Olivia Snow

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Pop Apologists · 267: Celeb Interiors, Budget-Friendly Design, and Making Your Home YOU · 2 Apr 2025 podcast

It's really pretty.

Yeah.

Yeah. A humble about. I think also what you might be touching on is she picks really special finishes, but unlike a Gigi Hadid or some of these others where they have like these really obvious wow moments, hers are a little bit more soft and subtle and a little bit more neutral. I think it's not all marble. It doesn't feel overdone. It's a little bit understated. Yeah.

And I think that plays well with having all of these amazingly nice features that not everyone's ever going to have. But I think... The relaxed feeling that it conveys, even though it's kind of over the top at the same time, she balanced it really well. Yes. And her designer, Bridget Roman acted, I mean, phenomenal job. Her work's amazing too. Yeah.

So I think also like the pairings of like their celebrities and their designers is also very interesting. Really? Like who they work with. Yeah. I don't know anything about the designer. It's a fun thing to tap into and then to see and also see if they went to the designer for the designer's look or if the designer really distilled their look.

Because I think there's a lot of like rinse and repeat with some designers, right? Like you can find a designer to seek out their look or you can find the designer that's going to help you convey the home inside of you, I guess, if that makes sense. Which is kind of an interesting, like, the way that they all pair up.

I mean, Emma Chamberlain, even with her designer in the article, it says, like, you know, there was a huge, like, generational difference. Like, Emma was referencing things that the designer was like, I don't understand that, but let's figure this out. And I think a lot of the times they'll continue to work together over and over again, which is fun, too. So, yeah.

Yeah, I think. designers oftentimes serve as more of like the true north guide. Like I think so much of the time people will set out on a project. And I actually think like the issue people run into is they ask for so many opinions. You're asking a friend, what do you think about this? You're asking your neighbor, your friend's talking you out of marble. Like there's so much going on.

And I feel like more often than not as a designer, I'm actually telling my clients,

no remember the vision like remember what you wanted i'm actually helping them just like stay on track more so and then giving them the vote of confidence of them knowing that this really is going to work out it's all going to come together rather than you know pushing them in a direction they don't want to go it's more about like really keeping them as close to possible yeah of what they actually want yeah as opposed to like letting them listen to every single opinion

Well, I think that's such a good way to look at it.

Let's put the blinders on. Let's like do what you want to do. Let's stay focused. Let's keep on it because it does get hard. And when you're in the design process, you are looking at design. You're paying more attention than you ever have before. And it's making you question things because you're like, well, I like that. Should I be doing that? I like this. Should I be doing that?

I think it's the same thing with fashion. Like the more you start paying attention to it, the more you kind of can have an identity crisis. I think as a designer, it really is my job to distill who they are and execute that vision. Yeah. Yeah.

OK, also, Olivia, tell us a little bit more about Mother's Daughter Design and like the story behind it. So I've been in business for a couple of years now. I went off on my own when I had my daughter. But the kind of origin of my business is actually I was raised by a mom who was an interior designer and my grandmother was actually also an interior designer. So it was something I grew up around.

And if you would have asked me as a kid if I wanted to do it and I was asked. All the time. Absolutely not. Really? I had zero interest in it. I think I was just hell bent on paving my own way. And I kind of resisted any possibility. I loved my mother, but I was also like, I'm my own person. I want to do my own thing. But I grew up around it.

And I mean, I grew up going to showrooms and palling around and I was on construction sites I probably shouldn't have been on. And it was it was something in my DNA and a really, really creative family. And I grew up in really special homes, right? Like I grew up with women who were so different from each other, but their homes reflected them.

I mean, when I think about my mother and my grandmother in their homes and in their spaces, I think that was the greatest education for me of all. As I saw people that... were not focused on trend and really designed true to themselves. And I mean, I saw the client relationships and all of that. I saw a lot of hard parts of the business, but it really felt like a masterclass in it.

And then, you know, graduated high school and kind of wasn't sure what I wanted to do. And then in my early 20s, I just kind of couldn't help it. Like, honestly, I tried to avoid it. I kept finding myself in visual roles and all roads just kind of led back to it. And I was like, OK, I guess I'll go to school, get like some technical skills, got the technical skills, dropped out and

started working and got an amazing job with the design firm. And actually Courtney was one of my very first clients there, which was kind of, kind of amazing. And I even felt like designing with Courtney for that first little bit. And the other clients that I had was such, such a great education and all of that. Um, and it was interesting.

So as I was entering my career, it was also kind of like a volatile time in my life at the time, both my grandmother and my mother were my grandmother passed away and my mom was sick with cancer. So I was starting my career and losing the two most influential people in my life at the same time. At the time, I had no intention of ever going off on my own. I was so green. I was so fresh.

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