Don't do it until you talk to us first.

Hello, this is Anita Joyce here with Kelly Wilkins, and this is Decorating Tips

and Tricks.

Episode 424, what we would talk you out of.

And we do a lot of talking people out of things for some reason.

It does seem to happen a lot. Well, you would think a decorator designer is going to be talking

people into things. Oh, buy the sofa. Get the drapes. Get the pillows. But really, a good

decorator, a good designer is going to end up talking

people out of a lot of things. And by virtue of that, saving them a lot of money either initially

or down the line. Yeah, it seems like we do as much talking people out of things as we do talking

them into them. Because it seems like sometimes people have the, you know, they've seen something

on Pinterest or somewhere and they kind of say, that thing, I want that thing. And, you know,

they don't really kind of visualize how it might work with their house. And sometimes it works and

sometimes it doesn't. So, you know, you can't really take something out of context like that.

So true. There's a lot of instances when the talking out of is something that really needs to be done.

So it's great to have a relationship with a client like I do with a lot of my clients, and I'm sure Anita does as well, where they trust me on the things that I'm saying, come on, it's going to be great, but they're not sure.

So we do a little hand holding there.

And then we do a little stopping with the no.

And they need to trust you when you think it's no as well.

So today we're going to go through more than a list, but it's just a selection of a number of things that may come up,

things either being decorating decisions or specific items that we would say no to.

So Anita, you want to kick us off?

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