Best of: Design Lessons That Will Make You a Better Decorator
Decorating Tips and Tricks
Bespoke FM
4.6 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Today we talk about lessons that will make you a better decorator. We love learning, and sharing all we have learned about making your home beautiful. Here are some of our favorite lessons.
Take a picture of the room first. When you look at the photo, you'll notice things you didn't notice standing in the room. And then as you make changes you'll have a before photo. Be sure to take a photo after you make changes too!
Make sure your layout works for your room.
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and HERE for carpet
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Aim for a timeless look when you are buying big ticket items.
Add some black to every room.
Add layers to your home
Add some living plants
Buy a solid color sofa for it to be in style for the long haul.
Listen to our sofa episode HERE
Try to buy lamps in pairs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Today you'll be listening to a Best of Decorating Tips and Trix episode. |
| 0:05.4 | We're doing Best ofs on Mondays during the summertime to get all the new subscribers caught up |
| 0:12.1 | and give you guys an opportunity to relive some of our best episodes. So enjoy those. |
| 0:18.7 | And definitely come back to us on Wednesdays where we'll be having new episodes all summer long and we'll resume with the two new episodes every week after Labor Day. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm Kelly Wilkins with Anita Joyce and this is Decorating Tips and Tricks, Episode 308. |
| 0:46.9 | Design lessons to make you a better decorator. |
| 0:53.4 | And you can find the show notes for today's episode at Decorating Tips and Tricks.com slash 308. Well, my first tip is listening to all 308 other episodes |
| 1:00.0 | of Decorating Tips and Tricks. And then you will definitely be a better decorator. And you'll have a lot of fun. |
| 1:06.7 | But we're going to sort of sum it all up today and give you some tips about lessons that |
| 1:14.2 | will make you a better decorator. So specific lessons that you can put into effect in your own home |
| 1:20.1 | straight away if you'd like to. Are we ready to start? Yes, I think we are. Okay, well, |
| 1:26.9 | I thought we already started. |
| 1:28.3 | Well, then I say something and then you say we haven't gotten to that yet. |
| 1:32.4 | The party, sometimes I do that. |
| 1:35.0 | You do. |
| 1:36.0 | The party starts when I show up, baby. |
| 1:38.1 | So let's go. |
| 1:38.5 | Okay, all right. |
| 1:39.6 | Well, my favorite tip, my all time favorite tip, I think this is the starting point. Take a picture of each room. |
| 1:51.1 | This is your starting point and this is what you're going to look at. This is how you tell what's going on. |
| 1:57.3 | Because if you're in the room, especially if it's your house, if it's a house that |
| 2:01.2 | you're used to looking at, you're not going to notice things that when you take a picture of |
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