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Glow Up Your Home On A Budget · Two Broke Chicks

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  Speaker 1: This podcast was recorded on worundry Land Always was, Always
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  Speaker 1: will be Aboriginal Land. Hey cheeks, I'm soal and this
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  Speaker 1: is two Broke Chicks to show that shares life lessons
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  Speaker 1: and tips to help make you rich in life. And
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  Speaker 1: today we are joined by Louis Bourke, an interior design
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  Speaker 1: expert whose emo is to transform a space into a home,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's your bedroom, sharehouse, rental, or your very first home.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be nice? Yeah, welcome Louis Hillo. Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm so excited. I feel like we're obsessed already.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: My favorite thing is like I kind of can't wait
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  Speaker 4: to get roasted. Yeah, I'm like, please like roast my
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  Speaker 4: interior designing opinions. I'm ready, yeah, yeah, yeah about this.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, that's my.
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  Speaker 5: Consent anonymous submissions, but yeahpy to do it in person.
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  Speaker 2: No face to face. We should have brought like a
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  Speaker 2: mood Borderer apartment.
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  Speaker 1: Literally you're like, no, you'll have to pay for that.
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  Speaker 2: I'll send you my rates. It was you exactly that.
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  Speaker 2: We love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but before we get into all the interior design talk,
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  Speaker 1: we do start with a life lesson of the week,
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  Speaker 1: So as our guest, would you like.
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  Speaker 2: To kick yourself?
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  Speaker 3: Sure?
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  Speaker 5: My life lesson of the week is don't save the
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  Speaker 5: good stuff for a special occasion.
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  Speaker 2: Love this.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So, like you know, traditionally it might be like
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  Speaker 5: your NN's like fine china or crystal glassware, but it
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  Speaker 5: can actually just be something really simple, like that really
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  Speaker 5: good olive oil that you've got, or that candle you've
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  Speaker 5: been saving that a Frank gifted you. Just light the candle,
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  Speaker 5: use the olive oil.
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  Speaker 2: I like that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, in the corner that we're like, I don't
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  Speaker 5: want to touch that one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, here's your best stuff.
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  Speaker 2: But that's why you pay for it as well.
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  Speaker 1: It has been tasing her life lesson for like days now, So.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me what it is.
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  Speaker 1: We were in the car the other day and it's one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite songs is Shine by Vanessa Amorrossi. Just
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  Speaker 1: so we have the context, Okay, here's.
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  Speaker 2: A bit.
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  Speaker 4: Every Shine, everyone you see, everyone you know is going
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  Speaker 4: to shine. The original lyrics to the iconic Shine by
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  Speaker 4: Vanessa Amorossi was not, in fact shine, It was everyone
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  Speaker 4: you see, everyone you know is going to die, something
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  Speaker 4: like everybody, everyone you knows going to die, And it's
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  Speaker 4: like this this sentiment that's like you don't know how
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  Speaker 4: many days you have left, I like it's.
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  Speaker 1: Your last, and like appreciate the people around the people
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  Speaker 1: around you.
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  Speaker 2: But then my fucked up head was like, yeah, all
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  Speaker 2: those people that are mean to me and have wronged me.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone, you see, everyone knows they're gonna die.
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  Speaker 2: You could look at it both ways.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Wait, so did she write the song and originally
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  Speaker 1: the lyric was die and then her record label was
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  Speaker 1: like yes, I don't know how much, and you know
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  Speaker 1: she changed it Mark from Australian.
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  Speaker 2: Idol Oh my god, because he was producing the song.
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  Speaker 2: He was working with her on it and they thought
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  Speaker 2: it was too dark. So I believe the song.
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  Speaker 4: Was originally written for a friend that had passed away suddenly.
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  Speaker 3: And so similar.
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  Speaker 2: Burn the candle, everyone's going to die.
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  Speaker 3: And that live like it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, okay, My life lesson is actually I
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  Speaker 1: decided to switch it out because I want to get
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  Speaker 1: the chicks opinions and it's what we were talking about
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  Speaker 1: just before, and it's also on the topic of death
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  Speaker 1: macarb today. So the question I want to post to
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  Speaker 1: the chicks is that when you pass away, will you
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  Speaker 1: or won't you get a fake tan.
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  Speaker 2: Great question.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously a lot of people if they're having an
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  Speaker 1: open casket, you know, they get their hair and their
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  Speaker 1: makeup done like that is a very common practice and
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  Speaker 1: apparently those make up artists are very good. Oh the
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  Speaker 1: question to the cheeks. Let us know in the comments
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  Speaker 1: on Spotify, would you or wouldn't you ask for it?
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  Speaker 2: And a fake tan? And around the room was it?
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  Speaker 2: Did we all say? Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Why is just buffet down? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good idea, Like body, just cans and neck? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just put me in like kind of like a full
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  Speaker 1: covered outfit.
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  Speaker 2: And then yet hands and neck. I think'd I've got
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  Speaker 2: great boobs? Well you could just go down.
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  Speaker 3: To the deck.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah I want I want to push bra when I died. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: put them up. Yeah, I'm going to put some light
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  Speaker 2: little chicken filets in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Just give it extra give it the world one last look.
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  Speaker 4: Let's get into it. So let's take it all back to.
