Speaker 1: Episode one seventy two, Decorating your Home on a budget.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to
Speaker 1: save money, embrace simplicity, rights, and liberate your life. Here
Speaker 1: your host Jen and Jill Olloo. Welcome to the Frugal
Speaker 1: Friends podcast. My name is Jen, my name is Jill,
Speaker 1: and today we are doing another listener request about decorating
Speaker 1: on a budget. And so we have a lot of
Speaker 1: money saving episodes on buying homes, renovating homes, decorating all
Speaker 1: of that stuff. So there's just another one in the series.
Speaker 1: I love these ones because it feels right up my alley.
Speaker 1: Jen calls this are easier episod, So take that because
Speaker 1: you were a choice. I sorry, that's your one, Jill.
Speaker 1: You'll like it. Um. So if you want to queue
Speaker 1: up some episodes to play after this, um, you can
Speaker 1: definitely get into episode one nine, a pretty recent one.
Speaker 1: That's where we talk about home renovations on a budget.
Speaker 1: So that's where we're talking about kind of increasing the
Speaker 1: value of the home. Or episode fifteen how to save
Speaker 1: money on home decre so that's putting more stuff into
Speaker 1: your home. Today we're kind of talking about how can
Speaker 1: you limit yourself on buying home tocre How can you
Speaker 1: complete your home's decoration so that we stop buying things,
Speaker 1: we know what we like and we can move on.
Speaker 1: So fifteen and there's a lot of room in between those.
Speaker 1: But first, let's thank our sponsors for this episode, also
Speaker 1: brought to you by the early two thousands. They're here
Speaker 1: apologizing for all their mistakes, causing us all to now
Speaker 1: hunt for solutions and remedies to make up for all
Speaker 1: that poor interior design choices. Every generation has a tendency
Speaker 1: to complain about the one before it, But those initial
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Speaker 1: from the mistakes and do better. Oh my gosh, trading
Speaker 1: spaces that I show, Uh huh, well, I've got an
Speaker 1: even better one for you. I was thinking back to
Speaker 1: all of these old there was just a not not
Speaker 1: even a resurgence. There was a just this started to
Speaker 1: happen in the early two thousands, maybe even like late
Speaker 1: by indes of these. Yeah, these budget d I Y
Speaker 1: shows making people believe like, oh I can do this
Speaker 1: and people can do it. But the ideas that they
Speaker 1: gave and the propaganda they sold decorating sense, this is
Speaker 1: this is totally a rabbit trail, but it's worth it
Speaker 1: if you want a comedy show, an interior design comedy show.
Speaker 1: Decorating sense it was I think HDTV put it out
Speaker 1: back in the early two thousand's. They would decorate rooms
Speaker 1: with like a three dollar budget or less, utilizing most
Speaker 1: of what's in the room, which is a really great idea.
Speaker 1: But the things that they did were so awful, so
Speaker 1: so awful. What was one that like has has traumatized you? Okay? Uh?
Speaker 1: They had They began with just a white kitchen, like
Speaker 1: you know, it was a dated kitchen for our standards now,
Speaker 1: but it was all white. There was plenty of things
Speaker 1: that you could do with it. At its core was
Speaker 1: pretty beautiful and they had a massive bay window looking
Speaker 1: out into a beautiful backyard above the kitchen sink. And
Speaker 1: this woman Joan stephened whatever her name is, came in
Speaker 1: and hung plastic water pictures with beads in front of
Speaker 1: the entirety of the window. She's like, Oh, look, we
Speaker 1: can dress up this window hung plastic water pictures as
Speaker 1: like a feature, as like a conversation piece, just like
Speaker 1: fifteen water pictures across the bay window. And this is
Speaker 1: like a way to store your water pictures. First of all,
Speaker 1: you don't need that many, second of all their plastic
Speaker 1: water pictures. Third of all, with beads in no era,
Speaker 1: is it a good idea to block a massive bay
Speaker 1: window looking out over a beautiful backyard with plastic water pictures. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I am traumatized by that one Early two thousand's Jones
Speaker 1: stuff end. So this is the stuff we're trying to
Speaker 1: avoid taking somebody else's style and doing it for yourself
Speaker 1: because somebody else did it, and because it's a little
Speaker 1: cheaper than doing it the expensive way. So in this
Speaker 1: episode we're going to talk about finding your personal style
Speaker 1: so that you find something that works for you. I
Speaker 1: think I was really inspired by Christine Platt's talk at
Speaker 1: the Future Frugal Summit, where finding your authentic self is
Speaker 1: much more powerful than just doing something, maybe decorating or
Speaker 1: not decorating for the sake of decorating or not decorating,
Speaker 1: whether you fall into the camp of I overdecorate or
Speaker 1: I'm a minimalist. And so finding your personal style so
Speaker 1: you can customize whichever camp you're sitting in and it
Speaker 1: can really feel like yours, not somebody else's um. And
Speaker 1: then also better advice for up cycling things that you
Speaker 1: already have are Yeah, the tenants uh T L d L.
