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How to Buy Furniture Like an Interior Designer · Seated with Furniture Row

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  Hi, and welcome to the Seated podcast with Furniture Row.
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  I'm Jessa, creative director and design extraordinaire.
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  And I'm Barb, interior designer and buyer.
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  Well, welcome back everyone to Seated with Furniture Row.
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  This is actually our first time. I know we're reunited and it
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  feels so good. It does.
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  We're here for Season 2 on our Season 2 set that you designed
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  and I love it. And you know, we've had a lot of
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  guests and that's been nice. But it's it's, I miss just
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  talking to you, just hanging out and talking about.
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  Lots to talk about. Today we do because we're going
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  to talk about how to buy furniture, which sounds like a
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  really simple question, but the problem is that.
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  Is it a problem? Well, it's just people feel
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  overwhelmed because they get analysis paralysis.
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  There's so many things to consider.
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  They don't know where to start. Moving into a new space is
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  already such an anxiety inducing situation.
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  Or even if you're currently in a space and you just need
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  something new, there's literally a trillion options out there you
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  can choose from. There's so many for.
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  Furniture and it's just hard to know where to start.
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  So today we're going to kind of just like break it down step by
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  step, kind of just like here are just let's get your head in the
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  right place to be able to make a more informed decision so you
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  don't just like freak out and panic order something less
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  quality than that doesn't last. You ever panicked Order?
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  Oh yeah, I don't know about with furniture, but I definitely
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  ordered fashion. Me too, But how did that work
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  for you, Jess? You know, sometimes things are
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  like they don't fit right or they just, or you.
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  And sometimes they do. Yeah, sometimes, yeah, Yeah.
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  But either way, I wasn't planning on the purchase.
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  And then sometimes then now you have this credit card bill to
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  pay and you're like, oh, and so and then you.
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  Have to send things back and that's not fun.
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  It's not. You go friendly all the time or
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  like, yeah, with jeans it's like I'm going to order 10 'cause I
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  just don't know which ones are going to fit me, you know?
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  And I get so much anxiety. I know jeans are.
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  Such a difficult one. Yeah.
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  Yeah, jeans are, jeans are difficult.
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  So yeah, I mean, let's, I think it's a good way to start by just
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  reintroducing you and how you're going to be really helpful in
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  this conversation, particularly because, yes, you are an
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  interior designer, which is great, but you're also a buyer
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  for Furniture Row. And I'd like to just talk about
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  what that means and why your insights are really going to be
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  helpful here. Yeah, it's just, it is good to
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  know you know what you're getting into.
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  You know, when you go to a store, you're looking online,
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  you want to have the confidence or you want when you're
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  shopping, you want to know that where you're buying from that
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  your decision. You can confidently make a
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  decision that you're going to buy something that is of good
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  quality, durable, you know, and at a good price point of value.
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  And so as a buyer, those are the things we think about is like
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  what's best for our customer, what is it that they're looking
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  for? How can we bring that to our
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  stores for our customers at a good value?
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  So. Yeah.
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  And you really care about the end result and how somebody's
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  going to live with this product. So I'm.
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  Yeah. Just going to ask you a lot of
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  good questions that will help people kind of know what to look
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  for. I think, I do think it is
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  important, you know, as a buyer to keep that in mind because
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  what you're buying, whatever category you're buying, it's
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  kind of like your name is on it. Even though it's Furniture Row,
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  it's like you really stand behind what you've purchased as
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  well. And our buyers are furniture
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  buyers that go into factories and look up products, books that
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  that they're making and having having built.
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  If they see something that they don't like coming down the line
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  and it's not being built to their standards, they'll tell
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  them you need to do it this way. Yeah.
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  And so, you know, they have very high standards for our product.
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  Yeah. And when I've like shadowed you
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  guys ever at markets or whatever, that's always fun.
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  Yeah, I know it is. It's a great time, but that
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  feedback like whoever's making the furniture really takes that
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  into account, like it actually it really matters to them, so.
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  Yeah, they listen to him. Yeah.
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  So that is really helpful, I think.
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  And I think the first thing that people need to consider too
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  though is it's about you and your home and your space.
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  So everything we're going to talk about today is a little bit
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  subjective, but we're going to like ask you the right questions
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  to help determine what's going to be right for you.
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  Yeah, because everybody's needs and wants and budgets are
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  different. That's very true.
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  And spaces, yeah. So the first thing when you're
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  buying furniture to consider is what is your lifestyle?
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  You know, do you have pets? Do you have kids?
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  What kind of space do you live in?
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  Do you have like a bunch of square footage that you're
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  trying to fill? Or are did you just move into a
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  small little bungalow? You know, are you frequently
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  watching, you know, shows or movies at night?
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  Are you spending a lot of time on your couch reading or
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  crafting? Do you need space to do craft
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  activities or play games? What is it your lifestyle so
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  that you have some sort of direction when you're going into
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  a store? Exactly Like, do you always eat
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  dinner at the dining table? When you do, do you like it to
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  feel more cozy? Or, you know, do you want to sit
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  at your sofa sometimes and have dinner?
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  These are all do. You ever sit on your sofa?
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  Yes, it's my favorite thing. That's why I love eating dinner
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  out of bowls so much. Just like you make a bowl, it's
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  so much. It's easier to eat on my sofa.
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  It's like the coziest thing ever for me.
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  That's true because if you're eating off of a plate on your
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  sofa, it could just like, rope off.
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  Really good flatware. Performance fabrics come in just
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  handy. Flatware is an ideal if you
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  don't have some sort of like lift top coffee table or tray or
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  something. Or at that point, most of the
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  time I just sit at the dining room table and it's like, OK,
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  this is like it requires a knife.
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  It's a dining table meal, typically.
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  That makes sense. But yeah, like, these are all
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  great things to think about because say you do really love
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  to eat dinner in your living room.
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  It's your favorite place to eat dinner.
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  Then let's think about your coffee table and like making
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  that coffee table a priority for you, whether it's the size, you
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  know, like two to four people can fit around this coffee table
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  and eat or just do just. 1. Or just you, Yeah.
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  Or, you know, maybe you don't want to sit around the coffee
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  table. I mean, if you were, you would
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  probably get some floor pillows I would say.
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  You can, or just whatever is comfortable.
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  It's all about your home is your castle.
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  So you make it how you want it. Yeah.
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  What is your best life look like?
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  And then maybe you want to sit on your sofa and eat dinner,
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  then get like a lift top coffee table that comes up to you where
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  the top of it actually comes up. And yeah, the lift tops are
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  great for that, and some of those even have storage in it so
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  you can put your extra napkins or whatever in.
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  There. Yeah, you can make that like
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  instead of a banquette like. It's just we keep our silverware
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  in the coffee table for an. Extra is always eating at the
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  coffee. Table.
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  Love it. I love it.
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  The coziest thing ever. So we can't.
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  Have this conversation without mentioning the dining table.
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  So those that do like to sit at a dining table.
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  We love dining tables. I'm all you know, I've said this
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  a couple times already, this year is all about home.
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  It's all about the dining room, you know, and being able to sit
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  at a beautiful table and eat a sandwich, you know?
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  So I'm all for bringing the dining table back.
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  Well, that's me. To some people, romanticizing
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  their life looks like sitting at the dining table and eating on
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  their China. You know, And other people
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  romanticizing their life means sitting on a floor floor pillow.
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  With their China floor people. I'm a floor person anyway.
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  You sit on the floor pillow with their with your China and eat at
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  the coffee table. So romantic.
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  Whatever you really want. Exactly.
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  And then yeah, like do you like to entertain?
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  Are you going to need space at that table for more people or
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  like an extendable table or in the living room, are you going
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  to need extra seating beyond you for when you have people over
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  and these are are your? Guests messy Yeah are your.
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  Guests messy? Are you messy?
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  You know, do you need like storage space so you know
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  quickly just where to put things so things don't get out of
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  control during the week and then you have to do a full cleanup at
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  on the weekend, every weekend, you know, so.
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  All of those things are, yeah, they really help you make a
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  decision. Exactly.
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  And like a lot of people, they're curious about when they
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  start looking at the living room.
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  Should I get a sectional or a sofa and a love seat?
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  And I think. That's a good.
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  Question that goes back to layout, which we'll get into,
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  but also your lifestyle and, you know, are the people that are
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  going to come over, do you want them to be more spaced out or do
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  you want them to sit all in the same place?
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  You know, do you want some separation or do you want to be
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  really cozy on a sectional? And these are all just like
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  questions like I, I love having a Shea lounge because then
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  that's like more lounge space in a smaller area on this.
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  Are great too, if it's like floating out in the center of
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  the room and you've had the Shea's Lounge, you have a lot of
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  people over, you can sit on all different sides of that.
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  So there's, you know, plenty of seating.
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  Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, You could have like a sofa
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  and a love seat and a Shea lounge, you know, or just like a
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  sofa that has a Shea lounge. But these are all things.
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  And then modular makes it easy to.
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  If you change your mind, if you change.
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  Your mind, you can start with a sectional and be like, you know
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  what? I didn't like that and move it
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  into. The world's largest sofa.
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  Yeah. Or like I want a bed in the
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  middle of my living room and I want to have a movie night and
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  just totally lounge. Or like some other days, I want
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  to have like a nice like sitting room where there's like, it's a
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  little bit more formal, like we're going to have some tea,
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  you know, and, and chat and I want it like a love seat and a
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  sofa. Or, you know, maybe you are a
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  big movie family and you want to like be in the experience.