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  Speaker 2: When you became the daddy of home and hosting.
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  Speaker 3: Change it from friend to home and hosting.
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  Speaker 4: Just dy daddy, Dabby rebrand.
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  Speaker 5: Like I said that in one of my things, I
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  Speaker 5: did an outfit of the day and I was like,
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  Speaker 5: it's kind of giving dad vies.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah at the I'm young, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I like yeese is cool, Dad, I like it.
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  Speaker 2: I like it. Where did your love for interior designing
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  Speaker 2: all start?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it was kind of like a full circle moment.
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  Speaker 5: So originally I'm from the Hunter Valley in South Wales,
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  Speaker 5: so I grew up there. My parents had a nursery,
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  Speaker 5: but then my dad was a carpenter and my mom
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  Speaker 5: was a horticulturist. But then my dad and they always
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  Speaker 5: dreamed of having a restaurant, so my dad built a
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  Speaker 5: restaurant and accommodation. So from a really young age, I
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  Speaker 5: was already setting tables, flowers and weddings, making the beds.
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  Speaker 5: Like it sounds really romantic, but it was like family
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  Speaker 5: business vibes.
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  Speaker 3: To turn these over.
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  Speaker 1: Every day in your house, like a mum on Christmas morning,
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  Speaker 1: you know how like on Christmas morning where moms are
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  Speaker 1: like it cannot look like anybody lives here.
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  Speaker 5: Literally, was that like just your Yeah, because like we
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  Speaker 5: were doing weddings, you always get the energy of peoplere
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  Speaker 5: being like nervous for their big day and like setting
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  Speaker 5: it up so you know, and then setting up for
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  Speaker 5: dinner servers and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: But it was kind of weird.
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  Speaker 5: That, Like when I turned twenty, I was like, like
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  Speaker 5: every country kid, it's like I want to get out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to go to the city, big city.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So I moved to Melbourne and did a design degree
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  Speaker 5: over at White House and then worked in marketing and
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  Speaker 5: did a few things like that, but then to end
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  Speaker 5: up here now doing like making bed setting tables and
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  Speaker 5: flowers online.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, full circle moment.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, so I'm I started. It's always been around.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, literally in your blood.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Really that's so beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: And you often talk about elevating everyday moments. Can you
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  Speaker 1: talk us through what does that mean and how.
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  Speaker 2: Can you do that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: So elevating every day is it from the og Martha Stewart.
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  Speaker 5: That's her one miner and also a very good thing.
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  Speaker 5: So I love that that's her thing. But I think
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  Speaker 5: elevating every day is like those small gestures, like, for instance,
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  Speaker 5: like this week, when I was saying, use the special
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  Speaker 5: things on the regular, like when you have breakfast, I've
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  Speaker 5: been doing soups in the morning, but instead of just
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  Speaker 5: having soup and a playing bowl, I've done like soup
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  Speaker 5: and then I do a plate underneath.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on, oh, soup for breakfast.
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  Speaker 3: Tomato?
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  Speaker 5: I like, yeah, or a pumpkin soup because you know,
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  Speaker 5: like sometimes you go to a cafe and they have
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  Speaker 5: like a special and it's just soup.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, why can't I do that at home?
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  Speaker 1: That is so beautiful and hearty in the morning, especial
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  Speaker 1: because it's cold.
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  Speaker 3: It's because you guys are in Sydney.
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  Speaker 2: If I never thought of this.
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  Speaker 5: You can buy like a sour dough, you know what
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  Speaker 5: I mean, from coals and woolies and they're not that expensive,
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  Speaker 5: you know, And then like you put the bowl and
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  Speaker 5: then a plate and you like cut up the bread
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  Speaker 5: and put it on the side and you sit it
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  Speaker 5: down and like, honestly, there are one that's in like
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  Speaker 5: a fabric napkin.
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  Speaker 3: Gentlemen.
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  Speaker 5: You chuck it in the laundry with everything else. But
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  Speaker 5: it's having it there with you, just like you know
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  Speaker 5: what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: It's like setting up you're out at like you're at
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  Speaker 3: a cafe, but you're at home.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: That's very romanticizing your morning. Yeah, I'm into it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's and like just other small things
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  Speaker 5: so like like lighting the candle if you're working from home,
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  Speaker 5: like just making the intention to do it. I know,
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  Speaker 5: sometimes you have to sit there for like two hours
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  Speaker 5: because you don't want it to tunnel and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 5: Putting on a playlist when friends come over, by dinner
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  Speaker 5: with friends in the background.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I like putting on like ambience as well, like
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  Speaker 4: when you put on the fireplace that's like the four
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  Speaker 4: hour long YouTube video and having like the fire like
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  Speaker 4: cracks or like the rain ambience.
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  Speaker 3: Og YouTuber background. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, here, guys, that's me every day summer and people like,
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  Speaker 4: what is wrong with you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, please, I need this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Even just like the closing shift, like at night, like
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  Speaker 5: when you got lamps on, you're going to turn the
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  Speaker 5: lamps off and stuff like that. Yes, I know that
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  Speaker 5: sounds funny, but it feels like elevated. I've got like
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  Speaker 5: twelve lamps in my house and I've got them all
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  Speaker 5: connected to the Genio light globes because then you can
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  Speaker 5: connect it to Google. So then when you go, hey, Google,
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  Speaker 5: good night, it turns off.
