I learned this from Sue.

The most interesting characters in an empty room are the chairs.

So your chairs job are to be interesting.

I think that's the beautiful thing about ALID and what we do is that we design for the client.

I think we all can design an A style and like pull out the best aspects.

That's the opportunity.

That's what we want to do is designers want to design, you know? Yeah. So like Sue always says, design like you give a damn. We want to do that.

Hi, guys. Welcome to Dear Alice. Today we're going to be answering your questions. This is one of our favorite podcasts that we do, like usually about once a monthish where we answer just all your questions.

So thank you for sending those in. And if you guys have questions for us, you just send

them to Dear Alice at alicelanehome.com. And we will either answer them like we're going to do

today sort of rapid fire a whole bunch of a podcast or maybe they'll just become their own

episode. So whatever topics we haven't covered or something specific

that you want us to really solve for here, we're happy to do it. So that's today's episode.

Should we just jump into it? Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's go. The first question is from Jeremy,

from California, and he wrote in and said, hi, big fan of the podcast. I was

wondering if you could talk about the rules for mixing design styles like modern with rustic or art

deco with modern. Thanks. Well, hi Jeremy from California. And thanks for listening to the podcast.

We like to think of ourselves as mix masters. Yes. Yeah, we love a mix.

And usually the mix comes from the two people that occupy the home. They don't have the same

taste. So we usually get to figure out what makes each of them really excited about a certain style

and then we get to start blending those. So Sue, you just came out of a consultation where you did this very thing. Do you want to tell how we do it? Yes, this was for a client. Or the rules for it? This was kind of modern rustic. So when I saw those two things from you said modern with rustic, we just barely did a North Star, which is kind of like giving them ideas on how to kind of mix these two

things. It's for a home and kind of like a Yellowstone type of space. It's called the ranch in Idaho.

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