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The Designer Client Relationship | Next Time on Dear Alice

Elevate Your Exterior | A Designer's How-To

Old house, new love! This week on “Dear Alice” we help a listener freshen up her 20-year-old home and make it feel brighter, fresher and more universally loved. From brick to stone, stucco to siding…listen along as Jess, Suzanne and Cori help you make the best exterior choices in the best way. No time stamps allowed! Learn how to lean into the original architecture and authentic era of the home, while still giving it a current look and lift. (Spoiler alert: it doesn’t have to just be black and white!)
 
Intro 0:00
The question 10:15
Stone 13:45
The overgrout 17:25
Trim and windows 26:00
Stucco 28:00
Siding or brick 36:00
Favorite COLORS 40:00
 
“So we put together a new exterior package for the whole community. Again, this is European, but I think these principles are universal, and so we’re gonna share a little bit about what we did to freshen up these 20 year old houses and make them feel brighter, fresher, and I think just more universally loved.” 11:22
 
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Bed Styles | Navigating Trends and Timelessness

Come to bed! It’s the primary piece in the primary room of the home, and it deserves your best attention. This week on Dear Alice, we take on a viewer question about how to shop for a great headboard, in the face of all the trendy options. Winged, curved, low or four-poster…Jess, Suzanne and Cori breakdown your options, and share what they consider when giving clients the bed of their (sweet) dreams!
 
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Never would I ever 1:00
Trying to choose new king sized bed and what’s on trend 8:40
The long headboard 14:00
The 4 poster 22:00
Winged beds and curved beds 26:00
 
“So these are the things you want to avoid if you are buying a bed today because those were trending pretty hard at the time and you wanna look back and like something that you would have liked a decade ago, when it comes to your bed. I just feel like there’s just some universally beautiful things that you could get today, which would be at least a 60 inch high headboard, right? Not have too severe of a wing, but still a wing is pretty if you’re a traditional.” 28:08
 
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Design Lovers Tour | What to See, Taste, Try, and Do in Utah

Today’s topic comes from one of our listeners who said “I’m a huge fan, business owner, and designer in the events world. You 3 care about details with the same passion that I do. It’s so refreshing. Thank you for sharing the love and importance of design and function, especially in the home. We are planning a Summer trip to Park City and I would love your suggestions on favorite antique stores or galleries to visit while we’re in Utah. Of course we’ll be stopping in at Alice Lane while we’re there too.” in this episode we unpack this and revolve the whole podcast this week around this because it’s a great topic we think our listeners should know more about.
 
Intro 0:00
Our happy places 1:00
Places to go in Park City, and Utah 11:00
Find your happy place and your happy pace 15:05
Visit us in Draper 15:30
Decades Vintage Shop (clothing) 17:00
Anthony’s Antiques 19:45
Capital Antiques 22:25
Park City Mainstreet, The Meyer Gallery 26:00
Kemosabe 27:30
Cake 30:00
Five5eeds 31:20
 
“I feel like the best vacations happen when you kind of just leave space to see what happens and where the wind takes you. That’s when there’s the most magical stuff, but when you try to, like, ‘We gotta get here by 4!’ You’re like ‘AHHH!’ 14:18
 
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Alice Lane Interior Design | The Boldest Rooms We've Ever Done Part 2

This week we are going over our best, boldest spaces again, which is a continuation of our previous episode from last week. If you head on over to YouTube and find the “Alice Lane Home Collection” channel, you’ll be able to see a lot of the things we’re talking about to get a better understanding of these visuals we describe. 
 
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Sue’s bathroom remodels 2:40
Tan France closet 8:50
The Barbie dream house 11:40
A beautiful remodel 18:10
House of Harrington 23:30
Rachel Parcel’s library 28:00
Tiger Oak home 30:25
 
“I think the coolest thing about that mirrored wall too is there wasn’t a tall enough wall to put a floor mirror, except for that big stair wall. The space isn’t like too big that you can’t stand on that railing and check yourself out and stuff. Anyway, mirrors are the greatest trick that y’all can incorporate.” 10:44
 
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Big Moves Part 1 | Our Favorite Bold Spaces We Have Done

You guys really wanted to know about the boldest spaces we’ve done, so this week we’re doing a deep dive on those spaces and how we got there. We sometimes talk about a project where we learned this or that on, but we got to go back through the Alice Lane books and really examine some of our greatest projects and if you visit our YouTube channel “Alice Lane Home Collection”, you’ll get to see some of the beautiful images we have for those projects. 
 