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  Be in the immersive, that's a big one right now is the
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  immersive sofas and, yeah, motion furniture with sound in
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  it and vibrations. You're watching Top Gun and you
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  can feel the airplane, you know, flying past.
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  It's like you're really in the movie.
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  And then you don't have to invest in like a surround sound
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  setup because like that just. Sound speakers built in.
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  A lot of them do. I'm not technical enough to know
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  where to start there and I don't have time to research it 'cause
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  they just don't want to. But the the surround sound built
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  into my living, I'm not at that stage in my life.
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  I'm not going to build in surround sound into my living
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  room. Let's just buy one thing, be
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  over it. Yeah.
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  Bluetooth in and there you go. Yeah, great movie night.
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  Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
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  So then, yeah. I mean, I think once you kind of
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  have your lifestyle, like think you've thought about like what
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  are my priorities? Think about style, you know,
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  Yeah. And start.
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  Start with the What style do you like and will that work in the
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  home that you're living in? Yeah, exactly.
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  I think it it depends for sure on the space that you've chosen,
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  because some spaces lend to a style more than others.
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  And for me, my style is always pretty consistent, but it
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  changes slightly based on where I'm living.
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  Like right now I'm leaning a little bit more cottage because
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  my house is cottagey. So I have like more stripes or
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  Buffalo checks even in places because to me that's like, I
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  mean, Buffalo checks aren't always caught at gingham is more
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  cottagey. But anyway, it's like you can
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  lean into the style a little bit more.
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  But I think a good place to start if you don't know where to
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  or how to define your style and what you're really looking for
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  is just start perusing like Pinterest and, and, and
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  Instagram and TikTok in places where you can find really good
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  interior design examples and save things that you like
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  without judgment or thought. You know, just save what speaks
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  to you. And then at the end, you just
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  kind of look back what you've saved and you'll find some
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  common threads, you know, like I'm noticing that I really like
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  bold colors or a pop of bold colors.
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  They I really like a more Moody look.
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  Or, you know, I this I'm feeling like I really like cozy and
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  cottagey. And so you can collect collected
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  looks. Yeah.
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  Or I want just like really clean.
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  Like I want my home to just be like a blank canvas, kind of
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  just Oasis where there's not any clutter, you know?
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  Or I like the no clutter look, but I want it to be Moody.
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  Like there's so many directions you can go, but I think once you
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  identify what you're kind of liking, it makes it a little bit
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  easier to know what you're looking for 'cause if you just
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  start looking at a furniture catalog, like so many different
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  things can look good to you, But like, is it going to fit within
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  the aesthetic that makes you feel best?
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  Right. And is it going to work in your
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  home? Yeah, exactly that your space
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  that you've created. So I think that is really
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  helpful. I think then having some
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  reference photos just on your phone or available to you as
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  you're shopping to remind you, it can help you stay on track.
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  Or if you go into a store, it can help you to say like, hey,
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  like I love this look, can you help me?
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  Show me. Something that's similar.
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  To this? Yeah, exactly.
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  And you know what else? This is something we did years
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  ago. Well, and I guess we still do
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  it. But yeah, particularly I did a
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  project once where somebody showed me their inspiration
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  photo and they're like, we want it to look like this.
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  I'm like OK, But then they the picture they showed me was not a
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  motion sofa, but they wanted a motion sofa in this room and the
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  room itself was was very like florally and cottagey.
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  So I took their inspiration photo and made it work with the
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  motion sofa that they had. You can do anything.
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  You can do anything. So if it's the surroundings that
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  that you like, then figure out the best way to make that room
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  feel like your inspo picture. But find the sofa or the dining
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  table or bedroom, whatever it is that you're looking for that
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  really speaks to you and yeah, and that you're looking for and
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  meets your needs and wants. When that brings up another and
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  budget, right, but that brings up another good point of like
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  it's helpful to start with the big pieces 1st and then kind of
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  go around them as far as accessories, like in watercolor
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  classes that I took in art school, one of the biggest
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  things I kept getting tripped up on was I was always focusing on
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  the little details like meticulously throughout the
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  whole painting. And then like things would get
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  disproportionate because I was focusing in on this one little
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  area when really I needed to see the big picture 1st and then get
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  into the details. So I think it with interior
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  design too, or just like styling any space, whether or not you're
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  an interior designer, you should start with the big brush strokes
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  and layout kind of just the framework and then get into the
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  details. So don't be like, I don't think
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  you should necessarily be like, I need this lamp in this room
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  and the room has to go around the lamp.
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  You know, I feel like that. Happens though, I mean,
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  sometimes there is one thing that you're like, let's build it
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  around this. Right.
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  And so and so maybe, but then it's like one thing that you're
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  building it around, you're not like buying all the accessories
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  and then buying the big piece of furniture.
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  If you're starting, and I'm saying when you're starting with
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  a blank canvas, it can be helpful to start with like.
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  The bigger piece, the. Bigger piece and be like, OK, we
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  know we want reclining because it is what our family needs for
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  all these different reasons or wants, but we want it to look
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  modern, you know, and I think it can take the stress off by just
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  starting there and then decorating around it and and
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  just making sure that piece fits within the style that you like.
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  Still though, like I want a recliner, but I want cottage or
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  I know like I want a bed that has an upholstered headboard
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  because that just feels more cozy to me, you know, and that
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  can transition to any different style that you like.
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  But yeah, I think it's just a good place to start.
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  Yeah, I would agree. Yeah.
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  So then I think once you've kind of decided on your style, you
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  want to establish your budget and priorities.
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  So like your priorities, I, I always say in life, budgeting is
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  priorities. It is prioritization.
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  Like that's what it is. You have to figure out what's
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  more most important to you in life and in your lifestyle,
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  because most times you can't have everything at once.
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  You can have everything, you just can't have everything at
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  once. So you have to figure out what
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  you need first. Or what you want first.
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  What you want first? Yeah.
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  Yeah. And budget is also, you know,
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  subjective. It is very subjective and.
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  You know, because sometimes we're like, well, I don't want
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  to spend more than this, or this is all I'm going to spend on
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  this. Sofa or this dining table, but
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  then you'll spend more on something completely different.
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  So it's like what, what is the true budget?
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  You know, and, and there is financing and things that will
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  help if you need to spend more. Are you going to pay cash or you
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  know, it's it's all of those things.
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  So you have to figure out what's going to work for you and your
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  pocketbook. Exactly.
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  And I think there are some people or wallet, yeah, who just
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  people they are like I want to pay cash that's really important
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  to me and not finance anything. That's just where I'm at and
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  that's great. And so it's like then find the
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  best quality you can within that specific price point.
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  But the financing thing that you bring up there are it.
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  Opens a whole world. It does open a whole.
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  World and you can. Still be conscious about it, you
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  know, And so I think, you know, there are a lot of places that
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  offer 0% financing if you have good credit and or decent
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  credit. And then you can kind of just be
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  getting this furniture and not paying interest on it while you
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  pay monthly is what that means. I know it's like jargon that we
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  kind of just block out. But yeah, so for me, it would be
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  more worth it to get a quality piece that I can keep for a long
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  time and finance it and pay it off in a couple years rather
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  than getting something that I'm going to have to replace in a
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  couple years and I'm never fully satisfied with.
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  Yeah. So yeah, it's just everybody's
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  different that way though. And so I think you just kind of
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  have to define like what's most important to you.
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  If it's like I only have this much, I want to pay cash and
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  like I'm renting right now, so it doesn't need to be like a
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  forever piece, then that's great to know, you know, like I'm
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  willing to sacrifice quality a little right now as long as it's
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  just like it works well for my space, for, you know, the time
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  that I need it. It's right for right now.
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  It's right for right now and that's great too.
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  But I, but I do think like that's how price points are all
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  over the board is based on what is important to people.
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  Like if they're shopping for a dorm room, they're not going to
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  be looking for an heirloom piece that you can pass down to your
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  grandkids, you know most often. Depends on which dorm room, but
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  yeah. That is very true, but again,
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  that's like. Have you seen some of the
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  designs that they're doing in dorm rooms now?
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  I mean, they look like the cutest little sweet hotel.
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  I think that it's, I feel shameful because of what my dorm
• 22:53
  room looked like. And I'm like, I, you know, I
• 22:58
  just don't need to see that. No, it's really interesting.
• 23:02
  So if you all ever want to Google it, there's just some
• 23:04
  beautiful and honestly, I think we started this when I was in
• 23:08
  design school because all the interior designers, our rooms
• 23:12
  were always beautiful. Oh, I bet like we figured out
• 23:14
  how. The rooms I would ignore, I'd
• 23:16
  walk past and be like, that doesn't exist, yeah.
• 23:19
  But now it's a thing. Yeah, yeah, I bet it is.
• 23:23
  And I think that you can probably do it for pretty cheap
• 23:26
  if you're being crafty. And.
• 23:28
  Resourceful. But yeah, I mean, again, it's
• 23:32
  about priorities. So in people's homes, once
• 23:37
  you've kind of defined your budget, it's like, where do you
• 23:40
  start? And I think the essential pieces
• 23:43
  are most important. So you want to start with like
• 23:47
  where am I going to sleep? You know, like so I need to.
• 23:51
  Start with a good. Mattress start with a good
• 23:53
  mattress 100% because you're going to sleep on that every
• 23:56
  night and it's going to affect how your day goes absolutely how
• 23:59
  your life goes really so. And a good pillow.
