Season 5 Episode 12 - Voice Notes: Is it Art?
Episode 2 of the Gaines’ crew’s new mountain house project
Can lighting be art? (Yes)
The beauty of putting away vs putting down
Mid-century architecture, and L-shaped floorplans
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Season 5 Episode 11 - Voice Notes: How to Create Year-Round Christmas Magic
The Gaines’ crew have a new mountain house project!
More on floral art
The key to creating year-round Christmas magic
Tiny houses under 1000 square feet
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Venezia Small Vase from Jonathan Adler
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Season 5 Episode 10 - Voice Notes: The Key to Grown-up Kids’ Rooms
Floral art
Farmhouses > Modern Farmhouses
Using your favourite environments as design inspiration
The key to grown-up kids’ rooms
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Electric Bowery’s mountainside chalet project in Deer Valley,
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Season 5 Episode 9 - Voice Notes: Pattern for the Pattern-Averse
Art you can visit
Spotlight on Real Estate in Edenton, NC
How to hide money in your interior design
The key to including pattern when you’re pattern-averse
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Vaughan Design and Development
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Season 5 Episode 8 - Voice Notes: Why Your Home Needs More Contrast
Art from the zeitgeist
“Gold standard” architecture
How to edit your room (in 3 steps)
The one quick design fix that makes all the difference
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Season 5 Episode 7 - Voice Notes: Making the Case for Editing
Art from the zeitgeist
“Gold standard” architecture
How to edit your room (in 3 steps)
The one quick design fix that makes all the difference
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Lily Allen’s West End Girl Album
Prospect Refuge’s White Oak project
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Season 5 Episode 6 - Voice Notes: Being beautiful isn't good enough
Hyperrealistic art
Architect-built homes in Eastern North Carolina
How to juxtapose different design periods
Why we need more from design than beauty
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The German Pavilion in Barcelona
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Season 5 Episode 5 - Voice Notes: Classicism & Whimsy
"Not your typical" pop art
How to autumn-ize into your home
Best of Bungalows in ENC
Subtle ways to incorporate whimsy
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A Bigger Splash, by David Hockney
David Hockney on Art.com-- I was misled by this website, you're better off doing a google search of your own!
Sir Roy Grounds House by Studio Johnston
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Season 5 Episode 4 - Voice Notes: Can you mix metals?
How art is practical
Autumn-forward real estate
Mixing metals with Jean Stoffer
Unusual ways to use natural light
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Crackle Nymphoides peltata ÅJ EA 5 - 25 by Åsa Jungnelius
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Season 5 Episode 3 - Voice Notes: How to Fill a Tall Wall
How to address a tall wall
Using a read thread
How to do subtle colour
Recycled art
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Blue Styrofoam Seascape by Tom Friedman
206 W Eden Street (my absolute favourite!)
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Season 5 Episode 2 - Voice Notes: Great Art and Good Curtains
Art you can touch
Houses with space
A quick guide to café curtains
The art of framing
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Season 5 Episode 1 - Voice Notes: Upstate Who?
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L'Oro dell'Azzurro Framed Print by Joan Miró, sold by MoMA
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Season 4 Episode 9: How to decide which home projects to prioritize
When your budget is limited, the pressure of how to spend it well is enormous.
What should you prioritize?
Is there a right or a wrong way to spend on home projects?
That's where we're going in this week's episode.
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All Episodes from Season 4
Season 4 Episode 1: Microscopic vs Macroscopic Design Approaches
Season 4 Episode 2: How to Make Design Choices in a Home With No Architecture
Season 4 Episode 3: How To Embrace The Art Of ‘Slow’ (Thoughtful) Decorating
Season 4 Episode 4: Decluttering: Practical Ways to Make Space for Better Living
Season 4 Episode 5: Should Modern Architecture and Interior Design try to Look Old?
Season 4 Episode 6: Should We Seek to Live in Humbler Homes?
Season 4 Episode 7: How to think like a designer
Season 4 Episode 8: What if you live in a crappy old house?
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Season 4 Episode 8: What if you live in a crappy old house?
Not all old houses have good architecture.
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Season 4 Episode 7: How to think like a designer
The average homeowner and the average designer don’t think alike. So what can homeowners and DIYers do to be better informed and more design aware?
Toby Witte Episode (Part One, Part Two)
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Season 4 Episode 6: Should We Seek to Live in Humbler Homes?
While DIY and TikTok design are at all-time highs, more and more people are embracing the idea of the ‘unaesthetic’ home.
But is the idea of idealizing an ugly home just as problematic as idealizing a beautiful one?
Today we’re asking ourselves the question: Should we seek to live in humbler homes?
Let’s get into it.
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Season 4 Episode 5: Should Modern Architecture and Interior Design try to Look Old?
What should modern homes strive to be?
Have we made too much of trying to make history repeat itself?
How do we celebrate the past without making everything an homage to it?
In this episode, we’ll be talking about when to ‘go historic’, when not to, and what mistakes to avoid.
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The podcast takes a brief hiatus over the Easter Break, but we still want you to start thinking about this question:
Should modern construction try to look 'old'?
Tune in on May 7th to find out.
Season 4 Episode 4: Decluttering: Practical Ways to Make Space for Better Living
How much of what you own do you actually use? How much of what you have do you actually need?
To live well in our homes is not just a matter of the right layouts and furniture, but also how we live with all we have.
Join us as we get practical and self-examining when it comes to the ‘stuff’ we have in our homes, and what to do with it.
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Season 4 Episode 3: How To Embrace The Art Of ‘Slow’ (Thoughtful) Decorating
De-influence Yourself and Embrace ‘Slow Decorating’
Join us for the third episode this season as we discuss the 'slow decorating' concept and break down what it really takes to accomplish it in our ordinary homes.
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