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Insider Publishing Tips | Interview with Krissa Rossbound Editor Traditional Home Magazine

We have a very special guest with us this week named Krissa Rossbound, who is a veteran and the Senior Style and Design Editor for Traditional Home Magazine, and we are giddy to have her here. We discuss topics such as how the current state of this country and the education system doesn’t favor art or prioritize helping people develop their own personal style, so it’s a journey on which one has to go the extra length in order to discover for themselves. Listen to how we discuss traditional design and how to go all about it in today’s market. 
 
Intro 0:00
Working at Traditional Home 1:00
About Krissa and her journey 4:00
Cultivating personal style 7:10
What separates Trad Home from other publications 18:00
Difference between publication print and online presence 23:20
Being featured in print 25:35
The white kitchen 33:00
How far ahead traditional home is working 37:20
Accessing different magazines 42:00
Email for Traditional Home 45:50
What people should spend their money on 51:40
Finding a great photographer 60:30
 
“Something that I’ve learned to do over time is really edit myself and learn to pause for a moment, enjoy what I’m looking at, realizing I really don’t have to take this home with me. I’m going to look at it wherever it’s displayed and maybe take a picture of it and remember it that way, but I don’t have to bring it home with me because you do that and then sometimes it just doesn’t work, or you didn’t really actually want it, and I think that hearkens back to that idea of understanding your personal style.” 13:25
 
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Listener Questions | More Burning Questions Answered

Today we are doing listener questions, which we always enjoy because we get to see how you guys are living, what problems you’re facing, and we get to help you answer them, which is kind of why Dear Alice was born. Dear Alice is our take on Dear Abby, which is an old advice column that was written, and we are actually doing that exact thing right now for interior design. You guys are sending in pictures now, which really helps us to better know how to be more informative. 
 
Intro 0:00
The worst date we ever had 1:30
Keep things cohesive or refinish? 9:40
Beautifully designing entry and foyer 12:25
Helping the living room warm, inviting, and functional 17:20
Brazilian Cherry flores and bleaching 24:10
Brand and color of Jessica’s siding shingles 30:45
How to add more romance to your home 33:00
 
“When you do refinish the floors on the upper level, they might be different colors because the years, and the sunshine, and everything on those 2 inch floors maybe two years earlier, because maybe you’re not gonna get to that renovation stairs for a couple of years, but it’s on another plane, it’s on another level. You’ve gotta get it right when you’re doing it because nobody’s gonna go back and refinish floors.” 11:40
 
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Design Insider | Sourcing the Best with Marvin Wilkinson

Today we have guest Marvin Wilkinson who has the most fabulous store in the Denver Design District and Scottsdale. He has just the top shelf brands and with him you can find a secret tunnel into a magical world of offerings only offered to designers and we consider Marvin as ‘El Presidente’ of this world. We know him because he is one of our reps and educates us designers on what’s newest, what’s best, textiles, wallpapers, de Gournay, etc. Marvin is an artist at heart, a curator of beauty, and incredibly dynamic, so Suz insisted that he be on the podcast because people are gonna eat him up.
 
Intro 0:00
About Marvin 1:00
How he started 5:30
Where to save and where to splurge 11:00
The difference between Gracie and De Gournay wallpaper 13:45
Favorite up and coming brands 17:40
The best show 19:10
What’s new, what’s next 22:30
Developing your relationships 32:30
Follow through and follow up 35:45
What have the past 30 years taught you? 38:45
 
“I really need to hear what you are looking for instead of me just automatically thinking I know what you’re looking for. I think that’s really important for working with a design community. I think just being able to communicate properly and pull stuff out of other people and try to get their information and what their needs are, I think is really important.” 33:02
 
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Agree to Disagree Listeners Edition

We’re gonna fight it out a bit today on this podcast episode. This is a continuation of our episode from last week and it’s just our listener’s comments when we polled our Instagram audits. We wanted to get to these since you guys took the time, so that’s what we’re doing today. We discuss the various designer styles you see here in Utah and which ones we agree with or do not agree with, but also there’s a lot of good in having variety. “Be effortless. Be believable…” “Don’t try so hard. I think that goes for anybody.” 
 
