Dear Alice | Interior Design

Questions Your Designer Will Ask When Starting A Project | What to Prepare For

Today we’re talking about the questions you should be prepared to answer your designer when you start a project, or questions you should be asking yourself if you’re not using a designer. You want to prepare your mind and all the visuals, and do the work before sitting down with the architect. You’re gonna save a lot of money if you go in prepared. We’re gonna help you get ready and in shape for these conversations to make sure your vision is solid and prepped for the design process. The first time consultation 6:31Pinterest board 11:21What colors are you or aren’t you drawn to? Favorite outfits and why? 13:29Routines and stories 15:02Feelings 22:13Your budget 27:05Relationships 30:09Art 33:16“We like to get into people’s stories. What are their routines? Knowing people’s routines, like the rhythm to the kitchen, how they wake up, do they have coffee? Do they have toast? What’s their kids’ routines? Or what are the messes that are being created that you want to avoid in this next house? What do you love and what do you hate about your current living situation? Let’s fix that.” 15:03https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/https://alicelanehome.com/https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHomehttps://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecityNews Letter:https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5

Top 10 Reasons to Hire A Designer | Advice That Will Save You a Lot of Hassle

This episode is not a plug for you to hire Alice Lane, but this is if hiring anybody, or if you don’t, this is going to be the work that you should make sure and do for yourself because it’s not something you should phone in and take lightly. You know yourself. If you’re not a great decision maker, you’re not going to be a good designer for yourself. If you waffle, don’t know what to do, and you get paralyzed, and you don’t want to answer, guess who makes the decision for you? Your builder, based on what’s in stock. So you have to be a great decision maker to go this route. A designer is going to help you figure out who you are, what you want, and ultimately is going to save you time and money by doing everything as efficiently as possible. Why it’s important to hire a designer: you’re going to save a lot of money 3:41Our knowledge and our resources 8:53We’re technicians 13:22Timing 19:13Creating schedules 21:17Great decision makers 28:11Executing the design 29:53Great vendor connections 31:05“You guys wanna know something crazy that our Better Builders have been letting us know? We have to have made all our decisions before they even break ground, for the sake of efficiency in ordering things because things are taking so long, not only appliances, but hardware is ridiculous, getting your cabinetry in line with the cabinet shop. You have to be out a long time, and so if you don’t have a designer, and you’re not good at making decisions, this can be really painful to get, like your 2 year build just turned into a 4 year build.” 12:15https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/https://alicelanehome.com/https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHomehttps://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecityNews Letter:https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5

Our Favorite Tips to Get Ready for Fall | Preparation for Times of Gathering

We thought it would be so much fun to kind of lay out what we think are your next steps to turning your home over for the season, for fall, for holidays. We’re entering this new season where we’re gathering again after the pandemic mostly kept us apart from loved ones, but now we can be with them again and we want to feel something. We want to feel that feeling of the holidays and these are things to get our space ready and guide that feeling in these intimate moments. Dopamine dressing 5:50Cleaning up and grooming your home 11:52Take your clips with you 15:24Infusing the Fall into the kitchen 16:47Trying out various recipes 19:37A fire pit 23:07Fashion 25:52“There was this moment last year, last fall, Jess has this amazing yellow mohair chair in her entry. We were doing a shoot there and my tree was turning yellow in my front yard, our lindon, and we cut all these branches and put them in a big jar on her entry table. And it was everything. It was so, so happy, but it felt like Fall.” 14:46https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/https://alicelanehome.com/https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHomehttps://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecityNews Letter:https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5

