot of closets or storage. Raise your hand if you have a niche that you inherited from bad architecture. I don't, but we've covered up so many of these. You don't need them. I think a few takeaways would be to go all in with the vision. Hi everyone. Welcome to Dear Alice. Today we're going to do another remodel master class. So this is a series, we've done two of them so far, where we take you through a remodel that we've done and some of the problem solving that we do to get to the solutions that we have.

0:41So this is a fun one that we, we actually started on this in 2020, not really fully understanding the pandemic or the issues that would come in our industry. But the house turned out so great. And this one's sort of unique to our portfolio because it's sort of a darling, I feel like. She's the darling at the ball. Yeah. This is a historical home here in Salt Lake City, Utah, and it is 2 ,800 square feet and every space really packs a punch. And I particularly think the problem solving on the kitchen is so masterful that I was like, we've got to pay this forward to our design loving audience because you're going to love how we solved and reoriented this space and created a lot of storage.

1:21And you know how those historical homes are. They don't have a lot of closets or storage. So I think the solutions that we came up with were really, really brilliant, but also space expanding and really genius. And we created some symmetry in a space that sort of lacked that. And I think the kitchen feels huge, which before it felt so, so small and petite. It kind of felt just like an aftermath. Like it was just kind of there on the side, but it had no real grandeur or focus or anything, which I think a lot of older homes, that is the case, until you embark on a remodel and can kind of reimagine it the way that we love to see kitchens nowadays, right?

1:59Where it's kind of just like it's the Mecca. It's the heart of the house. It's where we start the party. So that's kind of was the goal for this family. It was a young family and they have two like small children and they are living through this remodel. So all y 'all that live through your remodels, like we hear you, we feel you. It's not easy. I think we've all lived through a remodel. Yeah. Especially a kitchen. But they were up for it and so were we. And I love a historical story. And so this is going to be really, really fun. Again, when you're designing for a human and you're designing for their personality, like she's a powerhouse, a professional.

2:33ophthalmologist like just a badass mom like all these things and she wanted to feel that she wanted to feel like herself in her home another cool thing about this client is that she loves art so she'd be collecting little things here and there they would travel all the time her brother's an artist and so she had art kind of like all over the space which a previous designer would make like a little gallery over here but nothing was like robust or like really showed her loves or what she was into, which was like a super big disservice to how cool she is. And so that was something that I was really excited to kind of like venture into.

3:10And so anyway, we present to you the sugar house. So the first area we want to start with is the kitchen. This is kind of what we were feeling in this before picture when we walked into the house. It's fine. It's not offensive. Like you can tell that there was some like light remodeling to it previously in the years passed from another designer but the kitchen was just kind of like at a weird angle see what I'm saying like the windows didn't really make sense there was no symmetry um and I didn't know what to focus on you kind of see the hood but then the everybody at the bar is like looking toward the other side which is probably looking towards a fridge and a pantry which isn't very exciting so I want to kind of orient you here just so you can kind of understand what we were seeing when we first walk into the space and how we needed to start to reimagine it.

4:00And when you are looking at your house different, specifically with this house, you kind of have to like say, what windows do we want to keep? And what windows do we want to grow or get rid of? And you know what? I think, thank goodness that our client was willing to do the windows because a lot of times on a remodel, they don't want to touch anything that's going to touch the outer shell of the home because then that's going to require having people for the stucco or brick or brick masons or whatever to have to come put together the outside of the home. It's pretty disruptive. It gets expensive.

4:34You have to have a lot more subs get involved. But I just want to give a shout out. Once you see the afters, it was so worth getting those windows symmetrical to be able to create a grander space for a hero in the kitchen, which I do feel like small spaces need a hero. And when you see the new range hood and that whole wall, it was just absolutely mind-blowing and probably one of our favorite kitchens to date. I really think so. And just, I think all the tricks that we talk about, you know, when you're taking window treatments all the way up to the ceiling, that makes things longer. When you stretch your cabinetry all the way up to the ceiling, that makes spaces feel taller.