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  Speaker 3: All the lamps. Its rain noise. It's amazing.
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  Speaker 5: You've got to set up Google Home with the Guinio
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  Speaker 5: globes I love. And they can adjust the brightness.
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  Speaker 2: With your voice.
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  Speaker 3: No, can you do that with the phone? And you
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  Speaker 3: can do it in the Google Justice easy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my god.
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  Speaker 5: That I've even got like my outdoor light, so if
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  Speaker 5: I'm coming home from the gym, I'll like turn it
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  Speaker 5: on before I get home, so and then all the
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  Speaker 5: lights are on when I get home.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think that is absolutely worth the splurge. Like I'm
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  Speaker 2: a smart girl.
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  Speaker 3: And they last forever.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Like I've had some that I've had from like
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  Speaker 5: three places ago that I've just moved with me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Anything is that you have the different Bayonet one so
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  Speaker 5: you end up with like a whole collection.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's worth it.
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  Speaker 1: And just make sure you double check what type of
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  Speaker 1: light globe you need because the amount of times I've.
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  Speaker 2: Bought the wrong one. I've been like they're on sale
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  Speaker 2: and I buy like four and I'm like, damn it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but I love that you even will say.
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  Speaker 1: Good night, Google, and that's sometimes that I'm going not
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  Speaker 1: like Google turn the lights off even just like every listening.
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  Speaker 5: To this, everyone's Google, because I like when I'm live
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  Speaker 5: and stuff like that, I'll say like hey Google, and
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  Speaker 5: then like you just set off my Google.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So we've just been talking earlier before this as well
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  Speaker 1: about we do see trends in home and interior as well.
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  Speaker 2: What trends are you seeing at the moment?
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  Speaker 5: Oh my god, I think there's so many. And I
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  Speaker 5: also love that the trends in fashion and home kind
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  Speaker 5: of plate what.
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  Speaker 2: Ones do you love and what ones do you hate? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Like I think the ones that I love.
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  Speaker 5: Like that came through with fashion at home was like red,
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  Speaker 5: Like last year and winter were wearing red, but then
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  Speaker 5: there was also the pop of red theory.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, when we put injective bit of red in the.
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  Speaker 2: Hole, the other unexpected red theory.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I've also seen that with like blue and with green
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  Speaker 1: as well. So does it really apply to any color
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  Speaker 1: that's going to sort of be a surprise in an
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  Speaker 1: otherwise tonal space.
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  Speaker 5: Red and blue I can understand, But the green, I
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  Speaker 5: think people just latch onto something. Go I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: do this now. But I think green is a really
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  Speaker 5: good introductory color that people usually lean to when they
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  Speaker 5: want to incorporate color in their.
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  Speaker 2: Space because it feels a bit more natural.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly yeah, it's more like the earth tones.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah with the other trends, like like the thing
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  Speaker 5: that I've been loving lately, which is like a trend, but.
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  Speaker 3: It all depends on where you live as well.
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  Speaker 5: But like, for instance, I've just recently moved closer to
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  Speaker 5: the beach, so I'm getting fed all these tiktoks where
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  Speaker 5: it's like beat, like coastal beatnick, whereas we call them
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  Speaker 5: beach bums.
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  Speaker 3: I guess like it's like.
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  Speaker 2: That coastal grandma.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I really love it because there's been that
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  Speaker 5: resurgence of like Ralph Lauren and that traditional style. But
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  Speaker 5: the thing I like about the beach beatnick is that
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  Speaker 5: it's more relaxed and effortless, so it's not just like
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  Speaker 5: rigid and put together like when you think of traditional style,
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  Speaker 5: I can feel a bit stuffy, but when you give
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  Speaker 5: it like a coastal feel, it feels a lot more relaxed.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that's a bit more Australian too, where
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  Speaker 1: the coastal grandma aesthetic is very American, like I say,
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  Speaker 1: people like Cape Cod or like this summer coastal main Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like very that, whereas Australian coastal vibes is a bit different.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I think it also stems from like Boho
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  Speaker 5: coming back in fashion as well. It's that relaxed, effort
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  Speaker 5: less white linen kind of like layers, like I found
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  Speaker 5: like I'm like really leaning on white linen bedlinen the moment,
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  Speaker 5: but I've been obsessed with color previously, but I'm kind
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  Speaker 5: of like interchanging between the two, Whereas like for a
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  Speaker 5: couple of years I was like, I'm not doing any white, but.
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  Speaker 4: What are some of the like trends in home whereas
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  Speaker 4: that you think are going to be evergreen that is
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  Speaker 4: good to invest in.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think the trend that I'm loving the most
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  Speaker 5: in terms of like particularly furniture, is we're seeing a
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  Speaker 5: lot more people buying secondhand furniture from all different eras
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  Speaker 5: as well, so stuff that's more traditional like Victorian, stuff
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  Speaker 5: that's more mid century modern. And I love that we're
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  Speaker 5: kind of like chucking in our houses and it's mixing
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  Speaker 5: and matching.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's.