• 24:02
  I'm big on pillows. Good mattress, good pillows and
• 24:05
  that doesn't have to be like create like a 3000 plus dollar
• 24:09
  mattress necessarily. I think that you can get a
• 24:12
  pretty affordable 1. You should just be making sure
• 24:16
  that we were getting it from does their R&D, you know they do
• 24:21
  their research and development and they make.
• 24:24
  Go to a trusted, very trusted company.
• 24:28
  Yeah, I I would. And you know, in your bedroom
• 24:34
  where you sleep, I mean bed frames, I think that's something
• 24:38
  that you could potentially save on as long as it's stable
• 24:43
  because it's just behind your. Are you talking about the frame
• 24:47
  or the actual bed? The bed.
• 24:49
  The bed. Like, yeah.
• 24:51
  So like with the bed, I would go with solid wood.
• 24:54
  OK. That's what I would do.
• 24:56
  Yeah. Because then you're going to
• 24:58
  have that. If you take care of it, you'll
• 25:01
  have that for a long time. Yeah.
• 25:03
  Yeah. But what if you're renting and
• 25:05
  you're like, I need this to last for like 2 years and then I'm
• 25:09
  going to move? Well, you know, you're asking a
• 25:14
  designer because I would buy the bed that I love and it would go
• 25:18
  with me when I moved. But so everybody has a different
• 25:22
  way of making those decisions. I've.
• 25:25
  Had a really heavy sofa for a long time and I move a lot and
• 25:30
  you know people, they do school to pick it up when they're
• 25:33
  helping me move because I'm not moving, I'm physically incapable
• 25:37
  of moving that so I hire movers or friends and they they do
• 25:42
  struggle picking it up, but is it like a it makes?
• 25:45
  It There it is. Yeah, there's.
• 25:48
  Oh boy. I'm a high maintenance person to
• 25:53
  move sometimes because of that sofa, but the point is that it
• 25:57
  makes it to its destination and it's made a lot of moves and I
• 26:00
  still have it. And you love.
• 26:02
  It right? Well, not anymore.
• 26:04
  Not anymore. It's it's been like 10 plus
• 26:06
  years, but it lasted that long. You know, yeah.
• 26:09
  Through moves. So yeah, you could get something
• 26:12
  nicer, but I think, you know the other thing to think about.
• 26:16
  So yeah, maybe that's really important.
• 26:18
  Your sleep space is your sanctuary.
• 26:21
  And again, that's kind of subjective.
• 26:22
  Like for you, you're like, I need my bed to look nice for me
• 26:27
  to walk into my like special room and feel like I live a
• 26:33
  quality life. Yeah, my, I love my bed.
• 26:36
  I'm not even going to tell you how long I've had it.
• 26:38
  But yeah, if, if I were to move, it would come with me.
• 26:41
  Yeah, for sure. I wouldn't be replacing it, you
• 26:43
  know, with something else, right.
• 26:45
  So the house, you know, wherever I would move, it would need to
• 26:49
  accommodate my bed. Yeah, the size of the room.
• 26:52
  Right. And see, that exposes priorities
• 26:55
  again for me like another besides my mattress in a
• 26:59
  bedroom, another really important priority would be my
• 27:03
  dresser because I'm going to use that every single day.
• 27:07
  It keeps my clothes, which are important to me.
• 27:10
  And I want the drawers to be easy to open and I want there to
• 27:15
  be enough space and easy to find things.
• 27:17
  So I'm not just like shoving stuff in a drawer and like it's
• 27:20
  like piled and things don't stay quite full because I'm just
• 27:24
  trying to jam so much in there. Well, and I'll tell you like if
• 27:28
  that is an important to you because some people have a
• 27:31
  closet with built in shelves and drawers.
• 27:34
  Not everybody has that. So a dresser, either, you know,
• 27:38
  the typical long dresser or the tall, right, It's important to
• 27:42
  look for things like dovetail in the drawers.
• 27:48
  And the glides need to be just right because yeah, the, I think
• 27:53
  ball bearing glides, those need to be on your or in your dresser
• 27:59
  and in the drawers because you're going to be opening those
• 28:01
  up all the time. So you want to make sure that's
• 28:05
  the case. You either want it to be English
• 28:07
  or French dovetail. Yeah, what's the difference
• 28:11
  between English and French dovetail?
• 28:13
  Well, they're both excellent, you know, because they are very
• 28:17
  stable and you're opening your drawers all the time, so you
• 28:20
  don't want it to fall apart. So look for that.
• 28:22
  And the difference is like on an English dovetail, it's like this
• 28:27
  is like connected on the. You can see it on the side when
• 28:30
  you open it up, you can see that little.
• 28:32
  Yeah, it kind of looks like little squares fitting into each
• 28:35
  other. I don't know if that's a great
• 28:37
  way to describe it. Maybe we can show a picture.
• 28:39
  And then the French is just like it's cut out and it slides into
• 28:44
  it. So it's very, very, very stable.
• 28:46
  Stable for. That and some dressers even have
• 28:51
  velvet lined drawers which can be good for like if you're
• 28:55
  keeping anything that you don't want to get scratched in there,
• 28:58
  like in a top drawer with if you're going to put watches in
• 29:01
  there or something. Yeah, that's always good.
• 29:03
  But also also, you know, you want the inside of the drawers
• 29:07
  to be finished really nice. And the best way to do that is
• 29:11
  take your hand and feel around because you're putting your
• 29:16
  clothes in there and some things are finer than others, so you
• 29:18
  don't want it to snag. So that's a really important
• 29:21
  chunk on your. Nice leggings or.
• 29:23
  Whatever. Yeah, Or like where it snags it
• 29:26
  because it's not finished well on the inside.
• 29:29
  I got this dresser once off Facebook Marketplace because I
• 29:34
  was like, wow, you can get this really good wood dresser for
• 29:38
  this price. Opening the drawers was like so
• 29:42
  hard, you know, And it was just so hard to open them and close
• 29:46
  them. And I was like, I'm not doing
• 29:48
  this. I'm not like working with early
• 29:52
  1900s technology today or any day, every day.
• 29:56
  I don't want to do that. So I just had to sell it.
• 29:59
  And it looks great. But the function is really
• 30:02
  important for things that you're going to use every day.
• 30:04
  And like, yeah, I have a big closet, but I also need space
• 30:08
  for like, it's all hanging space.
• 30:10
  So I needed folding the places to put jeans and things like
• 30:14
  that. Yeah, I think we've all had
• 30:17
  stories like that where we've bought a piece that we're using
• 30:21
  and it just does not function how it should.
• 30:24
  And I kind of have a story. It's the difference of Facebook.
• 30:27
  This is many years ago. I got sucked in because it was
• 30:31
  more about the style and you know, boy, they marketed it to
• 30:36
  me and I look line and sinker. I bought this beautiful Bombay
• 30:42
  chest that I was using in my bedroom and I was going to put
• 30:45
  clothes in it. You could use it in an insurance
• 30:47
  hall. You can use it in a living room,
• 30:48
  wherever, but I was going to use it in my bedroom and it had a
• 30:53
  detachable marble top. And I was all excited to finally
• 30:56
  get this piece. And I paid way too much for it.
• 30:59
  But at the time I was like, oh, this is a really nice piece.
• 31:03
  They delivered it. It was not from here.
• 31:06
  It was from a completely different place.
• 31:08
  And I went to put my clothes in it and the inside drawers
• 31:13
  weren't finished. And so I called them and they're
• 31:17
  like, well, that's how it is. And I'm like, this is going to
• 31:20
  ruin my clothes. So they did not want to refinish
• 31:23
  the inside the drawers, but they did.
• 31:25
  They came back out and took it. But I've learned my lesson.
• 31:29
  Just because it cost more or it's from a fancy schmancy store
• 31:34
  absolutely does not mean it's a better quality.
• 31:38
  I mean, some of the a lot of what we have a what we have is
• 31:43
  very good quality here. So don't let all the hype.
• 31:47
  Sometimes it's just. Marketing.
• 31:49
  Yeah, Well, this one it it got me.
• 31:52
  Yeah, when we will get into quality a little too.
• 31:55
  But I just want to wrap up this, you know, qualifier of like
• 32:01
  where can you, where should you spend and where should you save?
• 32:05
  And I think spend on the places that you are going to use most
• 32:10
  often and that you need first a lot of the time because that's
• 32:15
  what you're going to use most often.
• 32:17
  Know what what the quality is that you're spending the money
• 32:20
  on because you you don't have to spend a lot of money for good
• 32:25
  quality. It really comes down to where
• 32:28
  you're buying. You know, if you're buying it
• 32:30
  from a reputable place and Furniture Row is very reputable.
• 32:34
  We stand behind our products. Right, because of the buying
• 32:38
  team and their standards for quality.
• 32:41
  Very. High standards but yeah so if
• 32:43
  you're going to be like we eat dinner together every night at
• 32:46
  our dining table, that's one of the things that you need to
• 32:49
  spend on then because you want it to be like a nice experience
• 32:53
  everyday and fit your family and like maybe have a leaf in it so
• 32:56
  it can expand. And when I say spend like, yeah,
• 33:00
  it doesn't need to be a crazy amount, but it's like it's
• 33:03
  something that you should put thought into.
• 33:05
  Spend time on finding what's right for you and prioritize
• 33:11
  first. Or you know, I sit at my sofa
• 33:15
  and my coffee table every day and it's like my most creative
• 33:20
  place. So I really need to make sure
• 33:21
  that that is set up or I sit at my desk for so many hours.
• 33:26
  I need to make sure I have a nice chair, that kind of thing.
• 33:29
  So that's where you should spend versus save is just thing.
