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1. Introduction · Interior Design · Visual Prompts · Room By Room: I'm getting started. Hi, my name is Thomas,
either Shelley. And thank you for joining me. I'm so happy you're here. We all have these lives
where we have careers. We do the things we have to do. The beta bar is beta read through the
things we got to do. Then we had these hobbies
that we do for bond. Then we have these passions. And this is a passion of mine. I mean, because if
you glance my bio and
2. What To Expect · Floors · Ceiling · Walls · Doors · Windows · 360 Degrees: Here I am, I'm back and what to expect for
this course, okay? So watch it to when you weren't going
through each lecture, you see I've gotten
broken down by group. That just makes it easy. So if you have to
revisit, you can revisit button. There you are. Okay. So when you go to a room, you can take this
laptop or phone or whatever you're doing and
viewing this course now, you're going to put
it in that room. We're going to
talk about floors, ceilings, walls, doors, windows. And then when I
call 360 degrees, those are those other small
elements that make the room. I didn't learn this when
I was back in the States. I have learned this approach
since living here in France. And by the way, Yes, I'm
in the south of France. I'm near Montpellier. You ever heard of the
lag would duck region. It's gorgeous. 20 minutes for the
Mediterranean Sea. Always my dream
of retiring here. And I think it was
for the architecture, I think it was for
the interiors. It's certainly was
for the quantity of life and the sunshine. But it has truly brought
out even more of a passion in me for
the things that I've always wanted to do. I have done refreshes
and interior design and reformatting and restructuring
and overall 100 homes. So I'm going to bring it to you. Okay. Well, I just say floors,
ceiling, walls, doors. Don't you feel like, you know, the guy that directs or that woman that directs that airplane
coming down the runway. That's how you're going
to enter the room. You are going to take
your laptop with you. And you are going to travel from room to room and you
going to open it and take that lecture in
that room while I'm talking that you're
better able to visualize. I use that word a lot. Visual prompts. The only reason I use the word interior designers because what I'm talking about falls
under that category. But what we're really doing
is an interior refresh. I am taking what you've got, meeting you where you are and we don't tear their room up. Okay. We will be
talking about these. We're going to be
talking about tassels. Are they gorgeous? Now? Yeah, I'm lucky. I'm in France. So yeah, I go to Paris, I jumped jumped my training and I go to Paris and
I buy my tassels. What do I use them for? A dorm on every door, every window, every
Cabinet poll. I walk into a room and there's
my memory hanging there, that little flourish
of amazingness. I hang it on the bathroom
door on the knob. These are all the small
things that we're gonna be talking about as part
of your refresh. Okay. You're ready. Let's move on to
the next lecture. What room do you think we're
going to start with first? Well, I don't care what
country you're in. One of the most
there are groups of the house is in
fact the kitchen. So that's where we're going
to start getting busy. See you next class.
3. The Kitchen: Hi, I'm back. So did you follow directions? Is your laptop, desktop, whatever mobile phone with
you standing in the kitchen. So here's what I want you to do, because we're almost gonna do almost the same thing
with each room. We're going to always start
the doorway, entrance. Now if you've got
this massive home, when you've got
multiple entrances, you're going to have
to pick one, okay? Most of us got lot entrance going into the kids and
you're going to stand there, put your laptop on the table and use standard the kitchen. I want you to take your eyes
and look at your floor, the ceiling, look at
your walls, The Doors. Identify your windows. Okay. Then I want you to do
what I call a 360. Not you physically turn around, but I want your eyes to
glance that kitchen. You're seeing
refrigerator, cabinet, maybe dishwashers saying
you're looking at faucets. You may have a pantry. You may have multiple doors, you may have a breakfast
areas, eating area. Take all that in. Now we stop. Let's
start with the floors. No matter what type of
Florida have always think layer's color,
texture, pattern. If you're happy with your
floors, keep moving. If you're not, guess what, you're going to hear me
use the word jute rug throughout this entire course. Because guess what? It solves just about every
problem you may have. Remember, this is
not about ripping up the kitchen floor and you can
do that if you wanted to. But this is about just of refreshing what
you've got going on. In terms of the floors. We know rugs are the Savior, depending on what type of
style home you have that will dictate the rug you
put in your kitchen. Let's go to the ceiling. Are your walls and ceiling
all the same color? If they are, you could also consider painting the
ceiling of different color. Another shade of your walls. I'm going to assume the walls
in your kitchen or white. That just shows
everything beautifully. But if they're not mental K2, but whatever color they are, consider another color
for the ceiling. That gives you a
room, another layer. Think about that. Now
you've formed this, That's the floor, that's
the wall and the ceiling. Okay. So now you're walking in, you've got your floor,
whatever they were, hardwoods, tiles,
ceramic, linoleum. I don't know what
your floors are. You do you already have rugs? If you have rods for
convenience or are your rods pieces of art or
rugs talk to you? I know it sounds crazy, right? This is how they talk over here. Your rugs aren't talking to you, your jute rugs aren't
talking to you. They serving their purpose. Did you put them down just
to have something down. But did you really see how
they worked for that room? What do you do? Okay. So floors, all we can do
with floors are rods, walls, balls, come on. It's like the human body. What's the biggest mass
on the human body? Skin? Well, that's your walls, your
floors, walls or ceiling, that's the biggest mass in your rooms at your
biggest impact. So I always recommend pink, those walls white if you don't have white balls
in your kitchen. Obviously a nice can of paint that's gonna
do the job for you. Simple. You can do it, someone
else can do it. Simple. Refresh. We start with the paint. Do the two colors. I love Benjamin Moore and
I love the white dove. And go ahead and recommend
it because I paint all my eyes at the
same colors inside. He went, I had a
screened in porch when I lived in the
Blue Ridge Mountains. I paint the floor white. I painted the wall. It has that wonderful
reflective quality. And then pick a second
shade of white and paint the ceiling that your cabinets, you have an open
concept kitchen. Does Shelby I love that, especially here in France, it's very common in or
do you have cabinets? Are you happy with
your cabinets? Now, this is a Q&A. This whole course is the Q&A. I want you to start thinking
about what you can do. If you're not happy with
your canvas cabins, we can paint them. Do we have to paint
the whole cabinet? No. Guess what? You can
just paint the door. Do you have a recessed
area in your cabinets? If you have a recessed area and you can leave your
cabinets, the st, and then just take paint and paint in the crevices
of the racist. That is, again, that's if
you went to the farm house, fringe country in this country, that would not be from
modern interiors. You have glass front
on your cabinet doors. Do you know that you can
just take off a door and have a glass front
installed on it. Changes things. What are your pools
like on your cabinets? That's an easy one. This point everybody know that your poles are kind of boring. Change about wrought iron. Or I'm on Amazon, go to Home Depot or whatever store you've
gotten your areas, go to a hardware store, buy those inexpensive poles, 23, $4 a piece. Take off those pulls on your cabinet and
replace them with Now you've painted walls, you've thrown rugs on the floor. You've replaced your polls. Let's get over to the same
kind of think you got parcel. Stainless steel. Doesn't matter. Let's mess with that faucet. That false, that is one of those small touches that
wham tears up the kitchen. And so now think about investing
in a different Boston, maybe something a
little more monitoring, something a little more fancy. Wait for the sales. Treat yourself to
a fantastic boss. It, it will change the
landscape of your kitchen. It will. Now let's talk about lighting. You got to overhead
lines, you've got to Ireland and there's
an overhead light. Do you know you can hang suspended lamp over an island even if you don't
have electricity, a text attached to it. Learn that over here too. We always think,
Oh, I can't allow, I won't be able to turn off. What about just
for visual thing? You can do that
anywhere in your house. You don't have
electricity on a wall, but you could still
hanging walls, cancers. How about that? Those cute little lampshades, walls, glances coming
into your kitchen. How cool is that? Right? Now, back to these tassels. Pick your poison. Again. When you walk
into my kitchen, I got tassels hanging
on my drawers, my poles and my drawers in
