Remodel Masterclass: Suz's Primary Bedroom

Hello everyone, welcome to Dear Alice. Today we have a personal episode. This is our Remodel Masterclass, but this is a special host series, Suze's Master Bedroom Remodel. So fun. This has been in the works for I don't know how long you've been wanting to work on the primary in your bedroom. Gosh, I feel like over, I didn't think it was going to happen when it did, but again, I love to just jump in. But I mean, we've been talking about it for a long time, how when we moved into this house you quickly you recarpet things you paint you know just make it feel like yours not the old other person and the boys got dope colors on their wall i like being in their rooms better than i liked being in my own rooms because i went neutral and i don't feel anything when i'm in a neutral space so it was just like one of those want well i guess tom already painted it we'll wait i think we'll all i'll hold my ideas until i could you know a more timely year but I painted that room. It was fine. It was a fine bedroom, but I just felt nothing. And so in the last six months or so, it was when we really started to think about it. You feel the drum beat coming. I could feel it coming. It's like, it is time. Nothing is flooding. Nothing. Mom was getting a new room. Yeah. Well, you guys are in for such a treat today because I got to stand in this room on Monday and just feel it. We were shooting it. It's Suze's house and it is the gooeyest, warmest, most just sensational remodel. Before and afters are really, really bold. Yeah. I mean, it's not a huge space, but what you did with the finishes are just so incredible. I cannot wait for you guys to see this. So if you're embarking on just cosmetically remodeling something this year, I think you're going to love this episode. And also, if you love Suze, you're going to love it because you're going to be so excited to see what she did with her bedroom. But first, I wanted to you guys to give us a follow on Instagram. 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Good to go. amazing that's great suz like just mentioned we've been talking about this for a little bit you've been thinking about it for even longer yeah but what spurred this remodel what spurred this remodel on its call to action for myself was the caviar and that's where it started in our house lights collection we have this caviar if you haven't listened to that podcast you should go back and listen to that because we kind of deep dive on all the new lights but when i saw that caviar I was just like Jess we need to put this in my primary I know for a fact I felt nothing in my room it was neutral and I also know like when I talk to clients when we give any advice on this is that with crystal and transparency you feel it more when it's against a color well Tom we're gonna do the lie this isn't gonna look great we're gonna remove our fan that was gifted to us when we bought the house right and we're gonna get this really cool fixture but I had it For me, for my internal soul, I needed it to be against something dark. And I wanted to do this forever. I know that it works when you're trying to do something that's going to give you a calming environment at the end of the day. I was jealous of my kids' rooms. And so therefore, I'm like, how am I going to one-up these dudes? I'm like, make this feel like the primary across the hall. That's kind of what started it. I know the light that I want to use. And it started with the caviar. And then it's kind of like dominoed from there. For those of you listening, it's called our caviar flush mount. and it just launched with house lights, like Sue said, and it's about 18 inches in diameter. And it really projects quite far, I'd say probably like eight to 10 inches into the space. And it is this beautiful amber glass that just makes up a ton of little bubbles and it's almost got an iridescent to it and definitely feels vintage, this big brass bullnose. And it just totally, I love that you loved it so much for your room and we needed to shoot it somewhere. and so the fact that you said that you'd throw your whole body at this at this shoot and and tom's and tom's whole body and your mom's whole body because she made the drapes like 80 year old yeah yeah thanks provo grandma absolutely stunning so i just wanted to set the stage on what the caviar is i didn't want you just to think that suzy's laying around eating caviar i mean you can think that because she does have a fabulous life but anyway this caviar flush mount kind of spawned and spurred on this remodel. Sorry, keep going. Yeah, and so, but that's what, like, started it. And then in trying to think about what do I want that light fixture to be reflecting on, I thought about a few different things, right? I still live in a 1971 ranch-style home. That hasn't changed, and that has influenced, like, how I did the bathrooms, the mint bathroom that's right off my primary, right? Our little, what I call those, I've always joked, my little camper bath, because it's so small, but it feels like a train car, like a high-end train car bath now. I just want to know I'm just am I like traveling somewhere exotic because that's what it feels like when I'm in my bedroom now anyway thinking about just like what do I want that color to be and I and I knew I want to be dark I like warmth my color