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Speaker 1: What's up, y'all? You are listening to the first Velvet's

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Speaker 1: Edge Mini sed Um. This is Kelly and I started

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Speaker 1: this podcast based off of my blog Velvet's Edge velvets

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Speaker 1: edge dot com if you want to check it out.

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Speaker 1: But I've been getting a lot of emails from you guys,

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Speaker 1: um just in response to the podcasts I've done that

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Speaker 1: you want more fashion tips, more beauty tips, just more

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Speaker 1: lifestyle tips that are similar to what I do on

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Speaker 1: velvet Edge dot com. So I'm going to start doing

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Speaker 1: these many episodes every other week with just some tips

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Speaker 1: and just different topics that we can break down and

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Speaker 1: um help you guys out with. So the first one,

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Speaker 1: I have my friend Britt here Brittany Forrester. It's brett Okay.

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Speaker 1: Britt is great. My mom swears that she named me

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Speaker 1: Brittany before everyone else on the planet needed a name. UM,

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Speaker 1: so I kind of prefer britt okay because that keeps

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Speaker 1: you different. There you go, But Brittany, how me too.

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Speaker 1: I've completely redone my condo recently and she was totally

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Speaker 1: the brains behind all of it, because that is just

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Speaker 1: not my thing. Interiors are not my thing. I know

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Speaker 1: when I see something like yes or no that I'd

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Speaker 1: like that, but the creative part of it or not

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Speaker 1: my things. So Brittany came in and really really helped

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Speaker 1: me on and I love my place now. So we

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Speaker 1: were going to give a couple of tips. Um, let's

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Speaker 1: just jump in get started. Yeah, absolutely, okay, So the

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Speaker 1: first one was you came in, you looked at everything,

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Speaker 1: and you asked me what do you love what you hate?

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Speaker 1: And we started there exactly. We did exactly what you

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Speaker 1: do for your clients every day, just with your home,

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Speaker 1: like assess what we had, what you wanted it to

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Speaker 1: be or how you wanted to look um, and made

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Speaker 1: a decision on hey, this is really important, like this

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Speaker 1: is the foundation of what we need to do. Like

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Speaker 1: your rug you're rush was super important. So we knew

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Speaker 1: we needed to invest money in that. People see it

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Speaker 1: in all of your selfie shots, like you wanted your

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Speaker 1: space to film modern naing cozy, So it's just important

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Speaker 1: that we get that done. Um, And we felt like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, the other thing that we felt like

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Speaker 1: it needed to do was just lighten and brighten a

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Speaker 1: little bit, kind of like a facelift. And so we

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Speaker 1: I don't know, we felt like one of the best

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Speaker 1: things that we could do was invest in some art.

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Speaker 1: You already had some great art, but we invested in

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Speaker 1: a few more pieces. Um. And then we bought all

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Speaker 1: new curtains, which I thought was so important. Right, So

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Speaker 1: going back that a little bit because some of the

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Speaker 1: investment pieces, like a rug is expensive. It can be.

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Speaker 1: So I was super lucky because you found min old

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Speaker 1: sale and it's awesome. But Brittany went to a restoration hardware.

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Speaker 1: I think you were in Kentucky, like somewhere random, right.

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Speaker 1: I was home for Christmas, so literally, like I made

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Speaker 1: my entire family late for dinner because when we were

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Speaker 1: going I found this rug for rain and I was like,

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Speaker 1: this is perfect. It was a restauration. My dad was

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Speaker 1: like Velvetsedge. Cool. Yeah, So we had to like we

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Speaker 1: had to meet the delivery people. I think it was

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Speaker 1: sleeting or something. I mean, we were at restoration Hardware

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Speaker 1: the outlet they have outlets just for those who don't

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Speaker 1: know that, um. And it was a holiday, so they

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Speaker 1: were in a great cell and this rug was like

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Speaker 1: super expensive. I called you out of the boy was like, hey,