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  Speaker 5: Here to probably stay because I feel like we're a
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  Speaker 5: lot more conscious of that and also because of the
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  Speaker 5: cost of living, we want to pick up stuff that's
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  Speaker 5: secondhand but also durable and it's going to last a
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  Speaker 5: long time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like we're also a lot more conscious of
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  Speaker 5: the materials. Like there's again with fashion, people are more
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  Speaker 5: conscious like what's this top made of?
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  Speaker 3: Like what am I going to buy? Is it? You know?
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  Speaker 3: Blah blah blah. So yeah, I think that's here to stay.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think thrifting has also had such a
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  Speaker 4: link to dopamine de corps, yes, and that like inner
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  Speaker 4: child thing of you know how we've seen so much
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  Speaker 4: like sunny angels and La booboos and yellicats. I think
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  Speaker 4: that also is coming in with decor and how people
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  Speaker 4: are leaning into color more and having more fun with
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  Speaker 4: it and with they're thrifting. But we have to talk
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  Speaker 4: about millennial beige and how millennial beige is like an
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  Speaker 4: interior designed slur.
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  Speaker 2: And I've also seen recently gen Zed's sage green.
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  Speaker 4: How like millennials have millennial beige and then gen Z
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  Speaker 4: have sage green.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's like their colors.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like it really started with gray like the millennials,
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  Speaker 5: and then it kind of went beige. But like, and
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  Speaker 5: that goes to show with trends, like they come in cycles,
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  Speaker 5: so it goes as far as it can go one
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  Speaker 5: way and then it flips back to the other, Like
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  Speaker 5: gray is really cool toned and like blue bass, whereas
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  Speaker 5: beige is more brown tone and really warm. So throughout
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  Speaker 5: the early two thousands we had like ultra minimalism. Everything
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  Speaker 5: was cool toned white, like really stark whites, really cool
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  Speaker 5: tone grays, and then it were flipped where we're doing
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  Speaker 5: like creamy walls. Like the Renter beige is actually in now,
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  Speaker 5: like people are asking like what colors are wa and.
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  Speaker 3: It's like it's just that classic rent of beige. But
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  Speaker 3: because it's now backing in.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know so those who do feel like they're
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  Speaker 4: surrounded by millennial beige and want to play with more
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  Speaker 4: color in their home, what would you recommend?
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  Speaker 2: I know you said green's a good entry level color.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so like the earth like coming from someone because
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  Speaker 5: like I said, I'm a originally from New South Wales
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  Speaker 5: and I feel like naturally we are a little bit
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  Speaker 5: more coastal. Like when I moved to Melbourne, I was
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  Speaker 5: shocked because everything he's like art deco and like jewel tones,
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: and I was like playing with like velvet chairs and
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: I was like, what is this?
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: What is this world? But I was like, I was interested,
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: do you know what I mean?
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: So I think the best, like my what I recommend
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: to people is go with sheet sets. First, get like
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: a really colorful sheet set, because I think nine times
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: out of ten we get we're worried we're going to
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: get sick of the color. So if you put it
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: on sheets, you can cover it with like a natural dona,
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: like a white doner with pink sheets, save for instance,
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: you're gonna swap it out every week, so you don't
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: really get over it as quickly. And then you can
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: move into other stuff, which could be more like, for instance,
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: you give someone like a candle that's a vibrant color,
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: because you're gonna use the candle and get rid of it. Yeah,
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: then you can go into homeworks because I think some
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: people will instantly go get some cushions, but cushions are
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: kind of not cheap, especially like good ones, and you
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: can get sick of them really quick. So I think
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: also to play with the seasons, so adult colors that
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: kind of play with what's going on outside. So in summer,
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: you can do lighter sages, you can do the sky blues,
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: you can mix it with whites and naturals. Then in
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: winter you can do more of the browns, the burgundies,
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: the plums, so then you know, okay, cool, at least
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: once the season ends, I can swap it out.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think a lot of people don't talk about
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: that aspect. Maybe I like.
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: That because as well, it's not like you can kind
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: of see like one inspo pick on Pinterest of like
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: a blue couch and you're like, I'm going to get.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: A blue coow.
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And I think the thing is really set up
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: your whole space first before you jump, like like you
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: can get a colorful piece of furniture. But the thing is,
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: it's a lot more money to buy an expensive piece
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: of furniture like a chair or a sofa, And if
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: you haven't got the whole space developed yet and you're
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: still discovering your style, you just don't really want to
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: regret that choice later on. I think it's better to
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: get your whole space sort of set up and get
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: an idea of where you're going through home weares like
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: Hold of Its Home Wears, then bring in those character
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: pieces later because you don't really because for instance, buy.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Like a bright blue chair because you love it, but
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: then you're like, no, I've got nothing, like what's so
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: far am I going?
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: And you can also fall into the track, which I've
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: done because like when I was moving into my first place,
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: I was so excited to furnish the whole thing, and
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: I was on Facebook Marketplace. I basically ended up buying
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: all statement pieces and then.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Everything was in my space and I was like, oh, go,
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: she's good.