on color astrology if you guys don't remember is tandoori spice the more I deep dove into that I'm just like I have so much of that like we looked at my purse collection all tandoori spice yeah it's so true it hits on boots on purses on all these things. I love that color. And it just feels like abuelita, hot chocolate mixed with a cinnamon stick. And it's, I was just like, I think I want to go that direction. So I ordered a grip of paint samples and I pasted them all up on my wall to try and see. I'm like, okay, I could go a little bit more berry or I could go a little bit more clay or I could go a little bit more deep brown. And it was funny because as you, I looked at the paint color, there were certain things I'm just like well I like that color better but what are my window treatments going to be that was a big indicator of where the paint color need to be because like when Jess and I started talking about my room I had these two windows one of which my headboard sits on and I never had window treatments for them aside from just blackout shades so I was like okay window treatments and then we've all like goo and gone like just gush over the rooms that have majority panels ripply folds the panels like you're a greek goddess right and so we're just like well i gotta go big that's what i preach you go three to five times the width of your window to get something really full yes on your window treatments i'm like i got that's going to be a big player when you look in my room so not only is the paint color like such an indicator both on the walls and on the ceiling but what is that window treatment color going to be and so i started looking at those samples and the pink color just jumped out completely obvious when I found my window treatment fabric that I loved which was kind of this really pretty kind of like peachy corally color and when I put that fabric against what's called hidden valley hidden valley is what I landed on for my walls and my or just my walls yeah and when I put this before it just looked like a brown cool but could just look flat but when you put that coral against it you're like oh my gosh that is the obvious winner that's it's cool funky there's this richness to it and I landed it was a fabric I think it was a fabric cut faux silk so which was nice just like for sun rot and things I want something synthetic but that looked expensive so that's the fabric that I landed on and yeah when you got the combination of the two which y'all know we love to color block And so this was kind of my version of color blocking, like within the same family, but in a funkier way. And then Jess is like, what are you going to do your ceiling? Like, good question. What am I going to do my ceiling? And so with all these paint samples, we decided to do the ceiling again. I could have just done it, you know, the Hidden Valley that I'm doing on the walls. I'm going to do something that feels so cool and crazy. We're going to do potter's clay. So the wall color, I'm just going to really quickly give you those of you that want to know. so it's Benjamin Moore, right? Yeah. It's called Hidden Valley, and the color is 1134. So I'm going to hold that up right now, and you can see it's still got. It even has dust on it. Remodel dust on it. It's fresh, fresh off its remodel. And then this is her ceiling, which is Potter's Clay 1221, also Ben Moore. Isn't that a great name? Yeah, so good. Potter's Clay. So look at that combo together. And then your drapery, it kind of leans more towards your ceiling color. The Potter's Clay. Yeah. So, so I feel like that's pretty in the photos. It doesn't look as far apart. So when you see it like that, are you like, OK, this same thing happened in Suze's bedroom where when you put it in your boys' bedrooms, you chose a lighter shade than the wall color. And you cannot tell because the plane of that ceiling makes the color darker. I think this is interesting for a remodel masterclass because we are so much treating the ceiling now as one. nobody's leaving their ceilings white anymore. I don't know if you guys heard that. I'm sure you knew because you guys all love to say that again. Well, nobody's leaving their ceilings white. And so you're like, well, what do I do? And I think this is really worth calling out because what you normally do or what a lot of designers will do is they'll take that paint color and then they'll use it at 25% on the ceiling or a percentage of the same colorway. Well, Suze is doing the color blocking thing where she choosing another color that lighter but you see in these finished photos in some lights you cannot tell no that you that you changed you know at all and I thought and I thought I'm just like I thought I was being drastic enough like just know your ceiling's going to go on and feel so much darker yeah so consider that and maybe even sample your colors on your ceiling as you're trying to decide that contrasting color another trick we'll often do is in a powder bath where there's wallpaper, we'll choose a color. We'll bring our paint deck in. We'll choose a color out of the wallpaper to put on the ceiling and as the trim. And that always, that always works. It always stands out and it feels different because it's a solid color instead of the movement. But this is so surprising in the afters. Some lights, your morning light, I feel like you