Builder Grade to Custom | Ways to Make your Home Unique

Dear Alice | Interior Design

Alice Lane

Arts, Visual Arts, Design

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In this episode of Dear Alice, we give some advice on making a builder-grade home feel more custom. If you are looking to upgrade, update or just freshen up your existing home, join us as we walk through multiple ways to achieve that. From simple changes like changing out your kitchen hardware or adding window coverings to updating your builder-grade lighting to something a little more interesting, there are so many ways to give your home a little more personality. Lighting 3:31 Hardware 11:03 Window Coverings/Stair Runners 15:57 Large Scale 23:08 Fireplace/Mantle “Everything that’s affordable is going to be small and that’s gonna make you play small and it’s going to make your house look really cheap.” 23:19 https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/ https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/ https://alicelanehome.com/ https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHome https://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/ https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Dear Alice, a lifestyle approach to interior design.
0:17.0	Hi, welcome to dear Alice. We have a really great question today. Yes, we do. I think this is awesome on so many levels. Yeah, and I'm glad that people are asking this. So let's hit let's hit it. Yes. Okay so the question comes from at Jeb 2006. We are building a new home with the production
0:41.3	builder. What are some upgrades we can add after closing to give
0:44.5	our home a more custom upscale look?
0:48.0	And I think whether you're building right now or you're in a home that is a little bit
0:52.3	lackluster and maybe the builder made
0:54.4	decisions for you or a previous homeowner these these things also apply to you
1:00.0	of how to make your your more average home feel more custom more high end.
1:05.0	Yeah, yeah, so let's launch in.
1:08.0	Okay, yeah.
1:09.0	A few things that you can do, even while, if you were working with a production builder currently and obviously
1:15.6	Jeb 2006 asked if you can do something after the fact and after market change make smart decisions
1:21.5	with your builder too.
1:23.0	Even if it's a production builder,
1:24.6	you're likely going to a design center
1:27.2	or picking out from a limited array what tile you're using,
1:31.6	what paint you're using. They're already doing that work so I would find out first
1:35.6	what their upgrades are for a three-tone paint you know for your ceiling your
1:40.1	casing and your wall paint that That's what three tone is.
1:43.4	If I'm going to be changing different colors
1:45.1	on those three surfaces, I would find out what
1:47.7	their upgrade charge, because it's still,
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