5:07So we really did implement all those like rules and tricks in this space. And you would not believe that it was just like short ceilings because it looks incredible. So anyway. Also the corner sink is like, it's like if you're doing dishes, you're in timeout. Like, I know. Yeah. I know. Look through these short windows, you know. I don't know. Anyway, so. We'll talk to you when you're done. And then this is what, again, this is the island. You can kind of see there's a dining room back here. So this is the island and the counterstools are looking towards the fridge and this closet, which we didn't really need that closet as we talked to the client that again there was valuable square footage that wasn't being used and we're like let's reallocate and probably I think it was like extra pantry or storage space we're like why don't we just like grow the kitchen and implement that storage inside our cabinetry so that everything feels more grand and more functional you can kind of see what you're working with welcome to the afters yes we bounced you here quick okay so i just want to go we're going to take you guys through the floor plans and the problem solving but we felt like since the befores were fresh in your mind you would really enjoy seeing the afters and then we'll tell you how we got there yes so here again is that range wall again you just want to expand that entire wall you'll see on the floor plan how that grows here again is this the same kitchen that's so rad are you kidding me like the ceilings are so tall closet was and where the refrigerator was before.

6:36So by taking out the closet and incorporating floor to ceiling towers, you've got, um, we've got where the fridge still exists. Yes. And then is there pantry behind the other one? Yeah. So we have all pantry storage and we have also again, all that tall storage, you need that for pantry. You need it for fridge. And so it made sense to just keep all that system on this one whole wall and then take it again to the ceiling to make it grow the the full width of this presentation and the full height of it you can see how this kitchen looks like your dream kitchen in any massive house because you're doing massive tricks so if you are remodeling a kitchen and that's what this master class is for those of you that are going through these projects and trying to figure out the space planning and the math of kitchens this is an a plus plus trick i think this does so much for the kitchen to just make it feel grand and that you're not having all these separate pieces and parts telling different stories at different heights with different materials like the jumpsuit exactly I mean just really elongated those legs right totally the same trick though to fashion to interiors is that you just really want to just draw your eye from the ground to the ceiling when you're trying to make it grow so I love that we did this and now and reorienting the island 90 degrees so that way you're not staring at the pantry because that's not a beautiful sight line instead reorienting this island so that you're staring out the windows or at that range hood which is really where I feel like all the conversation is going on is either at the stove or at the sink where you're doing dishes and now the whole family can be part of the conversation and the kids are in time out staring at the wall yes and while we're looking at this after I want you guys to notice that next to again this tall system of cabinetry we actually cased out an opening to separate the spaces remember how I said it was kind of a run-on sentence there was no definition of space we wanted to give definition not only like so you can feel like you're in a dining room versus a kitchen but also when you have flooring transitions and we did they did have some tile in this space but like no one remembers it because it wasn't the best right it was fine but we wanted to do something a lot more fashionable and by doing that cased opening it really just like gave a little like crescendo like a little moment for the kitchen so i think the reorientation of this was so successful it made that space feel wider taller bigger those diagonal lines on the floor feel space expanding and give contrast and it just feels so luxe oh good and one thing I want to point out too is this the tile flooring to a really really incredible pattern that feels a lot more again it has some like classic notes because it's the black and white but it's a new spin on it because the client's young and they're I don't know they're fun and anyway she wanted something fashionable I think that we really did it right yeah and it's marble and these three different shades of marble all playing together to make this pattern just feel so good and always will you'll never regret that choice yeah the diagonal line so good always makes a space feel larger so okay now in this next shot we're looking at the range which is from Elvay and we did a custom color everyone always thinks the cabinetry is black but it's a really really dark green which I think makes it more mystical magical.

9:43I think so too. So good. So we've grounded that whole shot in a 60 inch Ilve. It's got what like eight burners on this thing. It's massive. It gives. It really does. And then the range hood stretches over that full 60 inches also making the space feel massive. Yeah. So these windows were existing. That was the size that they were before. But remember how we like had little shorty on the other side? Little shorty what? Little shorty windows on the other side in that corner seat on the opposite side so that one we're going to show you the floor plan here in a second and show you what we propose to do that she said yes did you have to take out a window like where the range is sitting right now we actually chose to cover up a window so we did cover up a window and then exchange it for two taller windows on the opposite side so again you feel that symmetry because you remember when you walked in the kitchen before how you just saw kind of like a sliver there were all these like random rectangles in different sizes and you didn't see the range.