Speaker 1: We want we want you to like know what you
Speaker 1: like so that you can constantly be on the lookout
Speaker 1: and be patient in finding it and then also identify
Speaker 1: key pieces in your home. So this first article is
Speaker 1: from Veranda dot com. Veranda like Miranda, I don't know how.
Speaker 1: That's a very Southern word and I should know how
Speaker 1: to say that. Veranda, I'm sorry. It's how to find
Speaker 1: your personal decor style. What did you think about this one, Joe?
Speaker 1: I think the title of the article is a tip
Speaker 1: even in and of itself, as you're describing Jen that
Speaker 1: that is one of the keys is determined what is
Speaker 1: your style? And some of it might come from seeing
Speaker 1: other things that you know and like, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be just our replication of something else. It
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be all one thing like, if you
Speaker 1: know you like mid century monitor, it doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: you can't like move into other types of styles or
Speaker 1: incorporate other things into your home. And so I love
Speaker 1: all of the tips in here. I think we can
Speaker 1: just go through all of them. And the first is research, research, research,
Speaker 1: which I think we've got plenty of platforms to help
Speaker 1: us with that. As we are defining what is my
Speaker 1: own personal style. You've got Pinterest, you've got Google, You've
Speaker 1: got other friends homes that you can go to and
Speaker 1: just start to take note and be logging what do
Speaker 1: I like, what do I not like? What do I
Speaker 1: want to see in my own space? Is a really
Speaker 1: excellent place to start that you can hone in on
Speaker 1: what's you and not waste a ton of time trying
Speaker 1: to replicate other things or what other people tell you
Speaker 1: is in style. Right now that will save you a
Speaker 1: lot of money. Yeah, here are two things that are
Speaker 1: your style. I can help you right now. Joanna Gaines
Speaker 1: is not your personal style and Target is not your
Speaker 1: personal style. So if you send those team popular Belief,
Speaker 1: here we go, hot Hay, who are we ready? Joanna
Speaker 1: Gaines is not your personal style. You've got your own,
Speaker 1: and it's going to last way longer than any farmhouse
Speaker 1: chic trend. So find yours. It is funny to me,
Speaker 1: And you might like the stuff that she does or
Speaker 1: that Target puts out, but recognize that it is trendy
Speaker 1: right now. And it is funny to me to see
Speaker 1: everybody like hanging farmhouse signs like in their downtown apartments.
Speaker 1: It's like, I mean, if you live in a farmhouse,
Speaker 1: then go farmhouse. If you live in a downtown apartment,
Speaker 1: you don't have to hang farmhouse signs. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: If you live in a farmhouse, you don't have to
Speaker 1: go ready farmhouse, you already farmhouse. You have to prove
Speaker 1: it you live in a farm oh man hot take hote. Okay,
Speaker 1: So after you do research and so this is I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a great place. Like looking at magazines in
Speaker 1: the grocery store or where, like Barnes and Noble. Barnes
Speaker 1: and Noble has all these like really great architectural magazines.
Speaker 1: You don't have to you know, buy them, just kind
Speaker 1: of you know, flip through them, maybe take some pictures.
