Lisa Holt, an award-winning, internationally renowned interior designer, teaches you EVERYTHING you need to know about home design, renovation, remodeling, and interior decorating. Coupled with her fun and unique delivery, Lisa provides candid and expert advice on the principles and trends of design that anyone can use!
Remodeling old home with small bedrooms & baths. What if the remodeled master bath *only has an awesome large shower, 2nd bath also has shower. What if we skip a tub in the home altogether? (Studio out back would still have a tub).
I’m moving into my first house and this is our style we are going for. I’m so excited! So far everything looks amazing and I know it’s going to be so calm and warm
I'm I glad I just met you! You know, it is a lie that gay people are born with style. No, we are born with drama~ I've been staring at a 6'x15 full bath/guest bath (until, as god as my witness, I shall have a guest bath to over decorate!). No, the bathroom gets much worse than that. The flipping ceiling however starts at 14' down to 8.5", which is the back where the tub/shower sits. So, yeah, it needs work. I've been fretting on the stupid ceiling! I've kicked around faux-ing the whole damn room to look like an unsavory alley, complete with telephone lines and a graffiti covered brick wall. I'm completly comfortable with the look, but it might be alarming to guests. Your sample--you called umbre I thought--idea about graduated color, made me think of using it upside down to let the dark be at the top, but that's just not It. I'm vacillating between a textured faux-paper of paint, but I am considering breaking one of your rules and paper the walls but ending at 8'-9' switching to a paint to feather off into the "oblivion" of the deepest color I am using, almost to a black. The only other idea I have would be to put up a 19th art rail with string or ribbon down to art (and the sink mirror. That I'll have to have to hang with locking brackets with faux wire to "hold" the mirror up--it's a bruser. I'm new to your program, so I should hush and go through your back videos. I decorate my home and anyone foolish enough to ask me for help doing their own place. We are part of the new lower-middle class trying to keep up aires and look like we still had the money and buying power of days gone past. Which means we are big ol' thieves of great ideas we can't afford but want anyway, damnit. Yours do not look like the hands of a DIYer. Your styling is nuanced and betrays a background in application art that dazzles. Design, like any art can be taught, but creativity can't. Nice to bump into you. The wallpaper I love is a run-on-demand pattern, with a "random match"--what the hell is that? I ask rhetorically. Anyway, with all the goodies one needs to hang the stuff, it was clocking in at just under a grand. Um. Ew. That was the budget, including new throw pillows, for the living room. Why am I surprised? I found out how much new appliances have gone up, "Wait. That's just the price of the refrigerator...?" A gallon of paint $50? Plus primer?? Thank you. I just received your telepathic advice. Ah, and it is wise. Sometimes the best way to decorate can be the BBC cooking and decorating a 14th castle-type fare. And a chilled Buda Box. I will add that to the joint I have already rolled. Nice to meet you Lisa. I will enjoy commenting from the peanut gallery.
Our builder felt that sink punters to the floor are far sturdier and provide more storage. His suggestion was to recess the floor mounting and to put mirror on what is effectively the equivalent of the kickboard area. We have a reflection of the floor and bathroom and our bottom shelf is raised up by approx. 15cm. It’s a win/ win we think!
Not trees specifically, although there are several, here. Christmas in a British stately home ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VxDJflCfXeo.html
Excellent information. I can not emphasize this enough. I found Lisa 2/3 through my project. Very grateful. I found that I had to back track to balance decisions that I made early on…. Not realizing that some decisions will affect others. That cost me a little money and a ton of frustration. I would never build another home without incorporating the skill set and experience of a professional interior designer. Lisa and team Lisa rock. Builders and architects are not designers. They get the building up but the interior designer helps make your home and investment livable, lovable and magical.
Thank you very much! So knowledgeable - and you’re a great communicator. I agreed with every one of your insights. I liked and subscribed. Looking forward LHD!
Everything Lisa says here is right. The friendly contractor insists that you not have a designer or plans, and you become dependent on him. Then you’re behind, and stressed, as he turns nasty, telling you that you’re in his way. You’re the charity he doesn’t have time for. Getting out of the nightmare project becomes more important than having anything make sense at that point. Every choice starts being calculated as, maybe I can do this or that for now, and change it later? That’s why it becomes a very expensive hodgepodge. The contractor totally blames you for it as well.😢
If you do not know what you are doing, wallpapering a powder room can go really bad really fast, although it sounds simple. DO NOT trust ALL YT vids. It is POSSIBLE to do some things out of order but that will cost so much to rectify them. after the fact. Get the planning or scheduling done before you even begin. This team will save you a king's random and worlds of regret to get the order done properly, from the start. They have dealt with these fiascos for years on a daily basis, they know, most people do not.
I am very impressed with this zoom call. If you’re never been thru a new build or major construction project, it’s a huge learning curve. You bring up the major, non-negotiable items that we need to go thru. May Thanks to all of you!
One thing that's just purely wrong in this video is large tiles in a small bathroom. When picking large tiles for a small bathroom, you really need to consider the edges and cuts. Smaller tiles still will need to be cut to fit the edges but it won't be as obvious. Those smaller cuts from a large tile that are so hard to align well with the whole piece everywhere else in the room are going to scream to your face and sore your eyes. One more thing, if not installed properly, large tiles may actually fall off, and in today's labor market, not many reliable contractors are out there for normal people, so good luck.
Just curious-what DO you suggest for a kitchen that has no upper cabinets (by design choice) if you don’t t use at least one or two open shelves? We don’t need the extra cabinet storage, and they were so outdated-but to curate some art or maybe some dishes, we are considering adding them-very few however. This is a second residence.
I'm used to doing most of my projects myself, along with my talented late husband. Now that I have to hire people for many projects, I'm finding it hard to communicate. I recently received custom cabinets. They are well constructed but not the color or drawer style I wanted. I thought I'd pass out right in the woodworking warehouse when I saw them! Lesson learned - get every detail in writing and confirm again during the process.
Oh wow, yes I am renovating our attached three car garage into an apartment. Im more than half way finished and have used four different crews for the many trades needed. We are not rushed, but cannot wait to get the grandparents out there when visiting, the equity will be nice as well. The contractors have worked on our house before or were all referrals from friends.
The $500 I spend having my late brother’s house and brick walks/patio done paid off big time. The house not only looked so great in person, but on the online real estate sites as well. We had 17 offers on the first day/ open house! And definitely ended up selling for at least $5K more than what we may have gotten otherwise.