10:36Hot tip, when you're doing a kitchen remodel, when we're looking at like, what is our money shot? What is the vantage point that we want? We want to see the range. We want to see that big ta-da. I don't want to walk into a big, amazing fridge or a big, amazing, you know, trash can pack. I don't know, whatever it is. You want to see the range. You're parking a car. You walked in and you saw those garbages at the end of that run of cabinetry. Yeah. Yeah. Bummer. And you were divided because you're like, do I look at the window seat with 10 million pillows on it? Or do I look at the garbage cans or where's that range?

11:09It's, it's orienting to see the range. It's just like when you walk into a primary bedroom, you're looking for the headboard. Oh my gosh. Right. And so if you walk into a bedroom and the headboard's behind you, you just feel a little bit like you're in a vortex. Like you can't quite ground yourself. And I feel like it's so grounding to walk in, see the range, see the range hood. And just like the bedroom, when you walk into the side of it, you see the mess. Just like a kitchen, when you walk into the side of it, you see the mess. This is a way to conceal and reveal, guys. So you can like keep all your mess behind there, but we get to see the pretty thing and your guests get to see the pretty thing when they walk into your kitchen.

11:42So those of you remodeling, that's what you're solving for. You're solving for your vantage point. And then from there, you're going to work on your work triangles. Architect is likely going to put the bed in the space that's going to look out your window. I love your view. It's great. Let's try and reorient it so we can get best of both worlds. I want to see your bed. I want to see the range. Also from your bed, you can't see the view anyway because you're in your bed. Yeah. You're so tired. You work so hard. You're looking at your book or you're watching TV. You don't need. You're on your phone.

12:08We're doom scrolling. Yes. Okay. Okay. So yes, that was the corner where we had the window seat. Such a glow up. And now let's go into the CAD plans and show you how we workshop this. As an orientation, this is how we re-laid out the whole space. So again, you can kind of see how we get some division from that space by adding that little wing wall where we did the casing. This is where again we have a pantry, fridge, freezer along that wall and then you can see this is the biggest thing is that the range we centered on that wall where that big window was and then where we had these windows already existing we just mirrored them over here.

12:44So we got two new larger windows in the corner and we're able to wrap all that lower cabinetry all the way over here. Because we did this we didn't want to necessarily add like more upper cabinets here we did choose to do floating shelves here in front of the window I thought it was really dreamy and I think historically like when you look in at Europe and things like they kind of don't mess around with upper cabinets too much like it's usually like tall furniture pieces lower cabinetry and that's where they sit so historically I think this is a better like representation and better for her function too so so and then of course we actually took the island and we turned it like you saw in some of those last pictures which again it's so nice because again the work triangle is a lot tighter here the kids can like look at mom when she's like washing their dishes or you know prepping for a meal or whatever um overall the space planning of this it makes so much more sense yeah again looks grander yeah before the range was just kind of like right here window seat was right here it just made zero sense and so and then this we just turned into just kind of like this a little bit of that kind of drop zone that all moms need so we kind of kept this like behind behind you so you don't see the mess it's not part of your vantage point at all but it still like makes sense it's still the same finish as everything else so practical yes so that that's kind of how we did that and then here this is the next one where you can kind of see how we did that um tile pattern which again by throwing that kind of on the bias i'll say um on the angle to just like stretch your eye.

14:15It just made this older home feel so much larger. Yeah. So I think this is a really nice thing for designers. We always include our tile drawings in with our spaces. We give them the top down view. This is the plant view. And then we'll also elevate the kitchens. But this just really helps show you scale and helps your client understand it. I just think adding in those layers just really helps tell the story and give them the confidence and also shows the tile layer that you've accounted for each tile and where you want it to sit within the project. It's so helpful because, yeah, your fabricators will sometimes freestyle if you don't.

14:49So you've got to, like, give them a roadmap. So this is our roadmap. Okay, and then this shows that elevation when we were trying to workshop the windows. This was the existing window on the left. Again, we tried to get as large of a range in here as possible with the hood and then mirrored that window on the right. So it gave her a lot of drawer storage. Here is the, this is on that, again, by where the window seat was. Yeah. But you can just kind of see, again, you don't need another lower cabinetry here. We needed tall storage to just house all the things that they needed. Yeah, kitchen aids, another, you know, more space for pantry.