really get it. Like you get the payoff at night. You can't feel the difference. It just like bleeds into each other. Yeah. Where your bedroom is, is probably getting more morning light than it is that's actually west facing it's kind of a mind trip throughout the day like just different corners i see a corner i'm like i see you contrast i see that was worth it but it's crazy so my husband's a painter that's what he did before what he does now anyway but he like cut everything in and he painted the ceiling yes we went high gloss i think we need to like note that backdrop okay we went high gloss so not satin not semi we went high gloss with your i know that we've talked about like you're in your living room you went high gloss and they had to take it to a level five. Mine was already pretty smooth. You have to, if you're going to do gloss, yeah, you have to, well, it depends on the look that you want. You could put that high gloss on top of your textured ceiling, but you're really going to see the texture, which isn't always as desirable. So sanding the ceiling down and getting a perfectly smooth finish so you can get that lacquered look is always desirable. So Tom actually took to it and sanded. Didn't you? No. No, because we did that when we moved in. Oh, did he say? Oh, we did. No, it was like heavily textured and we scraped it all off to just like base level. So we had done that. So you didn't have to do that over. We didn't have to do this, but like there was a weird texture on it that we had to scrape off. Like to get this like final destination. And then if I was going to take something from heavy texture and try to make it smooth, I would just add joint compound to that rather than like having sanding, you know, trying to get through paint to down to the texture. I would just add that on, done that multiple times myself. Yeah. Just skim coat it. And then you still probably have to sand that a little bit. Yeah, you got to sand that and maybe like another coat just, you know, to kind of make sure it's. I think that's a really, really great remodel tip. I think it's going to save you time and heartache. Yeah. Yeah. So we went high gloss. And when we just put the ceiling paint on it, I was like, this looks peach. Like, this is so cool. It's fun. And then we put on the Hidden Valley on the walls and they just started to adapt to each other. Just like a chameleon, just like melting, you know, on top of you. I'm like, well, that's not nearly as drastic as I thought it was going to be. Yeah. I remember sending you videos and you're just like, wow. Not to skip too far ahead, but once you started putting the furniture and the drapery in there, everything started becoming the same color, which is so fascinating. We know this in design. Yeah, when you bring things into the room that they all start kind of playing with each other and adapting to one another. It's still so fascinating. It's like watching magic happen before your eyes. Like you try so hard to get that perfect shade of silk for your drape. and you did, but it all sort of became each other. And each of them are individual colors. Yeah. Right? Like Hidden Valley lives in the brown family. That's harmony. Yeah. That's a good song. Totally. Amazing. Real fast. Let's hop back and show them a before. Should we show them the before really quick so you can see? Okay, so when we purchased the house, the year is 2020, we bought it from a couple that had lived here since they built it in 1971. and they were they were a treat and they had a waterbed which is so fun and they had it on the wrong wall so we initially scraped off the texture painted it that reticence and we put the bed where it should go it was fine yeah lovely room it's fine yeah if you're looking at the after of suz's first bedroom that she remodeled in 2020 reticence is a tissue pink shade from benmore it's really beautiful very light very restful it almost reads as is a shade of white in her after photo and then Suze has a green bed here and you can see she reoriented her bed to be in front of the window where before the waterbed faced to the windows on a small wall so they didn't have any nightstands or anything so that's lesson number one if you were just like looking to like make your bedroom better just look at the space planning yeah and note in both of these images that whoever's taking the photo is standing in the doorway to the bedroom so you're going to enter in and in the before you're really focused in on their tv and their mismatched case goods and these beautiful transparent purple draperies and then in suz's in suz's space plan you're walking in and you're seeing the headboard and the nightstands and yeah so i think that's a more beautiful presentation of the room okay so now you have the groundwork for where we started and here we want a caviar We want to like go deeper on our walls. So here are some of the concepts that we really started to jive with. This first concept, I saw this. I was just like, that's the gloss. That's this, again, magic trick. When you have a glossy paint, light reflects differently. You see two of everything. It just feels like a little bit like you're underwater. So I just loved, love, love, love that color and the richness. And I'm like, oh, that feels so great. And so I did a little mashup showing just I have the green of my bathroom. that I