How To!: Style Your Home Like a Pro
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🗓️ 28 February 2023
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Summary
This summer, Hillary and her fiancé will be moving into their first home together. It's an upgrade from their apartment, and they get to design it from scratch. Hillary is really looking forward to entertaining friends and even growing their family in the space. She wants to design the interior of the house so it feels like a home, but she has no idea where to start, style-wise. On this episode of How To!, host Carvell Wallace brings on award-winning interior designer Corey Damen Jenkins. Corey runs a design firm, teaches, and is the author of Design Remix. He breaks down everything from how to find your style (hint: look in your closet) to creating mood boards to balancing color so it doesn't become overwhelming. No matter if you're on a shoestring budget or can splurge on the space—Corey's advice will help you love where you live.
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| 0:00.0 | You know that it is not working when you know it's ugly. |
| 0:04.0 | You know something. |
| 0:06.0 | You look at it and it's like, you know what? |
| 0:08.0 | This is hit. This is terrible. |
| 0:10.0 | This is not at all what I want. |
| 0:12.0 | If it induces vertigo, as far as too much pattern, |
| 0:15.0 | if the colors are so garish that it makes you feel like you are |
| 0:18.0 | in this public painting, humans know when something is unattractive. |
| 0:22.0 | It's just part of our species. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome to How To. I'm Carval Wallace. |
| 0:30.0 | We put a lot onto our homes. |
| 0:33.0 | And that's because our homes are such meaningful places. |
| 0:36.0 | Like our home has to do so much. |
| 0:38.0 | It has to hold us in all of our feelings and experiences. |
| 0:41.0 | It needs to relax us when we're anxious and then motivate us when we're down. |
| 0:45.0 | Sometimes we want it to be easy and comfortable and chill. |
| 0:48.0 | And sometimes we want it to be like the representation of all of our ambitions. |
| 0:52.0 | We want our homes to show the world what kind of person we are. |
| 0:56.0 | Or at least what kind of person we want to be. |
| 0:59.0 | Organized, chill, tasteful, relaxed, but disciplined, but healthy, but welcoming. |
| 1:04.0 | We hate the idea that somebody could walk into our house, |
| 1:07.0 | look around and be like, who's this asshole? |
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