Dear Alice | Interior Design

Designing vs Decorating | 8 Misconceptions of Interior Design

In this episode we are going to talk about the misconceptions between being a designer and a decorator. We’re going to discuss what people often think we do vs what we actually do, which is often quite different than people might think. This is an important episode because every once in a while we have a young person come up to us and say they wanna go to college to be an interior designer because of what they’ve seen on HGTV, but they don’t realize how different it actually is compared to what they’re seeing on HGTV. This episode should help you better understand what to expect and look out for if you or a loved one is thinking about going into this field of work. Interior designer vs decorator 8:00Interior design 9:00Can interior design be done by anyone? 15:50Interior design requires technical knowledge? 19:20Do interior designers push their own vision and not the client’s? 21:30Do all interior designers have picture perfect homes? 27:05Is interior design something you can do from home? 31:35Do you have to be good at sales to be an interior designer? 35:50Is interior design for modest homes? 39:40“What I’m so proud of is that we can design this home, everything is finished, approved by the client, we can do all these drawings, put them in a drop box, and send them in the cyberspace and the cloud across the nation to Washington DC, or to wherever and a builder can build off of those documents. That’s the technicality and where we shine.” 20:00https://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

How and Where to Create Moody Spaces

Today we’ve got a fun one we’re doing on moody spaces, about which we’ve gotten a lot of questions on how you create a moody space, or where to create one. It’s a trend that many people are wanting to understand and incorporate. Many want a more intimate location where you can gather your people, create a scene, and just have a mood to talk or share secrets, so we’re going to go over this type of space and help you better understand what it ought to look like. The purpose of this episode will be kind of a how-to in creating a dark space and to give you courage to do so. When and where to saturate 3:25Enclosed rooms like powder baths 4:20How we choose a dark wall color 12:05Primary bedroom 15:10Dining room 22:50Cori’s pink primary bathroom 28:35“Typically, we’re inspired by the person, so a lot of times we will do a wallpaper and start with that, kinda like a rug in the great room. So I’d start with the rug, be it a witty wallpaper, I want it to feel really dark, so we’re gonna make sure the background or the field color is gonna be deep and moody, and I might be starting with one that’s deep green from porter teleo, and then I might have one that’s more of a Marlow color.” 12:24https://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

The Short List | Things We Love

Elle Decor does a short list every month and they always feature a different designer or person of interest that’s doing beautiful things in the world, and they give their short list of things they love, like their favorite place to stay, favorite perfume, their favorite drink, fabric, or whatever. We thought it would be fun to give you guys our short list because being in the industry, we might know some things, or even just on a more personal side we can just get to know each other better and get a little peek inside what makes us tick. Join us in this episode as each one of us reveals their short list, which hasn’t been revealed to anyone else on this podcast until now. First favorite thing 8:50Favorite coffee table book 21:20Favorite drink 26:20Favorite sheets 30:40Guilty pleasure 35:00Favorite doughnut 40:30What we’re collecting 41:15Favorite place to go on the weekend 49:20Next vacation spot 55:10Favorite gift to give somebody 56:55Favorite songs 61:35Favorite makeup trick 66:30Favorite perfume 71:20“I think just trying to find things that are really authentic and lovely, and made by artists, they just add such a soul and spirit, or going to Palm Springs, we usually go like once in the Winter and bring back little treasures.” 45:44https://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

TikTok Interior Design Trends | What We Think

In this episode, we are going to debunk some TikTok interior design trends. If you’re a regular user of TikTok, you may notice there are some micro trends happening in the interior design space online of these teenagers who talk really fast and are emphatically opinionated on these trends. We’re just here today to talk about what these “micro trends” are in interiors and whether we agree or not, such as chopping your pillows, whether fluffy beds are in or out, if colored sheets are in or out, and what you should do in regards to artwork in your home. Cottage core and dark academia 3:00The dark kitchen is coming back again 11:00Polished chrome and silver 15:50Mass-produced art 19:20Chopping your pillows 20:45White fluffy beds 22:20Colored sheets 23:20Cottage core style bedrooms 24:55Kitchens 27:00Dealing in absolutes 32:50Marble veining in countertops 34:10Living rooms 38:10“I think if you love design, you should for sure figure out who you are and what color, or if you’re a stain grade, where you are in the stain grade. I will say we’re gonna start seeing the wood floors really warm up. We’ve been in this white oak moment for a really long time, so if they’re still gonna stick with oaks I think they’ll warm up, but I think walnut is always going to be your everlasting in the middle choice where you’ll never regret it. You do it 10 years from now, 20 years from now, 30 years from now, you’re never going to regret walnut.” 31:13https://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

Kitchen | Space Planning, Appliances & Our Best Tips

We have a listener question that we’re going to do for the podcast today on kitchen space planning. One of our listeners asked us a few questions on this issue and said “I don’t think you can name names when it comes to appliances, but I’m wondering if you could touch on general considerations like how do I know what size range to buy?” We discuss different brands and answer another question about kitchen sink size and what to buy. We had a lot of fun with this one, so we hope you guys listen and enjoy! What range to buy 1:25The Cafe Stove from GE 10:15Buying a kitchen sink 12:40Counter depth or standard refrigerators? 15:00Splurging on an appliance like an ice maker, steam oven, or in-wall coffee machine 18:20Microwave placement and matching 23:40Hood size vs range size 30:00“I think you know when you’re in a home, I’m in a small kitchen, I call it my camper kitchen because we haven’t done anything to this house, because I wanna tear it down and I wanna build my dream kitchen, so right now I have a small kitchen, so anything larger than a 30” range wouldn’t make sense in my kitchen. It wouldn’t fit, so if you know you’re a small kitchen, you know you’re gonna be a 30 inch range, 36 range, probably not a 48 inch. If you’re getting to a moderate sized kitchen, you can tease with 48 inches.” 1:43https://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

Colorstrology | What colors are you drawn to?