need to be talking with. So what is that? How does that color jump with that? I have paintings. Can I just interject and say the wall color plays with Sousa's walnut burled, very extraordinary vanity so beautifully. So that deep. Train car. Tobacco-y. Yeah, train car of a vanity is definitely like right in the pocket with your wall color and everything happening. And then that mint is just like a cool escape. I know. Yeah. And it's so rad. But there are just certain things. So again, when you're doing a remodel and you have certain key components that you're wanting to make sure that everything's going to start going together, that's what we do. We put together these little collages to be like, okay, I'm at my North Star. This is where I'm going. Adding these other things. I know where to shift and where to take away or what to add. And what to consider. I love the point of that in your little thing there. Like you have a photo of your bathroom. So you're like, this is a part of it, even though it's technically not the same room. It's just, yeah. And I know when I'm looking into that bathroom with that broad walnut vanity, I didn't want to have, that's where my dresser wall. I see when I'm sitting in my bed, I can see my bathroom and I can see whatever dresser I have. So I knew I'm like, I don't want to have another walnut dresser next to that. So I knew I needed to do the cloud finish from our Millie. So also in consideration, you look at your furniture when you're doing a remodel and you're just like, well, that's got to go by the wayside. and luckily we have a really beautiful furniture store called Alice Lane and the Jay Bennett collection so cheers to that. Put all those things in there I had a painting that I wanted to have reframed and so that also springboarded a Christmas present to me That's awesome. I was actually going to ask that if you reframed that for this bedroom or if that just happened to, okay. I was planning on it, not yet but then I'm like I have this spot You give a mouse a cookie Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yep, exactly. And you can kind of see this is that. There's a picture of the wall color. Again, the hidden valley with the green. I pasted a bunch of these samples everywhere just to make sure I liked it with the green, with the window treatment. So I think that's a smart tip too is order several samples or like make a paint on a big board that you can kind of move to different walls at different times of day to really study out how this color is going to play with everything. So when we started to paint, we painted the ceiling, the potter's clay. And then it was my mom, my mom, my 80-year-old mother, she was doing the window treatments. So I ordered the hardware. I ordered the fabric. Like everything was in motion. And she was just like, how wide do you want this to be? And I was like, you know what? I need to study this out. So I had a Sharpie and I just started to draw on the walls one morning. And it was so much fun, you guys, to do this. Because I'm like, I needed to do it for my mom for the window treatments, but also for the electrician. I had to be at work that day and he needed to know where to wire some sconces that I also decided to put on. So I think that that's something too that we love layered lighting. If you guys can tune into this on Spotify or YouTube so you can see Suze's drawings all over the wall to scale life size really what these pieces look like and you drew exactly where you wanted the new our new Lulu sconces to land to flank this brand new piece of art that you've been so excited about. Which I you guys it was funny when you're when you start a remodel and you start you're like hey we'll paint we'll get new furnishings we'll do window treatments when you start think about it you're like oh I'm doing this we're already going to be putting in a new light I'm like is there any other lighting things I want to attack and I think sconces are becoming our favorite yes our favorite oh my gosh only trick in a room and the layered lighting yeah and just the idea of just being able to have you could have you up the caviar and it's beautiful on a dimmer so pretty I was just like, what are my sconces? Yeah. That would be next level. Should I, Jess? Should I? And she's like, you should. So here we are. So beautiful. I'm so glad that you did too. It added so much dimension to that wall. And it really sits between, this wall sits between the two doors in your room, one door into your bathroom, one door out to the hallway. And I just feel like this is one of my favorite walls in your whole bedroom. And it's your vantage point when you're laying in bed. This is what you're staring at. And it just looks so extraordinary. the combination of things I can't wait for you guys to see the after and one fun thing about the lulu is just that pink glass which is like such a highlight of it and again it kind of like melds with the potter's clay and the hidden valley and how cool it was because when you look at the lulu you see that our ala sconce in my bathroom and you see the caviar that's up on the ceiling and just like how beautifully like these pieces are like they're designed individually not necessarily They're like all together. They're just things that we're drawn to that we love that, you know, you riff off and you make available for