First tip, let's talk timing and who do you call first? I would always start with the designer.

Any tips or warnings to keep aware of when you are looking for designers or contractors on your home?

Darn corner fireplaces. How many questions? We get this question a lot. And I'm going to tell you how I did it with my sister's house.

Hello everyone. Welcome to Dear Alice. We are going to be doing a listener Q&A today. So thank you for your questions. And we are going to be answering six of them on this podcast. Yeah. And happy Halloween. Yeah. It's like a favorite holiday. It's all Hallows Eve. All Hall of Sives, I love that. I never say that. That's amazing. Wasn't that on Hocus Pocus? All Hallos Eve. I think. Yeah. You know the one. Yeah. That's one of my favorite. I know. You guys, are you watching any fun movies or anything? Like, I do love a hocus poca situation. Yes. Practical magic. Practical magic. Go watch that. That's so cute. Okay. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. Yeah. Get all witchy and wicken. What else? What are some other, like, spooky? The Lost Boys is what I love. I was obsessed with vampires as a kid. That's so cute. The Lost Boys is my movie. He was spooky. Kiefer? Yeah. Yeah. I had nightmares about that man. Yeah, it was a scary movie. I was like, my aunts showed it to me. They're like four or five years older than me. And when I was a kid,

and I loved it ever since. And the soundtrack is great. It's like 80s and, yeah, dangly, like, earrings and stuff like that. Yeah. I just cool. I don't know if you've ever seen it. Really?

Oh, it's so good. He played a villain for the majority of his career until 24.

Oh, really? I didn't know that. Yeah. I love it. Keith was awesome. So great. Well, speaking of holidays, you guys, the holiday collection is available right now at alicelanehome.com. So good. Not Halloween decor, if that's what you're thinking. We're talking actual Christmas decor. So that just went live. It's been so fun having it up in store. And then I also

wanted to say that today's questions aren't going to involve log cabins, corner fireplaces. If you

have one of those, we finally have an answer for you on how to space plan that room. Because I know

the corner fireplace is the bane of your existence probably if you're

trying to figure out just where to put that sofa or sectional. So Suze has some really good

practical advice for you. And then also how to deal with designers and contractors. If you're

taking on a little remodeling project, we have a question where we answer that. So we're

going to get into it. Okay. Before we do that, do you guys have any, like, favorite Halloween traditions that you guys do with your families or anything?

My boys are of the age where, like, we have to carve for pumpkins.

Like, there's a place called corn bellies here in Utah, and it's a big, like, this Halloween festivist.

And they have, like, rides and caramel apples and the warm chocolate chip cookies that come in the bucket. Anyway, corn belly is really, really fun. And so like you can get season passes, but my boys are always like, they're getting up the age where they're just like, let's get a season pass to corn bellies. That's crazy. Cute. So corn bellies is really fun. And then, yeah, dress up. Do you guys

dress up? I don't dress up, but we don't have kids to home anymore. So, I mean, I guess I could

just dress up for the trick-or-treaters. Not this year, because it's too late. But yeah, next year,

you and Adam have to. Um, you know,

I just barely said I love vampires. Every year when I was a kid, I wanted to be a vampire. So my like go-to costume is I, like 10 years ago, I bought like the ones that like mold to your teeth, the vampire teeth. Oh my gosh. So yeah, I use those and just, yeah, I'm a vampire every year. What do you wear?

It's like all black and yeah.

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