Our Favorite Design Books | Some of the Greatest Influences in Design

We are doing a book review today on the top 10 favorite design books. We get asked this question a lot about what our favorite design books are and in projects we’re always installing the most beautiful big coffee table books on their cocktail tables and we try to find out a lot about their interests so that we can align some of these gorgeous, big treasures with what they’re interested in, like if they love rocks, travel, or big cities, and there are always gorgeous big books on them. “It’s safe to say that no two designers, even two that might share a similar aesthetic and sight the same major influences, would ever go about creating the same interior. Simply put, the process is too personal. A client could use the same highly specific language to tell a dozen different designers precisely what she wanted and she would nevertheless get a dozen different results. Each one of them might very well be spectacular in its own way.” 26:04May I Come in 5:21Thomas O’brien 9:58The Authentics 20:29Thomas Pheasant 24:12Charlotte Moss 27:54Vincente Wolf 31:06See the World Beautiful 34:31Stephen Sills 39:27 Vogue Living: Country City Coast 42:16David Collins Studio: ABCDCS 46:37“It’s clear that he really loves the color blue, he uses it a lot. His blue though has a dot of periwinkle in it, loves whites like Suzanne said, he’s really beautiful at drapery, and Romans, or silk Romans, or even a sheer Roman, which is really foxy in a room, and there’s always something carved, like African and carved or traveled in with all of these really serene, beautiful, ethereal colors, but then there’s something earthy like the carvings in there.” 32:39https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/https://alicelanehome.com/https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHomehttps://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecityNews Letter:https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5

Building Your Forever Home | Timeless Style and Design

Today we’re going to be talking about your forever home, which is kind of the final destination. A lot of the homes we do are people’s forever homes, or what they think it is, and then they have so much fun during the process that they decide to do it again. We love this because it really does just delve into all the options that make life ideal and make your lifestyle really beautiful. We get into all the specifics kind of in each room of what we see and what will make your life easier and more lovely. This gives you the ability to live life in your home and not have to worry as much because it’s put together. It does everything you need it to do so you can concentrate on the things that are really important. The forever home 2:42Proximity to hot tub 6:14Everything you need on the main level 9:04Double vanities 16:41The tub 23:10Closets 25:14Porch pots 31:55Food storage 36:01Elevators 43:12“We had one client, that was her very first request on her forever home. She’s like, ‘when I want to get away from my children, I order dessert from the Olive Garden and I go eat it inside my small closet just to get away from them. Make sure I have a spot to eat my dessert in my closet because that’s my escape.’” 29:30https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/https://alicelanehome.com/https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHomehttps://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecityNews Letter:https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5

Exteriors Pt 2 | More Listener Questions on How to Update the Exteriors of Your Home

In this episode we continue our discussion about exteriors and answer many of the questions our listeners have sent in. We have a question about whether you can paint your stucco, and that all depends on the climate in which you live, so if you live in a place like Utah where you get the extreme of all 4 seasons, it’s going to need to be repainted probably within the next 5-7 years. When talking about color, there are a lot of black and white homes out there, which we would say are somewhat overdone, so if you’re going for that look maybe use a more soft white and charcoal black to avoid being so blatant. Color can also be chosen by the environment or other homes that surround it. Can you paint stucco? 2:23Siding, hardie board, and creating interest 3:15Can you replace hardie board for a brick exterior? 7:46Color - Are black and white homes too trendy? 10:59How many colors to use on an all-stucco house 14:29Exterior paint color that isn’t black or white 15:19Landscaping, fencing 19:33Decking 22:58Lighting 24:54Entry doors 26:18Garage doors 31:23Exterior remodels 34:32Gutters 35:47“Anything done in good taste is gonna be long lasting. People always ask that, like ‘How do I make sure this isn’t gonna be trendy, or tiresome, or classic?’ If it’s done in good taste, like in your personal style, other people are gonna react to it and they’re gonna buy it.” 14:01https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/https://alicelanehome.com/https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHomehttps://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecityNews Letter:https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5

Exteriors Pt 1 | Dos and Don’ts of the Outside of Your Home

Today we’re going to be talking about exteriors and updating the outside of your home. This is a hot topic for Jess because she keeps driving into her neighborhood and seeing one house after the next turning completely white, which used to be Utah tuscan/brown. A lot of repainting happens with homes and we want to talk about the dos and don’ts of painting and what will or will not look good on your home’s exterior. An influx of house updates 5:56Is black too trendy for windows? 8:22Paint colors for shutters 10:00Making minor updates without demo 12:38Can you repaint natural stone on the exterior? 17:44Brick and lime washing 23:45Suggestions on trim and window colors for red brick reno, and painting brick 25:42Would you rip off all the brick on a home and start over? 29:18“What we’re seeing is that a lot of people are updating and changing these houses. For the most part, people are entirely spraying their whole house white. The rock, the stucco, the brick, the beams they’re painting black and putting black garage doors on, or something like that. We’re seeing a lot of contrast.” 6:30https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/https://alicelanehome.com/https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHomehttps://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecityNews Letter:https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5