Speaker 1: The internet is great for that. A lot of great
Speaker 1: stuff on the internet. But after you do that and
Speaker 1: you kind of get a feel for like what you
Speaker 1: might like, take inventory of what you have, So go
Speaker 1: through each room of your home look for the pieces
Speaker 1: that really stand out. Um, this is a grea hate
Speaker 1: time to try the con Maori methods. So looking through
Speaker 1: your home to core. If you're not going to do
Speaker 1: anything else but you're trying to like decorate, just do
Speaker 1: con Maori with your home decor. Like, take a piece
Speaker 1: of decor, hold it, does it, you know, spark joy,
Speaker 1: make you happy, fit with you, whatever you want to
Speaker 1: call it, and like do that piece by piece and
Speaker 1: so you can identify those core pieces that really are
Speaker 1: you And that could take a lot of the research
Speaker 1: out of it, because whatever you're left with you truly love,
Speaker 1: Like that is more speaking to your style. And then
Speaker 1: the other things are maybe speaking to old trends that
Speaker 1: you followed. You can get rid of those and just
Speaker 1: start with a really great core of decor. Yes, it's
Speaker 1: not only shopping your own house first, but like you said,
Speaker 1: it's helping you narrow down what do you actually like
Speaker 1: and can give inspiration for what you might want the
Speaker 1: rest of the room to look like. The third thing
Speaker 1: on here is to start small. This doesn't mean that. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've done my research and here's what I want to do,
Speaker 1: and so now let me just go out and buy
Speaker 1: all of the things to make it look picture magazine perfect.
Speaker 1: It's okay to start small, of course, be patient, look
Speaker 1: at some of the smaller, more basic design pieces and
Speaker 1: build upon that. It doesn't have to be big and
Speaker 1: all at once. You can take your time with it
Speaker 1: and it doesn't. Yeah, again, it doesn't have to look
Speaker 1: Your room does not have to look like a magazine picture.
Speaker 1: Some of those pictures are I like the pictures that
Speaker 1: they're showing in this article, but a lot of them are.
Speaker 1: They're very full. That doesn't if it's not your style,
Speaker 1: that doesn't have to be how your room looks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: these are a lot a lot of throw pillows, so
Speaker 1: many which end up going on the ground. Can we
Speaker 1: all just be real about that. I would not sit
Speaker 1: on this couch. If I were to go it on
Speaker 1: that couch, I would have to move like five pillows first. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not even it's not even a very wide like
Speaker 1: a girthy couch. It's come on, okay. So also another
Speaker 1: hot take, like your style is not throw pillows, So
Speaker 1: and the next one to you all are going to
Speaker 1: have to check out this article. Now, show pillows on
Speaker 1: the bed from the bed. Yeah, it comes like halfway
Speaker 1: to the five pillows and half of the bed and
Speaker 1: I can see five, six pillows. I see six pillows,
Speaker 1: I see a part of one of the others. So yeah,
Speaker 1: and definitely start small the like, frugality works best when
Speaker 1: you're patient and you plan. So when you set the
Speaker 1: foundations in place for like your true style and kind
Speaker 1: of identify some of the pieces that you are looking
Speaker 1: for that you like, that you want, you can be
Speaker 1: really patient to get the right piece at the right
Speaker 1: right So don't rush this process. You might have bare
Speaker 1: walls and empty rooms for a while. That's okay because
Speaker 1: you know what you're going to get is going to last,
Speaker 1: and you may even be willing to spend a little
Speaker 1: bit more on it when you find a deal for
Speaker 1: something because you know, I want this piece specifically, versus
Speaker 1: just impulse buying five things because they're on sale at
Speaker 1: Target and they're Magnolia. Yeah, that's where you a long
Speaker 1: term waste money and versus knowing that you really like
Speaker 1: something and it doesn't necessarily mean that it has to
Speaker 1: be a big financial investment. But if you've waited for something,
Speaker 1: if you've considered that piece for a while, you are
Speaker 1: more likely to hold onto it, to value it, to
Speaker 1: really enjoy that piece and build around it, versus just
Speaker 1: collecting whatever seems pretty in the moment and whatever's least expensive. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: So number four is to reach out. So this I
Speaker 1: had never really thought about, but the article says that
Speaker 1: if you're truly looking to reinvent your space, consider reaching
Speaker 1: out to a designer. So platforms such as the Expert
Speaker 1: make it easy to connect with renowned interior designers from
Speaker 1: across the world that can give you their masterful advice
Speaker 1: even if you're not in need of a full blown
Speaker 1: home redesign. And remember those notes you took while researching
Speaker 1: Check to see if a certain designer kept popping up,
Speaker 1: and don't be afraid to reach out to them. So
Speaker 1: Instagram makes this really easy. So maybe it's not like
Speaker 1: a big time designer. Maybe it's a smaller designer and
Speaker 1: you could actually legitimately d m them and like ask
Speaker 1: their opinion on something. You could be giving them content ideas.
