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Dear Alice | Interior Design

The Powder Bath | Exercising Your Creativity In A Petite Space

Dear Alice | Interior Design

Alice Lane

Arts, Design, Visual Arts

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Today we talk about the powder bath, our favorite room in the house where people can play all their cards and take some risks because you won't be in there for long. Choose wallpaper for this room like you are choosing art. You should feel excited and have an emotional connection with it. We prefer large organic prints to loosen up the space and lose the hard corners amongst the leaves or foliage. Choose a beautiful pedestal sink, especially if you're going to be doing your walls, let your sink be a silhouette against your wallpaper and choose a mirror with a nice frame to compliment your wall and sink. This is your chance to go wild because there are no other mirrors, so you can test some new things out. For lighting, use something magical like a small pendant or chandelier and sconces to flank the mirror. You can fit a little etagere in almost any powder bath where you can put small paintings, candles, or other storytelling articles. It’s also a nice place to put small toiletries or trinkets your guests can use to freshen up. Get creative with your hand towel rack, hook, or ring. Candles, diffusers, and other scents can really improve this small space where smells will stick around longer. The door should match the space, and the only white things should be your toilet, and maybe your sink. This is one place where you are up close and can really admire that art, so we recommend getting art which people can enjoy. https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5 How to pull off a large print in a powder room 2:32 Can you mix chrome and brass? 4:38 How to improve your mirror 11:21 Etagere 18:13 Hand towels 22:20 Places to find specialty hardware for powder bath 24:42 Art 30:50 “If you have a crazy wallpaper and there’s a lot going on, you can leave it if you’re like ‘Nope, I don’t want any art on that,’ you can leave it. That’s the art story. But a lot of times we’ll take a three dimensional object--a butterfly, a shell, something, and we’ll have that framed so you have a center of focus. Usually above the potty where there’s just a wall with blank wallpaper, wild wallpaper, and you’re gonna frame that so you have some focus and a lot of white matte around that object so you can focus in on it. It’s not complicated art, but on top of complicated wallpaper you’re simplifying.” 31:11 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Dear Alice, a lifestyle approach to interior design.

0:17.0

Hello everybody. Welcome to dear Alice Suzanne and Corey. Hey girl. Are you

0:27.9

ready for today's edition of Powder Baths? Yes, it's my favorite room in the

0:32.3

whole house. Right, it's my favorite room in the whole house.

0:33.0

Right.

0:34.0

I know.

0:35.0

Why do you think that is?

0:36.0

I think it's because when we work with clients it's the one room that like they're all in from the

0:40.5

very beginning, there's no talking into you can kind of just like you can

0:44.0

play all your cards in the powder bath and no one's scared because it's not

0:47.1

somewhere you're going to be sitting for a very long time. It's not the family

0:50.4

room or usually a little bit more reserved on those common areas that

0:54.0

they sit in all day but the powder bath. That's that's the ninth inning it's good stuff.

0:59.8

It is good stuff. They I heard I heard an expert say once that you're only going to spend five

1:06.8

minutes in there so you're never going to tire of this space so you don't really

1:10.3

have to make it neutral. In fact, we were at a very beautiful home recently and they went neutral,

1:16.1

wallpaper, to open off white on the powder bath walls.

1:20.3

They were like, won't want, yeah, it was such a bummer.

1:24.5

Opportunity lost.

1:25.8

Yeah, that's one moment that you just can't ever get back.

1:30.3

You know?

1:31.1

It's your one chance.

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