Olivia Snow

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

Yeah, and I think most people that are listing on things on Facebook Marketplace are, like, ready to investigate. Yes, totally. They want it off their hands. They're ready to let it go. And speaking to you, Lauren, I mean, we didn't do any vintage in your home, but I think the thing that we were really mindful of is the mix, the mix of textures and materiality.

So if you are someone who isn't up for the vintage, I think it's just paying attention and adding interest, making sure that, you know, we have different wood finishes and different textures and different fabrics and things like that because that tells a great story, too.

And that might be one of the tricks that I think a designer is able to do, right? Like we're moving people in on one day. And oftentimes like we did buy it all within the last six months and we are putting it all in the house on the same day. And it technically is all new, even if it's not new, it's new to them.

And that is something that I think designers are really good at is making it feel like a really storied piece where we didn't just Get online one day and get everything. Totally. Right.

Oh my gosh, for sure. I think being a renter is a really great time to like be experimental and like try different things. But also I think sometimes when you're a little bit limited is when you get the most creative. I think you're able to like really think of your space, make it work. I mean, you said you're in a pretty small space. Very small space. I'm not in my forever home either, right?

And it's something where I might not want to invest a ton of energy into it, but I want to make it feel like myself. I tell renters, I think there's like this paralysis that oftentimes people have if they're renting or they're not in like their version of forever home where they're like, I'll just wait. I'll just wait. And I really don't believe in that.

I don't want people to save anything for best or like for the future. Start collecting the things that you love now and live with it and use it. I think so many people like buy China and then they only save it for the holidays. I'd like eat off of your

china right have so much fun with it i mean buy the pillow that excites you buy the thing i mean and oftentimes i mean maybe larger pieces don't always work where you go but like if you found nightstands that you fell in love with those can come with you table can come with you buy the pieces that excite you and you'll actually be better for it when you get to that forever place right because you're already going to have this like great collection to build and you'll have already been yeah like building your taste and experimenting

Yeah, I mean, I think that is definitely probably one of the most challenging things to tackle. And you do want distinguished spaces. Like, I'm sure you guys want a kitchen to feel like a kitchen. And if you have a little dining space, making that feel like its own thing. I think it's really finding the pieces that are going to double as a couple of different things.

Like, if you can find a really great storage cabinet that might divide the kitchen from the living room and it's also serving as storage, but it gives that little break and separation. Yeah. Stuff like that makes a huge difference. But you do have to get creative and get fun. And I don't know. I think it can be great.

A big, a big one. A big one. Just here you go. I'll just tell you right now how to do it again. I think I kind of like talked a little bit about this, but this comes back to the mood board thing of it all. I think we get on Pinterest, we can get on Instagram and I think it can be really overwhelming and it all kind of starts to look the same.

So I think what I tell everyone to do is start collecting images. And I think people get nervous about the images they collect because they're like, I like this, but I don't like everything in it. And I Actually, I think that's better than if you like everything in an image. I think what you want to do is you want to pull a bunch of stuff that you enjoy and then actually study it.

I mean, it might be just a chair that's in a photo that you love. So you're going to focus on that chair. It might be a pink color that you love. And then you're going to take all of that and you're going to kind of piece it together and you're going to look at all the things that you love from these different spaces and you're going to start to see what your distinct style is. Mm-hmm.

And I think a lot of times people feel like they need to categorize their style. They're like, I'm, you know, mid-century modern or I'm modern farmhouse or like these these moody farm girl. Exactly. Very different than modern farmhouse. It's actually a new genre. It's a different genre. Moody city farm girl.

So I think like you start to like piece together this version and then you get to build off of it. And I don't think you need to put yourself into a camp. I think juxtaposition is always going to make a more interesting space. And I think there will be details and little things that you start to notice that become the through line for you.

Maybe you're seeing a lot of blues or pinks or maybe you're like all the lights that I love are brass. OK, I like brass. So that's kind of the way that I recommend starting.

Yes. Yeah. Any lighting that feels clinical really, really.

What's the lighting shade everyone needs to buy? So I think. And this is something that like took me a long time to really nail down because there's watts and lumens and kelvins and all of this. Really the thing to pay attention to is kelvins. Okay. Like that is the thing to look at. Like 60 watts versus 40 watts is not going to make the ultimate difference.

Kelvins is what matter and it's like a scale. So it starts at 2700 being the warmest all the way up to like I think 5000 being like you are in an insane asylum. Like you are like, you're not OK. I really love like twenty seven hundred and three thousand. And I would pick I mean, buy all your light bulbs the same note if you can. Yeah. And that's going to give you like warm, low lighting.

But anyway, it's just it's it's very interesting. I mean, they make all the light bulbs now where you can like pick any color that comes out of them. And it's not it's not really something that I like your vibe.

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