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Dear Alice | Interior Design

How To Design Around Ugly Necessities | Tips to Hide and Obscure Those Unattractive Items

Dear Alice | Interior Design

Alice Lane

Design, Visual Arts, Arts

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Today we’re going to be talking about those ugly necessities. We’ve had a lot of DMs and questions about how to help disguise some of the things we have to live with that make our lives more comfortable, more easy, but aren’t very attractive. So we thought we would compile them all into a list in one day and just talk about all of them here. If you’ve written us a question in the past, we’re not ignoring you. We’ve been saving it for this moment. A lot of times, we remove those ugly things from the scene when we do photo shoots of the homes that we design, or we have figured out a way to disguise it in a permanent way, so they can still have the convenience, but they don’t have to have the eye sore. Laundry baskets and hampers 4:18Flat screen TVs on a large wall 9:52Office chairs and computer monitors 14:51Chargers and cables 20:38Wall mounted coat rack entry hooks 23:33Solutions for shoes 27:01Air conditioner vents and ceilings, canned lights 28:55Kids’ toys and high chairs 31:43Electric toothbrush and CPAP machine 33:20Toasters 38:10Baby gate 39:03“How about air conditioner vents in ceilings?” “What we did in the showroom is just paint them the same color as the ceiling.” “I would say that for anything, and that goes for your vents in your powder room, some of them always have that heavy, bold plastic. You just paint it the same color as the wall, or the ceiling.” “AC returns, same thing?” “Same thing.” 28:54–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

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0:00.0

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

0:22.3

Hello everyone.

0:23.3

Welcome to Dear Alice.

0:25.2

Today we're going to be talking about those ugly necessities.

0:27.2

We've had a lot of DMs and questions about how to help disguise some of the things

0:33.2

we have to live with that make our lives more comfortable, more easy, but it's not

0:38.5

very attractive.

0:39.7

And so we thought we would compile them all into a list and one day just talk about all

0:43.6

of them on here.

0:44.6

So if you've written us a question in the past, we're not ignoring you.

0:48.2

We've been saving it for this moment.

0:50.3

juicy podcast.

0:51.3

And just know a lot of times we'll be taking the removing those things or they haven't been

0:55.0

added to the scene when we do photo shoots of the homes that we design or we have figured

0:59.3

out a way to disguise it in a permanent way so they can still have the convenience, but

1:03.8

they don't have to have ice for.

1:05.7

For instance, we will take your paper towel holder and paper towels off the countertop

1:11.2

when we shoot your kitchen.

1:13.3

I know people have been like, where's the paper towel?

1:15.5

Well, to be really honest, they're sitting on the floor by the dishwasher and you can't

1:20.9

see it from the angle.

1:21.9

It's weird shooting the kitchen.

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