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: It didn't museum sort of style and cool, but.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: It just nothing fit.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: It was like statement pieces of all different aesthetics, which like, whatever,
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: if that's your vibe, go for it, But it just
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: didn't end up feeling very homey when it was too
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: mismatched to me.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: And so, yeah, I think that's a really great piece
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: of alex take it. Yeah, I like that.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: I even think you can experiment with florals as well,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: if you want to test out how a color looks
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: in the space, like buy a bunch of flowers in
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: that time they like, Okay, how does like this bunch
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: of flowers look with the rest of my furniture. Called
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: then I can get a vase of that same thing
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: or a piece of artwork, and I know it's gonna
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: kind of work with.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: It's creative of being like things that you can pull
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: in and also take away. So like waller, like obviously
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: if it's super expensive then maybe not. But yeah, but
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: like I mean, you can get some pretty affordable wall
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: out on like Etsy and things like that, or like
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: a candle that's like a I think it's.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: About the commitment thing.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: I think that's most of the time we're scared to
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: commit to the color. Forget things where it's not a
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: full commitment.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Commitment a week with flowers or yeah.
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: Season with this, you know what I mean, like a
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: sheet set that I'm going to change every week, you
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: know what I mean.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Also, don't forget about incorporating texture.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: I think a lot of people go with color straight
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: away and it's like, but think about can I incorporate
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: different textures? So is it like a quilted color out,
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: do you know, I mean? Or is it like a
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: culter cushion or is it a furry one?
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Do you know?
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: I mean, like it can be the same, because I
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: think people like all my space is based sometimes it's
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: because it's just flat because everything in there is all
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: the same surface. So been incorporating lots of layers it
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: makes it feel more warm and homey that way too.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: But you know how we have capsule wardrobes, right, what
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: is your capsule home pieces for styling?
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: I feel like it's like I always have the three
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: things that I think that makes any space feel like
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: a room, which is rugs, using light shades as well,
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: and window treatments. And sometimes it can be tricky whether
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: you're renting where your own with these your first time
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: with things like that, but you can do lots of
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: dois like even when I've been renting, it's all you
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: can work with it, like command talks and stuff like that.
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: But as soon as you put in a rug, some
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: curtains and a light shade in the lamp, before you
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: even put furniture in the space, it already feels like
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: home because you've got those layers in there. So every
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: room should have those things based on it's like a bathroom.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: But do you know, but like your living room, a
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: dining room, a bedroom should all have those three things.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: Then you go into furniture because most of time people go,
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: I need a bed, I need I need a coffee table,
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: but they don't think about those other bits, which sometimes
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: can be a little bit pricey too, like rugs, aren't
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: necessarily the cheapest thing.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Sometimes if you get a really.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: Good rug and then you get like a Facebook marketplace
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: find so far, it's like, oh thank god I got
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: that rug when I did?
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: You move into different places then I was I would
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: normally go more neutral when it comes to the furniture pieces,
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: but keep it more in the natural materials as well,
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: and then you accent with your throws, your cushions, your vases,
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: like vessels.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Stuff like that.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: In my head, I've been like doing like a bratstole
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: of the Horror.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Building a house in my head, being like that looks
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: nice to get unlimited money.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Literally, what are your like top three home styling mistakes
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: or IX?
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: I know you've got some X.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: So the first one I.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: Have to say, when we're talking about the big light
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: and parents, why does every.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Dad like put the white daylight light globes.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: In the cool big light.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: It needs to be warm light and then you just
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: never turn them on, but at least.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: You're not going to use them, but an emergency you got.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Warm because like whenever you move into a rental as well,
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: why they always like different colors and every room as well,
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: like some.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Warm summer white like why.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: And then the other one that I have is like
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: rugs that are too small because nighttimes, out of turn
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: they are like most like it's kind of like, don't
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: have one if it's going to be too small?
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: What is the right side? Well, is there a formula?
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: I think you?
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: Like, so in a living room you sort of want
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: the furniture like the two front legs to be sitting
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: on the rug. That makes sense because the thing is
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: with a rug that's really powerful about it is that
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: if you don't have one, sometimes your furniture can feel
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: like it's floating in the room, like it doesn't fit.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: In the space.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: So you put a rug in and you lay things
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: on top of it, it just kind of grounds it.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: Same with the bedroom, I think you want to have
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: some bit of rug on each end of the bed
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: as well as on the Like, yeah, I get you, Yeah,
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: that's like I think sometimes like I cares a great
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: spot to find really good rugs. If you can get
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: like a two by three like two meters by three
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: meters usually great, or you could just buy two of
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: the two by three meter ones like the jukee ones
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: that there's a lot o here you can get two
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: of them, yeah, because they're like ninety nine dollars versus
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: thousands of dollars, and you get two and bump them together.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: And then it's like say, in a living room, you're
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: putting a sofa on top of a coffee table on top,
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: so you don't really notice the scene.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I like that. Yeah.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: And then the third thing I think I was like
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: basically just the build a gray Like I want to
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: talk to every architect that's doing these new apartments and
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: not doing the really.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Dark gray carpet and the white.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Walls because they're really hard to make feel homie.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: And I know some people who would be listening right
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: now who are in those and PUB was like, I'd like, yeah,
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: I'm struggling to make this feel like a home.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because it's just not really built to be like that.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: I wish we could just have a little bit more
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: warmth and a bit more texture.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Do they just do that dark gray because it doesn't
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: show stains as much?
