Tamara Day - from Estate Sales to Bargain Mansions
At Home with Linda & Drew Scott
Drew Scott
4.6 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Tamara Day, designer and host of HGTV’s Bargain Mansions joins us at home to share her origin story of Growing Days, a business born out of struggle and necessity--and the fun thing she does with her family after restoring houses. As a busy mother of four, Tamara also talks about parenting, what it's like working with her dad, and how her grandparents inspired her work ethic.
Connect with Tamara:
@tamaraday on Instagram
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In each episode, we highlight a maker making great things!
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Katrina Da Silva
She is a modern abstract artist based in Calgary and her work is often inspired by nature.
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| 0:00.0 | I like to say perfect is the enemy of done, right? |
| 0:03.3 | Like, you can always keep improving, but then you'll never finish. |
| 0:07.5 | My house is a perfect example of that, right? |
| 0:09.6 | Like, it's been 12 years. |
| 0:11.0 | It's never going to be done because it's never going to be perfect. |
| 0:14.3 | But with the kids, the furniture I was doing. |
| 0:16.4 | It was vintage furniture. |
| 0:17.6 | It was old. |
| 0:18.2 | It was already beat up. |
| 0:19.5 | And most of it was like the chalk paint stuff. |
| 0:22.6 | And so you can't really mess that up. And a lot of times I'd let them paint the back instead |
| 0:27.7 | of the front. Right. Right. Right. Nobody's looking at the backside. Write your name, you know, |
| 0:33.3 | ruin your clothes, whatever you want to do. It doesn't matter on that side. |
| 0:38.2 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:39.7 | Hello. |
| 0:40.7 | Welcome to At Home with Linda and Drew Scott. |
| 0:43.0 | This is a show where we chat with artists, experts, dreamers, and doers about what makes us feel most at home. |
| 0:49.8 | You know what makes me feel most at home. |
| 0:52.8 | Cuddles. |
| 0:54.0 | Cuddles and sitting in the closet, which we are doing right now. |
| 0:58.5 | We are literally in the closet because there are some renovations going on in our podcast space. |
| 1:03.0 | And so this is our new podcast space. |
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