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Dear Alice | Interior Design

Design on a Budget | How to Style When Things Are Tight

Dear Alice | Interior Design

Alice Lane

Arts, Design, Visual Arts

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we go over tips on how to design when working with a tight budget, which is a request we have gotten from a few of our listeners. Many people want to have a tall, two story ceiling in their home, but don’t realize how expensive it ends up being and there are ways to work around that. Your budget generally should be 10-20% of the cost of your home. We discuss how you should approach what to keep versus what you should get rid of, and then we talk about what to have on your floor, such as a hand-knotted rug. Sue tells about a great way to make your ceiling look bigger if yours is only eight feet tall, and then we discuss what an estate sale is and how to find amazing deals through these. You can also go on Facebook Marketplace and find great things on there. Two story ceilings 5:14 Figure out what your must-haves are 7:43 For the ground 10:03 What to sit on 12:58 Invest in your window treatments 16:06 The golden rocker 18:09 Estate sales 21:02 What not to do 25:34 “I have 8 foot ceilings. That’s 96 inches. Not very tall and probably a lot of older homes, if you’re living in an older home, are only 8 feet, so by taking that color of the wall onto the ceiling, I think it grew. Jess, would you agree?” “Oh yeah, for sure.” “It just looks opinionated like there’s no regrets. It’s a super confident way to design a space by just taking that color and wrapping it, and paint is the cheapest thing you can do.” 16:39 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 News Letter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Dear Alice, a lifestyle approach to interior design.

0:22.1

Hello everyone and welcome to Dear Alice.

0:25.5

Before we jump into the podcast, we first want to give a shout out to our homies over

0:29.1

at Grove. They're making my life so easy these days. How are they making your life easier

0:33.9

these days, Jess? Thanks for asking, Sue. Well, they're the best because, you know,

0:38.6

stressful going to the store has been. It's just that nothing worse than forgetting something

0:44.2

on your list and needing to make multiple trips. And so shopping from home for just like

0:49.2

the essentials can be so easy with Grove. And right now we're trying to keep our homes

0:56.1

so clean and healthy. And I really hope this trend continues even, even now that we're starting

1:01.8

to get vaccinated. But what I've realized is I don't have to walk through a cleaning aisle anymore.

1:07.9

It's fluorescent. It smells. It's assaulting. Right. It is. It's assaulting just to my retinas.

1:14.4

It's just so fluorescent and bright and full of colors. And now I just have this amazing

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pot Grove app on my phone. I was going to call it a podcast, but it's an app. And they tell me

1:26.9

like three days before we're going to ship your order. And then I go through and I edit it or

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I go with it. This week alone, I just got glass straws from my drinks. Right. I know me. No

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2:01.7

I can make sure she's clean and so are my white sheets. Lovely. It's the best. So I just wanted to

2:07.9

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