my kitchen is so pretty. I've got them hanging
on my doors as well. Then sometimes when I
have a little lamp, even if I don't have a place
to plug it in and you see that little lamp behind
me that's not plugged in. I bought that at an antique
market here in France. And having young in Provo, I bought a strictly
because of the shade. I love the color of that shade. And you know what I do? I take a little tassel. I clip it and move the shape. I clip the tassel
around the lab. I'll let that hang
from the side. Oh my goodness. It's the small touches is going to just tear your room up. Okay. So floors, rugs go
with the natural Rafi. It's so pretty It's easy. It works with every
type of kitchen style. Your walls. We've talked about the colors. I mean, there was a time
where I painted it, most of my kitchens yellow. I used to love that. Now don't do that as much. It's just a lot, but
I still love it. I've gotten into that
hole one morpheme. So my walls in my kitchen, her WIPO wall is yellow. That I always have
something that I loved them because I just love that sunshine that
it brings in there. So we've talked about the wall, we've talked about the ceiling. I have a client that installed
be bored on their ceiling, went to the hardware store
and a little chains. They installed be
bored on the Themis, totally changed to look
through the kitchen. You can do that. That's a refresh That's
not big renovation. That's a couple of
sheets, a board that you've got
someone measuring, cutting and put boop, boom
stapling and the ceiling. Be bored ceiling
in your kitchen. How great, too bad, especially if you're going with that Nantucket,
Martha's Vineyard, block Island, Hampton's look, you know, get creative. It's a refresh or clay floors,
walls, ceilings, doors. Again, just like your
cabinets with my doors, if there's a recessed area, I don't paint my whole door. I paint inside the
recessed areas. So it looks like this
kind of a little outline. So romantic. When you walk in my kitchen is like you sit in my living room. I put as much romance as I can into my kitchen because we
spent so much time there. You notice I'm not talking
about furnishings. That's a whole nother thing
and it's very personal. I'm talking about the Tableau as the French word for painting. The tableau of your kitchen. And that's that blank canvas. Okay, Now speaking of art, I have learned, I mean, I used to actually go
to the store them by the little botanical
prints and hang them up and put it on
my kids and everything. Over here. They got full-on oils on Canvas. You see that oil
painting behind me? I had a couple of one on
the wall and behind me, 20-year-old, 25-year-olds,
that's about us $30. Go to antique stores and
start collecting oils. Things that appeal to you. Foil pennies that appeal
to you on Canvas, on board, on paper. Trained, unframed oils give
a dimension to your house. And very few Americans hanging oil paintings in their kitchen. You know, it's true. I'm going to recommend you start collecting oil
paintings whenever you can. Whether you buy them online. It's way more fun to go to antique and flea markets and start hanging
those in your kitchen. Could be an oil of a fruit. Display, an oil of whatever, a field of poppies. When you hang oils, canvasses on your
walls in your kitchen, you have created the most
magical space you can imagine. Right me. If you need
more recommendations. Floors, ceiling, walls, doors, three-sixteenths,
cabinet pulls, tassels, offsets, painting a little
crevices on your doors. You may have a window seal. Overhead lighting. Whether it's electric or not. You get the picture. That's what I want to leave
you with your kitchen. Okay? Now you can address
small elements of each. You may not need all. But everything I just shared
with you as affordable. You can get it tomorrow.
Not a lot of money. Okay. See you in the next lecture.
4. The Living Room: Hi, welcome back.
It's Thomas, CNS. So here we go. Let's head on into that living
room here in France. They call it the salon. I said, this a lot in the United States doesn't really going to get our hair down. But the French word for
living room is the salon. And that's usually
the first room you see when you come
through the front door. It's like where we are
in the United States. So the salon, what
are you going to do? Floors, ceilings, walls,
doors, windows, one star. Now if you've got carpeting on your floor and your living room, There's nothing I
can do about that. Okay. I'm going until you
start ripping up copy. Remember, this is
not a renovation. Of course. This is working with
what you've got. But nobody ever said
you can't layer or rug over your carpet. Want to be careful
that you don't trip? Yes. But you do want to give it something else that
all one color. That's not you're not
giving your room texture. Fires up a pretty rug. I think they have
something that back in the States called Overstock.com. I have a tendency to love that when I lived
back in the States. All of a sudden, that's
a French style rug. You might like another
type of floral. I wouldn't recommend a jute in your living room if you've
got carpet already. Jude's good when the
floors are bare. Alright. Can you put a jute on
top of garbage share? But normally if you've
got carpeting in a room, that's a little
more formal space. Very few contemporary homes
have carpeting through it. So whatever is in your floor, in your living room, you will have that DHAP, the type of rug and
I'm encouraging rugs all through your house. Everything we've talked about, every room we visit, we're going to be talking
about are red because rod gives you layers. So now we've got the floors, walls, what color your walls? You can answer that. What color is just ceiling? You can answer that. What type of lighting is
hanging in your ceiling? You have an electrical outlet. Can you hang a beautiful
little chandelier? Remember, you don't
need electric. You can just have somebody
come in and cut it, put that little
bar there mounted. And now you've got this
gorgeous chandelier with these beautiful lab sheets
in your living room. That's a refresh. You didn't have to tear
down anything for that. What's on your windows? In the last lecture
you notice I didn't talk about windows
in the kitchen. Why? Leave them alone? I liked that sunshine
coming through. So it's not, you can maybe put a little herb garden
if you've got a little ledge in
front of your windows, for the most part,
I do not recommend re-freeze in your
windows in your kitchen. It just travels out July and it takes away from all
the other elements. Let your tassels and the fabric from your chairs
and your furniture. You may have a
built-in bank where you whatever your seating
is in your kitchen, let that be your fabric
texture in your kitchen. Necessarily need draperies. Now if you happen
to have a kitchen where you have a door that leads out to a deck or screened
in porch or something, then you can consider draperies
just to warm up the door. Back to the living room. We got draperies and deliver
whether you close them for prophecy or whether
you leave a bulb in there just for the record. That's a fabric, that's a layer. So remember the wall
has the flat texture. It's not giving you any depth. Your floors can give
you Deb Because we can add we can add a rug. But your walls, what
can I give you? Test your color? That's
it. You're lighting. What can I give you all your
lighting and give you a lot? You can have floor lamps, you can add table lamps. You can have lamps that are
connected to electricity. You can have suspension lamps. You can have walls causes your lighting is your
friend in your living room, whether you turn it on or not, it makes for good visual prompt. Okay. So walls with color, floor, carpeting or bear if it's bare, think rug commonness, get
that texture in there. All right. Ceiling. Same color as your
wall, that's okay. You want to do some little
fancy change the color. A client that
actually she was wait to create a she got on a ladder, she took her tape and she just did the stripes across
the ceiling and she took her brush with another
shade of white and she painted all the way
across her ceiling. And then when it dries, she took her duct tape off or a
scotch tape off and she had the most beautiful stripes in her ceiling I had ever seen. It was so gorgeous. And whether that cost her just a little pilot
paint and her time. That's what refreshes all about. I want you to think about ways that you
can refresh, refresh. And again, now you're
in the living room. Do you have a sidebar
into the room? You have a little
table with drawers. What am I going to tell
you to do with those little knobs and the doors? You're gonna get sick of me, sick of this, because
this is my go-to. My tassels are my life. So if you've got a
little side table, go out and buy some tassels from the whatever stores you've got or everything is online now. So Huangdi's on the knobs on
your side tables next year. So that gives you
room again dimension. So there's your living room. Again, if you have a window, you're gonna be using draperies, something that gives
it warms and layers. But the main thing
is when I tell you the biggest
part of your body, your skin, that's the
biggest part of your room, your walls, floors,
ceiling, massive. You're going to want to
pay attention to walls, floors, ceiling, everything
else is secondary. Then you just filling in from there. See you in the next room.