• 33:33
  Think about where you're going to spend the most time and and
• 33:36
  what you're going to spend the most time using on a daily
• 33:38
  basis. And that's where you should
• 33:40
  spend time finding the right. Just want the quality.
• 33:43
  And the quality and make sure it's quality.
• 33:45
  So how do people? Well, I think before we get into
• 33:51
  how people determine quality, we should figure out like we should
• 33:56
  make sure they know to measure their space and.
• 34:00
  Probably the biggest thing. And consider their layout, yeah,
• 34:03
  because first you, before you get into the details like we
• 34:07
  were saying with watercolor, you got to look at the big picture.
• 34:11
  Don't spend a ton of time researching like, well, what
• 34:14
  material is this when you don't even know if it fits your space?
• 34:17
  So yeah, you got to think about what is your floor plan look
• 34:24
  like? What is your footprint in your
• 34:26
  house? How big?
• 34:27
  You're living in. Just draw that out.
• 34:29
  You don't have to be a designer to do that.
• 34:32
  Just take simple measurements. Draw in where your windows are,
• 34:37
  your openings like doorways or openings into that room.
• 34:42
  And if there's anything like a fireplace in there, draw that on
• 34:45
  it so you know exactly where everything is.
• 34:49
  So when you go to the store, or you can work with the A-Team
• 34:54
  there and they can help you lay out that space right and they
• 34:59
  can come up with ideas that you may never thought of right on
• 35:03
  your own. And having the visual can be
• 35:05
  really helpful, just like in your mind.
• 35:09
  So when you're saying drawing it up, like you could just
• 35:12
  literally take a pad of paper and a pencil or a pen and just
• 35:15
  like draw like here is my square living room and this is where
• 35:20
  the window is. And I measured it and it's 10
• 35:23
  by, you know, 10 or whatever feet.
• 35:26
  And. Measure like if you have, you
• 35:30
  know, series of windows, like how much wall spaces on each
• 35:34
  side of the window, what's your door openings, all of those
• 35:38
  things. And it doesn't have to be, you
• 35:40
  know, I would always, I would put all of those measurements on
• 35:45
  there so that when you do go into the store, you have it and
• 35:48
  there's no guesswork. Right.
• 35:50
  And you can think like ideally, where would I want to put a sofa
• 35:54
  in this room? Yeah.
• 35:56
  And sometimes it can be difficult and kind of having an
• 36:01
  idea like maybe there is like I think I mentioned before, but my
• 36:05
  grandparents needed to figure out where to put their that.
• 36:09
  TV. Stand and they were like I just
• 36:14
  like do we put it in front of the window that feels weird and
• 36:17
  I'm like I think you could put it in this corner and it could
• 36:20
  just like kind of just cover the corner and then there could be a
• 36:23
  TV on top of it but. Had they thought of that in the
• 36:26
  corner? No.
• 36:27
  So I think they're like, would that look weird?
• 36:30
  And so kind of like thinking through that and drawing it up
• 36:33
  or taking a picture of your space and you could put it in
• 36:36
  ChatGPT and be like, what would we?
• 36:38
  Love the chat? Yeah.
• 36:39
  What would a TV stand look like in the corner of this room
• 36:46
  between these two windows? And it'll show you.
• 36:48
  And so I like graph paper, yeah. That helps 'cause each of the
• 36:54
  little squares. Yeah, graph paper is good and
• 36:56
  it's really easy to get. So it's just, yeah, drawing out
• 37:02
  like here's my measurements. It helps you visualize.
• 37:05
  It helps if you're going into a store to remember instead of
• 37:08
  just having something on a notes app.
• 37:10
  And then having pictures of your space with you and your shopping
• 37:14
  really helps too, because you can be like, wait, would that
• 37:17
  color really go in our space with what we already have or?
• 37:22
  I wouldn't get caught up. I understand the color thing,
• 37:24
  but you can always paint and that's so true.
• 37:28
  But if you don't want to, then I guess you have to take that into
• 37:31
  consideration. And so, yeah, just knowing what
• 37:34
  space you have to work with this big doorway entry, like we
• 37:38
  talked about sofa versus sectional.
• 37:41
  Especially if you're going in a basement, you have got to know,
• 37:45
  and I speak from experience of not being able to get sofa down
• 37:51
  a stairwell well and had to select something else.
• 37:54
  Should have measured that. I should know better than that.
• 37:56
  Yeah, but you just get so excited.
• 37:58
  It's not like people are, you know, lacking intelligence in
• 38:03
  some way. It's just that you get so
• 38:05
  excited about a certain piece and you just think, forget about
• 38:08
  the reality of the situation sometimes.
• 38:12
  And so you. Can't always like take a window
• 38:14
  out to get what you want through.
• 38:15
  It I know. And so before you get like just
• 38:19
  smitten by something and you need it, just know what you're
• 38:22
  working with, know your space. So take those measurements and
• 38:27
  then compare the doorway or the, you know, downstairs opening to
• 38:32
  the basement measurements so you know you can measure each piece.
• 38:38
  Make sure you can get it. Down there and make sure you can
• 38:40
  get it down there so. And the ceiling height the.
• 38:44
  Ceiling height is a. Big one, especially going into a
• 38:47
  basement or, you know, something like that, or in an upstairs
• 38:50
  area where you don't have a loft, you know, looking over
• 38:54
  into the rest of the house. Yeah.
• 38:56
  So you definitely want to measure your ceiling height.
• 38:59
  Yeah. Well, and I think like you're
• 39:01
  saying, the scale really matters.
• 39:05
  So you want to make sure with scale that it doesn't look
• 39:10
  weird, like a big piece in a small space.
• 39:14
  Yeah, I've seen that a lot. And yeah, that definitely if you
• 39:20
  get the wrong scale. Yeah, furniture.
• 39:23
  Like a piece just looks dwarfed in this giant room.
• 39:26
  And maybe you need something more substantial because the
• 39:31
  ceilings are so high, the room's so big.
• 39:33
  Like you need a chunky sectional or, you know, you have a really
• 39:38
  small space and that chunky sectional is going to take up
• 39:40
  every square inch and you're not going to be able to move around
• 39:42
  it. So that's the other thing is
• 39:45
  just kind of figuring out like if I put something this size in
• 39:48
  this room, can I move around it, you know, and.
• 39:52
  But I want to say this though, and I've seen that a lot where
• 39:55
  I've gone into homes before and they have a big giant sectional
• 39:59
  and it eats up the whole space, but they love it, you know, So
• 40:04
  it's their priority. It's their priority.
• 40:07
  And so, you know, we're trying to give advice on what, you
• 40:10
  know, when you're first looking for something.
• 40:12
  But if you already have it and you love it, that's what really
• 40:15
  matters. And if you're if, if we are
• 40:19
  giving you an idea of, hey, think about this before you buy
• 40:23
  it. And they're like, Nope, that's
• 40:24
  what I want. It's going to take up the whole
• 40:26
  room. It is what it is and it's their
• 40:28
  home. And that's what.
• 40:29
  They want to live, you know, in we're going to design around it.
• 40:34
  Absolutely. It's all about your home is is
• 40:39
  where where it's at and you want to be comfortable in there.
• 40:42
  Yeah, I have a friend who has a king bed and a small bedroom and
• 40:46
  she can't even fully close her closet door but she doesn't care
• 40:50
  'cause her priority is the king bed and it doesn't look silly
• 40:54
  unless you try to close the closet door, so it's just.
• 40:57
  You have to go across the bed to get into the closet.
• 41:02
  And you know what, everybody has like a different way of living
• 41:05
  and you can even kind of mark out spaces.
• 41:07
  Like if you are thinking about a new piece and you're like, will
• 41:10
  it fit in the space? Like I've, I've taken
• 41:13
  measurements, but how far is it going to go out?
• 41:15
  You can kind of just take painters tape and put it on the
• 41:18
  ground. Like, OK, here's 4 feet deep.
• 41:20
  That's what that looks like. Here's, you know, 3 feet deep.
• 41:24
  That's the coffee table. Here's what that looks like next
• 41:26
  to the four feet deep sofa. And here's how much walking
• 41:29
  space I have. Here's 90 inches long.
• 41:32
  You know, that's what that looks like.
• 41:33
  And so painters tape can really help people painter stakes.
• 41:37
  Great everything really, even hanging pictures.
• 41:41
  I use it all the time. Oh yeah, to mark out where
• 41:43
  they're going to go. Yeah, especially when they have
• 41:45
  those two little hooks on the back.
• 41:47
  I'll just take my tape and go across, put it on the wall with
• 41:50
  a level and put my 2 hooks in and then hang it.
• 41:54
  It's so. Easy.
• 41:55
  And then you don't have to. Hopefully that little tip is
• 41:57
  helpful. Yeah, I think it should be a
• 41:58
  home essential that people have as painters tape because it can
• 42:01
  just really help in a bind, but it doesn't.
• 42:05
  The point is that it doesn't stick super well.
• 42:07
  So yeah, I don't use it as like tape tape most the time.
• 42:13
  So yeah, now I feel like we can kind of get into quality and
• 42:18
  materials and like what you know what, what that, that's just
• 42:25
  such a big question. What are we looking for in every
• 42:29
  room as far as quality and materials?
• 42:31
  Well, in it, again, it depends on what you're using it for, who
• 42:36
  all's going to be using it. You know, some people are
• 42:39
  willing to like, say, a sofa. They may not care, you know, if
• 42:45
  it's a, a performance fabric. Yeah, they're like, I'm never
• 42:50
  going to use this room. I just want it for looks.