15:24Yeah, because there isn't a pantry. Yeah. And this, these tall storage towers are her pantries. Yeah. And this little door goes out to her like back little deck patio where her kids sit and they have like a little fire pit and whatnot. So this gets a lot of action. And again, by having something tall here, you're hiding the mess, you know, for whoever's coming in and out while you're entertaining, which I thought was a really smart move. And those doors are another window, you know, into the space. And so you have a lot of natural light bouncing around because some people might say, oh, in an older home with a smaller floor floor plan, why would you do blackened cabinetry?

15:58You know, this black and green. And you have quite a bit of natural light. You've got this really great black and white contrasting floor. And it's just such a tuxedo moment to have the depth and the interesting color and the custom range just feels so, so expensive. And she already knew what a white cabinetry or white creamy cabinetry felt like before. We already saw that. Yep. And it didn't like do any favors to a space that we wanted to feel more interesting like the client. So just love her for going for it. I mean, this was 2020. So you know what I mean? I know. People were very much still going light and bright and neutral.

16:32And right now, just the magazines have started talking about color over the last two years. And I just think this is such a baller move. I love, love, love how this turned out. She was so trusting too. I think that that's like the key is just like when you can have good synergy between designer and client and you, again, you respect them, they respect like what you're trying to do for them. That's when you can like really come up with some like really, I don't know, interesting and long lasting things that feel like the client. Suze, before we started recording, you were telling me about your bubble cuddle blanket from Cozy Earth.

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17:43That's CozyEarth.com, code DEARALICE. And if you get a post-purchase survey, make sure to let them know what you heard about Cozy Earth right here. Because home isn't just where you live, it's how you feel. Let's go home with Cozy Earth. now we're going to go into the dining room so again the dining in these spaces it's still all kind of like open to one another it's not like in this house we had a big enough space to have its own dining room it's still shared but we're going to show you how we gave it some and we're going to show you the before pictures of the dining room first and then we'll show you yes this was not our work but fine dining room you can kind of see they did have again you saw how we cased it out yeah what we did in this dining room they had a little bit they have a little angled out bay window here um there's some separation but they just had like this like little chair rail finish work and we just want to really give it some definition so we're going to show you how we did full finish work squared up a lot of these kind of eyebrow old-fashioned arcs that weren't giving doing any favors here's another shot this is looking into so in this space on the right you see the dining room and then you have like the entry family room so it's all very open to one another but you can just see again it needs some definition of space and needs to show off the personality of the client these drawings this is again another trick when you are when you just do a chair rail in an already short house it just like cuts you right in half you want to do that elongating trip so doing solid tall panels will stretch your eye up just like we did in the kitchen we did the same thing in this dining room you kind of see that and we also will show you the or the fireplace here in a second too but we glowed that up too so these are the new pictures of the dining room and you can kind of see that peekaboo how he squared up that casing can you believe ryan is shaking his head our producer he cannot believe his eyes it's so good um but just by going larger scale i think that that's something that a lot of people veer away from when you're working with like older homes or small spaces they're just like well we'll keep things petite because that'll make the room look larger.