everyone. But it's so dope to see them all lined up like soldiers and sing so beautifully together. They look so good in your house, too. And it's so fun. I mean for Corey and I to sit here and look at you know these lights that we launched over the last couple of collections and just see them all live in one spot in a home not just on the showroom yeah they really play off each other so beautifully with the vintage brass and the bullnose shapes the soft shapes they brought so much dimension and I wouldn't have thought to put the pink sconce on the hidden valley wall color and they look so good together they look so good so good when I think about February I think about how am I going to show a little bit of extra love this month and one way to do it it could be in self-care and indulge or you can give the most thoughtful gift that will be loved all season long and I always think about cozy earth when it comes to this first up I have to say the pajamas are such a go-to gift for me they are really soft they are temperature regulating and they drape so beautifully so everybody looks good in them feels good and what's most important sleeps great in the bamboo pajama set. 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An eight foot ceiling's fun. It really is. You feel it. Yeah, like you really do feel it, especially in this lighting and it's just the warmest hug. This space is so, so good. I'm so happy for you. The high gloss ceiling was, I obviously taken the winter treatments up to the ceiling. Helped with like feeling the height in there. Yes. But the high gloss made this space feel so much bigger. Way more voluminous, yes. In grander, but also, oh gosh, I don't know how to express it, but inviting, warm. It reflects the light. The light bounces around it. I mean, I was holding, what do you call it, diffuser with the photographer on Monday over that big window in front of your bed because the wall was just so glossy and good. It was hard to even capture the sconces at one point. It's so mirror-like. High gloss is so fun. The way it's absorbing light right there, you can see this wall that isn't getting any, but the contrast right there is bananas. Isn't that dramatic? so we use we we got all new furniture we have the we'll talk about all those in a second but we got the francis lights on the francis crystal thank you yeah the francis crystal table lamps on top of the brooklyn nightstands and those things were magic in like concert with the high gloss paint like yes i think they've never looked and then sitting in front of the silk the layers there it's insane here are some shots from our photo shoot and yeah and if see the window treatments how they go all the way up to the ceiling how they pretty much take up the whole width of the nightstands on each side of the bed which was so important to me yeah that fullness yeah they're stationary because we have blackout shades but those will just always sit and feel again just like you're upholstered like you're lying you know I'm gonna say this too this is how I feel uh looking at this photo the other one you're mid before like after you moved in didn't have the drapes on either side and it felt incomplete. Now looking at this, it's almost like you don't, you don't even notice that it's in front of a window anymore. And yeah, I mean, that's doing something about all those drapery folds and softness that really envelop you and feel bedroomy and opulent and cozy and tall. Your ceilings feel tall, not to mention the reflective ceiling now and the light bouncing around. It's so rich. I cannot believe that every one of these shades are different shades the wall color the ceiling the bed is like right in that same color range the terra fomo yep yeah and even your lumbar that sort of walnut colored velvet oh it's just it's such good color blocking and color drenching it's so so sophisticated i will say that that's the thing that i feel the very most of i i said that thing about from the camper bath to the train car bath this bedroom I feel like has elevated the way I want to live like in other facets of my life how I dress in the morning I don't know if it's all like the award shows that have been like popping off but I'm just like yeah I should you know I should try harder just because like you you want to live up to the space that you're surrounded by isn't it so interior design is so powerful so powerful it really does change the way you feel about yourself and how you show up in the world well just even falling asleep at night you know just being in that beautiful environment I'll bet you feel so just special and cozy going to bed in there. It's got to be so fun waking up. I'm just like, I feel like I've been buried, but in like a really great way. You know, just like you have no choice but to just like close your eyes and just go into complete rest. It's so great. And I asked Tom last night. He wasn't volunteering this information. So I'm like, what was the biggest surprise? You know, you painted this room. You live in this room. You've seen it all come together. What's been the most surprising? And he told me that he's never had, he's like, we've had nice rooms. we've had nice things we have nice art we have all those things but he's like I've never felt a more inviting space a more restful space where I really just felt the room took care of me and I