Speaker 1: Creators love to have content ideas, They love to hear
Speaker 1: from you. Know listeners and followers and stuff, because we
Speaker 1: like to know what you want to know so that
Speaker 1: we know what to say. So that's definitely an option. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that that can be a free option. You don't
Speaker 1: have to pay for that always. And I would even
Speaker 1: say ask a friend sometimes it can be really helpful,
Speaker 1: especially if you've got a friend who you like their style.
Speaker 1: You see that they are pretty versatile and even being
Speaker 1: able to decorate different things. Have them over and chat
Speaker 1: together about some ideas. Sometimes just a fresh perspective can
Speaker 1: be useful. And you got that social capital happening and
Speaker 1: opportunities to get together. And number five on here is
Speaker 1: I love this one. This is basically like our frugal
Speaker 1: friends motto is be patient and have fun. So I
Speaker 1: can have a better motto. I cannot stress the patience enough. Uh,
Speaker 1: to not rush to what you want a room to
Speaker 1: look like. It's okay to take time with it, and
Speaker 1: it's okay to take time to find the deals, to
Speaker 1: wait for a specific style to be available to you
Speaker 1: within the price range that you want to pay, and
Speaker 1: have fun. Your room doesn't have to look stuffy. It
Speaker 1: doesn't have to look at every the way everybody else
Speaker 1: says that it has to look like allow it to
Speaker 1: be a representation of your personality. Allow the decor process
Speaker 1: to be enjoyable. Again, if that means having friends over
Speaker 1: and chatting about the space and engaging in things, putting
Speaker 1: things in the room that are fun and life giving
Speaker 1: and bring you joy. All of these pieces combined, be patient,
Speaker 1: have fun. What a great way to end that article. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I would add like being fun means like you
Speaker 1: can have fun, like with your furniture. So it's not
Speaker 1: like perfect and expensive furniture, but you can like have
Speaker 1: fun on your furniture and not freak out if maybe
Speaker 1: you spill some snacks on there um or your kid
Speaker 1: draws on the corner or something like. Your your home
Speaker 1: should be livable and you your furniture should be suitable.
Speaker 1: So your furniture is not decor. Your furniture is for function.
Speaker 1: That's for like my opinion, it's just much less stress
Speaker 1: when it's like you're buying secondhand, you're buying already with
Speaker 1: some imperfections, and so you feel good about it, but
Speaker 1: it can still look good, like, it can still look good,
Speaker 1: but you just feel more freedom. So that to me
Speaker 1: even have fun. Yeah, fun in the house and not
Speaker 1: so concerned about like protecting it. Yeah, because a massive investment. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So that's my cap off to the personal style aspect.
Speaker 1: So let's talk a little bit about maybe inspiration for
Speaker 1: up cycling things you have or finding the possibility in
Speaker 1: something like maybe you have a vision for something that
Speaker 1: you want in your home and you find something that
Speaker 1: isn't exactly there, but you can have vision for it
Speaker 1: to be like similar to you know, the original vision.
Speaker 1: So I tend to find YouTubers are great at this,
Speaker 1: Like when I go and I want to up cycle something,
Speaker 1: which is very rare. I'm not an up cycler, I'm
Speaker 1: not a designer or decorer, but when I do, I
Speaker 1: will go to YouTube. And so we've got this article
Speaker 1: from Life's Amazing eight d I Y and Home decore
Speaker 1: YouTube channels to follow in though we know it is
Speaker 1: near nearing the end of but that's when this article
Speaker 1: is written. What do you think, Jell, This is such
Speaker 1: a fun idea, Jen, and I love where you took
Speaker 1: this outline for this episode because this is now given
Speaker 1: just ngible resources to people to help in this process
Speaker 1: of defining your own style as well as, like you said,
Speaker 1: getting some inspiration for how to be able to decorate
Speaker 1: your home your space on a budget. All of these
Speaker 1: YouTubers are going to help you in that direction. So
Speaker 1: this segment of this episode is less about here's what
Speaker 1: to do one, two, three, four, and here's more information.