5. The Dining Room: Now we're moving on
to the dining room. And if your home is
traditional in nature, normally your dining room is right next to
your living room, or sandwich between your
kitchen and your living room. In country houses
here where I live, the dining room and
then oh, another place. So it's kinda near the kitchen, is usually never live
near the living room. So that's a different layout. Not sure what type
of home you have, only you know that. But just remember
whenever we talk about, make sure it is appropriate
for your style. Mid-century modern
industrialists. Minimalism, me French
country all the time. My friends always
say you got way too much furniture in
your house, Thomas. But I love it. I like that people get COVID and just kind of
like curl up on us. Relax and everything's just right there at your fingertips. We're going into
your dining room. In my dining room, I've got pots everywhere. I've got dishes on the table. I've got books strewn
all over the floor. My dining room looks
like a library. Let's stick with the formula. Floors, walls, ceiling, windows. What does your dining
room look like? Let me describe mine. I have my apartment that I'm in. I live in an apartment that's
built in the 18th century. I've got the original
terracotta tiles on the floor. So my Florida bear, you can imagine all my art rugs. I've got jute rugs all
through the house and wonderful blonde dish week
color, rapids you run. Then when you walk
in the dining room, I kept my walls white
because the window in my bedroom is very small and so not a lot of
light is coming in. I made my walls white. The ceiling is also light. But here's where it gets fun. I got artwork hanging
from floor to ceiling. Oils everywhere. Not expensive, so I'm on fat. But I've got oil paintings
of everything I love, poppy fields, sunflower bills. My dining room is a place
that nobody wants to leave. They come over to eat dinner. Nobody wants to leave
his dining room. This is what I want
you to create. I want you to look
at your floors. I don't care what's
on that floor. Make it attractive. Your walls in your dining
room, even if they're just y. Okay, hang some
artwork in there. If you've got a modern
place or coastal home, something by the sea, you know, you go with those, you go with those modern type paintings,
those Picasso paintings. You don't have to do my teeth. And impressionistic
art in a modern own. You can go with the
Cuban ism period. So depending on what
your room feels like, that's the kind of
art you want to hang. But I'm telling you we
did art in the kitchen. You need to do art
in your living room. You need to have art
and your dining room. Your home will feel just
like this amazing gallery. So no matter what's
happening with your furnishings, your floors, walls, ceilings, your doors, your lighting, your windows. They are fierce. And then your furnishings, That's just the
cherry on the top. So in your dining room, think about what your floors are like and then again, rugs. What's happening
with your walls? Don't forget, you know, uh, my dining room. This particular place, it's
a little dark, normally. See I do that one wallet. Wow, I didn't do it here. But guess what I did,
That's my tablecloth. My tablecloth. If a yellow and creep French. Wow, it's magnificent. And you don't have
some people who Hank the copper pots in the kitchen on the pot racks or they put them on the shelves, are they hang them on the walls. You can do all that in the
kitchen, but guess what? You can do that in
the dining room two. And that's what I did. It's beautiful.
There's nothing to stop you from putting bookcases, whether you have
them built-in with a few pieces of wood that you buy and have
somebody coming to you, shells, or whether you order from ikea or somewhere
that's not too expensive. A bookshelf. Put yourself on a bookshelf in that dining room and
fill it up with books. That again, another layer. So we got the beautiful
rugs on the floors. We got your walls
and a creamy white. We get just sealing
in the same color or another shade that's
a little different. If your walls are darker, just change up your ceiling. If you've gotten Greenwald
and your dining room, or blue which is gorgeous, or the yellow which
is a gorgeous, I've seen holes or they
add the color dusty rose on the wall of the
dining room. Gorgeous. Free up your ceiling. Make it white, make it another shade of those other walls. Your door do you have a door leading to the kitchen
from your dining room? Remember what I said
about the door? Hello, paint on that door
or you can paint them door. I once did a refresh at a
home down in Hilton Head, South Carolina, Coastal
it was on the water. And I said to the woman,
I said, you know, one year I took a vacation
to the ILD array. I l e, If you want
to Google it, d, r, e, il, do, which is they call
it the Nantucket of France. And on this island, all of the homes by order
of government, the array have to
be painted white, and all the shutters have
to be shades of blue gray. Blue-gray, can't deviate. So you can imagine
the tableau houses along this magnificent, all that to say when you
walk into the house, of course, the floors are
beautiful terracotta. But the doors, they paint
their doors this shade of, I call it Paris. Great. Yeah, there's this, you know, any Sloan chalk paint. Okay. They make a
shade called Paris. Great. Well, I painted every door in their
house and eliminating South Carolina Paris gray. And let all the walls,
white ceilings, white lighting was modern. See where actually you see, I'm by the Sea,
Mediterranean Sea. That was by the coast,
the Atlantic Ocean. Okay. It was magnificent. All that to say. Get creative with your
paint, your tassels, you pull their little things, your art in that room. You don't have to be this
super star interior designer. I'm not an interior
designer by profession, by education, by training. No, I just have a passion for that warmth that
I want in a room. I just have a passion for how I want people to feel when
they come to my home. I know you must do or you
would be taking the glass. Okay. So Trans born that room. And to some place
people want to stay awhile because that's
the dining room after you eat jab copy. I don't know if people have
data rooms and error even go in and turn that dining room into a
library slash dining rooms, sledge living rooms
slash sitting. All of a sudden, people don't
leave your dining room. There you go. Yeah. Okay. Right. Maybe you
have any questions. Create that dining room space and you're going to love that. It's gonna be one of
your favorite rooms in the house after that, so, well, I'll see
you next class.
6. The Bedroom(s): Alright, here we go.
Where we had it. You got your laptop, ipad. We're headed to the bedroom. Alright. Like I said early
on the kitchen, that may be the most
important room in the house. And then after that, you
know, it's that bedroom. Mean that's where all
the commercial side, that's where you spin authority, a life in bed. So you know, this room needs
to be looking pretty good. Okay? So what are you gonna do?
Use your quiz, pop quiz. When I was a little kid, I'm going to deviate a little bit. Maybe they did this
at your school too. That has this little
song that you had to learn to so that you get
memorize the parts of your body. And it went like this. Head, shoulders, knees
and toes, knees and toes. You Rodentia, head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes, and eyes and ears
and mouth and nose, shoulders, knees and
toes, knees and toes. All that to say it's the same with when you
walk in every room of your house to put in the
different words now, floors, floors, ceiling,
walls and doors, walls and doors, ceiling
walls and doors, walls and doors and lighting. And when know I
know so much more. Floors, ceilings,
walls and doors. Walls and doors. Okay. Alright. Yeah, I've been out in the sun a little
bit too much today. But all that to say
that's going to help you remember as you walk into your room now
you're in your bedroom. Forget about the furniture,
floors, ceiling, walls, doors, windows, everything else. That's on your floor
for long carpeting. On some markets in the
US, I mean, it's cold. That's why you have
carpeting on the floor. Most people don't put carpeting on a board just for
the heck of it. There's a reason in Florida and different places you don't have carpeting
on the floor. You got that sand, you get
that sign. It's always hot. Carpeting serves its purpose
also for a protector. But ideally, bare
floors are great. You buy old homes or even if you build a
new home and you can swing button hardwood
floors, do that, do that. Then you can have a whole lot
of fun with you rugs, okay? If you can swing button
down tiles in the kitchen, terracotta tiles,
porcelain, marble, do it. Then you can you got to
open door with your runs. Okay. But if you do have
a home with carpet, yet still doesn't not
knock you out the game. Alright? So we are now standing
in your bedroom. You have one of those
massive bedrooms with the attached master
bedroom bathroom. That's rare here. People
kind of look at me like, What do you mean
there's a bathroom? Next to the bedroom. You can go into a huge
chateau in France. And you can have 11 bedrooms, and they have one bathroom. I don't know what it
is with the French. They're not obsessed
with the bathrooms. When I was looking at property, that'd be the first of three bathrooms as
a 2.5 bathrooms. It's like they got to turn
them here. It doesn't exist. And in French as it exists. It exists. It doesn't exist. So you get used to one
bathroom very quickly. Excuse me. But anyway, yeah. So you may have a master
bedroom, master bathroom. So you're going to be
combining all of this, keeping your colors
where they need to go. Okay. Talk to me, write me. Tell me what's happening
with your floors. You know what to do. What's happening with your
walls and the ceiling. You know what to do? What's happening
with your lighting. You know what to do, What's
happening with your Windows. Now, we can do draperies, just like in that living room. She got this modern home and
you've got this great view. Then don't just leave
it as a picture window. What do you doing
with your lighting? Yeah. The suspension lighting, ceiling fan will also glasses. You got tassels in that bedroom. Got pottery, steel
is power behind me. These are two pieces of probably
200 pieces that I have. I use powdery for everything. Sometime it just sits there. Sometimes I actually use it. But it definitely adds a
dimension to the room. It's gorgeous. The fireplace
I can't take credit for. I got one in every single
bedroom, but it came here. This building was built in 1832. That's one of the reasons
I'm in this apartment. I just am in love with it. It already has
architectural elements that loves all have to
do is refresh your home, I'm sure has already had
architectural elements you love. You don't need to
tear down walls. You just need to refresh
around what's already there. Okay. So there's your
bedroom and again, I'm going to get two bathrooms, but for now I just want you
to focus on your floors, your walls, your
Windows, your doors. Go in with the
tassels, you know, the furnishings we don't talk about because that's
very personal, but we can control
what's happening with the walls and
the ceilings. Okay. So you're gonna be
doing this through each and every room. I think you're
getting the flow now. So here's the pop quiz. Can you sing that song? Ceiling, walls and doors? Walls and doors. You can do it. See you in the next class.