was like that's really beautiful of all the spaces that we've ever had or created or anything I've never felt that before yeah I'm like what do you what about the boys room he's like they're fine yeah they're good he's just like but this is different and I'm like it has to do with the high gloss has to do with the whole suite of combination of all the different colors and I think it's the lighting. I really do feel like it's that lighting story, having one off certain times of day and then turning it on and dimming it on. And it's just, it's magic. Yeah. It is street magic. Design makes you feel something. Good design makes you feel something. Isn't it so powerful? Design does too. Yeah. I mean, we know this because we do this for a job, but it's really powerful to get to experience a big change in your own home and just reminded of how important and dynamic the work is that you're doing on a daily basis for people to tell their story because I feel like our stories change they they come and go through the years and so that's why we that's why we do remodels is because we're we're in a new phase or we know we like something different we want to feel something different right what you had before was fine you could have added white white drapes to it and it could have been fine for a decade but you didn't feel anything and it wasn't you when you look at this you're like 100 and this is also Tom and you yeah it's not just you yeah you know which is which is so fun because it is it is a dressier version of both of you who can you guys can both be casual but this is like your dressed up version your beautiful handsome couple going out on an evening yeah yeah it's beautiful i just kind of wanted to tie into that and then what jess was talking about just before that after i after jess sent me these photos obviously my mind was blown. But then I started thinking about my primary bedroom. And, you know, I have like every day I have a goal of I want to feel a certain way leaving the home and just like ready for the day inspired all of that. And I think a lot of people do this is you focus on the main spaces of your home where everyone's going to see it's like, we're going to put our money there and we're going to get the credit for it, you know. But after seeing your primary after you did this, it kind of light bulb in my head I was like man we really need to work on our primary bedroom because to wake up and feel inspired like that like that's the that's how you want to step out of bed you know what I mean to be like we're doing it you know like yeah and if you feel nothing like you said you feel nothing then that's waking up isn't adding anything to your day you have to kind of manufacture that inspiration yeah but if you wake up in it you're ready for the day yeah so kudos to you thank you and even if i just had painted say like none of the other things it still would have been a massive improvement all the other stuff obviously like made has made it incredible and i will say i'm a bed maker i always make my bed because it starts me off but i feel put together i really really do in this space it's been really intense not an old dresser you know which that we had our whole marriage that went by the wayside anyway it's all it just feels fresh and so i just feel like it's just a new chapter of just like excellence yeah and i'm excited if you haven't painted though i don't know if everything would have worked as well together not the green at one point i'm just like we'll keep the green bed and then we started i'm like i've always loved the terra the kit bed and terra like that's always been one of my very favorite things that we've had it seemed obvious because when you look at the terra that fomo it's like the same color again it's just like it's the same color as the window treatment so anyway i was just like well that's destiny that's i can't fight that yeah and then just like the walnut brooklyn's and Mattaprish to the Walnut, the Brooklands. Okay, guys? I knew I needed more storage. I have an old house, so storage, non-existent. And so you have to create your storage. You have to create your closets and where you're going to put your clothes and your socks and all those things because we have this one little cutout that we took the ugly accordion doors off of when we moved in. And I have a, like, we'll do closets eventually in there, but right now it's fine. It's like this little fashion rolling rack. Those case goods do a lot of heavy lifting for us. and so i'm like i'm gonna go to the big i think you were shocked you're like you're not gonna do the the big ones are you you're gonna do the small brooklyn's you have a king or queen bed queen okay yeah i'm a queen anyway and so we did the larger brooklyn nightstands on each side just like maximize you know storage and you guys i had no idea if y'all haven't like looked at our brooklyn lately um pull it up you'll see them on these like shots but just on our website has the top little tray drawer, which we always have crushed on. And we lined that in that faux Tara you know faux mohair on that top And I always thought I like that cute We love that trick I like I could build a magazine or like maybe it like my earrings whatever um they are so fun that okay it's biggest surprise giant around the corner was that little tray in the Brooklyn taking all my