Speaker 1: Here's some people that you can follow to help you
Speaker 1: on that journey. So I think I'm excited about it
Speaker 1: because I have now started to look into some of
Speaker 1: these YouTubers myself, yeah, for more inspiration, more ideas. So
Speaker 1: I think it's an incredible way to take this, and
Speaker 1: so many stand out to me, but of course we
Speaker 1: all are finding our own style. So I love that
Speaker 1: there's there's eight there's actually nine. They say eight, but
Speaker 1: then there's a bonus one. So depending on what stands
Speaker 1: out to you, we're just going to do a quick
Speaker 1: rundown and then feel free to go off on your
Speaker 1: own and and YouTube some of this. It's a great
Speaker 1: resource and like you said to Jen, Instagram as well
Speaker 1: can be helpful in this process. So there's a YouTuber
Speaker 1: called Mr Kate, so it's actually a couple, and they
Speaker 1: show low Cost Redesigned, So they are about budget, they're
Speaker 1: about design, and they specifically will sometimes work with odd layouts,
Speaker 1: So keep that in mind. If you've got a room
Speaker 1: that's kind of like, ah, I don't really it's not,
Speaker 1: it just doesn't feel super functional. They'll kind of show
Speaker 1: you some ways that you can make a room functional
Speaker 1: even if the layout is odd. But in general, low
Speaker 1: cost redesign. Yes, I have to say. First off, it's
Speaker 1: not the next on the list, but the Sorry Girls.
Speaker 1: I actually was watching them yesterday when I was looking,
Speaker 1: you know, for these articles, and I got hooked. They're
Speaker 1: Canadian and they did a series where they asked like
Speaker 1: nearby people, like do you need anything secondhand? Because they
Speaker 1: love secondhand stuff. And so they got three different people
Speaker 1: their secondhand needs and they did battle against each other
Speaker 1: to see who could find the best thing for the person.
Speaker 1: And so I was like hooked on that, And you
Speaker 1: love competition, I love. I don't really, but like I
Speaker 1: loved the competition to buy something secondhand and the they
Speaker 1: just found some great things, and so it can really
Speaker 1: help you if you are kind of at a loss
Speaker 1: for buying things secondhand for decor you maybe feel like
Speaker 1: you don't have the eye for it. Uh, definitely watch
Speaker 1: them because I feel like I only watch that one video,
Speaker 1: but they do a lot of their stuff is secondhand.
Speaker 1: One of them said their entire house was, you know, secondhand,
Speaker 1: so it is definitely good if you're looking for that.
Speaker 1: I can pretty much say that about my own to
Speaker 1: same everything I'm looking at. They've also recommended another YouTuber,
Speaker 1: loan Fox. So their style is mid century modern, which
Speaker 1: is big right now. We're not gonna lie if we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about trendy. Yes, there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: who are moving towards this very mid century modern style
Speaker 1: right now. But if that is your style, great loan
Speaker 1: Fox is one of them. But they also specialize in
Speaker 1: specifically some i Kea hacks and Dollar Store d I wise,
Speaker 1: so if that's you, if you find yourself gravitating towards
Speaker 1: those stores, this YouTube channel kind of shows some ways
Speaker 1: to be able to utilize some things that are sold
Speaker 1: at Ikea or the Dollar Store and kind of up
Speaker 1: cycle them or utilize them in a way that might
Speaker 1: look even nicer, more modern and and maybe even that
Speaker 1: mid century modern style. It's cute stuff. The next one's
Speaker 1: living to d i Y with Rachel mets Um. This
Speaker 1: is an other mid century modern but with maybe a
Speaker 1: little more industrial with lots of wood tones. So if
Speaker 1: that sounds like you, then she's definitely want to check out.
Speaker 1: I haven't watched any of the other people on here,
Speaker 1: I will say, but they do have a video for
Speaker 1: each on this page. And I am loving the dark green.
Speaker 1: It looks dark green, but maybe it's just black like
Speaker 1: accent while she did on this bedroom makeover. I'm very
Speaker 1: into dark walls. Yeah, And I will say, we might
Speaker 1: talk about this a bit in the lightning round. I mean,
Speaker 1: our style. We can't anticipate that our style is going
Speaker 1: to stay with us through decades. Probably will shift, and
Speaker 1: some of what we think is ours is probably connected
Speaker 1: to whatever is currently trendy, and so keeping that in
Speaker 1: mind with some decor and choosing too. If you want
Speaker 1: to go bold, great, recognize you may change your mind
Speaker 1: in ten years, but choose to go bolden ways that
Speaker 1: you could easily shift. Right. Painting a wall does not
Speaker 1: cost a lot. So if in the future you decide,
Speaker 1: you know what, I liked emerald green in one but five,
Speaker 1: it's not me anymore. Okay, fine, All you gotta do
Speaker 1: is paint a wall. It's much different from spending thousands
Speaker 1: of dollars on a custom tile that could potentially be
Speaker 1: very trendy. So just keep that in mind that your
Speaker 1: style now is not always going to be your style,
Speaker 1: and so some of these design choices we could choose
Speaker 1: a bit less expensive of an option so that we
Speaker 1: don't feel bad when we do want to change it
Speaker 1: out in the future. The next one on here is
Speaker 1: Live your Style. So this one focuses in on small
Speaker 1: spaces and maximizing storage. So if that's you, if you
Speaker 1: don't have a ton of storage you need to maximize storage,
Speaker 1: or you are living in a small apartment or even
Speaker 1: a tiny home, this would be a good one to follow.