• 42:53
  We might sit on it occasionally. You know, that's a different
• 42:56
  story than, you know, a family of of four or, you know, a house
• 43:03
  full of pets. You know they have different
• 43:06
  needs. Yeah, let's break down like,
• 43:11
  yeah, if you, if you have a performance fabric, does that
• 43:14
  mean that it's just like it's a really good value, but it's it's
• 43:18
  not going to be like as high quality as something else.
• 43:21
  Is it easy to clean? Well, a performance fabric would
• 43:25
  be easier to clean and the durability I know with a lot of
• 43:29
  our sofas, you know, let's say for example, I I should know the
• 43:34
  name of the sofa, but the fabric that's on is a polyester which
• 43:38
  is cleanable and it might have well it would have at least a
• 43:41
  50,000 rub test. So that means this little
• 43:44
  machine is going back and going over and back that counts as one
• 43:50
  OK 50,000 times before it breaks or gets destroyed.
• 43:56
  So. We're just kind of knowing what
• 43:58
  your needs are. Like I need something that can I
• 44:02
  know that this is exists and I know that I have kids and I need
• 44:07
  something that's going to last through whatever they do to it,
• 44:10
  you know, like that is cleanable.
• 44:13
  Well, nothing is or indestructible.
• 44:18
  OK, so you do need to take care of if you want things to last
• 44:22
  long, then you need to take care of them.
• 44:24
  I mean, it's like having a high end car versus one that's, you
• 44:28
  know, the cheapest car you can find.
• 44:31
  You can destroy a very nice expensive car and and keep your
• 44:38
  inexpensive car very nice too. So it just it, you just need to
• 44:44
  take care. You got to take care of your
• 44:46
  furniture. That's such a good point.
• 44:48
  Like whether it's expensive or not, I think the care is going
• 44:51
  to determine how long it lasts to as long as I mean, we just
• 44:56
  want to get into maybe like what should people avoid, I think?
• 45:01
  And for the living room, like what I I think you want to make
• 45:06
  sure that whatever you're buying has a decent frame that the that
• 45:14
  the edges are reinforced. You were.
• 45:16
  Saying we're talking sofas. Sofas, yeah, yeah.
• 45:18
  So you could have, you know, a nice wood frame for your sofa
• 45:24
  and then just make sure that your stress points have wood
• 45:30
  there so that it it holds up because you're going to be
• 45:33
  sitting sometimes, you know, some people do sit on the
• 45:36
  corners of their sofa or on the arm.
• 45:38
  So you just want to make sure those stress points are
• 45:41
  reinforced. Right, exactly.
• 45:43
  So and that's kind of what determines quality of the piece.
• 45:48
  And I think also what is underneath the sofa because
• 45:54
  obviously for the most part you're sitting on the sofa and
• 46:00
  that the cushions are what's going to bear the most weight.
• 46:03
  So like how is your weight supported?
• 46:06
  So there's like a few different things that are common in sofas.
• 46:13
  I think it's like webbing. The sinuous frame.
• 46:17
  Yeah, exactly. So I would definitely look for
• 46:21
  the sinuous spraying springs or the webbing.
• 46:25
  The webbing is is a lot of times Italian people refer to as
• 46:29
  Pirelli, but that's really a brand.
• 46:32
  But our our frames have the sinuous springs in them.
• 46:37
  Most of our product does. Right.
• 46:39
  And then some really specialized sofas even have bars.
• 46:43
  I think it's like flex steel particularly, and that's their
• 46:47
  thing. Yeah, nobody else has that or if
• 46:50
  they do, it's not flex steel's. Bad.
• 46:54
  Yeah, yeah. But what you're trying to stay
• 46:57
  away from is like cardboard or something on the bottom.
• 47:02
  Well, yeah, I mean, and there are a lot of sofas and this
• 47:05
  happens when you're buying from from just anywhere you find.
• 47:11
  You can just aggregator. Yeah, it may look pretty, has a
• 47:16
  beautiful looking fabric and then you get it home and you're
• 47:18
  like, this is junk because it's not made well and it's it
• 47:23
  doesn't have the reinforced stress points or it doesn't have
• 47:27
  foam that wraps around the outside of the sofa.
• 47:32
  So you have to, really. Think about where you're sitting
• 47:37
  and then on the outside it's like.
• 47:39
  Yeah, you can like literally like feel that and it's hollow
• 47:44
  on the side or in the back, or you can feel the frame.
• 47:48
  Around it, the frame is too jutting out well and you don't
• 47:52
  want to sit on your sofa and have it collapse under you, you
• 47:55
  know, No, it's just I think we can all agree on that.
• 47:59
  You want it to, to support you both physically and like to look
• 48:07
  great. So a lot of people Speaking of
• 48:11
  sofas, they don't know whether they want fabric or leather.
• 48:16
  And I'm totally there. Like I want a new sofa and I
• 48:20
  don't know if I want fabric or leather and.
• 48:23
  What it what's the question, though for you?
• 48:25
  Like how do you not like? How come?
• 48:29
  How come? Leather like.
• 48:30
  Is it the other? Yeah.
• 48:32
  Like is it going to be as comfortable as fabric?
• 48:35
  That's my number one question. And then I think, you know, am I
• 48:38
  going to scratch up lap lather leather?
• 48:41
  Yeah. Am I going to scratch it up?
• 48:44
  Is it going to be more easily damaged, that kind of thing
• 48:48
  versus fabric? And like, I think it would be
• 48:50
  good to talk through this because people probably have a
• 48:53
  lot of the same, a lot of people have the same question.
• 48:58
  I think leather versus fabric is just a personal choice.
• 49:02
  Like what one do you like better?
• 49:05
  You know, I personally love a fabric sofa.
• 49:09
  I think it's I like how it feels soft and leather feels soft too.
• 49:13
  But for me I I like fabric and maybe an accent chair in
• 49:18
  leather. So it really does come down to
• 49:22
  personal preference of what you like.
• 49:24
  What are the different types of leather that are out there that
• 49:28
  I should look for? Because I don't know anything
• 49:30
  about what I should look for in leather.
• 49:33
  So what I would tell you is go for a top grain leather and do
• 49:37
  not buy a leather sofa that has split hide on it.
• 49:44
  We do not do that. So our leather sofas, they're
• 49:47
  all top grain in stationary. OK, and I'll explain the
• 49:51
  difference. But we do leather all or top
• 49:55
  grain leather all the way around the sofa.
• 49:57
  It's on all parts of the sofa. A lot of other places will say
• 50:02
  it's all leather and it is, but they use split hide.
• 50:05
  So the top grain is at the top of the hide, right and the split
• 50:10
  is underneath that. So it's in between the next
• 50:14
  layer, so they will put the splits on the side and on the
• 50:18
  back. We don't do that.
• 50:20
  So we're really offering an amazing value for a top grain
• 50:25
  leather sofa. Yeah.
• 50:27
  That's great. Or another thing that you'll
• 50:31
  see, and this is what you have kind of buyer beware, is a
• 50:35
  leather sofa that then uses PU or vinyl.
• 50:38
  Now that's that's fine on a motion piece because it's moving
• 50:43
  constantly back and forth, moving all the time.
• 50:46
  So those will have leather everywhere except on the side
• 50:51
  and the back. That's that's pretty typical.
• 50:54
  But on stationary you want it to be top green leather all the way
• 50:57
  around. OK.
• 50:58
  OK. Some of the motion pieces that
• 51:01
  you were talking about, it's like a vinyl on the sides, OK.
• 51:06
  And then? We call it PU, but it's like a
• 51:08
  vinyl. OK.
• 51:10
  OK. And then so what's the
• 51:13
  difference between like a leather, like is leather going
• 51:17
  to scratch? Should I be worried about that?
• 51:20
  It depends on what kind of leather that you're talking
• 51:23
  about. Top grain leather, you can get
• 51:25
  that in a corrected leather or an uncorrected leather.
• 51:28
  So a corrected leather is going to be a more consistent color
• 51:35
  all the way around. It's all going to look the same.
• 51:38
  It's for people that do not want to see scratches.
• 51:43
  They don't want to see, you know, like in a full grain
• 51:47
  leather the cow has, you know, is living its best life rubbing
• 51:52
  up against the fence, getting barbed wire marks on it, you
• 51:56
  know, whatever they are doing out there.
• 51:57
  But that is very different than a corrected leather.
• 52:02
  So you don't want to see all of that and the inherent beauty of
• 52:07
  the hide, then go with a corrected leather.
• 52:10
  OK. And then that is a little bit,
• 52:13
  it'll get less patinaed overtime maybe or like it'll show less
• 52:18
  scratches maybe. On the corrected.
• 52:20
  Leather. Yeah, OK, that's good to know.
• 52:23
  But I think, you know, some people really like the look of
• 52:26
  the cow, that the actual hide, they want to see the hide.
• 52:30
  And it reminds me of like wood, where you either want painted
• 52:35
  wood or you want like a. Yeah.
• 52:37
  And that that would be a good way to describe it like
• 52:41
  corrected versus uncorrected leather.
• 52:44
  So the corrected leather is like say you took a wood door, this
• 52:50
  beautiful wood door in your home and you just took a blue paint
• 52:54
  and paint it over. And I just out blue out of the
• 52:57
  thin air. And you painted over it and it
• 52:59
  completely is opaque. You cannot see the wood grain.
• 53:02
  You can't see the knots in the wood anymore.
• 53:05
  That would be your corrected leather.