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: But even because that's the thing, when you try to
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: layer a dark carpet with a colorful rug like.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Black and memotime, it's like one's gray and one's redular.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: You can't really it's yeah, it's harder to match with
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: darker colors.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: I find interior, yeah for sure, Like in my place,
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: in my bedroom, it's a dark gray carpet, but I've
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: got a huge, like white wool rug. And so when
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: I film and I say like, oh, I think people
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: are like, oh, but you have like white carpet, don't.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: You you know?
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: I mean, I know it's not necessarily the most practical thing,
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: I trust me, I know, but people kind of ignore
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: the carpet if you get a big enough rout.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: We did kind of briefly touch on this before, but
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: do you have any tips for anybody who is renting
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: on how to maximize their space?
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: So I think it's all about storage, Like, let's real,
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: that's way of the first thing that comes to my mind.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: Like I love my gas lift bed. I will never
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: go back from having a gas lift bed. I've had
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: the ones with drawers, I've had like a bed frame
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: where you like put like containers underneath it.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: The gas live bed is the best, I agree, And.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: I put all my bed linen underneath it. So like
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: it's in this it's in the right context as well,
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: Like when I need to change the bedlinen. It's like cool,
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: I have to walk to a different cupboard and come back.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Ship that You're like, I don't know where to put this,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: it just lives the bed.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: And then also like for instance, like there's lots of
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: those pull out drawers now that you can get in cupboards,
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: like utilizing the space.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Like you know, people like.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: I want to utilize the cupboard the most. You get
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: the ones where they pull out tray sort of things.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: You can use the back of the cupboard in my
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: bathroom at home, I've got those clear Lazy Susans in
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: the drawers. So then like I put all my skincare
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: on it, and albeit it's not taking up like it's
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: not the best use of space, but I can access
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: all the products. So I'm just like spinning it around
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: and pulling from Yeah. So like sometimes I think it's
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: about like being smart with the stewage too, totally.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well I always hear people talking about that with storage,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: you need to utilize the space vertically, yeah, and that
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: we don't do that enough.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: So like in your pantry you'll have like things stacked,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: but then you have like half of the cupboard is
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: empty just with space, but you can put like draws
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: in and things in that you can remove when you leave.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: What about like curtains and lighting and things like that.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: One hundred percent.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: So curtains are a great thing that you can do,
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: especially if you put them like higher than the window frame, yeah, taller,
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: and they go all the way to the ground.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Please please go all the way down.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Unless it's like a cafe curtain that's cute, But like curtains,
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: we go all the way down to the ground. It
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: makes a room appear taller, and then mirrors obviously bounce
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: the light around, so it makes the space feel a
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: lot bigger.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: You're a slut for curtains because also with your garage.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Right, yes, I yeah, yeah, So I got some outdoor
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: curtains from Timu because I was like, I don't want
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: to run the risk because, like I said, really exciting.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: So I was like these outdoor curtains because they could grow, mold,
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: they could do whatever.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: I don't know what's gonna happen.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: So I bought those awning striped curtains to cover up
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: my garage because when you look into the backyard, you
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: can just see straight.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: Into the car and yeah, all the stuff, and it's
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: been great. I've had no mold.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: There's been like windstorms, like tropical storms and all this
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: other stuff, and they're still great and they never like
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: go anywhere.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: But that is something I just don't think anyone would
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: have thought of, because I remember I saw the video
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: and I was like, what are you doing?
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I was like I love that.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: It was so shocked at first, like in the best way.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Sometimes don't want to look at an ugly roll at all.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Sometimes, I mean, if you want to get like a
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: pretty one, like that's going to cost a boom.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: What's the biggest mistake people make in their bedrooms?
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: Not even I think not evessing in the bedding, the
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: stuff you can't see, so like the mattress protectors, the douners.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: The pillows. I think a lot of the time we
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: kind of just run it.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Yet.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Have you got the diner? Yeah, I've got it.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: And it's like it's like a four hundred GSM, which
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: is Graham's per square meter, so it's like really flat.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: I really like a down doner.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: How many Yeah, mine's eight hundred gsm, So it's really fuffy,
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: but it's a great deal. Like, yeah, you know linked
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: it's a great doner with sheets.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: What quality number of sheets.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: The threat count kind of doesn't matter, to be honest,
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: it's kind of like an old like reference. It's kind
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: of it's more about whether you have like long staple fibers.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: I'm getting into my bed styling.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: No, like you have like short staple fibers and long
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: sable fibers. Of what it means is because obviously sheets
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: are woven. If it's a short fiber, it like sticks up.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: Wherever it's a longer one, it's folded down, so you
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: get less pilling on the sheets, less of the balls,
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: so they last a long less.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you know whether it's long this week
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: or short week?