19:48Lie, you want to blow it up. You want to grow things. You want to elongate things. And so by making the panels taller, that whole space feels so much better. And kind of defines that space a little bit. Like one thing I think is the genius thing about this is even going back to the kitchen where you reoriented the way that the island faces, that's facing through the dining room into the family room, right? So you're connecting them all, although you kind of did create their own spaces. you defined them what each of them are but also like brought it together which is probably what exactly what they wanted they wanted like you know a great room feel but each room to be its own more impressive i will say the transitions of this home is so much more interesting too because even when you look from the dining room into that kitchen you just get a half of the island and then you have to kind of go you know keep traveling into the space to get the full story which i think is a much more successful space so anyway just i love this space what else shall I say the paneling is such a win I think the large connection of the the large scale picture molds they really connect into that that full scale cabinetry yeah amazing the rhythms I think really connect well and they just lead to the other and I think that the this sort of dark peacock leather that we used on the chairs also connects back into the kitchen and I love on the rug here these like sort of swooping movements organic movements because we do have so many geometrics that this just feels so good those softer lines and yeah it's like the client the case opening did the dining room some favors too because it kind of gave it a corner and gave it definition where before it was kind of like that corner was melting into a closet type of thing so yeah it's awesome i love it and i felt like the previous that little arc eyebrow kind of weakened the space like it just kind of felt like you know a limp flower yeah you know and i think we gave it some real strength in defining one space from the next totally agree such great points to learn from love it yeah let's show them the before on that fireplace are you guys ready okay before in the fireplace raise your hand if you have a niche that you inherited from bad architecture i don't but we've covered up so many of these you don't need them we've all had one yeah i don't i don't know what large geo like all these cats had in the 90s and 2000s early 2000s to be like i need a niche large geo that's 54 inches tall and three inches deep i don't know they're the stupidest dimensions anyway fill them in you don't need to have those well and in that in that um image on the right that look at all the different things happening we've got an angled wall we've got eyebrows yeah we've got an eyebrow going down the stairs and you can see the the ceiling wall coming through on an angle of the stairs coming down then you've got a niche with a squared top right and then how about the mantle but a radius back too like in that thing yeah all the tricks in one yeah they just tried them all right here so cleaning this up definitely feels a lot better i can't wait for you to show them and then they just underlined it with some like stone there or something like that at the bottom okay crazy this was the after again i wish we had more pictures of like that corner but this at least shows you how we solved it out again we just cleaned it up we got some dark marble which we did on purpose just to kind of bring some saturation to this like because you're still keeping the walls relatively neutral in this public space so how are we adding interest how are we connecting things we have this deep cabinetry we have the peacock chairs we have a lot of like cool things happening it felt really good to bring a dark marble to that fireplace to kind of echo echo what you're actually going to be because you see this first when you walk into the house and then you're getting a little bit of those moments of depth before you start to like warm up and then you get to like the kitchen yeah you know where she pops off so it's so good going back to the picture you just showed us I've seen this obviously picture for a few years now but where that mirror sits up on that landing did you guys like intentionally put that uh finish mold and that yeah for that to sit there because I mean I was like man that is like only this was two kids ago I can't remember if we did that or if that was existing that may have been existing either way we did hang this gallery very intentionally and we did a couple galleries and like I think stairwells are the best place for this type of action this mirror just happened I think this was like her old entry mirror I just want to echo that really quick yeah Sue just said stairwells are the best place to do a gallery wall so will you show them the gallery wall before this is the gallery wall where she had her tv trying to like the tv was trying to blend with the gallery remember this trick from domino magazine where it would be like your tv is blending in with all of this artwork.

24:25So you can see that she's got a collection of things. Like Sue said, her brother's an artist. She loves art. Go back to the slide before in the stairwell. Now this, this feels like you can get a lot closer to the artwork because you're traveling up the stairs. You can go slower as fast as you want, but you're so close that you can admire these teeny tiny pieces. The teeny tiny pieces could go in a powder bath. They could go in a stairwell. They It could go in a set of built-ins, but it's really hard to float that many little pieces on a wide open wall like that. It just gets knick-knacky. It gets nervous.

24:57It does. Yeah. And I just wanted to say, like, this was such a good placement for the art was in that stairwell. And I love the strength of the new mantle now, that black marble to introduce, like you said, what's happening in the kitchen and just ground the space. It's so, so smart. Another thing too, again, when you do have a short chair like that, you're going to want to kind of extend it. So a gallery wall is another way to just kind of like do a full like wall treatment so that you forget that you have shorter ceilings. Yeah. Because it's just like reaching all the way up. That's in addition to the fit.

25:31That's in addition too. Yeah. It's grand. No, it totally does. Love. Okay, we saw this. Again, lots of little art. This is where her TV was. Again, I know we don't usually like say put the TV over the fireplace, but in this scenario, it allowed for a really, really big art moment. on the wall that this was previous and that is this okay so this is that family room again using large pieces she had that great little hand-knotted rug too small for the space but when you layer it with a big rug to just kind of like stretch out the space it's so impressive and you just do larger scaled pieces you do like a lovely sofa and you'll see like in this like really again kind of that peacock ambiguous colored velvet you have the zebra needlepoint chairs so again kind of like bringing some of those heirloom qualities back and then you have again this like molten metal table it's so pretty a large surface with a mirror top yeah and I think that cocktail table is like 54 by 54 it's incredible it's huge which make the space feel really grounded and then being able to have your upholstery surrounding that this looks so so designer and grand and okay this piece of art how wide is that i want to say that those are like 104 it's like it's like in the 90s yeah you can 94 it's so large yeah this is this like kind of reproduction of a fresco but we needed something large so again when you're dealing with short ceilings go big on your art go wide go tall fill up the wall because it will it'll grow up your space a lot and then again those little collections and galleries are meant for the stairwell or smaller moments so beautiful so Oh, beautiful.