Intro 0:00
To The Trade program 2:20
A 5 year long project, 30,000 square feet 9:30
A remodel we’ve worked on recently, 40,000 sq feet 19:00
A current Dallas project 31:10
The kitchen 39:00
A geometric  46:30
 
“Here’s 40,000 square feet of home, there’s sitting areas everywhere and everybody just can’t wait to show you the chandelier room at the end of this house, and you go in there and you’re like ‘Oh here, have a seat, sit down, and experience it.’ and he pictured like 4 or 5 breakout conversations going on and just like kind of a hum of people talking, and it happens. You gravitate towards these awesome spaces and that’s where you wanna stand and be. That’s where you want to experience your conversations.” 21:48
 
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Let's Talk Chairs | Our Favorite Features

It's an instant party. It tells you what the room can be. There's no other way to say it: the chair is the hero in every space. So, now that you know how we really feel...let's talk chairs! In this week's episode of Dear Alice, we break down our favorite features of a really good chair (hint: it has to move!). Join Jess, Suzanne and Cori as we help you shop for the kind of chair that offers instant style points.
 
Intro 0:00
Deciding what is coming home with you 1:10
Understanding this very critical furniture piece 9:30
The occasional chair 10:30
4 features of a chair you should buy 14:15
Back height and arm placement 23:15
The swivel chair 29:00
 
“You can kind of tailor all these different conversations because you do have a swivel. I can face the fireplace and talk to a friend, or I can look at the view, or I can go look at the game. You can be in charge of what you’re looking at and I think it’s just soothing. The older you get, the more you wanna move, or you’re probably just used to not sitting still, so it just gives you the ability to not sit still while still moving.” 29:23
 
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Influenced by Design | How Annie Meyers-Shyer Found Her Personal Style

This week we are super excited to share with you our podcast we did with Annie Meyers-Shyer, who is a force of her own. She is in the middle of a remodel originally built from a well known architect, Gerard Colcord, and it’s a 1940’s Pennsylvania Dutch style home. She’s in California and following her journey has been such a fun pastime. Annie is not a self-proclaimed interior designer, but she’s really treating this project like she is and it’s fun to watch and see her audience get involved as she takes this remodel step by step in the one million decisions that you have to make when doing a remodel. Join us today for this exciting conversation!
Annie’s Mother’s Day question 8:50
Developing her style 12:45
Living in a home with little boys 23:00
Growing up in Hollywood on sets 26:10
Starting the Instagram account and describing her style 31:30
What decisions have really excited her 38:45
“My goal with our home is that it feels like us, like a young family who lives there. There aren’t gonna be formal rooms, I hope all of our rooms are used. We are definitely a family who loves comfortable things, so deep sofas and cozy rooms, and my kids' rooms are going to be colorful because they’re colorful, and the rest of the house less colorful. I love sort of a calm palette. I’m very into the color yellow, there’s a lot of yellow in this house–very happy.” 32:35
 
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Spring Updates | 8 Easy Ways to Refresh Your Space

This week we’re doing a fun episode because this is that time of the year when many of us are craving that desire to refresh our living spaces and make things feel like a blank slate. We’re trying to figure out what we need to do to give our home some rebirth without burning it down and rebuilding a new house. Cori suggests a great idea, which is bringing out your collections and putting them on display to give your space a fresh touch while also putting that collection of yours to good use.
 
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A fun design challenge 4:45
Bringing out your collections to display 11:20
A new rug/runner 13:20
Do some painting 14:50
Art 19:00
Update the first thing your eye sees 21:40
 
“Update the first thing your eye sees when you walk in a room. I think that is your first impression, and so I feel like you’re gonna get a lot of credit for it because if you can walk in and see something different, that’s gonna do the most work for you if you’re not in the mood to rearrange your entire house.” 21:40
 
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