jewelry I'm just like let's see what will fit well my spet all my glasses I put a bunch of readers there oh my gosh they can fit okay and then I'm like all those necklaces that get tangled even in this like jewelry case whatever I'm gonna see if they can lay flat that would look chic lined them all up just like a family picture and then I started throwing brooches in there and my rings and my earrings and and I was just like this is so dope like this is so much fun to just like not only style but just to live like that we don't style to not live with it right you know it's not supposed to be fake or like I use that every day I pull that in I pull that out all day long like the world's biggest jewelry box guys it's so much fun and you want to know what was even more fun was looking and seeing what tom put in his like your partner because i was just like oh i fell in love with him all over again i'm like he just had the dopest collections yeah i took a picture of just like i'm like just look what he put in there we've got a little a little peek of tom's but he had like pocket watch or um pocket knives and he had your sonogram from your baby it's like a little one yeah he had patches stickers yeah yes some cinnamon cinnamon toothpicks i'm like where'd you get those that's cute some colored pencils everybody needs a top drawer like this it's just a treasure trove i think so i'm like this is as far as like your profile pic like what's in your top drawer yeah totally that is what it should say what's so nice about this though is it's not super deep and so it doesn't get messy no because you can only have a single layer of things and and it makes it so useful too yeah it doesn't become a junk drawer exactly which i guarantee yeah that definitely happens below but anyway that yeah and then you get three more drawers below that i know so i'm so excited you made the right choice yeah made the right choice anyway but yeah here's here's some more shots of that the lulu sconces so this is a piece of art this is that wall um that sits between suz's bathroom door and her bedroom door with her white Millie dresser on it, her brand new framed piece of art in the Lulu sconces. This is just, this is what Sue gets to look at every morning when she wakes up and what a masterpiece this is. I remember when you first, you're just like, oh my gosh, you feel like you've been like, like wrapped in fruit leather. And I'm like, I do. It does feel like a fruit leather. Like a dark apricot fruit leather. It's so foxy. Because there is a little bit of texture to, to the actual wall which is giving fruit leather and the high gloss is gonna like you know exaggerate yeah exaggerate that which i think is actually cool like that's what you want is to kind of see the you know it bring that wall to life yeah a little bit the high gloss does that if it was orange peel not so my glory for no one but like just like that regular just that's just the texture of wall like exactly yeah it's still relatively smooth but you i know that you do this in your entry dress where you have the sconces and then you put a table lamp there too and we talk about those lighting layers and so anyway we did that where I had this like torchere and those lamps or the sconces and the chandelier and our like nightstand lamps and all of them have different times of day where they get to glow and they're all they're all in different layers you know one against the wall one pulled out you know your your lamps are obviously pulled forward and it's just really cool what lighting can do and you know even the pink glass is a different type of light than the torcher and it's just I don't know it's just all so beautifully composed it's like a symphony of favorite things so that's that's my bedroom congratulations it is stunning thank you for sharing it with the listeners I know this is a personal space but there's so many takeaways and really quick I think a learning for for you guys if you're going to embark in your own remodels or Even if you're helping somebody like a client with their remodel, tell them about your carpet, what you did there. Oh, yes. Okay. So we got our room and the boys' room. We put in new carpet when we moved into this home. Since then, that was in 2020. So it's been five plus years, six years now. When we did our bathroom remodel, I had like guys, even though you try and like line it, you have guys going back and forth, you know. And when that was finished, I was like, oh, gosh, there's like you can see the seams of the carpet starting to pull up. The traffic pattern. The traffic pattern. I was like, oh, do I have to replace my carpet? Like, I just want to paint the stupid walls, you know? And then Tom's just like, no, he's just like, let's just get them restretched and cleaned. And I was just like, okay. Like, so I scheduled those people to come in. It looks brand new. And I didn't have to replace my car. And my room is too small to do a rug. I don't have a rug. You're the same way. Anyway, we're directly on our carpet. So it has to like look decent. We can't cover it up, right? Yeah, exactly. And so like, that's just like, that was a huge like learning. We came home and we're just like, oh my gosh, it looks like we got new carpet. And you just saved a bunch of money. And we just saved a grip of money. Anyway, they just restretched it and like they