27:07Okay, now let's go into the office. Yes. Okay, these are the four pictures. Again, we're just like neutrals, some soft sadness a little bit, but no built-ins or anything to like really house, and that's what she needed. She's like, I need, we have book collections, and we have like, we'd love to come in here, and it's just not working for us right now. And there was a piano in here too, right? Yeah. So they probably have sheet music. Which we did keep. Yeah. Yeah, one of those stand-up pianos. So she's got a coffered ceiling that we were gifted with, which is really, really lovely. The before is just a really neutral taupe, white finish work, and Roman shades with kind of a trellis pattern on it.

27:44A Moroccan rug on the ground. And then armoire for storage. Baskets on the ground for storage. You can see that she's starving for storage. Yeah, so let's show them what we did. So added full height built-ins on one wall. Gave her a desk. And I love this little Thomas O 'Brien trick of perching the chair so somebody can come in and sit down and visit you. But not have their back to the door necessarily. Again, in spaces like this. And what you can't see is right behind. Again, these are small spaces. Right behind here is where we have the stand-up piano, the upright piano. And so again, this can kind of become like for a teacher or a spectator looking at what they're practicing.

28:24You can pull it to whatever way you need it. So coffered ceiling got a glow up. This whole room got painted. What do you call this? almost like this deep dutch blue yeah it's really beautiful but to the point of when people are just like painting a space dark will make it feel smaller not necessarily i don't think so and especially when you can do a color drench like that again just like the doors in the kitchen you know of taking that color all the way up it actually it actually can make it feel like taller and more dramatic much more than just like keeping it light white and boring so anyway i think all the architecture i think the coffers mixed with like how we did the cleaning in the shelving i think are such a cool like stepping rhythm that talks to each other um i just think it turned out it's so smart i've lived in old homes and you just need more storage from like side to side top to bottom you have to be accountable to that and so i'm so happy with how that turned out okay this is that upright piano that's like behind that shot that we just showed you um that's the before this is the after piano finishes the same yes yes piano finishes the same also another great place for galleries is i love it when you wrap a gallery around a corner corner yeah it's so so smart and you can see there's room to just keep going too she can keep collecting it's a living growing and it continue to grow yeah and it's so smart it's so much interesting add some jars add a baby lamp put a little olive tree inside your pot like that is just so smart and editorial yeah and my favorite thing is the doorway into this space like is a straight-on shot to this gallery wall right here and so you look into there you don't even see the desk you don't see the built-ins or anything because that could relatively get messy but by keeping the piano there like you just get to see like the prettiest moment and then you get to meander all that's pretty oh you want to show the before one more time i actually do just one camera one camera two that's crazy it's so so good and it feels historic and it feels so much like my client she's the best but if you're going to go in there and play piano and try to be inspired what room are you staring at that taupe wall in time out in the corner no one's writing anything good on that I would practice in here for real and you feel like Elton John doing it if you want your kids to grow up and be a Benson Boone you've got to provide an atmosphere for him to do that Exactly.