Speaker 1: It's also a lot of rent or friendly videos, so
Speaker 1: Live your Style for that. I don't necessarily like the
Speaker 1: picture or the video they chose for this one, but
Speaker 1: sure there's plenty of other videos to the next one's
Speaker 1: Trisha Ja. Trisha has Tricia j a t I don't
Speaker 1: know de hi y art projects that are budget friendly.
Speaker 1: So if you are you have bare walls and you're
Speaker 1: not happy with that, let's just like but let's normalize
Speaker 1: bare walls. You don't have to hang anything on your
Speaker 1: walls for them to be beautiful. But if you do
Speaker 1: want to have something beautiful on your walls, Trisha Ja has.
Speaker 1: These are some good looking wall projects I'm seeing. I
Speaker 1: love big art pieces. I don't necessarily have a wall
Speaker 1: big enough for a large piece of art, but I
Speaker 1: love those versus a lot of different small things, which
Speaker 1: is what I have because my walls are smaller. I
Speaker 1: gotta work with what you got, you do. The next
Speaker 1: one on here is XO McKenna, and this YouTube channel
Speaker 1: really focuses in on thrift ng flips, so finding things
Speaker 1: from the thrift store and not just utilizing them, although
Speaker 1: you could you could find something great from a thrift
Speaker 1: store and just decorate with that, but also up cycling them,
Speaker 1: making some modifications to them to make them look even
Speaker 1: more clean and fresh and stylish. Yeah, these things look
Speaker 1: cool and this picture, I'm very impressed. This last one
Speaker 1: on the list I probably would not have added. It's
Speaker 1: Studio McGhee. I saw one of their videos and it
Speaker 1: did not look very budget friendly. But yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: if you like uh fix her epper and you need
Speaker 1: more of that at Studio McGee is a really great
Speaker 1: addition to your watching well, and I think too even
Speaker 1: if you find a channel or someone on Instagram who
Speaker 1: is above your budget. They're doing some things that aren't
Speaker 1: something that you would value spending a ton of money on.
Speaker 1: It still can give you some inspiration and narrow down
Speaker 1: what is your style? Is there a way that you
Speaker 1: could creatively hack some of those styles? Um do it
Speaker 1: in a way that does is more budget friendly for you.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I don't think you can go
Speaker 1: wrong with any of it. It can all just help
Speaker 1: you narrow down what you want to see in your
Speaker 1: home and yeah, hack some of these things. Get creative.
Speaker 1: So we hope that these YouTube channels have helped you
Speaker 1: to find what is going to be useful to you
Speaker 1: and even give the idea to look there. Even if
Speaker 1: you don't go with one of these eight options of channels,
Speaker 1: that you can be searching on Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube and
Speaker 1: gain some of your inspiration there and of course find
Speaker 1: the freedom to decorate your home in a way that
Speaker 1: matches your style, that fits your budget. And it's okay
Speaker 1: again to be patient with it. It doesn't have to
Speaker 1: all happen at once. The closer you get to you,
Speaker 1: the more money you will save from impulse bies. You'll
Speaker 1: know when your home is complete so that you won't
Speaker 1: continue to over buy, and I mean you just there's
Speaker 1: less turnover, so fewer knickknacks and chot Skis in landfills.
Speaker 1: So that is really our hope with this episode, and
Speaker 1: our other hope with this episode is to bring you
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Speaker 1: the best minute of your entire week. Maybe a baby
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Speaker 1: Hi guys, my name is Taylor and I'm a huge
Speaker 1: fan of your podcast, specifically the episodes where you talk
Speaker 1: about living in an RV to pay off debt, because
Speaker 1: my husband and I have been living in our r
Speaker 1: V for about a year now and it has been
Speaker 1: just the biggest money saver in our lives. So my
Speaker 1: bill of the week is actually twofold. Um. My first
Speaker 1: one is that my husband and I are expecting our
Speaker 1: first child in July, and we're so excited to say
Speaker 1: that we don't have any doctor bills to worry about
Speaker 1: so no ob fees, no doctor fees. Those are completely
Speaker 1: paid off. And I'm only half way through my pregnancy
Speaker 1: and I'm so glad I don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: any of that. And my second bill of the week
Speaker 1: is since the day I found out I was pregnant,
Speaker 1: we have saved up two years of daycare, so I
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about daycare either. It's so great
Speaker 1: that we financially planned for this child to know that
Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about where the money is
Speaker 1: going to come from and having to pay for these things.