• 53:07
  The uncorrected leather would be like if you went to that same
• 53:11
  door without the paint and you just put, you know, a sheer
• 53:16
  stain over it. Now you see the beauty of the
• 53:18
  wood. You see the knots and a lot of
• 53:21
  people like that look with leather, so it really it comes
• 53:25
  down to personal preference. Which one like Just like the
• 53:29
  door, it comes down to personal preference.
• 53:30
  Which which one you like better? What do you want to see?
• 53:34
  I way long time ago I used to have AI think it was called the
• 53:38
  Denver flea market or Denver sofa.
• 53:40
  I can't remember, but it was a full green uncorrected leather
• 53:47
  and you saw every scratch, everything on it and I loved it.
• 53:52
  It looks so beat up, but it looked good.
• 53:56
  It had a good patina and I don't know why I got rid of that sofa.
• 53:59
  I would love to have that now, even though I like a fabric.
• 54:03
  But what's great about it is you could pass that down to your
• 54:07
  kids one day. And it would still be great.
• 54:09
  It'd be great because it's got like a lifetime of use and you
• 54:12
  know where the oils have come up and you know, just.
• 54:16
  Story. Yeah.
• 54:17
  So you have some areas where it's super dark and rich and
• 54:20
  then other areas where it's just beat up and scratched and it
• 54:23
  just looks, I think that looks good.
• 54:26
  So I'm more of an uncorrected leather.
• 54:29
  Well that makes me feel like I'm just less worried about what
• 54:33
  happens to it too. I mean, which now that you know
• 54:36
  a little difference, what would you, if you were to buy leather,
• 54:39
  what would you go after? I mean, I think it depends on
• 54:42
  the room. It really depends on the
• 54:44
  interior design, because if I were going more of a rustic look
• 54:49
  or I wanted a rustic moment, I would definitely do uncorrected
• 54:53
  leather. Whereas if I wanted something
• 54:56
  like my room's kind of like all over the place and a little bit
• 55:00
  eclectic, and I want something to tighten it up and bring it
• 55:03
  together and look really put together more tidy, I would do a
• 55:06
  corrected leather. OK, but I'm also curious.
• 55:09
  I mean, a lot of people really want vegan leather and I feel
• 55:12
  like that's really popular now. And so I think.
• 55:15
  That's where I'm I'm at now, the instead of an all leather, but
• 55:20
  that's just me. That's.
• 55:21
  Just me and you can still find some good quality stuff.
• 55:24
  I think reputable places carry quality vegan leather and it's
• 55:28
  just kind of about the look and feel like it can still feel soft
• 55:31
  and look real. Yeah, and there's a lot of
• 55:34
  fabrics that look like leather. So, you know, if that's if
• 55:39
  that's your thing, then go with that.
• 55:41
  Yeah. And then you get the best of
• 55:42
  both worlds. That's interesting.
• 55:45
  Yeah. Well, cool.
• 55:46
  Yeah. And then so I think we've really
• 55:49
  touched on a lot of the sofa pieces.
• 55:54
  I mean, obviously where you sit is important and I think, you
• 55:58
  know, the foam quality is probably pretty good.
• 56:01
  That's the only other thing I didn't ask about was.
• 56:04
  Yeah. You want to make sure that you
• 56:07
  know, well we will not accept anything less than a 1.8
• 56:11
  density. And I don't even know if that
• 56:13
  means anything to anyone, but you know, a lot of ours is 2
• 56:16
  point density or higher. Which means it's like supportive
• 56:20
  and durable in my mind. It's the bounce back, like when
• 56:23
  you're sitting, you want it to bounce.
• 56:25
  Back. But, you know, if you're jumping
• 56:27
  all over it every single day, eventually, you know, those
• 56:30
  things can get a little bit more.
• 56:34
  And then there's sofas with springs, which are also good.
• 56:37
  It's just kind of like preference and it doesn't one's
• 56:40
  not better than the other. The other thing that we should
• 56:43
  talk about is veneers and why I think there's a perception when
• 56:49
  we're talking about wood with case pieces or dining.
• 56:54
  A lot of people think veneers are cheapo junk.
• 56:59
  Why? Because they think it's going to
• 57:00
  be like a sticker on top of. Particle ward, I mean, if you're
• 57:06
  buying it at some non reputable place, maybe, but I mean at
• 57:12
  Furniture Row art, that's a we love veneers.
• 57:15
  I've ended up with like a lot of sticker situations, you know,
• 57:18
  like, and my craft table, for example, or not table.
• 57:23
  It's just like where the boxes, the wood frame that holds the
• 57:27
  boxes where I keep my crafting stuff.
• 57:29
  That's definitely a sticker on particle board.
• 57:32
  But it doesn't really matter because I'm not like putting
• 57:33
  weight on it all the time. I'm not using it.
• 57:36
  Paper is is going to be different than a veneer.
• 57:39
  Yeah. So maybe yours is like paper.
• 57:41
  It's different. So veneers can actually be like,
• 57:45
  good, good, it sounds like. Yeah.
• 57:47
  Absolutely, especially if you want like a design pattern or
• 57:51
  design on your dining. Let's talk dining table.
• 57:54
  So on your designing or. On your dining table, On your.
• 57:58
  Dining table, so there's intricate patterns and designs
• 58:02
  that's from a veneer and it's a very efficient, cost efficient
• 58:06
  way to have a dining table that looks so beautiful with a
• 58:11
  pattern on it. For example, the salt table,
• 58:14
  that's a veneer, it's I think that's mango wood and it has a
• 58:18
  steel base. I mean, that thing is great.
• 58:21
  That's a great piece. Well, yeah, because wood grain
• 58:23
  looks really pretty, but if you want something really specific,
• 58:28
  then you would have to create that look with a veneer.
• 58:32
  And so, yeah, I think that could be a great option.
• 58:36
  And mango wood, like you're saying, a lot of veneers and
• 58:39
  when I've shopped with you guys, they are the people who are
• 58:44
  talking about the furniture are always saying, oh, this has like
• 58:46
  an oak veneer. This has like a, you know, a
• 58:49
  mango wood or, or an Acacia. And so a lot of times it's
• 58:53
  actual wood. It's.
• 58:55
  It is. Wood and it's just a thin layer
• 58:58
  of it on top of another wood and that just allows it to be a lot
• 59:03
  more cost effective, right? Absolutely.
• 59:05
  Yeah, absolutely. So I would tell people don't be
• 59:07
  afraid of veneers. And if you're afraid of them,
• 59:10
  just come to Furniture Row. Yeah, because ours are are
• 59:15
  really well made. Yeah, Yeah.
• 59:17
  That's great. And yeah, I think dining chairs,
• 59:23
  I don't know if that plays. Like are there dining chairs
• 59:28
  with veneers? I don't know.
• 59:30
  So what I would tell you about dining chairs, if you're looking
• 59:33
  at oh, what type of dining chair, again, it comes down to
• 59:37
  what, what is it used for? Is it going to be used all the
• 59:40
  time? Is it going to have you know,
• 59:43
  are you, do you have children, that sort of thing?
• 59:45
  So one, one thing that we do, not every dining chair, but a
• 59:51
  lot of our dining chairs will have a stretcher on it.
• 59:53
  So that helps with the durability.
• 59:54
  So if you're concerned about a lot of wear and tear, look for
• 1:00:00
  the ones that have the stretcher bar on the base of it.
• 1:00:05
  Like underneath. Yeah, and and again, not all of
• 1:00:08
  ours have that stretcher bar and those are great chairs too.
• 1:00:11
  But if you just need that extra durability, then go there.
• 1:00:16
  Well, yeah, because like a lot of dining sets are sold, I would
• 1:00:20
  think, with the same type of wood on the chairs versus the
• 1:00:23
  tables. Yeah, or the chairs.
• 1:00:26
  But you don't have to buy the same.
• 1:00:27
  Yeah, your chair. You could do a different chair
• 1:00:29
  with whatever table that you select.
• 1:00:32
  That's so true. Yeah, mix and match.
• 1:00:34
  Not everything has to be matchy, but if you want the matchy,
• 1:00:37
  that's fine too. So I, I think hardwood and like
• 1:00:43
  solid hardwood are the prized, you know, material and I think
• 1:00:51
  it that's appears to be quality or I would think it's quality
• 1:00:55
  because it would last a long time, but.
• 1:00:56
  Absolutely. A hardwood table would be great.
• 1:01:00
  You know, one thing I hear is, oh, it's going to crack in
• 1:01:03
  certain climates, like in Colorado, people worry about
• 1:01:06
  that. It could, but it's it's not
• 1:01:10
  going to. It's not going to be.
• 1:01:11
  Because the dryness. All the time, huh?
• 1:01:13
  Because of the dryness in Colorado.
• 1:01:15
  So there are, but it is something to consider.
• 1:01:18
  Yeah, but you know. And there's ways to take care
• 1:01:22
  of, like you're saying, taking care of your furniture.
• 1:01:24
  If you have a solid wood, there's ways to take care of
• 1:01:26
  that so that it is likely to just last a long time and look
• 1:01:31
  nice. Yeah.
• 1:01:32
  And I don't know about you, but if I'm sitting at my dining
• 1:01:36
  table, whether it's my breakfast table or dining table, I always
• 1:01:40
  put a place mat down. Are you like that?
• 1:01:42
  Do you when you are at your table?
• 1:01:45
  I know you're a you know I don't living room, right?
• 1:01:49
  Yeah, I don't, but I do have a coaster all the time.