Celebrity Spaces | Giving Us Courage to Go Bold

The reason we wanted to do this episode is because celebrity spaces give us this great courage to go bold. In the early days when we were doing presentations, we just were trying to get people to do a colored kitchen because everyone wanted a white kitchen, and many still do, so we would always go to this classic, Cameron Diaz. She had the green kitchen that was always easy to reference back and suggest to people what they should do. We gather a lot of inspiration from various celebrities’ homes and talk about many of those today. The Cameron Diaz kitchen 4:15Windsor Smith, big kitchen 7:28Gwyneth Paltrow’s new home 10:37Nancy Meyer film sets 15:06Dianne Keaton 17:20Lenny Kravitz 19:14Seeing white everywhere, Kim Kardashian 23:00“People are always asking “How do I get photography in my home?” and I’ve never seen it done better than in [Lenny Kravitz’] home because he’s taking you through, and he’s super relaxed. He has slung furniture, it’s leather worn like his cool boots and his vests and everything, but you see these crisp, graphic images all over the walls, and they’re massive, and they’re black and white, up close, and he talks about how they’re of his mother and his aunt, they just look so editorial, but they’re so personal and I’m like ‘What a beautiful statement to have your family just surrounding you, but in such an artistic way.’” 19:54 https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/https://alicelanehome.com/https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHomehttps://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecityNews Letter:https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5

Interview with Designer David Phoenix | A Well Decorated Design Star

We have David Phoenix with us today, who is the most fun we’ve had at Market so far. He has 20 years of design experience and is a master at combining traditional and modern elements. His interiors are thoughtful, well designed, and most importantly they’re livable. He was named one of America’s top young designers by House Beautiful Magazine. His firm, David Phoenix Interior Design has won numerous awards and his interiors have appeared in and on the cover of major national magazines, such as Arch Digest, California Homes, and The Rob Report. David is known for his designs for Hollywood celebrities, public officials, business magnates, and he’s decorated homes for the Kennedy family, former mayors and governors, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, and the actor Rob Lowe. The type of design that David does 5:00How he got into interiors 7:10What’s most fulfilling in interior design 22:25Interiors vs product 23:14The most challenging part 25:35What he’s most excited about right now 26:27His super power 29:41What is your favorite thing to collect? 36:17The meaning of luxury 47:57“I just thought, ‘I’m not cut out for a cubicle.’ So I went back and I was cleaning out my friend’s room and he said ‘What do you think?’ and I said ‘I’m just not cut out for a cubicle, but thank you very much.’ and he goes ‘I like you and I wanna help you.’ So I said ‘What do you want to be?’ and he said ‘Think big and you’ll be big.’” 12:47www.davidphoenix.com@davidphoenixinteriordesignhttps://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/https://alicelanehome.com/https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHomehttps://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecityNews Letter:https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5

Process of Building Our Homes | What We Would Do Differently

Our podcast today comes from a listener question. She said that she’d love to hear us discuss what the process was like for us personally and what we learned, what we would do differently, etc. when we built our own homes. So today Cory and Jess talk about their process and what they learned just to help you overcome some of the shortcomings that maybe you’ve experienced. Even as professionals, we still experience shortcomings, so hopefully we can help you not have to fall into those same traps. More about Cory 2:11What we would do differently in building our new home 8:39Exterior pain point 16:36You cannot predict the supply chain 22:03Finding the right people to work with 26:49Terminology 29:28“If you like to make a million decisions, build a house because that is exactly what it is. You’re just gonna have to, every day, make 5-10 decisions that you’re gonna have to live with for however long you’re living in the home.” 7:17https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/https://alicelanehome.com/https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHomehttps://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecityNews Letter:https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5