7. The Bathroom(s): Welcome back. Welcome back. We are headed to the bathroom. Now. I don't know about
you, but personally, for me, anyway, I was younger. It was a little bit more
romantic to design a bathroom, but that's one of the most boring rooms
in the house for me. Now, it can be
interesting, true. We use the same formula, floor, ceiling, walls, doors. But now when you stand
there in that door and you're looking at your
bathroom, what exists? Are you trying to change? Obviously, you already
have some type of rope because you
got to get out of that bathtub or that shower. You probably just have
a basic rug, right? That basic shower Rugg. I'm going to recommend you put a wonderful round
oriental rug somewhere in that room or AABA song room somewhere
in that bathroom, if you can, if it's
large enough where you have an area that's
away from the water. Put a beautiful
round or rectangle, oriental or Obasanjo or
jute rug or Navajo rug, which I love that pattern. Depending on the type
of home you have. All those beautiful mountain
homes they always have. They got navajo rugs all over the rooms hanging on the
walls draped over this bear, well, that's a
beautiful pattern. So if you have the
type of home that can support that type of
gorgeous Navajo rug, then definitely use that. But I'm going to
recommend you put a traditional rug and
your bathroom floor. Obviously, you can pick
it up when you take your shower or your band
and then put it back down. It's beautiful to walk into. Obviously, I'm going
to recommend that you find some knobs and
your bathroom that you want to change
out on your cabinets or leave and hang the tassels. Obviously, we're going
to talk about the paint. Your bathroom, light pink, blue, red, whatever you've done, however you jazz it up. No, it doesn't have to be the most boring
room in the house, but it isn't as exciting
as the kitchen for me. It's not as exciting as
the dining room for me. But the bathroom can
be a lot of things. I know you're already
doing the candles, you got the candles, get
the potpourri, sit around. We always do the basics. Whereas you're going to arch. You got your bathroom. That's where I get my
bathroom gain going. Okay. I got oils in my bathroom
and I'm taking my shower. I am looking at the most beautiful
lavender field in Provence on a 16 by 20 oil. And that's when I'm
taking my shower. On another row or another wall. I hung a gorgeous, gorgeous oil of sailboats
with the blue sky and the clouds and
the C rolling up. It's beautiful. Sounds. Oh wow. Where did you get that? Again? Flea market. Remember I'm not
talking big money. I'm saving my money
for a reader. Retirement. These bargains. I have a formula. I put $50 or $40 in my pocket in
five-year increments. It, I go around and I buy what I need it those markets and
then I bring it home, dusted off, and I start
adding it to my room. For the bathroom, the biggest punch it can
give you a bathroom if you want to up your
game is to hang beautiful artwork on your
walls in your bathroom. Lot of people do
that with towels. They'll do the towels and okay. What I do towels,
I'd take the towels. I roll them up roles. I tie them with
Rafi, a little hay, and then I put them in a big inexpensive the basket
in the bathroom, towels on my towel racks unless they're wet
and after I use them. But just to hang them for decor, know, I use art for the decor. I use taxes for the decor. I wrapped the
towels in the roles like you would see at the
swimming pool and the Spock. I tie those with Raqqa. This is all about the refresh. I love baskets and baskets
and baskets of white towels. So when people come to visit me, they've taken their white towel, it's tied with Raphael. They had to pull a tool
wrapping up and take a shower. All of a sudden is this
amazing experience. It was nothing bag or Rafi, a couple of bucks a year, you can tie your Christmas
presents with them. My point being is it's
all about the refreshed, the visuals when
you walk in a room. So take that most boring room in the world and
do your candles. Yes. Do your town? Yes. Get yourself
a beautiful rug? Yes. What's your lighting
in that room? You got a place for
some malls glances. Do you have a window
in your bathroom? Most of us have a window of
his small for you to crack. What's happening
with that window? We probably don't need
a drapery on it if you bathrooms upstairs and
even if it's downstairs, usually not a huge window, but if you've had a huge window, your bathroom, you
might want to consider. And then a little shelf
there gets divided install, maybe a wrought iron shelf
underneath that window. Then you can put some
gorgeous plants. There are some IV draping over. Right now. It would be nice.
Then your door. I'm always going to
recommend the same thing. Either pain at one complete solid color or leave
it white and pink. The recessed areas
inside the gorgeous, gorgeous doors,
you've seen those, you've seen those molded doors. You've got doors
that are just flat, and then you've got
doors that have molding, paint the inside
of that mold thing and I think you'll get
a really good look. Are you getting the
gist of this now? You're enjoying the class. I'm certainly talking to you. Again, I'm probably forgetting a million things, but
this is what I do. Love giving people ideas,
walking them through. And remember also I forgot
to tell you you can always write me and I will help
you source things out. Okay? So you might get stuck. You can write me Thomas Sina. I'm trying to do
this in the bathroom and I can't find this source. I still got my sources
of the United States. And of course I got two
main sources over here. And some of these companies
in France shipped to the US. So that's a nice bridge touch. So write me if you
need anything at all. But yeah, your bathroom, you can do your thing
and your bathroom. And like I said, it's not
that you can do this big bow. You may have a bathroom
with a walk-in closet. So you already got the
shell being built in, so you're already there. You're probably not even
watching this class. If you've got a 10 thousand square foot house and you got to walk in closet with a
thousand pair of shoes. You own. This course. You already got your
design are doing your thing at $500 an hour. This course is for people who just want to
do it themselves, do their refreshed need that second set of eyes,
need those ideas. And just somebody they
can write in touch base with me or in French. Same will see in
the next lecture.
8. The Library:Home Office: I'm back. So are you
fortunate enough to have an office steady Bureau, as the French word for
library or office. Are you fortunate enough
to have an office or a steady or Bureau in your home? If so, let's take a
walk through library. Obviously, you got some
bookcases, built-in, floors, ceilings, walls, doors,
windows. Same formula. I can thank my time and
France for learning this. It makes it so easy
for me to walk into a client home or walk into my mother's home to
give her a hand, I immediately do the same thing. I look at our floors
and ceilings, walls and doors, and then
I make recommendations. Okay. So now we're standing
in your library or your study or your bureau. Okay. What did we see? We see the floors,
hardwood carpet, you know what to do?