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: If you buy from like a like one of those
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: like boutique websites and stuff like that, they'll be able
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: to tell you. But a lot of brands are getting
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: a lot better with like putting the information on their products.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: So if you go to the description, it'll say long
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: weave or short we've Okaysually you.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Can always ask.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, literally, okay, let's go into shopping.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: I feel like you you also do amazing gift guides.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: You're a great shopper. So I have some questions.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: What are your favorite brands for home wears, oh or
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: just shake homestay.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: I think it depends on what kind of depends on
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: what it is. Like I love an outlet, Like there's
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: a really good provincial home living outlet in South Melbourne,
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: but there should be one. There's a couple of Like
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: in Sydney there's the Shed which is mcm houses outlet.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: There's like a Globe West outlet.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: But I really like I like because I kind of
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: working interiors and home I've kind of progressed like and
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: like spent a little bit of money on the furniture.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Do you know aways.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: I know that it's not everyone's thing, but like a
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: lot of my stuff is like Globe West Sarah Ellison,
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: very Australian design focused stuff home wears wise, Like, I
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: really like Fenton and Fenton. Like someone asked me the
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: other day, where can I get a really good standing
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: lamp that's not over a thousand dollars because standing lamps
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: are crazy. Fenton invent and have some really good colorful
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: ones with like the tassels, like mid century vibes.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: I really like Etsy to find really cool responsors and
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: stuff like.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: That, like things that are like one offs. Facebook Marketplace
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: is incredible, especially if there's like a brand that you
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: love and.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: You really want to get a good deal.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: You can pick up some really good designer furniture on
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: Facebook Marketplace or even just some like you know, retrovines
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: that are really cool.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what about like dopamine bedding, where's the best place
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: to buy that?
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: I think Homie's doing really cool stuff with their bedding.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: They went into like doing pillows, but they've just released
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: like a bed linen range and they've got this awesome
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: stripe versible so like you can have like yeah, you
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: can flip it over and it has different colors.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fun.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: Pillar Talk is actually really up in its game. Like
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: I think they're doing some really cool stuff with doing
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: like different designs. It doesn't break the bank.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: I have a spicy question, what are your thoughts on
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Kmart home wears?
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: So the thing is we came out home where is
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: I think like a lot of people can get sucked
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: in kind of like I Kia, you buy everything from
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: my care, you buy everything from Kmart. And I think
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: the thing is when things are more budget friendly, they're
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: usually smaller, So if you buy a lot of Camart furniture,
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: I don't know if you notice, but it feels all
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: kind of like trunk, Like.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: It's like you're shrunk in the dry. Yeah, it kind of.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: Feels like, yeah, like decorating for like a teenage bedroom
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: sometimes because like the because like the buffet or something
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: like that is like not that not bigger. Yes, sometimes
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: I think it's cool to do like a Facebook marketplace find,
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: but obviously, like every every store has like cool stuff.
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: I think it's good when it's like based on a trend,
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: but I don't love it when like brands want.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: To dupe like a smaller business. Yes, I think it's
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: fine if it's like say, for instance.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: Like bou Clay it was huge, Yeah, everyone was a yeah,
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: so came I came with booklate.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: It's like cool, I'm gonna get it, like I'm gonna
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: get on the book late trend. That didn't cost me
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: a fortune.
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: But when it's like some boutique artisan that does really
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: cool vases and then they come up with like a
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: vessel that's like a smaller version, it's like, I don't.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: Know, Yeah, I agree with that, and I think that
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: makes a lot of sense. I also was seeing a
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: TikTok series from a creator and it made a really
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: she made a really good point and she went, I
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: looked around and my home felt like a Kmart store,
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: and like this is not just say we love came
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: up with some vines as well, like this is not
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: to say like in a previous episode, we were talking
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: about things we think are a cult and we're like,
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Kmart is one of them, and we're in it, baby,
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: Like I think they's absolutely and lives like also, furnishing
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: your home in your early twenties really hard.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: But like you said, Facebook, Marketplace, look up free. Just
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: look up the word free. You'll find a bunch of shit.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: But she looked around and she was like, I felt
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: like I was living in a Kmart store. And she
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: built a whole series around d K martifying her home.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: It's really interesting. It was really cool.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: So I think that's also a good thing to lean
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: into and be conscious of when you shop with.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Not even just came up. But like you said, ike,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: people fall into the colt right because.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: It's like that trap where you're walking, I don't look
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: at that, that's there.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: They have to styled perfectly. I'll take one of everything else.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: It does make it easier, but.
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: Then you also think that it's cheaper. But sometimes it's not,
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: like it's actually better to like go to came out
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: after and buy like the tupperware containers from that versus
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: the Ike ones because you're not at the time like
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: everything is such a good deal, but it's like, actually,
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: like some things are a really good deal and then
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: other things aren't.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: On that note, let's play save or splurge.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: So we're going to give you a category and you're
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: going to say save or splurge.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: So number one glassware.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: It's like a save and a splurge really big one,
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: like you're going to have some cheapys, are gonna have
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: some nice ones for like, Okay, I'm going to say
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: save because you can get some really good looking glassware
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: for cheap and also so.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: They can break.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: If I'm going to splurge on something, I'm saving on
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: glass that she it's too easy to break.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: And also you can get some really beautiful glass were
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: from Vinie's. Oh yeah, save or splurge bedding.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Look, look you can do like the thing is, you
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: can do both, but I think splurge.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: I agree, Yeah, I think splurge on the bedland. And
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: also you can't buy the bedline in secondhand. I don't think,
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: you know, if you're going to buy it, buy the
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: thing you really love, yes.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: You know, I mean if you're going to use it
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: all the time.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: And also you definitely do not need to have as
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: many sheets and dove sets as I have.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: I think some people think that that's the thing.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: But because obviously it's like my job obviously, like I'm from,
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: like I'm showing all different styles, I think the best
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: route is to have like a summer set, Like have
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: a summer you kind of want to have two sheet
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: sets and two Douner sets because you want to stop
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: them weekly and you don't want to have to think about, oh,
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: I've got to wash this.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: It's like washing your hair.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: So if you have like.