did it in like an hour and then we had it cleaned. And it was just, it was amazing. So I'm like, if you are like, oh, I'm going to have to like replace something. Look at like what other options there are to just have it cleaned. Definitely. I just thought that was worth it. Because, you know, the biggest impact you can have while doing a remodel or trying to fix up a space is just painting the walls. And Sue was lucky in that her husband used to be a painter and he could take on this challenge. And so she had the free labor of that. You were able to wash and restretch your carpets. And so this is something that you could easily take on in 2026 is painting a space, going glossy with it, because that's the direction that everything's headed right now. And maybe updating your light fixtures like that alone. Or maybe you're going to get a few new pieces of furniture in the mix. but you really can experience a whole new version of yourself by doing a few of these things. It's really powerful. And you've heard Sue and even Corey talk about how different, you know, how different you want to feel in your room and how different it is to wake up like this and just how you want to get dressed differently. Like it's really inspiring. You want to pay attention to it. Like it's not, you're just not going to call it in and be like, it's reticence is fine. You know, like you want to try harder. Totally. Quick honorable mention while she was doing this remodel, because as we say, you give a mouse a cookie. Sue's also updated the fixtures in her hallway. She's using here our Alice flush mounts, the smalls. This is a really good trick to like replace can lights. You can take out those cans and you can use this small flush mount. And they're just so charming. I just feel like there's so much more you than what was there before. And then you use the large Alice flush mount in the boys room. And it looks so great on this eight foot ceiling. they really project down far you get that double brass bull nose which is giving it really projects the real brass finish is just so handsome and they just feel so vintage in you and original they are yeah so you updated more light fixtures because you know you give them else a cookie I know and that's that's a fun little thing too because I'm like yeah we did the boys room like pretty recently and like obviously the hallways just like painted our neutral color but like having new lighting is a really like fun thing you can do now to give you a quick update and like and I had already used the Alice sconce in my bathroom so I knew that like the vibe was there for like my style and the cool thing about these is that they don't they're interesting and they have that old school cool but they don't take away from other heroes they compliment them so so well if you want interest these are a really great way to get something in there where you need you need light anyway I just think just that white glass that you did yeah with that brat the real brass bullnosing it's just it's so cool like in there's a lot happening in the boys bedrooms there's usually toys all those things this is like a plane of peace the ceiling the melatonin ceiling with that it's always clean up there and so it's it's interesting but it you know yeah i'm feeling this so hard right now yeah But it just always looks good because the ceiling's paid attention to. Yeah. There's something to it, guys. Yeah. Something to it. So beautiful. And a really fun honorable mention. Go to your bathroom lights. So we started with our Alice sconce. And Suze has these in her primary bath. She used four of them. And this is the big bullnose edge in brass. And then you get the alabaster little button in the center. And then you can see now with the new flush mount that she has in her boys' room. Same DNA. That double bullnose. We did a double bull nose on the flush mount instead of a single. Just to get more projection down into a space because flush mounts can sometimes be sad or forgotten. So getting more depth on a flush mount and a lot of width, having this be 18 inches wide, 17 inches, it just really shows up in a space. So you can kind of see the DNA of the sconce becoming the small flush mount and becoming the large one. And they all look so good in your house. They look so good. And I love repetition. So it's being able to see that down the hallway, then look right to the boys' bathroom, then to discover after you go through the sea of tandoori to my bathroom. Yeah. Tandoori. Tandoori soup. It's just fun to see that shape repeated in different ways. All of them are different, but they're all related. It's beautiful. Sue, what a gorgeous remodel and a beautiful house. Yeah, congrats. Thank you for sharing with all our listeners. So beautiful. Quick note to join that Insider program. We can't wait for you to see the new collection launching in a few days. on February 21st. And if you guys have any questions or episodes you wish that we would cover, just send those to dearalice at alicelanehome.com. And if you don't mind, we'd love it if you'd leave us a review. Five stars if you can. But also we just love reading whatever you write. So thank you so much. And share this episode. Oh yeah, share this episode. We want to be the biggest podcast, interior design podcast in the world. 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