What are the walls? Well, one wall, maybe full-on
bookcases if it's not, get that blood and
get that built, find yourself a
carpenter to get in there and give yourself
one full wall. One full wall. Just cases. Okay. So that's taken care of. That's just would hammer nails and somebody to come
by and do that. Fill it up with all
the boats books. And when my daughter is 33 now, my son is 36. I got all their
Hop on Pop books. All a little Sesame Street
books, everything else? All the books from college, all the books from growing up in high school and
middle school. Back the buddy, but
they were a baby. Fill up your fill
up your library. Make that one wall. Floors again. You know what rugs
are going to work depending on the
decor of your house. Aaba song, oriental, Navajo, jute, you know the drill. I'm a fan of Zhou
because it goes with every design category, okay? Windows. Alright, that's a
formal library. You may, you may want to
definitely do a drapery there. You might want to put
that fabric there. I'm thinking, yeah,
because that could add some texture to that room. What would Thomasine
and do you know? I'd be out there writer Alec of Artois fabric thing and that steady studies
also the girl with a wonderful Italian sill Gore, a heavy, gorgeous,
broke Haidt fabric. There's a lot you can do with the steady
when there's a lot, you can do what I don't
particularly care for. I will say that window
are the mini blind. I know a lot of
people use those, especially in my country
in the United States. Many blind. They serve a purpose. They are not really
an interior elements. You want something
a little softer on that window if possible. And you don't have to
take out the mini blind, you just met them up. And then do you drapery? I'm not saying you
need to take them out. You might like them because
they let a little light in, close out the light. This is all up to you. You all, for your steady, this way you can get good. I've done chocolate
walls and studies. I've done hunter green, I've done marine blue. Oh, this is where it gets fun. Because the study is
that it's a place where you're going solid to, your kids are doing
their homework or you're working from home. It's a place where you're
reading your books. You can do your thing with
your walls and aesthetic. I never recommend and white
walls in a library or steady. I happen to love dark wall. I even did a bargain
me the shade of a Merleau on the walls, Marlow Bergen, be
some type of read. Your study can be that room that when you
come around that corner, there's this richness
on the walls. Here's his rich
richness in the roads. There's this richness
in your draperies. There's this richness
in the lighting is you can even have a
pendulum there again. I'm a big fan of chandelier is even before I came to France. And chandelier is
Iran's chandelier hanging in the bathroom. Chandelier in my
hallway upstairs. Chandelier in the foyer. Chandelier and my
eaten gets IT area. And they were all
different sizes. Some are antique somewhere new. I use Ballard design a
lot for chandelier that Neiman Marcus spin off Ballard design. I think
you've got weight. Bear still going up. They got these cute
little chandelier. I use them all over the house
because I like romance. My kids grew up with that. So now when I look at my
daughter's house, I see romance. It's really interesting.
She's taken on this thing. She does. The floor ceiling walls have
been doing that since she was in her 20s and now
she really does it. 33 married about to have
her first baby or housing. Beautiful, but she
does the same concept. She'll walk in and should do the floors, ceiling,
walls, doors. What do I need to do? And if she sees nothing, she may hang a piece
of art to with TASO. Do a wall, shall
do something small just to keep it looking
beautiful and interesting. I'm not spending a lot of money. And once you get
your basis together, then you can start your
refresh regular oh, refreshed. Instead of waiting to
spring and refreshing, do it three or four times
a year, once a quarter. Oh, I need to take a
look at this room. Let me add a piece of art here. Let me paint the recessed area
on this molded door here. Let me add something,
a wall hanging. You've got options. So as
terms of that library, standard procedure books
and the k bookcases books. And you know, you
can use a book as a table. You have any clients. I've stacked up their books like this and then
bought a piece of glass and just put the glass down and that became a table. The base is just all their books from where their
children's were in school. And that inexpensive
saying which are in table, stack up your books, boop,
boop, boop, boop, boop. Then just put a
piece of, you can get a beautiful piece of lumber. And that's your table or
glass to measure table. So you got two options. Use what you have, you know, stick
with the formula. It's a good one. Floors,
windows, balls, doors, ceilings, and then the 360, the small touches. See
you in the next class.
9. The Laundry Room:Mud Room: Okay, now, here's another room that's
kind of interesting. The laundry rooms
slash mud room. Okay. These mushroom thing they came about in the last
couple of decades. And I got this kinda cool. You come through the garage,
come through the mud, groom, take off your
boots, do you thing? I've seen lots of
interior designers put in the little lockers like the kids at school hanging their
coats up and everything. Most homes, especially
older homes, we don't really
have mud room and our laundry room sometime
is in the basement. If you're fortunate
enough to have more moderate home
and you've got a laundry room dedicated,
Asher dryers, Ackles. Maybe you have shelving
along the top as beautiful. You got to dedicate it. Laundry room for all those folks has got those homes built in the 50s and 60s and that
laundry rooms in the basement, or even worse in
the garage charge. That's a difficult
decoration or sad bit. Okay. It's gonna be hard to refresh laundry room as in the garage, or refresh a laundry room that's in an
unfinished basement. So this particular lecture, if you have a laundry room or mud room that is actually
on your main level, UK or upstairs but
the laundry room. Then yes, we can talk about
floors, ceilings, walls, doors, the same elements
for the laundry room. Now we're just going with what I like to do with my clients. I always tell them, yes, we're going to put a
beautiful rug on this floor. And it's probably going to
be a jute because it works. Go walk all over
it and you don't have to worry about
the maintenance of it. And it's a natural fiber. So I just love it and it keeps your laundry room looking fresh. We're probably going
to do that. Then. I love to decorate with baskets. One, they don't cause
a lot of money to, they give you impact. Patterns, texture, layers. I love baskets of all sizes. The laundry room is going to be filled with all
kinds of baskets. So it's still going
to be very pleasant. In terms of the color wheel, you know, you've got
a little leeway. If you're white and you've got white cabinets over
your washer and dryer. You can keep it the white
walls, but guess what? You can play with your walls
and your laundry room. I love doing nautical
themes and laundry rooms. I love the blue and
white striped wallpapers are the red and white
striped wallpapers on wall, wall and then leave the
rest white, the ceilings. And the other one,
I love playing with wallpapers and pink
colors in laundry rooms. I mean, think about
doing laundry unless you just stares land to it. It's one of these
drudgery tasks. So when you walk
into a laundry room, I'm telling you I did a
laundry room for a woman. Again, I'm Hilton Head Island. I've built her a coffee
bar in her laundry room. So she had a little table. Can you imagine you're walking? It's gorgeous. The
nautical thing, the sale, both the arts on the wall, the rug is there. And then there's this one
little area that's like a cafe bar with a table
too little stool, and that little Nespresso
machine that you've popped a little capsule
and she had her cup, she had everything, and
then she had a few books in that laundry room. Was wonderful and it
didn't cost a fortune. Table was from, I
think we use target. I think, you know, the stools and, you know, the basket is doesn't
call a lot of money. And you get the wallpaper
anywhere or you can paint. That was so that she actually
wanted because she said sometimes she just doesn't
feel like going back and forth into the house
doing their laundry. She'll just set up her
laptop, drink your coffee, let the laundry do its thing, and then when it's finished,
put it into the dryer. That's an idea. So remember when you're thinking
floors, ceiling, walls, doors, you're thinking colors, textures, layers, patterns. In every room. Colors, textures,
layers, patterns. That's your mantra. And you're going to
use a lot of that. Some of those you're
going to be grabbing using pillows or baskets. Certainly, paint is going
to give you your colors. Pills are going to give you
your colors and layers and textures and potentially
certain things. You don't think
about your lighting. You choose wrought iron, you choose that chandelier
giving you layers. The rod iron gave you textures. You've mixed blood. Maybe a hardwood floors with iron is beautiful with would, you know, when speaking of wood, I'm going to digress just a little bit there
than nothing wrong, even if you don't
have a fireplace with getting a thing of wood, next time you go to
the store during the winter season and stacking them would up at the
rear door walking eric, anything that's going to
give your home that warm, even if you have
a gas fireplace, you can still buy
the element that holds the word put it
next to the fireplace. Anything that's going to not
cost you a lot of money, but it's going to make your
home feel warm and beautiful. Now here, obviously with
a house built in 1842, even the apartment, the
fireplaces were used warm. So you have wood
everywhere, whole room. That's all it was
was wood storage. We keep woods
stacked everywhere. And I just love it. I love the smell of it. I love the visual of it. I don't know. It just takes me
to another place. Think about that in
your home as well. Regarding that mud room now, which could also be the
same as your laundry room. Sometimes when the new houses, when you come
through the garage, the mud room is in
fact the laundry room. They dropped the close there it is right there
in the laundry. But if it is a separate space, then again, floors,
ceiling, walls. To do Windows, it's a mud room. You can pick a theme. I love it if you've
got young children. I mean, yeah, I just
have a thing about making those alternative
type spaces, laundry and mud rooms
and all this stuff. Colorful and fun and
just a very expressive. And you could do
that with paint. So there's nothing wrong
with a yellow mud room or a hunter green mugged room without
marine blue or sky blue. Mud room is just that is
this alternative space. You don't live in it. You're passing through it. You might as well get a
little bit of joy, right? See you in the next class.