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: Two summer and two winter sets, which I think that's heaps. Yes,
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: I think that's great, And they're different color so you
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: can interchange them.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: And you get the dopamine here to when it's a
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: different color and you're like now bed, yeah, new bed,
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: I moved. I agree, Okay, next, savele splurge lighting.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: I think save it's hard though, Like it's hard to
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: find good lamps, and when they do, they sell out,
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: Like I brought one from Temple and Webster and it's
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: sold out like the next day, because it's like finding
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: a really good lamp at a good break. But things
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: for lamps too is they're kind of trendy items, like
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: I wish they weren't as trendy, but I feel like
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: lamps in my mind, I always end up not liking
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: them first out of all the things I buy, and
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: kind of like, I am over that lamp.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: Why did I buy that? Or was I thinking of
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: with that?
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Savele splurge artwork?
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: Ah, I think splurge because I think you don't really
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: need artwork. People always ask me for artwork advice, and
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: I don't really have any of the ones that I've done.
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: I've made myself, so I just like got to be
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: canvas and I've got some render and painting.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: It's not very I think that's.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: A good tip. I think that's a save then, like
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: make your own art. You don't have to be super
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: I mean everything can be like.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: But I think if you're going to go down the
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: art route where you really need the art, like you
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: want the art, I think just like find one that
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: you really connect with and resonate with. I feel like
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: sometimes in a commercial space you can use art to
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: kind of tell the story. In a home, I don't
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: think you need the art to tell the story, Like
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: I find I'll walk into a room and if someone's
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: got the art, I'll just like look at the art
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: and I'm like, cool, I've met up my mind about
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: this whole room now because of the art rather than
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: acknowledging everything else that's going on in the space.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. And also like supporting small local artists.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And like I love like a vintage poster, Like
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: I really want to find one because I really like
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: graphic design and stuff like that. So I feel like
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: those really cool large vintage posters are awesome, but they're
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: still pricing okay.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: And my last one is save us splurge furniture.
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: You can do keep saying both, I think, what about
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: what do you do? The era that I'm in now,
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: I'm in a bit of a splurge, but I'm buying
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: them at like the warehouse sales, so I'm still getting
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: them at a discount, like you know what I mean,
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: Like it's that ship was I never buy anything evil
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: bras go to those warehouse sales, pick up like the
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: like the gorgeous like marble coffee table that I have.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: I've had for like three and a half years. I
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: never plan on getting rid of that coffee. Yes, yeah,
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: people come over like that like that is stunning.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, yeah.
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: Married with that, you don't need as much homewhere. It's
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: like a lot of the furniture. If good stuff does
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: the talking, you don't have to kind of like do
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: lots of bits and lots of layers. Sometimes it doesn't
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: even suit it, do you know what I mean? Like
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: I put cushions on my sofar, but like the sofa
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: itself is like good. It makes the chop a lot easier,
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: which I know is like something to say. But like
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: I've saved up for the things and put more conscious
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: effort into making sure that I get those things because
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: I'm aware that it's worth it.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: I don't know, you can have a furniture forever.
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: Like I had the thing in my stories yesterday where
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: someone said, like, what's your biggest interior design? Iic, and
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: I said that people are more willing to spend money
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: on clothing that they'll wear. A couple of times, but
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: they don't like they want us don't want to spend
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: a dime on furniture, but they're going to use every
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: day generally, Like you're gonna buy that beautiful coat that's
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: like nine hundred dollars and you're gonna like, oh, I'm
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: gonna wear forever and blah blah. It's like you use
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: a coffee table every day, Yeah, you don't want to
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: get the coffee table. And I think it's to do
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: with like we worry so much about other people outside
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: are thinking and not thinking about how we feel about
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: ourselves in our home, because I don't know.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: I feel like your home is the biggest life lesson
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: for sure.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: Like people think that home is kind of maybe a
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: bit materialistic or like a bit boring, But I really
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: think the way that you treat your home is ultimately
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: a reflection of how you treat yourself. And I know
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: that's really deep, but it really is. If you care
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: for your home, you care for your space, it's like
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: you looking after yourself. And sometimes I think we take
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: ourselves a granted that we're like, oh, I'm always going
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: to be here. It's like I don't need to look
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: after me I'll look after others doing those extra bits.
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: Having a comfortable bed stuff is not really good for
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: you because that you're looking after you.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. I kind of want to go
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: home now.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I want to go by lamp.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: That was so much fun and genuinely, there are so
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: many amazing tips in this that I think the chicks
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: are going to absolutely love. So we'll make sure we
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: put show notes and links to everything that we've mentioned
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: and yeah, thank.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: You so much.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Also tell the chicks where they can find you if
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: they haven't already, so you can find me.
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: On all my social medias at louis Burg. I've also
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: got a journal which is Louisburg Design dot com. And
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: I've got a podcast which is Home and Hosting with Louis.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Back Love the Daddy of Home and Hosting. Damn hog,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: give me over the Matt. That's really good for me. Yeah,
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: I love that. Australian idol cole bitch.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thank you, and thanks to your
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: chicks for having us in your ear holes.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: We love to be here.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Love it back