30:48Yes, so good. Benson, you heard that. Okay, now we're going to take you upstairs just to the primary. This is your last and final space in the remodel that we'll show you today. So this is the before. I think a lot of people would be really happy with this before. Yeah. Right? You're definitely feeling the early 2000s in those lamps, right? You sure are. Yeah. But, yeah, she's about to get a glow up. What was her directive on this? How did she want the space to feel? she just wanted to feel more serene more calm more i think just like you have two kids you're working mom you're busy she just she just wanted to feel like them yeah you know and i don't i think a lot of people again like you said would be really happy with this and this is something that you can easily like get all these pieces and parts at a store a local store you know anywhere but you want it to be thoughtful just like the rest of the house and this is one of the last spaces we did but and we kept the paneling but let me show you what we did because we painted the panel we kept the ceiling actually white with the casing but we did a grass cloth texture inside the panels just to kind of add some softness and again just like make it feel a little bit more easy shoulders down um ambiguous in color too it's just kind of this like taupe is it pink is it clay it's you know just like and she actually she purchased this bed um she was holding on to it and we're like you know what let's let's just recover it bed's fine the bed's framed great but we're gonna like throw some pink in there just to like give some saturation shelter bed yeah it's so good and she kept the nightstands too those are the same nightstands nightstands kept a bed that she had got a new mirror again I think the biggest thing though too is just like to wrap an environment with a color you know and kind of to take that a theme throughout you know just as you every selection that you pick does it like kind of get along with it especially when you want to when you want a space to feel restful you want to feel jumpy do color blocking you can do more exciting things in a bedroom i think it's a shop to just kind of calm calm down at the end of the day also no i mean we love a roman shade but look at the difference on the before of the roman versus the drape one so much more height to that right and just like sophistication, fullness, softness.

33:00Some about drapery folds are just so, so dreamy and soft in a bedroom. Yeah. I just love this. And I like kind of how the drapes a little bit go away with the wall. Cause then when you're looking across the room, there's not like all these stopping points. It probably is in a, in a smaller room too. You're going to notice that more. Yeah. And just, you're feeling the whole room at once. Yeah. I think that's awesome. You guys did such a great job. Oh. And even if you look back at like these lamps again, it's just like a lot of legs It's a lot of rhythm versus having something. Also, I think that that sort of marquee shape or whatever you call it, lantern shape, is also quite early 2000s and kind of dated things.

33:39And so just by having a solid body on the lamp took away the nervousness and just felt really sophisticated. So that even the posture of that chair at the desk feels laid back. Yeah. You know, it's just so, so dreamy. That's where she gets to do her makeup every morning. Again, we're an old house, so you really have to double up your functions because the bathroom's not massive. You know, so. So good. That concludes the Remodel Masterclass. Love this. So I think a few takeaways would be to go all in with the vision, right? There's a lot of bold moves that she made that I think a lot of people would have chickened out and went neutral on.

34:15But by using the contrast, using the color, going for the depth, going for the big range, really keeping those vantage points in mind. this really opened up this floor plan and gave you gorgeous vantage points from from the front door to the mantel to the dining into this kitchen and that office like you said like standing in the doorway seeing that piano with that gallery that wraps the wall there's just so many beautiful spaces for the Eidoland and it's just it's like it's all grown up it's really sophisticated I'm going to say even in a small space I feel like you have less opportunity to make an impact So when you have that opportunity in a small space, you have to go for it.

34:56I just need to point out one more time now that you've seen the whole house. This house is 2 ,800 square feet. So there's still other bedrooms in this house, but you've seen the main living spaces and they all feel like a big house, don't you think? Yep. So good. Big design energy. Yeah, big design energy. Yeah. Cue that song. So good. I hope this has been helpful for those of you that are working out remodels. there will be more of these to come in the series, but this concludes the sugar house. And I think it was fantastic. This work is done by our design firm, ALID, Alice Lane Interior Design.

35:29So if you are looking to embark on a remodel, we'll do your project. If it's like the whole project like this, we won't just do a kitchen or a bathroom. We really need to be able to get in there and cut our teeth into the project. So if you're interested, definitely hit up our, website, the design services tab. Yep. And then you'll go to ALID, fill out that form, and then an ALID designer will get back to you. Yeah. And follow us on Instagram too. Oh yeah. Yeah. Please do. Yeah. Give them our handle. So, Alisane Interiors. Alisane, yeah. Interior Design. Alisane Interiors. Alisane Interiors. Follow Alisane Interiors on Instagram.

36:06And Alisane Interiors has its own website also. And you can see the portfolio and you can get to the design services form from there. and we'll do any remodels, whole projects or any new construction, whole projects and we're booking projects for 2025. So we'd love to work with you. Thank you guys so much for tuning in and share the show with your friends, like, comment. We love your comments and if you have any ideas for podcasts for us, if you're like, oh, I wish you'd really cover this topic, send those to dearalice at alicelanehome.com and we will see you next week.

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