10. Alternative Spaces (Hallways, Entry, Stairs): Hey, welcome back Again. My name is Thomas
seen as Shelley, and I hope you're enjoying this. I'm certainly enjoying
talking to you. I feel like you just right
here in the room with me. As a matter of fact,
if you ever find yourself in the south of France, feel free to contact me
and coffee is odd me. You're more than, more than welcome to contact
me and pop by. We could meet at a cafe, or even better, we could go
antique shopping together. That would be fun. This lecture, I call
it alternative spaces. And you know what that is? Alternative spaces
are just stares, hallways, Boyer's addicts. Sometimes you have a
finished lower level. I have clients that have meditation or
contemplation births. You ever heard better? Contemplation births. These are just
spaces outdoors with statues and grass and glows. And they sit there and they complete what's happening in the world and their
life in the universe. These are alternative spaces. And you may have those in your, I'm not making fun
of them actually, I find it amusing
and just incredible. There's some people
that tuned into their world and how
they want to live, you know, and when
you have the money or the wherewithal to create that kind of world than you are. The fortunate few. For the rest of us. We use those spar
refreshes and touches to create that you may
not have a contemplation, birth, but you may
in fact have a place in your yard where you
could buy a smog Z table. You could buy a small parabola
and plan a few roses. Put your yoga mat down and have your
contemplation, birth. You see what I'm saying? Screened in porches, alternative spaces,
verandas, conservatories. These are all spaces in our
homes that extend our lives to other areas which
we call our universe. In those alternative spaces, you're going to want to
have similar behaviors. Now obviously, if you've
got a blast conservatory, mean, you know, we're not
putting babies up there. With most conservatives
to Florida or what conservatories
the floors are, what? You're gonna be tile,
terracotta, ceramics, marble. You don't need to
touch it flows there. What about your walls? That's all you need to paint. Well, there might be your
year with your windows, might be three-quarters
as glass from the ceilings to a
small area here. You've got a small area below. Maybe you will pay, maybe not. What about your hallways? One of the most neglected
areas and a house, your stairway going up, one of the most neglected areas. And what are you gonna
do there? Straight away? You know, that hallway
you need to be having runners,
beautiful runners, whatever fabric texture,
pattern that you want. There needs to be a
rug and that hallway, there needs to be art aligning those, outlining those walls. So, you know, especially if
you've got small children, you could align it
with our frame. It right it I just happened to be a fan of oils because I liked the depth that it
brings to a room. But you can put
whatever you want, do some of that hallway, put a piece of pottery there, a little bit of grass
shooting out from it, but some plants there, but a small table there. Do something with that hallway, something going up those stairs. I made that a gallery. But I always make
stairs the gallery. Because when people walk into the foyer out of
traditional home, when I lived in Virginia
and you walked into the franchise was a typical
Centre Hall colonial. You walk in libraries here, the rules there, keep walking. Kitchen, their dining rooms, their family rooms over there, you know the drill. So when you walked
into that Boyer on that two-storied foyer, I had a huge beautiful
antique draped hanging from that big white wall over
that Boyer people's eyes. They went up as soon as they
walked through the door. That's what they saw. That was my alternative space. As you lead a lead
up to the stairs, their artwork going all
the way up the stairs. You can do the same. Alternative spaces do
not need to be ignored. You could almost call a mud
room an alternative space, but it's becoming an
integral part of homes. Now, what I defined as alternative spaces are
truly those spaces you use, pass them through like you
just catch the subway. You're coming
through your foyer, where's your for your
table, Where's your color? Whereas your wall Scott
says, where's your rug? You're going up the stairs to your bedrooms are going
up to another level. What's happening on your walls? What's happening on your stairs? Is it a runner? If it's hard work,
you can do a runner. If it's carpet,
you can do a run. What's happening on your stairs? When you get to your landing at the top of the stairs,
what's happening? I did two huge and du's pots
at the top of my stairs. I use pottery and then planet plants at
the top of my stairs. What's happening at the top of your stairs and your
alternative space? Do you have an extra
bedroom closet for a meditation room? Or as one of my clients call
it, a meditative alcove. Interior design,
interior refresh, whatever you want to call it. It's just fun. It's fun because you get
to do what you want to do. You can change it when
you want to change it. You can fresh it up when
you want to freshen it up. This is your home,
this is your space, this is your way. But yeah, she had a meditative alcove which
basically was a closet off the hallway
upstairs that she went into a ball and she
closed the door. But when she turned on yellow
light or let those candles, her walls were magical. She had all these fluorescent
stars painted in it. She had a beautiful
pendulum, light coming down. Tiny space. Alternative spaces, neither
be created and use, use your walls, use your
Windows, use your doors. Who says you can hang a
painting on a hallway door. Here's the door where
people come in and Oh, can I take your code and then you have opened the
door to the Cloud. There's nothing there. Hey, remember these guys Hangout Town So on
your hallway door. So when people come in and
they opened that closet doors, this is what's hanging
on their paint that molding on that door in your foyer so that that alternative space
becomes a signature space. Do something with that door. They'll just let it
sit there all limp. His character. Another thing that I
haven't talked about, we've talked about the knobs and the pools and the kitchen. There's nothing to
stop you from changing the knobs and all your
doors in your house? Right now they're gold or
silver or they're just breath, palm out o to one of the heart. Whereas doors change
your knobs and put a beautiful forged
iron or antique brass. How easy is that as
a 10-minute pursuit. And you have
refreshed your home, change out those knobs. So that's all I really wanted to say about alternative spaces. Identify him yet an attic, use it for storage. If you ever decide you're
going to finish it off, then you can put a
couple of beds affair. You can build a
library up there, do something mainly
with the foyer, the stairs, the hallways. Some of us have stairs and then there's something
underneath it. Now we see all in the gorgeous magazines with people
who have money. Do they have these grants
there's and what they do, they always park that baby
grand underneath those stairs. Well, all of us we all have
that got us there and we certainly don't have
that baby grand and put underneath there. But you may have stairs
that go up and there is a little small alcove
under your stairs. One of my girlfriends, Terry, who is an interior designer,
Richmond, Virginia. She built bookcases
in that little area, small, tiny little
half both cases. She had three sons and they were all under the age of seven. Then she put the
little tiny chair and the table right
underneath the stairs. She created an
alcove for her sons, was a little box with a
little toys and get creative. And if you can't get
creative, write me. If you need to get your
juices flowing, right me. I'm available Monday
through Sunday. 247 IF do is drop me a line. I got 1 billion ideas and I can't wait to do the
next lecture because the next lecture is really fun
because now we're going to pick up our picture books. It's time to flip through
some pitcher books. Now, I'm going to
show you what I do here in France with my
interior refreshes. And I'm also going to
show you when I come back to the United States because I spend usually three months, a year and nine months
they are or vice versa. And my friends are
calling Tom Athena. It's time to do some things. Dhamma Siena, I need
your help with this. I have my picture books and I want to walk
you through them. Like I walk through
my friends and my clients and I'm
going to tell you what you need to do just to now. Just to trigger, trigger, trigger that visual
prompt for you. Okay? So I will see you
in the next lecture. This is one of the
most fun ones because now we're going to
dig a little bit. And now you're going to see
some visuals. See you then.
