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The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style

45: 10 Ways to Set Up Your Home Like a Luxury Travel Accommodation

The Simple Sophisticate - Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style

Shannon Ables

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.7944 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever wanted to bring the comfort and luxury home with you after traveling and staying in lush living arrangements, whether a luxury hotel or vacation rental, in today's episode you'll discover 10 simple and inexpensive ways you can live a little more luxuriously right at home.

In this week's Petit Plaisir Shannon reviews the film The Woman in Gold the film and shares her experience visiting the Neue Galerie where the original Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I hangs. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

0:16.2

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

0:18.8

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

0:25.0

cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 45th episode of the simple

0:46.8

Sophisticate. Today we're going to talk all about decor and more importantly

0:51.7

tying it in to how we can make our everyday all the more

0:55.6

luxurious comfortable and relaxing because as we all know whether we're

1:00.3

returning home from work or returning home from our travels. We want to come home to a place that

1:06.0

really embraces us kind of like a hug. And there are ten ways that I'm going to talk to you about today

1:12.1

that are not that expensive.

1:14.3

Some of them are free and they really can make a tremendous difference.

1:18.0

Before I get to those 10 ideas, a little hint as to what today's petite pleasure is. I have the opportunity to go to a

1:26.1

fantastic exhibit while I was in New York City and it turned into a little bit more.

1:31.8

So I'm going to share with you something

1:34.0

that will bring that memory back to life to me.

1:37.0

And I think introduce you to a fantastic way

1:40.7

to spend the evening.

1:42.4

Curious, stay tuned to the end of today's episode and you'll

1:46.3

find out what I'm talking about. All right, let's get started on today's episode.

1:51.4

Ten ways to set up your home like a luxurious travel

1:55.7

accommodation. The gifts of travel as you know are plenty as we are

2:00.7

experiencing new food, new customs, new knowledge, and everything in between.

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