Intro 0:00
Design services 1:00
Best meal 5:10
Other designers’ styles in Utah that we agree or disagree with 8:15
90s oak cabinets in the kitchen and not looking 90s 14:10
Where to put marble 18:30
Where to save vs where to splurge 22:45
Open floor plan and tall ceiling vs cozy and separate spaces 30:55
Karate chopping pillows 37:05
 
“Today the cabinetry goes to the ceiling, or there’s a soffit with crown molding, but there’s no longer the dust collection. Nobody has done honey oak since the 90s. I don’t know if it’s gonna come back or not. Our oak came around again and it came more grayed, or ceruse, or toned down, but we have better lacquers today that don’t yellow the woods like they did in the 90s.” 15:01
 
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Agree to Disagree | Our Opinions Unfiltered

Your hosts here on Alice lane have different opinions from each other. We’ve gotten some questions in and we find that we feel differently about these things and felt like maybe we should fight it out for you guys. We decided to just let it out and see what happens and we will still remain friends afterward. One example of something we talk about is having the TV above the fireplace and Cori says he has his TV above the fireplace, which Sue and Jess definitely disagree with style wise, but respect that he has made that decision. 
 
Intro 0:00
An awesome review and most embarrassing moment 1:20
The TV above the fireplace mantle 12:30
Theater rooms 18:00
Kids sleeping with parents in bed 24:50
Pools and jacuzzis 28:10 
Kids toys 33:30
Living room 40:00
Engineered hardwood 45:10
 
“I personally have a sand and finish floor meaning we went and bought the wood planks, white oak, installed them all, water popped the grains, stained it, all the different layers of lacquer, the tedious process of doing a sand and finish floor…now everything is perfectly engineered. You get a perfectly finished, baked product in a factory where you don’t have to do it on site with all the chemicals.” 45:20
 
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The 5th wall | Ceiling Design Ideas That Will Make You Look Up

Today we are talking about the 5th wall, which we define as the ceiling. It’s a controversial thing because some people consider the floor to be the 5th wall and the ceiling as the 6th, but that’s not what we think. The ceiling is something we strongly feel can really set rooms apart in design, and create a lot of energy and magic surrounding what’s happening up above the head. Join us as we discuss the various ways we’ve incorporated the 5th wall into our many projects we’ve done over the years. 
 
Worst or funniest gift you’ve been given 2:45
The 5th wall 12:00
Aligning with existing architecture 21:50
Paint 24:25
Finish work 26:15
Barbie house project 31:20
 
“We had ceilings with a lot of eaves in it. This is Tan France’s closet and after setting this for quite some time, you can see the wall height didn’t start until way down here, like 2 and a half feet, so we’re all pitches and it only made sense to treat the ceiling like the wall and wrap that entire room in stripes. It felt tented, and then we were able to bring in a mirror that went 2 stories up from the stairwell and bounced back all of that around the space.” 18:48
 
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I Love Lamp | Our Tips & Tricks to Getting the Lamp Layer Right

We have a question that catapulted into us making a whole podcast about this topic, which reads “Hi, long time listener to your podcast. Could you please do a session on lighting, like finding pieces that speak to each other room to room, dealing with custom shades. Do all lamps have the custom shades? For example, I have 4 lamps and they all have a beautiful fermoie shade that flank the perimeter of the room, but when I bring lamps into the center, I was going to coordinate, or even juxtapose that with a modern lamp. Best ways to wash out art with light when mounted picture lights just don’t work, but you also don’t want your ceiling to look like Swiss cheese from recess lighting?” 
 