11. Visual Prompts (aka Picture Books) Walkthrough: Hey, I'm here, you're here. All right. Now, here's what I want you
to do before we get started. I want you to grab your
favorite interior magazine. I'm sure you got
something laying around. Veranda or a table top book of interiors that you'd make it. This is your thing you've taken this course because
this is your thing. You'd like to decorate. You'd like to refresh your home. I know you've got a
book or magazine. He lands somewhere
because we all do were strung out on them. We buy them regularly
at the bookstore. Alvin pile of them. We follow down the corners
and the pages or maybe it out and we put it inside a
folder for a later project. We're all cut from
the same cloth. So I know you've got
something laying around. We're going to start with mine. Alright? This is a book that
I discovered when I was in the United
States called cocci, which means the South Coast. Obviously it's all in French. I have always been traveling
to France for 30 years, on vacations, brought
my kids here. It was truly by accident. I came here one year when Adam might minus
Thirty-six year-old. He was in the first
grade and you bought it. It goes to wherever spring break you want
to go to Disney World. And Amanda was three years old. I couldn't afford it.
Randomly, I was searching airfare and I popped across
a $399 round-trip ticket, the barest Washington DC where
I was living at the time, Dulles, Paris, boom, 331. It costs more to go to Disney
World with two children, hotels, the food, all the wrath of tickets than it
did to go to Paris. That's how I began my
journey in France. We caught though,
that, that play. I bought three tickets, me and my two kids by husband and he was working oh,
I don't want to go. I don't want to go and I'm like, Come on, let's take
this adventure. Well, it was love
at first sight. Matt was again 30 years ago. And I swore I live
here one day and now I'm here and
I tell you to be able to get this magazine
now at the news day and for pennies on the dollar
instead of paying when I had to pay when
they imported into the US. His priceless. Anyway, all that to say, these are my picture boats
as my son used to call them. Obviously, you've got your favorite inside
this picture book, kn, which had a whole
list as best I can. Okay, So now, just like with
things that we look at, now it has a European slant to it because it is a
French magazine. Alright. I'm going to flip through a and tell
you what I do. I usually go to stories, different stories
about families who bought homes in the countryside
or the perfect example. This is a perfect
example of an article, one of my magazines. Now when I look at this page,
what do you think I see? First of all, I already
got these floors. I got these floors
of my apartment. Already got this ceiling. I got the exposed
beams in my apartment. But look at that
bedspread on that bed. That's what I'm
going to search for. That's all I'm taking from here. Visual. You're gonna be going
through the magazine that you had doing the
same thing. Okay. The next place. Let's see. How about oh, yeah,
this is nice. This is super nice. Now look at this. This is actually
about a restaurant. Has nothing to do with
home interiors, right? But look at the style that fork. Just the white plates. I do even things like
that on my reference. I'll go right out and buy
a dozen white sauces. And I use them for everything. Salads displays everything. Alright, you have a modern
house. Are you on the coast? California, Massachusetts. Use wood for the tables
because the neutrals floor, they got that jute rug, God will turn it around. On the other page, look at this. Look at the, look
at the lighting. What am I going to
take from this page? The fact that they've got
jute rugs on the floor. This one is multi-colored, light and the natural. Okay. Nice clean lines. You know, sometimes I wouldn't think they have
multiple pin minimums. But you know, for sure I got this vase already,
how I do my finger. Okay. It's backwards. Look at that vase. I can walk out the front
door and put a vase. I got to face and grab flowers
and put that in there. What do you take from this page? You might just take the flowers. You see what I'm saying? That's a visual prompt. Look at this place right here. Now, you know, I'm not going
to put a statue in my house. That's not my style. But you
might look at that stool. So see you're looking
at the total picture, but you're only picking elements
that's going to work for you because that's do you
combine a stool anywhere? You can put whatever you want on that stool and put that
in your living room. That's a great piece for
living room, dining room. What's on the other side? Take a look at that
those built-in. But I tell you about your
day buddy dining room. Look at that. Here's a perfect example. They have turned new dining
room into a library. I love this. I love it. It's relaxing. It's casual, and worked with
a variety of homes styles. Let's see what else we have. See in this picture book, what else I want to share? They got a lot of
modern stuff there. This is my one book
where I can use for whatever interiors are
going on with the client. Mostly California clients
loved his clients who live near the water and the cost obviously near the coast. Coat sued South Coast. So when you have one of
those modern big windows, fabulous bad
overlooking the sea. Even if it's not a fabulous
bad overlooking the sea, but you live like a
duck. Outer Banks. You live near the
shore or wherever. You're going to be
doing some pretty gorgeous modern,
minimalist type interiors. Now, here's the book for
my French country Lovers. It's called Campania decoration, which just means
country decorating. A simple summer. That's what it says
in French day. Alright, so you know, these designs are going to
work for most of you guys. Let me find a P. First of all, they do a story on a woman
who makes pottery. Pottery thinking,
oh, open shelving, open plan, kind of like that. Mud room. Maybe. Then I see your colors. Okay, I'm kinda
dig in that pink. And I kind like that pot with all those multi
colors on it too. That's an incorporation. That's a wonderful pattern to add to a room, a
piece of pottery. I don't need to build a shelf. I don't need to buy everything. I'm just pulling colors. I'm trying to teach
you the techniques. Okay. Now, here's the
interesting kitchen. Kitchen. And this
is in the country. So they didn't do
any shelving at all. None. Move this over
to you so you can see it's open
shelving, open plan. Got the pendulum, pendulum. Look at that rustic island. Now you know, we
spent a fortune. We bill our kitchen islands. Look at that firearm island. Look a bit sync porcelain
saying look at that faucet. That's what I was talking
about in the kitchen. Sometimes just take yourself
and get a new faucet. Look at that baby there. Let me slide it
over here closer. Now you know, that's something. It's gorgeous and you can find
that in the United States. And if you need help, I
can source it for you. Okay. Let's see what else
I want to show you. Here is, oh, here's
a beautiful, again. This is just how I like to live. This is a farmhouse kitchen. Open this up a little bit. All my shelves are open. Everything that I
have is visible. Nothing hides behind cabinets. I like the simplicity
of a farmhouse kitchen. Alright. Look at this table.
What would you take from this picture if you were flipping through this book? Think about those four words. Colors, textures,
patterns, layers, what pops in this picture, everything else is pretty muted. At one piece of pottery, that yellow piece of pottery. And then
they had the mirror. You see that they
had the nerve to use the artichoke, purple artichoke. Gorgeous. And look what they
put in the fireplace. Look at that sort of
would you put laurel you could put lavender in your fireplace dependent on light. Look at the chairs,
but they did it mixed up the chairs,
they got the iron. And then they also have
the wicker or the red tan. Few more. Because you are
going to get this. And this is a rustic bedroom, very rustic look at that door. You paint the whole door
almost looks like a shutter. Lennon's simple. What's the dominant color? Blue. Think floors, walls, ceiling. You get the gist,
even the lab sheet, natural, the pottery. It's a sleeper, but it's in
that picture on that table. And look at the colors
of that powdery. It picked up every
color in that room. So this isn't just
some random act here. You are truly layering
what you have. Let's go to another space. Yeah, again, I think you can see over in France people
all these open kitchen, especially in these
coastal and modern homes. There again, the dishes
look around here. What are you taking
it from his kitchen? Pending on them line
senior song, floors, ceiling, walls, doors,
faucets, pulls. You're gonna be an
expert at this. Your friends are
gonna be coming to you asking you for help. Let me see if I got
one last photo. Oh, this is a nice one. This is actually a loan. This is no constriction. Here you go. Look at that open kitchen. All white floors,
ceiling, walls, windows. They did that led in the window. That's kinda what I
was talking about. If you've got an open
window in your kitchen, just get a piece of wood, have somebody
attached to brackets and lay the word right
across like that. Is that simple or what? I mean? That's super simple. All right. Now I've got some other
ones to show you, just some of my favorites. This picture, what are
you taking from this? Remember, floors,
ceilings, walls, doors were looking at door
and that picture over here. I love that floors. Okay, so it's an anti cows. So we add those floors are going to be tough to replicate, but they do have companies
that sell the cement. The cement does ceramic tiles
that have these patterns. But look at that
built-in buffet, that rest of the table. I'm going to turn this around. They bought an antique
piece and then just left it open and fill it up
with things they love. But look at the
art, the statues. What are you doing? That table? Would you think to put a
big piece of pottery on your dining room or your
eat-in kitchen table. Most of us in America don't. Everywhere I go
in France, it is. You got pottery sitting on the
table while you're eating. That was new to me. Look at the art in the kitchen. You got art everywhere. Another picture. Everything is just rustic. Look at that faucet.