• 1:01:54
  So yeah, maybe that's like a me thing that's like less put
• 1:02:00
  together. But yeah, I guess I have a lot
• 1:02:02
  of friends that they'll have a runner, but they don't
• 1:02:04
  necessarily have placemats. Yeah, so it's again, it's what
• 1:02:10
  what you want to do. I love using a placemat.
• 1:02:13
  It makes me feel a little bit like it elevates the experience
• 1:02:17
  of eating my sandwich. Yeah, yeah, you're like.
• 1:02:20
  Whatever I'm eating. But plus it does protect the
• 1:02:23
  table. So there's two reasons I do it.
• 1:02:26
  I just don't want to do anything to my table.
• 1:02:29
  But definitely coasters for your drinks if you're just sitting at
• 1:02:33
  your table with drinks. If it's wood.
• 1:02:35
  Yeah, just, you know, again, it's the year of the dining
• 1:02:39
  room. It's the year.
• 1:02:40
  So let's like take care of our dining tables.
• 1:02:42
  Let's get a new dining table if Yeah, if you're in the market
• 1:02:45
  for it. And dining tables, like if you
• 1:02:48
  do love to host especially or you just enjoy being at home, I
• 1:02:53
  think it's something that you should consider spending a
• 1:02:57
  little bit more on because the use per, the cost per use will
• 1:03:04
  go down if you're, if you're spending more time at home
• 1:03:07
  instead of going out. Sure.
• 1:03:08
  I mean if you're if you're using it every day, the cost per use
• 1:03:12
  is way lower than if you're only using it a couple times a year
• 1:03:16
  on special occasions. Every day should be a special
• 1:03:19
  occasion, right? Let's stop with this special
• 1:03:21
  occasion. Bring out the China.
• 1:03:23
  Go sit at your dining table. I'm going to make you sit at
• 1:03:25
  your dining table. Yeah, I gotta, I gotta get there
• 1:03:28
  more. But I mean something interesting
• 1:03:31
  that you brought up with, you know, the year of the dining
• 1:03:35
  table is I think you said. The dining room.
• 1:03:37
  The dining room. Yeah, but we were just talking
• 1:03:40
  on our episode with Brittany Pillard about Grand Millennial
• 1:03:44
  that a lot of people are hosting.
• 1:03:47
  Yeah, more. And I think it's the it's
• 1:03:50
  definitely a trend. I'm seeing it all over social
• 1:03:52
  media. And it's because like, you can
• 1:03:56
  create an environment for people that's a little bit more
• 1:03:59
  specialized and curated and people can talk a little bit
• 1:04:06
  more intimately. They can hear each other more.
• 1:04:09
  There's less to worry about. I don't know, like hosting is
• 1:04:12
  just becoming more popular because it's very specialized to
• 1:04:16
  what you and your friends love and, and there's less to worry
• 1:04:20
  about with reservations and things like that.
• 1:04:23
  And yeah, there's just a lot to celebrate.
• 1:04:26
  So, and you don't have to have a giant dining room to have people
• 1:04:31
  over either. You could just like entertain in
• 1:04:35
  a smaller space, like I have a four person dining set, but
• 1:04:39
  sometimes we have just two friends over and it's all about,
• 1:04:42
  you know, choosing the right size of get together that you
• 1:04:48
  want to have. It doesn't have to be a huge
• 1:04:49
  party. Yeah.
• 1:04:50
  And also a lot of dining tables have leaves, so it can expand
• 1:04:56
  and it could be bigger. And then for everyday use, it
• 1:04:59
  can go back down to a smaller size.
• 1:05:02
  So, you know, even if it is a little crowded in there, if you
• 1:05:05
  open it all the way and it seats say 8 to 10 people, that may not
• 1:05:10
  be your everyday way of how you set up your dining room, but for
• 1:05:15
  that special. Or it can do.
• 1:05:17
  That your special occasion with your friends.
• 1:05:19
  Yeah, just. Celebrate today.
• 1:05:21
  Exactly celebrate today. It could be super cozy that way,
• 1:05:25
  you know, open it all up. Totally.
• 1:05:27
  And so that's where I think it may make sense to either make
• 1:05:31
  sure you're choosing a really high quality or just a quality
• 1:05:35
  veneer or a solid wood just because you could, if you're
• 1:05:40
  doing wood for your dining, just because then it'll last longer,
• 1:05:43
  it'll be durable, it'll you'll enjoy it every day.
• 1:05:46
  But there are a lot of other great materials, like, you know,
• 1:05:50
  smart top dining tables that have just this really, you can't
• 1:05:55
  mess it up type of top. Like it doesn't get the glass
• 1:05:58
  rings and there's just a lot of or like there's marble top or
• 1:06:04
  yeah, a lot of. Different.
• 1:06:05
  Some people are afraid of marble.
• 1:06:07
  I am not. Yeah, go for it.
• 1:06:09
  Go with the Marbury. Table is so.
• 1:06:11
  Pretty, so pretty, yeah. And so is, I wanted to tell you
• 1:06:15
  about this one, the Rocky River dining table.
• 1:06:17
  That's a solid hardwood, OK, and it has a varnish on it that
• 1:06:20
  resists scratches. So that's a great one to have
• 1:06:23
  too, if you're worried about that.
• 1:06:25
  That's a feature I never knew dining could have.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, has a. Specific varnish.
• 1:06:33
  Oh, I wanted to say this about when we were talking about
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  placemats, because even on this table, that Rocky River, I would
• 1:06:39
  still sit with a place mat. But if you're like, you know, I
• 1:06:42
  don't want placemats, I don't want to have all that, you could
• 1:06:45
  always do a charger, you know? Have you seen those bigger than
• 1:06:49
  a plate? Yeah.
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  So like, it's circular. Yeah, it's circular.
• 1:06:52
  Or it could be square. It just depends on what your
• 1:06:55
  plates are and what look you're after.
• 1:06:58
  But you know, they're made to catch if you were to drip, you
• 1:07:03
  know, whatever it is, food, it, it's made to catch that so that
• 1:07:08
  you're not getting it all over the place.
• 1:07:09
  Yeah. Don't eat off your charger.
• 1:07:12
  Don't eat directly off the charge as you want to.
• 1:07:15
  I mean, I guess you could, but that's not technically what
• 1:07:18
  they're for. But yeah, so.
• 1:07:21
  If it's a lacquer, I wouldn't. Yeah, you don't want to eat
• 1:07:23
  lacquer. Eating glue is not for adults.
• 1:07:27
  Or I guess it wouldn't be a glue like a finish.
• 1:07:30
  But yeah, I feel like between fabrics and, and structures and
• 1:07:35
  and wood types, there's a lot that we covered a lot of the
• 1:07:39
  main questions that people have when they're concerned about
• 1:07:42
  quality in buying furniture. And so now let's talk about like
• 1:07:49
  where to buy your furniture and where being should you go in
• 1:07:54
  store? Is that super necessary or
• 1:07:57
  should you buy online? Oh.
• 1:08:00
  That is very personal decision too.
• 1:08:05
  I mean, if it were me and I'm like, OK, I'm not going to go in
• 1:08:09
  the store, then I want to know if I'm buying it from somewhere
• 1:08:14
  that it's a reputable place. Yeah, that will stand behind
• 1:08:18
  their quality and stand behind the product before I would buy
• 1:08:23
  it. Yeah.
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  I wouldn't just buy it because oh, that looks pretty or that
• 1:08:27
  looks really nice because. You don't know what you're
• 1:08:29
  getting. You don't.
• 1:08:30
  I mean it could shows. Like because people could review
• 1:08:33
  it and be like, this is great and they got it two weeks ago,
• 1:08:36
  but you don't know how. It's gonna.
• 1:08:38
  Yeah, I mean, reviews are good, but.
• 1:08:41
  Reviews are good. I mean, I do look at reviews on
• 1:08:43
  things just in general. Especially if it's a reputable
• 1:08:46
  site, yeah. Absolutely, but not.
• 1:08:49
  I mean, we all know there's reviews that may not be legit to
• 1:08:54
  on some of these other sites, but.
• 1:08:57
  Well, and the thing I don't like about buying furniture online is
• 1:09:05
  there are so many aggregators. And by that I mean there are
• 1:09:10
  websites that literally just pull furniture from so many
• 1:09:14
  different vendors and factories and companies.
• 1:09:18
  And they don't always have the best standards for who they're
• 1:09:24
  allowing there. Or even if they do, like, have
• 1:09:27
  they really done the homework to know if these buyers are doing
• 1:09:31
  the quality tests that they should do?
• 1:09:34
  And So what I, I prefer if I'm going to shop online is to shop
• 1:09:38
  from a store that has a brick and mortar as well for furniture
• 1:09:43
  because they just have a more robust buying team that just,
• 1:09:51
  yeah, can sift through quality. Still say just be careful
• 1:09:54
  because yes, they may, but you, you really want to make sure
• 1:10:00
  that it's the quality that you're buying and and that you
• 1:10:04
  know. It's that's so true.
• 1:10:06
  Well, in a lot of it like we were saying is so about
• 1:10:09
  marketing and then the product actually isn't super high
• 1:10:14
  quality though, like yeah. They could put a big a large
• 1:10:17
  price tag, but maybe the quality isn't there, just like we were
• 1:10:20
  talking about leather, right? How they could say this is all
• 1:10:22
  leather, but it's not top grain all the way around, it's splits
• 1:10:26
  or it's the, you know, something else on the side.
• 1:10:28
  Right. So and that's fine, but then
• 1:10:30
  what are you paying for? You know, if you're going to pay
• 1:10:32
  like top dollar, you want top quality and not just the brand.
