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Speaker 1: What's up you guys. You are listening to a Velvet's

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Speaker 1: Edge Mini swed and I'm here with my friend Brittany

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Speaker 1: for search. She helped me to update my condo recently,

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Speaker 1: and so we gave three tips last time, and we

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Speaker 1: have three more tips for you if you're looking to

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Speaker 1: update your place. UM, okay, let's just jump right in.

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Speaker 1: I'll like to do that with these, um modernizing my

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Speaker 1: place or like the things that I already have. There

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Speaker 1: was a couple of things, especially that lamp, the one

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Speaker 1: I got from t J Max, super cool lamp. It's

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Speaker 1: a bird. It's very my style. It looks almost vintage.

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Speaker 1: But the shade is awful. It looks different like it was.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a way of using those things that

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Speaker 1: you love. But like something had to change, right, So

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Speaker 1: all we did was change out the lamp shade and

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Speaker 1: it looks completely different. So you save your vibe without

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Speaker 1: spending a ton of money. And it's it looked new

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Speaker 1: and different. It looks so chic now. So my lamp

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Speaker 1: is actually white and it had a white like old

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Speaker 1: lady looking shade on it, and so Brittany found me

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Speaker 1: it's a black shade with a gold foil into your

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Speaker 1: inside and I put it on top of the lamp.

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Speaker 1: It makes it's seriously so chic, so cool and supermodern.

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Speaker 1: I think that that little vignette that we did in

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Speaker 1: your bedroom is probably my favorite because I think it

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Speaker 1: was so transformative. We changed out the lamp shade. You

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Speaker 1: had this dresser, which was great and you need to

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Speaker 1: spend a lot of money on but it didn't fit

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Speaker 1: your vibe because it was a little antique. And so

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Speaker 1: all we did was change out that lamp shade and

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Speaker 1: get you a mirror, like was kind of an investment,

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Speaker 1: but it was really modern and suddenly that whole space

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Speaker 1: made sense. Right. Was the lamp was like fifty dollars

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Speaker 1: to redo. That was such an easy fix um. And

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Speaker 1: then the mirror I think I found on sale too.

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Speaker 1: I think you definitely did. It was wayfair or something

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Speaker 1: or one of those it was, I don't know. And

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Speaker 1: you can take that mirror anywhere now too. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: have to stay here like when you move or I

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Speaker 1: just feel like that's going to be a timeless piece

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Speaker 1: for you. But that was a really easy fix. It

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Speaker 1: was and I actually was going to get rid of

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Speaker 1: the dress I remember that was one of the things

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Speaker 1: I told you, like, I hate this, it's so not

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Speaker 1: my style. It's just with those easy fixes or quick changes,

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Speaker 1: it changed everything. I think you should always see how

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Speaker 1: you can make something work before you just totally get

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Speaker 1: rid of it. I mean, there's that's my favorite thing

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Speaker 1: and different and completely transform it. And that's exactly what

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Speaker 1: to do that because I was like, let's just get

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Speaker 1: at the end of it. Though, because this stuff is

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Speaker 1: not cheap, it can definitely be a puzzle. It's not

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Speaker 1: And this is actually one of my favorite things that

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Speaker 1: but I would come home. So I've talked a little

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Speaker 1: bit about dating, and we're like, Britty got me these

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Speaker 1: will and picked out specific books that were funny for me,

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Speaker 1: like the one about dating as a murder makes me

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Speaker 1: laugh like every time I see it. Yeah, exactly, and

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Speaker 1: it fits my style. It's just like a humorous way

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Speaker 1: and it's it's just so me well, and it's just

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Speaker 1: a fun way to spend a Sunday afternoon. I mean, like,

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Speaker 1: we bought you books that were all black because we

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Speaker 1: mood board. Like we pinned a bunch of stuff on

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Speaker 1: of just stuff that's like cool trips I've taken. You

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Speaker 1: lot of memories, they just end up in a box.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, my lamin. It's like that I wear

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Speaker 1: such fun nights. Like my favorite one was one of

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Speaker 1: the Justin Timberley concerts I went to recently, And now

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Speaker 1: it's hanging on my mood board as just like a memory,

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Speaker 1: remember how much fun I have with my friends at night.

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Speaker 1: And exactly again, it's something else people can look at

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Speaker 1: And you can change it out. I mean, you can

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Speaker 1: put things on there that you need to remember because

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Speaker 1: I love about that is that it's so personal because

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Speaker 1: we customized it. We had someone local making. We literally

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Speaker 1: You're like, we thank you, but you I like people

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Speaker 1: super cool, exactly exactly. And then we took a nail

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Speaker 1: You can see all of these pictures on Velvet Sage

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Speaker 1: I love recipes. Yeah, to do this, fun pictures of

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Speaker 1: Like it's kind of your workplace for things that you're

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Speaker 1: So when we got to my bedroom, I have this.

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Speaker 1: I could take it down. It's not going to harm

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Speaker 1: ended up being a lot of really powerful women in

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Speaker 1: and I think it's another thing that really speaks, like

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Speaker 1: I mean it's depending on what kind of wallpaper you use.

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Speaker 1: And again it's just really expensive. I thought that this

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Speaker 1: see it. I loved it me too. Well, Brett, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much. Thank you. You guys can check all

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Speaker 1: of this out on velvet edge dot com. Thanks for listening,

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