Isn't that cool? Again? Table. Now this right here,
as you can see, I even have paint chips on here, and these were actually
Ralph Lauren pink colors. Lisbon blue, as you can see, Ralph Lauren Lisbon in blue. And this one was
Chesapeake sunset. Because this is an O piece of a picture book
from years past. I painted a wall this color, my home in the mountains, and I painted the wall on
my kitchen. This color. I saw this beautiful house and Saint Remi the provost
at a magazine. And I love the
fact that they had that gorgeous floral floors,
walls, windows, doors. This was a tiny house. Imagine 500 square feet, but this was the kitchen. Oh my goodness. Look what they've done
with 500 square feet. That's a beauty.
Have you thought about painting your
kitchen another color? The cabinets. They don't have to be white. They don't have to be would
look at those blue cabinets. I'm loving that. Okay, look at that
kitchen table dimension. They have the clutches
with the cupboard, bread and the cheese. Okay. This is just a simple
bedroom photo. Why did I why do you
think I kept this photo? That's because I was trying
to find those lemons. We're not talking about letters, but I was trying to find it. Alright. Look at that
mud room entrance. That's not fancy. So maybe you don't
have a mud room. Maybe you got a little hallway
coming in the kitchen. You could just do a rack. Do looks, hang your coats, the ladder, little clock,
create your spaces. Okay. Let's see. Again, I kept this one goes with that faucet is
just killing me. And that tile work and
that open kitchen. That's just killing me. Again, if you're into antiques, do not hesitate to hang a
chandelier in your kitchen. If you want the look,
put that chandelier. Remember, look what they
did with the straw hats. If you're a gardener, come on, you gotta hallway, come on that front
entrance, you can put those triads right
there on the wall, right where you put your keys. I love this. This is about as
simple as again, we may not be able to
grab those floors. You can find a red link
that you certainly can find straw hats to hang and look at that blue door
in the back there. They painted that door. There's that pop right there. Look at that artwork
in the kitchen. I love that. Right here. Just gorgeous. Gorgeous. Here's the
kitchen table for you. That's an island like
Wicca Island is that we do a lot of elaborate
things back in the States. Here a lot of things
are very simple, elegant, easy to afford. Let's see, I'm almost through. This is what I call
my color wheels when I'm doing my fabrics
started doing the same thing. You may not have a room
that need fabrics, but you know, start putting
together what works for you. I use these as examples. I mean, gosh, I never would
have thought to put a floral and I love to all
there's my yellow to all. I always have my wall. One mole of that color would not have thought to put
these stripes with it. And it was gorgeous. And then the polka dot, the
beautiful tassel there. Absolutely stunning. Same here. Take a look at this dining room. You put a table, go
off on your table. Do you leave it there? I do. Now. I buy linen sheets, Lenin sheets, and I use
them as tablecloths. Never thought about that. 30 years I was in the States. I simply by the sheets and
I use them as tablecloth. There's always flowers on the tables here in this country. Okay. What else I want to show you? Oh, yeah, I have my French David have one in the living room. I have one in the dining room, and I have one in my bedroom. Not only is it extra sleeping, but it's also a sofa. It's just really cool. Let's see. What else did I
want to show you? Yes. Maximize your linens
in your home. I love antique linens. I always get the ones
with the initials and gray that people may bank centuries past because
they would make it for the brides
before their weddings. And I just love the
history of it all. And I use it every
day on the beds. I actually bought a set
and use them as draperies. I hung them on my Windows. I didn't close them. I just put up a beautiful
wrought iron rod. 10-year-olds and I
draped fabric around it. It's gorgeous. Look at that table setting. I think you can walk
out your front door and cut flowers and
put it in a vase. That's an easy one. Those are those small
things you want to do. Look at this grouping. Grouping of paintings. I did botanicals. That's a beautiful grouping. Definitely look
at that symmetry. Floors, ceilings, walls, doors. Again, my paint chip, you see I've been at this
for awhile as Ralph Lauren. Again, that Lisbon
blue as my favorite, I ended up definitely painting my library walls this color. I use this picture from
a French magazine. And only thing I
took from this cup, this picture was the color. And I executed the color. I think that's about it. Last one is just to
give you an idea how when you don't
have color in a room, you can introduce it. Swath of a blanket, pillow, piece of fabric. You don't have to
spend a lot of money. If you've got all
white furniture, just go to the store and buy a beautiful piece
of crushed velvet, orange or red or pink
or purple fabric, and drag that on
your cell phone. It's magnificent. Alright, so now you know
pretty much all the rules. You know how to use
your picture book. You're not trying to
recreate that full room. You're picking and choosing
colors and elements, rugs and draperies and
pillows and pottery and artwork and dish where you're picking and choosing
and before you know it, you will have transformed every room in your house and
it didn't break your budget. You can commit to doing
a project of month, a project a quarter. You can commit, I'm going
to go spend a $100. The paint's going to cost me 40, and then I'll buy my pottery at the antique markets,
at the flea markets. The secondhand shops. See what I'm saying. There is a difference between
interior design, a sound. So half-life and
interior refresh. This course is all
about the refresh. I hope you enjoyed it and
I'll see you in the summary.
12. Summary · Interior Design · Visual Prompts · Room By Room: Well, hello. It's me, Thomas Zina. I just want to thank
you for joining me. I had a great time. I'm hoping and praying that
I have been able to impart something to you with this
interior design refresh. Of course. I mean, I've got
a thousand ideas. So, you know, this
course doesn't end here. You can write me anytime if
you just need a little help. Second pair of eyes, if you're working on
a project at home, again, you know how to
utilize your picture books. Utilize your picture books. Keep folding down
those dog-eared pages. Keep ripping out those sheets and putting them
in your folders. Find your best friend. Like I said, I'll
pick it up again. As you know, these
tassels these are my best friend for
interior refresh. Paint is my best friend. Cabinet pulls my best
friend, a beautiful rug. My best friend. I do the same
things when I go to each property that
I may have to move to or undecided to invest in investment property or whether I'm helping a family
member or a friend. My daughter and
Caliban is California. My son who's in New York, my sister in upstate New York, my friends in Washington DC. It doesn't matter
who I'm having. I use the same approach. Floors, walls, ceiling,
doors, windows, lighting, and then that 360 for all those other small elements that can make that room work. When I meet with them, I always ask the same thing. What do we need to compress it? Let's use art to maximize it. Let's go to antique shops and flea markets to
maximize our budgets. And then the end result
is chests picked. So good luck. And who knows? Maybe one day we'll see each other states that are
here in the south of France. But either way, it's been
an absolute pleasure. And thank you again
for joining me. And hears to your
amazing visual prompts. Room by room, color, texture, pattern, and layers. Until then, see you next time.
Thomasina Shealey, MBA, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Mentor