Speaker 1: So thanks guys so much for all that you've done
Speaker 1: for us, and I'm so excited to listen to more episodes.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Taylor, well, congratulations you have already had
Speaker 1: your baby hopefully by this plus oh so many things
Speaker 1: to celebrate with you. I mean, first of all, you
Speaker 1: are my spirit animal for living in an art I
Speaker 1: have a lot of spirit animals out there, and what
Speaker 1: that has afforded you, I mean, I can't I know
Speaker 1: that it's not for everyone, but I can't speak highly
Speaker 1: enough about it and just the difference that can make
Speaker 1: in finances for the short term and long term, and
Speaker 1: how it has helped you to not have to worry
Speaker 1: about doctors, fees, ob costs. Having saved up two years
Speaker 1: of daycare. Holy smokes. I mean, not only are you
Speaker 1: doing something cool and intentional, but yeah, you've really focused
Speaker 1: in on how can we harness this time and make
Speaker 1: good choices. So oh, cheering you on, Taylor, and congrats
Speaker 1: on your first child. I hope that motherhood is treating
Speaker 1: you well so far. And congrats on saving two years
Speaker 1: of daycare. And that is a big expense and that
Speaker 1: is something really to be celebrated. So we see you
Speaker 1: and we honor you for that, and we're so proud
Speaker 1: of you to be I mean, we're so happy to
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Speaker 1: we will celebrate with you and be super excited. And
Speaker 1: now it's time for then. I just got a little
Speaker 1: lighter in my room and I wonder if it's the
Speaker 1: lightning the Lightning Round. So today's Lightning Round is asking
Speaker 1: what would you define your personal style as and how
Speaker 1: do you design for it? And this one, Jill, you're
Speaker 1: going first, Okay, Jen, So we have had the honor
Speaker 1: and privilege of living in many different places, and Eric
Speaker 1: and I have in our past had an interior's business together.
Speaker 1: It was one of our not even side hustles, it
Speaker 1: was a main hustle for a while then aside hustle.
Speaker 1: So I will say I have design find a lot
Speaker 1: of spaces Americ and I both for ourselves and for
Speaker 1: other people, like helping them define what do you want
Speaker 1: this space to look like? And I will say my
Speaker 1: style has shifted. It's interesting to look back on some
Speaker 1: of the renovations that I did ten years ago versus
Speaker 1: what I would do now. And some of it was
Speaker 1: cost related. Okay, what is the least expensive backsplash? That's
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do, and I'm going to try and
Speaker 1: like design around that. But I will also say, for me,
Speaker 1: I do think I define a lot of my style
Speaker 1: for the spaces that I live in based on what
Speaker 1: is the space for me. That's part of the authenticity
Speaker 1: of it. So, for instance, I'm not going to live
Speaker 1: in an apartment in a city and try to make
Speaker 1: it look like a farmhouse like I will want to
Speaker 1: go with what is the style here? When was this
Speaker 1: built for me? That because I have a lot even now,
Speaker 1: I have a lot of different styles that I do like,
Speaker 1: and so it helps me to narrow it down to say, well,
Speaker 1: what is this space and what can I pull out
Speaker 1: of this? So currently we are living in a home,
Speaker 1: our home that we bought nine It was built in
Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties. It has a lot of the mid
Speaker 1: century style to it, and thankfully I do also like that. Yes,
Speaker 1: there's aspects of mid century Modern that are on trend
Speaker 1: right now, but it feels authentic to me because that
Speaker 1: is that is the time frame in which our home
Speaker 1: was built, and so we can work with that. So
Speaker 1: that has kind of helped to guide and steer what
Speaker 1: am I going to make this space look like? Even
Speaker 1: though there's a lot of different options out there, that
Speaker 1: is what can feel authentic to me. And so I'm
Speaker 1: realizing too that I like the clean lines and I
Speaker 1: am a bit more simple in my design. It's also
Speaker 1: a functionality to me as well, So like form and
Speaker 1: function is how I would describe my style, and whatever
Speaker 1: the space is, what is that pulling out? And how
Speaker 1: can I work with what is already there that is beautiful?