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Speaker 1: you have to get this. Put it in in the

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Speaker 1: car and drive home with it and fit the space.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, it changed the whole room and for

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Speaker 1: me a rug Like you said, it's in all of

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Speaker 1: my pictures. I wanted it to fit like my velvet

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Speaker 1: edge vibe, but also like I wanted to cover so

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Speaker 1: much on my floor, like it just felt kind of

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Speaker 1: cold and whatever. It just made it really cozy. So

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Speaker 1: then with the art stuff and the curtains, this is

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Speaker 1: kind of tiptoo to me because I love that you

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Speaker 1: did this. You raised everything all the way to the ceiling.

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Speaker 1: So when you walked in your apartment with the way

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Speaker 1: everything was hanging, it felt smaller than it is, Like

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Speaker 1: these crazy tall ceilings take advantage of that. So we

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Speaker 1: ordered new curtains. We didn't spend a lot on the curtains.

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Speaker 1: We know they were key, but because we ordered longer ones,

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Speaker 1: they were a little bit more expensive. Um, and we

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Speaker 1: got new hardware, and we took your curtains all the

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Speaker 1: way to the ceiling. And we did the same with

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Speaker 1: your art, Like a lot of your art was below,

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Speaker 1: so we just stacked it and when you walk into

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Speaker 1: your door now it looks like a completely different but

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Speaker 1: it feels crazy. It just opened everything up. It just

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Speaker 1: made it feel so much bigger. So so tip one

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Speaker 1: is finmes you need to invest in, which isn't everything

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Speaker 1: I've learned through you. But and then also tip two

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Speaker 1: would be raise your curtains, raiser curtains, raiser art you

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Speaker 1: take advantage of any sort of high ceiling that you

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Speaker 1: might have. Okay, Okay. Tip three this is like, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I feel like this is the most simple thing, but

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Speaker 1: it genuinely is so amazing in my bathroom. So I

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Speaker 1: think most people probably have one shower curtain. Brittany came

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Speaker 1: in and was like, I wanted to replace my shower curtain,

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Speaker 1: and you said, okay, we'll buy two to two of everything,

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Speaker 1: two of the hurt into the liner, two orders of

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Speaker 1: the new hooks we got, and tell me why you

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Speaker 1: do that? Like what? Okay? So, first of all, I

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Speaker 1: totally made this tip up in my head, like because

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Speaker 1: that's what I've done for my homes. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if it's an actual, like tried and true design rule,

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Speaker 1: like there might be real designers out there who were like,

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Speaker 1: uh no, that doesn't work. I love it. So I also,

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Speaker 1: I think if you buy two shower curtains, it just

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Speaker 1: looks full so usually when you see a picture of

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Speaker 1: a bathroom and the shower curtains pulled, it's just really

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Speaker 1: the bathroom looks so bleak. It just like there's nothing

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Speaker 1: going on. So if you buy two, then it almost

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Speaker 1: looks custom. And then this is so dramatic, but I

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Speaker 1: kind of love that you can split them in half

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Speaker 1: and step out on the side, like it feels like

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Speaker 1: you're stepping out on this stage and like, yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: ready for my day, Like here I am, We're all

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Speaker 1: that I'm clean exactly, But it is true, like your

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Speaker 1: shower curtain, you never think about it. And I bought

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Speaker 1: Monet's Target, so it wasn't like I spent a money

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Speaker 1: on them. But like you said, it just makes everything

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Speaker 1: looks so much more expensive and custom and it's really

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Speaker 1: well done. I mean, spending spending the money on buying

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Speaker 1: two shower gardens is still so much cheaper than having

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Speaker 1: something custom. My gosh. Yeah, it's a really good tip.

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Speaker 1: So you guys can check out all the stuff that

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Speaker 1: we did do in my condo on velvet side dot com. Now, um,

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Speaker 1: I'm put links to everything I bought, but also just

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Speaker 1: give you more of these tips that Britney taught me.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. Why