We have a fun episode for everyone today. We had an event at Alice Lane that was so fun and we wanted to include you guys in the Alice Lane Galentine’s Spring, Easter party. We did colorstrology, which is where we assign a color to someone depending on their birthday. What we learned from studying this little book called “Colorstrology” by Michele Bernhardt is it’s 100% true to all the people that we’ve read colors to and we probably read over 50 colors. Some were surprised by the colors they were assigned because it’s not always the first color they choose, but often that color would complement the chosen color, so we’ll be talking about color and each of our own colorstrology.Jessica’s colors 5:40Cori’s colors 10:50Sue’s colors 14:15These 7 colors will be everywhere in 2024 and what’s next 19:45Susanne’s favorite color 28:05Cool lavenders and lilacs 34:50Orange 40:40Mustard 47:40Rose 51:10Powder blue 53:50“We’re not doing gray anymore at all. If you guys are choosing gray today, it’s just such a terrible choice right now because it’s already clotted and we need to get on the bleeding edge because these choices you’re gonna make right now are gonna last the next decade. If you’re doing gray, you’re gonna be feeling like a lagger the minute it’s dried on the walls.” 23:03https://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

Sconces | Best Practices and How to Use Them

The reason we felt like we should do a sconces episode is because Jess got a text back in December from a good friend in real estate who said that his wife can’t see herself when she’s putting makeup on. Jess asked him for a picture of his setup and when he send over the image, she noticed he had the wrong type of sconces next to his mirror, which was a really beautiful, very elegant sconce, but it had a linen shade on it and one candelabra bulb in each sconce. The window was behind her, so there was no light on her face. Jess told him he had the wrong type of sconces for a bathroom and this got us thinking that there may be a lot of other people out there that don’t know about all the different types of sconces and what they’re used for, how to optimize them for lighting, and where to put them in your home. The bathroom 7:40Picture light, art light 17:05Theater or rec room 21:15Night stand 27:00Mantle 29:15Pendants 31:00“There’s still differences in as-built than the plan and you still wanna eyeball it even though you have it drawn in CAD mathematically correct. It still feels different in person with your eyeballs, with the height of the people viewing it. Maybe the wife is 5 feet tall, maybe the husband is 6 feet tall, maybe the husbands that are married are both 6’8” or something. We all perceive things differently depending on the height and we try to design to that as we have a stick figure of a person their height.” 24:22–https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/–https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/–https://alicelanehome.com/–https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHome–https://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/–https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecity–News Letter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5

Spring Refresh | Out with the Old, In with the New

Today we’re talking Spring and we are so excited because we’ve grown tired of this long Winter. There are things we do in the Spring, and things we do in the Fall and Summer, so we just wanted to sort of Martha Stewart our way through this situation and talk about all the ways that we’re doing all our own Spring Refreshes, such as stocking the pantry and letting go of all your junk, or just giving stuff away. We each have different areas that we’re working on, so this should be a really fun conversation. Getting the clean reset 3:30Giving clothes away 13:30Decor 15:20Music 18:55Smells 25:15Plants 33:05Predictions about the marketplace 39:15“I really do love switching things up in the house. I definitely take some of those heavier feeling Winter pillows down and I bring up the brighter fresh ones that just give me a feeling in my house, which is great. I light a Spring candle in a few different spaces.” 25:00https://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

Listener Questions | Answering Your Inquiries

We’re doing listener questions again today, which means we are gathered just to answer your questions that we’ve received in the last little bit. These are the questions that weren’t long enough to make a podcast out of, but were enough that we could give a short answer to. If you have any questions that we haven’t answered yet, just send them to dearalice@alicelanehome.com and we will answer them here. Floor outlets 5:00Keep your home from looking like a yard sale 10:30What pieces should match/coordinate and which ones should contrast? 16:35Painting the exterior of your house white and painting the trim 22:55Hiding from the neighbors with art glass 25:50Organizing mismatched furniture and using rugs 31:10Renovation and looking for an authentic designer 37:00The colors in our showroom 39:50Exterior Christmas lights 40:55“ I have a handful of friends that have been designers that do this work and I trust them, so ask them ‘If you can’t, can you point in the direction of somebody that would be capable of doing interesting work of just a couple rooms at a time?’ I would just ask people that you respect, ask firms that you respect.”–https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/–https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/–https://alicelanehome.com/–https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHome–https://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/–https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecity–News Letter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5

Inspiring Women through The Ages

In this episode we’re celebrating international women’s day. There's a lot in history that women have done and trails that have been blazed that are cause for where you’re at right now. We have the opportunity to go to school, work, and express ourselves, which is a huge privilege, and it’s a good exercise for anybody to think about the women in your own life that have inspired you and just be super grateful for what they’ve done. Join us today as we discuss these amazing women and their accomplishments. The first international Women’s Day 4:32Viola Davis 6:24Oprah Winfrey 12:22Anne Frank 19:53Carol Kaye 23:15Mother Teresa 26:00Martha Stewart 28:30Anna Wintour 31:30Julia Childs 35:25Beyoncé 37:52Michelle Obama 39:05Mindy Kaling 41:00Elsie de Wolfe 47:15“‘My new motto is when you’re through changing, you’re through.’ I think that that takes great humility and I think naturally women have a lot of humility probably based on where we’ve come from, and I keep saying innate, but I think most women are soft/softer, and they want to adapt, and they want to mold, and they want to become better and there can sometimes be a pride that stops progress and open mindedness, and I think that’s what she was talking about.” 29:14–https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/–https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/–https://alicelanehome.com/–https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHome–https://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/–https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecity–News Letter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5