Speaker 1: Mine is gray mostly and some wood. Yeah, I am
Speaker 1: not designed inclined. I'm pretty picky, but I don't have
Speaker 1: like a lot of passion for decorating. Your home is beautiful,
Speaker 1: You've done a great job, and you're content with it.
Speaker 1: I don't come over and see a ton of changes happening,
Speaker 1: which I think is the goal. That here's what I have.
Speaker 1: I've put it together in a way that I like,
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to spend a ton of money
Speaker 1: changing that. Yeah. I used to be big into candles,
Speaker 1: but I can't really be big into candles anymore because
Speaker 1: I have a toddler who would also be big into candles.
Speaker 1: But I do love light, which Travis doesn't like light,
Speaker 1: and he likes dark rooms. So I would say we
Speaker 1: we have a pretty neutral home with a few earthy accents.
Speaker 1: That is pretty much it for me, and I think
Speaker 1: most of all, I am driven by my personality more
Speaker 1: than my style, or driven by my internal motivators over
Speaker 1: my style. So things are second hand. I can maybe
Speaker 1: count on one hand the number of things that we
Speaker 1: got new because that's important to me, and things are
Speaker 1: typically low cost because that's also important to me. So
Speaker 1: those are the things actually more so than style that
Speaker 1: drive my choices, and because those things are important to me,
Speaker 1: I tend to keep it neutral. I love that. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: the contentment, right and you said the already that's the
Speaker 1: goal is we decorate a room and we can be
Speaker 1: content with it that we're not. That's where the saving
Speaker 1: money is going to come into place, where we're not
Speaker 1: constantly buying, constantly redecorating. To find something and stick with it.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure we're going to have plenty of listeners
Speaker 1: who are like, I don't really care. This is the
Speaker 1: end table I got from my grandparents, and this is
Speaker 1: the bed from my childhood and it's done perfect. Then
Speaker 1: you have saved money furnishing your space and your content
Speaker 1: with it. So whether you are super into design or
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter to you, the end goal is
Speaker 1: complete the room and move on and don't keep spending
Speaker 1: money on it. Absolutely, Thanks so much for listening. Guys.
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Speaker 1: by Eric Sirian mm hmm. Decor, I'm not even at
Speaker 1: that stage. And in our house we have so few
Speaker 1: things which I love. The last time I was at
Speaker 1: your house a few weeks ago, it was empty again.
Speaker 1: It was because we were in the middle of renovations
Speaker 1: and the walls were white. Yeah, so much of our
Speaker 1: decor is just gonna be baked into our renovations, like
Speaker 1: doing accent walls as part of our renovation process and
Speaker 1: built in Shelvang. It's like those pieces, those character pieces,
Speaker 1: and and then we just won't need a ton of stuff.
Speaker 1: And then I just propagate my own plants and put
Speaker 1: that everywhere. My style is plants. I'm sure you are
Speaker 1: not alone. I'm sure a lot of people will say plants,
Speaker 1: especially through COVID. It's so funny to watch something become trendy.
Speaker 1: It's like I have been into plants for a very
Speaker 1: long time, and many people have been into plants, but
Speaker 1: suddenly like losenhome depot or getting on the bandwagon, charging
Speaker 1: like twenty dollars for a succulent. So I'm not all
Speaker 1: about that. You can absolutely get succulents, you can propagate succulents,
Speaker 1: you can find them, probably just like in your yard,
Speaker 1: or you can join a plant club. You do not
Speaker 1: have to spend a ton of money just because something
Speaker 1: has suddenly become on trend, Like plants have always been
Speaker 1: a thing, and you can still get them inexpensively and
Speaker 1: propagate your own. But I would challenge you and say
Speaker 1: plants are not your personal style. I love plants um
Speaker 1: and I liked them before COVID, So yeah, they bring
Speaker 1: They bring joy to me, They bring peace and tranquility.
Speaker 1: Caring for them, plants, gardening, all the things you do.
Speaker 1: You do love that, And I'm glad that you now
Speaker 1: have your own plot of land to really let your
Speaker 1: plant flag fly. Yes, oh and you better watch it fly.
Speaker 1: So many plants, so much oxygen,