Olivia Snow

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

What are online retailers that are really good quality for the price? Oh, that actually is a really great question. It's interesting. The way that a lot of these vendors work is most online retailers that you guys are probably shopping at are sourcing from like the same brand. Like a lot of these things are going to be available across like 100 websites. So you'll see a lot of them there.

I think really you can find I find things just about anywhere. Yeah. Like I will order things from, you know, if it's the right fit from like a more high end retailer from a crate and barrel all the way down to like Etsy. So I think it's about searching for like the keyword of what you're looking for and then finding options. I also love like Google Lensing things.

Like if you see something that you love and it's out of your price point, put it in Google Lens and like see what comes up that's similar. And that could be a great place to source. I think things to pay attention to are some of like the little quality giveaways that are kind of useful. I think like paying attention to cushion content or the dimensions of something.

It's so hard to just like pigeonhole this because there's so many different types of fills. But things that have like an actual like high quality foam on the inside are going to like sit a little bit better. If a piece of furniture actually has like a true wood frame, that can make a huge difference in the way that the chair sits and things like that. Paying attention to dimensions is smart.

I mean, kind of know where you land on a couch. If you're someone who's a little bit taller, you might want like a deeper seat. Yeah. I really feel like you can find great things just about anywhere.

It absolutely is. That's why I'm saying I don't want to point you in one direction or the other. I mean, if you're buying a dining table, is it 100% wood or is it like a rubber wood finish with a veneer? And I think

a table is somewhere where you might want solid wood you're going to be eating food on it there's going to be drinks and beverage and spills and you might write on it and it the finish has to be able to be up to the task but then there's places where a veneer might serve you really well on a side table that doesn't get a lot of action so it really is just kind of about doing some research reading reviews and kind of playing with all of that yeah i wish i had like a magic place i'm like i

Everybody, here's the secret.

And you will make mistakes. Yeah. Like you absolutely will order something that you, you know, might regret. You might return it. And that's okay. It's all part of the process. And it's informing you kind of in the long, long end of how things work.

Yeah. So that sectional can't. I mean, someone could go in and custom order that through a retailer that has like the dealership to sell that upholstery. But I do think there is a lot of benefit to working with a designer because, I mean, you weren't able to sit in it before we bought it. No. We ordered it. We shipped it to you. But designers, you know, we go to market. We meet with these vendors.

We understand the quality. And actually where you ordered it from, it was it's handmade in the U.S., completely custom. Like the springs are, you know. hand assembled, there's hand ties on. It's really like another level of quality that designers can really speak to. And we're actually really good because we're around furniture all the time and kind of knowing what's good quality, what isn't.

Yeah. I think the other thing that really came in handy working with you is the logistics end of everything, right? Like you weren't in town. There wasn't a place where we could receive all this. And designers are also really good at figuring out. I joke all the time. I'm like, I think my job is 98% logistics, like 2% actually like the beautiful things.

So it's figuring out how we're going to get all of this together, how we're going to get it shipped, where it's going to get delivered to, who's going to get it into your house, how it's going to be assembled, and then making sure that it's going to fit and that it's going to feel great and speak to the quality. And then when things go wrong, because I mean, things go wrong.

I mean, things are damaged or broken. Like we're really good at navigating that process and getting everything squared away.

took me a moment and Olivia was like so helpful she was like it's gonna be a little bit of like a shock but you're gonna like love it just like give it a second for sure I think when you have lived in a space and you make changes to a space and something new arrives there is that like moment of this is new it's different I need to adapt to it and those are the moments where like we do sometimes talk people off a little bit of

You were really on a cliff. You were just kind of like, this is different than what it was for whatever month it was with that temporary sectional. I mean, but now living with the sectional, it's beyond amazing. It's beyond amazing. I mean, seat, like the entertaining possibilities, all of that. Yes. It's beautiful. It's so perfect. Oh, well, thank you.

Okay. People are not going to love this answer. I think there's a lot of really great, like if whites is probably what they're asking for. I am someone, I don't love to give out paint colors because I really want people to test them. People want to skip that step. They want me to say like, you're going to paint everything Swiss coffee and that's going to be perfect.

But every home is completely different. I can't tell you the amount of times I put a color up on a wall and it feels really yellow or it feels really white or too white or you really need to test it and try it out.

I think if you were to just like Google best white paint colors, you're going to get a great place to start and start with that list and test those and then kind of figure out what you need to do. If there's a color that you love, you can turn up and down the volume of the color. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My home looks like butter. Like this is not white. So I don't know.

Not like a fun answer, but the real advice. Yeah. That's what people need.

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