Fake It to Make it Beautiful
Decorating Tips and Tricks
Bespoke FM
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🗓️ 2 March 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
If you want a high end look to your decor, but you don't have a high end budget - LISTEN! We are sharing our best tips to teach you how to fake a high end look. We love saving money, and we love decorating without spending too much.
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| 0:00.0 | Think of it as smart, not fake. |
| 0:11.0 | Hey, everybody, I'm Kelly Wilkins, here with Anita Joyce, and this is decorating tips and tricks. |
| 0:16.7 | Today, we're going to talk to you all about how to fake high-end decor. |
| 0:21.9 | It's good to know how to fake it on a budget. |
| 0:26.3 | Absolutely. |
| 0:27.3 | And everybody's on a budget and even budget smudget. |
| 0:30.5 | It is just really smart to decorate this way. |
| 0:33.7 | We talk a lot about highs and lows and mixing it all in. |
| 0:36.9 | But today we're going to really |
| 0:37.9 | dig down deep on how to fake it and make it look really high end. There are some very |
| 0:44.9 | simple things and simple tips that you can follow. The number one tip, and I think you might |
| 0:51.3 | agree, Anita, is know what the good stuff really looks like. |
| 0:56.0 | Yes, you are so correct. |
| 0:58.8 | This is so important. |
| 1:00.7 | And that's why you want to spend time looking in some of these high-end magazines, |
| 1:05.8 | go to some furniture stores, antique stores, be looking on Pinterest. |
| 1:10.1 | But on Pinterest, there's not really a lot of |
| 1:12.9 | high-end stuff. So I'm thinking, so I don't know that that's where I would really hang out. |
| 1:19.1 | Used to be in the beginning a little bit more curated. So you definitely need to find a source of |
| 1:25.9 | high-end decor to go check it out. Because when you |
| 1:31.0 | know what it looks like, then you know what you're looking for and you'll be able to get closer to |
| 1:35.7 | it. But if you don't even know what you're looking for, well, then how can you replicate it on a |
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