• 1:10:37
  Yeah, agreed. And so, yeah, I think it's about
• 1:10:41
  making sure that where you're buying is creating a selection
• 1:10:45
  of quality. And I think we all know the
• 1:10:47
  places we like to shop, whether it's for furniture or clothes
• 1:10:51
  or, you know, groceries, who is curating the quality that we're
• 1:10:57
  looking for. And so I, that is my
• 1:10:59
  recommendation to people as if you're shopping online, even a
• 1:11:02
  lot of these places that they have expanded lineups, they have
• 1:11:06
  like, you know, the company has more standard for who they're
• 1:11:11
  going to let into their retail space.
• 1:11:13
  Then just like a big website with 50 million products.
• 1:11:19
  Yeah. And then I get decision fatigue,
• 1:11:21
  too. I almost need like a curated
• 1:11:23
  selection of like, here are quality things that we've
• 1:11:26
  already done the homework for you on.
• 1:11:29
  And you don't have to like look at all of these different little
• 1:11:32
  qualifiers to make sure it's right for you because I don't
• 1:11:34
  have time for that, you know? Nobody.
• 1:11:36
  Has time. Nobody has time for that.
• 1:11:39
  But you know how we're talking about like I'm all about buying
• 1:11:42
  online, just know what you are buying, you know, know the
• 1:11:45
  company that you're buying from. I personally think Furniture
• 1:11:48
  Row, it's a great place to buy online.
• 1:11:51
  It's a great place to come in the store and buy because we
• 1:11:53
  stand behind our quality, yeah, and our products.
• 1:11:56
  But. Warranties and yeah.
• 1:11:58
  Yeah, there's all of those things.
• 1:12:00
  But you know how I was saying like it's the year of the dining
• 1:12:03
  room and like let's get back to a beautiful dining room and use
• 1:12:06
  it and hosting hosted. Yeah.
• 1:12:09
  So I also think it's the year of going back in the stores.
• 1:12:14
  Like spend your time in the stores and like make a make a
• 1:12:17
  fun event out of it and like get out there and shoot.
• 1:12:20
  A coffee make it a day. Or, or just a couple hours or
• 1:12:25
  just an hour, whatever it is. But that 2 is like a social
• 1:12:29
  thing. I mean, you're going to make
• 1:12:31
  great people that work in these stores and you know, and then
• 1:12:36
  you'll get a little free education.
• 1:12:37
  You'll get to sit on lots of different things.
• 1:12:39
  You get to try out different dining tables so I think it
• 1:12:44
  should be the year of in store. Shopping well and what's good
• 1:12:48
  about that is you can have an idea of OK, I really like this
• 1:12:55
  look how does it actually feel to sit in that sofa or just sit
• 1:12:59
  at that dining table or in this dining chair because you may
• 1:13:02
  really like the look but then you decide I actually really
• 1:13:05
  don't like how that feels like I love the look of like a really
• 1:13:09
  laid back cushy sofa, but is it going to provide the the support
• 1:13:14
  I need for like an everyday sofa or is it better just kind of for
• 1:13:18
  a den where we're only laying down you know so these are.
• 1:13:21
  More of a perch. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:13:23
  We're just kind of perch. Yeah, Yeah, exactly.
• 1:13:26
  There are some that are like so stylish, but they're more of
• 1:13:29
  like just a place to sit for a SEC and put on your shoes or
• 1:13:33
  like just like a little sitting room sofa or chair.
• 1:13:36
  And they're not like, let me sleep here for a couple hours.
• 1:13:41
  And so, yeah, you really want to feel what you are thinking of
• 1:13:47
  buying, I think. And even if it's like, OK, when
• 1:13:49
  in there, I have a lot more information, I'm still going to
• 1:13:53
  buy online because they have more, you know, options there at
• 1:13:58
  least. You know, like I've sat on this
• 1:14:01
  sofa, I've sat in this chair or I've pulled these drawers and I
• 1:14:05
  know what that's. Like I know what the quality is.
• 1:14:07
  So I'm so more confident buying from them online.
• 1:14:10
  I get that. The other thing I do like about
• 1:14:14
  going in a store and you can order swatches from other
• 1:14:17
  stores, you know, that have different fabric swatches or
• 1:14:21
  wood finishes. But I, you know, it's kind of
• 1:14:24
  nice to just go in the store and see those things right there.
• 1:14:26
  You don't have to wait for it. You just go to the store and see
• 1:14:28
  it. So like what does?
• 1:14:29
  This fabric actually look like. What does this pattern actually
• 1:14:32
  look like? Yeah, and you can see it right
• 1:14:34
  then and there and make a decision.
• 1:14:36
  So part of what's valuable is your time, you know, So do you
• 1:14:40
  really want to spend a lot of time waiting on samples and
• 1:14:43
  things like that to arrive? You just go show up in the
• 1:14:46
  store, check it out. And that's another thing that I
• 1:14:49
  love about a lot of our vendors. We'll talk upholstery for just a
• 1:14:54
  second again, but some of our vendors, we have special order
• 1:14:58
  options where you can. You may not like the fabric that
• 1:15:01
  you're seeing on the floor, but with that particular vendor,
• 1:15:05
  they may have a special order option and you can see the
• 1:15:08
  different fabrics and select something else.
• 1:15:10
  Same with some of our dining vendors, you can change the
• 1:15:14
  finish, not all of them, but some.
• 1:15:17
  So you know, I again, I think it's the year, year of the
• 1:15:21
  dining room and then the year of in store shopping.
• 1:15:24
  Just come on in and check it out.
• 1:15:26
  Yeah, 'cause there's the perception that shopping online
• 1:15:29
  will save you time and that can be true sometimes, but I don't
• 1:15:34
  think always because you have to think about the time you're
• 1:15:36
  taking and the headache you're having of trying to decipher the
• 1:15:40
  differences between all these different options and and having
• 1:15:45
  so many options and not knowing what to go with so.
• 1:15:50
  And like, I mean, we have beautiful photos of of our
• 1:15:54
  products, but you know, when you see it in person, it's just.
• 1:15:59
  It's magical and you can feel the leather and the the quality.
• 1:16:06
  These chairs, for example. I know I love these.
• 1:16:09
  We've had these for. A while, Yeah, this is like a a
• 1:16:12
  finished leather. This is a corrected.
• 1:16:16
  Leather. Yeah, corrected leather.
• 1:16:18
  And these are super cozy. So like in your when you were
• 1:16:21
  talking about your own home, like if you had if if you wanted
• 1:16:25
  it to be the more tidy piece, then something like this could.
• 1:16:28
  Work. Yeah, it's pretty tailored, it
• 1:16:31
  feels like. Yeah.
• 1:16:33
  Well, yeah, I know that was like a lot of information to go
• 1:16:35
  through for. Covered everything I think we
• 1:16:37
  have. Anything else we want to talk
• 1:16:39
  about? I feel like we gave people like
• 1:16:42
  a good foundation and starting point.
• 1:16:44
  We didn't get too in the weeds because when things get we.
• 1:16:47
  Didn't confuse it. Technical Sometimes you have to
• 1:16:50
  take too many notes and then they're like, wait, I was doing
• 1:16:53
  something else. But this will just kind of give
• 1:16:55
  you an example just like a little how to guide on where to
• 1:17:00
  start when you're buying furniture and what to look for.
• 1:17:02
  And hopefully that's just it's a little thing you can refer back
• 1:17:06
  to. You can listen again, share it
• 1:17:08
  with people that you're like, hey, this would really help you
• 1:17:12
  because I know you just moved into a new house, so.
• 1:17:15
  Yeah, yeah. The number one I would say, draw
• 1:17:19
  out the space or spaces and put your dimensions together.
• 1:17:24
  Yeah, for sure. And then think about your
• 1:17:27
  priorities. Think about your priorities.
• 1:17:30
  What comes first? Where are you going to spend the
• 1:17:33
  most time? What needs to be bought first?
• 1:17:36
  If you can't buy everything at once, what budget do you have?
• 1:17:40
  Are you willing to consider financing?
• 1:17:43
  Yeah. And then, you know, look at your
• 1:17:46
  style, just look at all the inspiration you've collected
• 1:17:51
  over time. Or start collecting some
• 1:17:53
  inspiration from magazines or Pinterest or social media and
• 1:17:58
  kind of get an example of an idea of what you're looking for.
• 1:18:04
  And then, yeah, just decide where you want to shop based on
• 1:18:09
  quality. Yeah, hopefully with us based on
• 1:18:12
  quality. That's where I, I mean, that's a
• 1:18:13
  great place to start with us. Yeah.
• 1:18:17
  And you know what, the other thing too is some people don't
• 1:18:19
  know there's what style they like.
• 1:18:21
  And I definitely think looking at Pinterest and Instagram is
• 1:18:24
  helpful. Some people don't even want to
• 1:18:25
  do that. You know, they're just like, I
• 1:18:28
  want to furnish this room. I don't have time for that.
• 1:18:30
  I just want somebody to help me put it together.
• 1:18:32
  That's a great way. Come into the store and have
• 1:18:37
  somebody help you with that in the store.
• 1:18:39
  That can still feel like you because I think that's the goal
• 1:18:42
  is you want your house to feel like your style and you and not
• 1:18:47
  just like, here's what we saw the showroom and it looks nice.
• 1:18:53
  So like, how do you personalize it kind of thing?
• 1:18:56
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:18:57
  Well, it's been great to see everyone on our new set.
• 1:19:00
  And yeah, we'll see you again. See you again next time.
• 1:19:04
  Soon, yes. Bye everyone.