The worst compliment we’ve ever received 2:45
I love lamp 10:00
Height 16:30
Washing art 18:50
Vendors and whiteness of shade 28:40
Different types of lamps 31:50
The dining table 41:00
 
“The ideal shade is a natural linen, like probably a more off white or bone colored linen. That’s more beautiful than a natural paper shade because the paper shades kind of get burnt and get hot spots over years. It’s just not long lasting and if you’re paying a lot for a lamp it’s frustrating to have the shade start to show those warm spots on it…we use a place in Salt Lake City called the Lamp Company and they do custom lamp shades for us.” 29:24
 
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The Business of Design | Beyond the Classroom

Design is a wild and complicated business to get into. Of all the designers out there, somehow we all end up doing it differently. In the school of design, they don’t teach you that your business should be done a certain way, they just teach you the art of design and the different types of design: commercial, residential, etc., or little classes that teach you how to do things like purchase orders, sales estimates, how to work with vendors, and internal trade secrets that you’ll need to know, but how to run a business is much more broad and really just comes down to the individual and their way of doing things. 
 
What we’re watching right now on TV 2:00
What is the business of design like after college? 8:00 
Stay busy 19:00
A lot of ways to do things 22:20
Everyone wears a lot of hats 25:00
Where will you be the most satisfied? 30:25
Self evaluation 32:20
Attach yourself to people you admire and respect, and you must be passionate and confident in your style 34:30
 
“I do think that those with a good attitude are also grateful, and when you’re grateful, I feel like you’re anxiously engaged. When you’re not grateful, you’re like ‘Oh, lucky you. You get me.’ But those that are grateful work better with other people. They’re humble, and they learn faster. If you can be humble, you’ll learn a lot faster. You’ll get to the finish line on any project you’re working on a lot quicker, when you’re grateful.” 21:44
 
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Design Regrets in Our Own Homes | Lessons and Embracing Our Mishaps

We were discussing this topic and when we started listing these out, we realized it’s proof that we lived. We leaned hard into a trend, it’s the Asymmetrical haircut, and a part of us is like “No, respect that girl that was just trying her darndest!” But was it a good idea? Probably not. Listen in as we tell about our various design decisions we made early on that we later came to realize was a mistake. 
 
Intro 0:00
What we’re obsessed with lately 1:00
Our design regrets 7:55
Sue’s design regret - grout 8:25
Bigger laundry room 11:10
Brass fixtures 14:40
The exterior finish and paint color 16:10
Pergola 19:00
The range in Cori’s house 22:20
Garage storage 28:40
Crooked mantle 37:20
 
“I feel like we wanted to do this episode because I don’t know if somebody maybe asked us to do it, but just to illustrate we all have regrets. Those of us who do it professionally, we still have mishaps. We trust the system too much because we do it all day, and then we work too fast, and then we forget something, or a few of these things where we’re saying to just fix it right the first time.” 38:45
 
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Listener Questions December 2023 | Your Burning Design Questions Answered

We’ve got another listener questions episode for you guys today that we recorded back in September, and we’re so excited to be able to answer a lot of the inquiries we’ve gotten from you guys. We get a lot of questions from you who listen to this podcast and if they’re not big enough to cover a whole episode, we will compile them along with other questions that won’t take as long, and then we combine them all into one podcast episode, so listen in this week to hear what we have to say in regards to what you have asked. 
 
Achieving a balance in life 1:20
How do you break into interior design without a degree? 8:30
How to design for your home when interior is different than exterior 12:30
Jess, how is your outdoor lighting holding up? 15:15
Finding your passion for interiors after college 18:45
De-90’s your home without removing the positives 23:25
Front porch styling through the seasons 33:00
Furniture, rug, fireplace, and running parallel 40:30
 
“If you have a great view one way or the other, that’s where I would orient my furniture. Towards that, and then do something beautiful on the mantle, but it doesn’t have to be the thing that you’re looking towards in the corner. I think I would still square it off in a rectangular room because then you’re gonna add non-directional items, you’re gonna add a table, on the sides of your sofa. You’re gonna do other things to soften this really angular space with some rounds in there.” 41:57
 
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