You also just completed or
in the process of your own renovation?
Yeah, just completed a big project for our desert home.
Oh.
I've always been obsessed with the desert.
I feel at home in the desert, especially
the Desert Mountains, the Coachella Valley.
Look! So we were out for a friend's birthday
at a home down the street and I was just like, my God
I've always wanted to have a home here.
And I'm finally in a position to have one,
even though I still rent it out for vacation rentals,
because can have a house is sitting around doing nothing?
Right, right.
Um, so yeah, I'm obsessed with it now.
It came out really cool.
It's this beautiful, it's on five acres
and it's all these like little homes
that this family built throughout
the sixties, seventies and eighties.
So it like has this wonderful...
Such personality!
feeling and personality.
It's like a little family of its own.
It is, it is, it's so cool.
Its a whole family of its own.
These are actually all tips inspired by my home
in the desert.
Oh, cool!
So if we get a picture of the living room before,
that's the living room before. It was cute.
It was not too bad, actually.
Yeah, it was not too bad, eh...
That sofa was kind of gross.
Okay. Calm it down.
So that's original.
Yes.
So what we did, and you'll see the after in a minute
is we had these beautiful baskets
hand woven in Tunisia.
Yeah, I love baskets as all sorts of shade art.
Yes, and so we did about 13 of them
in that one space.
And you don't have to get them
hand woven in Tunisia to find something cool.
You can go to Target, you can go to Home Goods,
Amazon, thrift stores
Anywhere, the garden store!
Anywhere.
The hardware store in my community.
And you can get a really cool look for very little.
So what I did is get this basket and this one actually
I think is like a laundry basket even.
And you get one of these light kits,
which you can get these on Amazon.
You can get them a target, you can get them at Ikea.
You take the cord off.
Again, my hardware store.
It's a big deal for us in upstate New York.
Hi Ace.
(Bobby laughs)
So just put it through whatever little crevice
you can find so that way normally
you won't have to cut through anything.
Gotcha.
And you just do it like that.
It's kind of (indistinct)
It's bold and it's perfect because then
you've got this cute little number here.
And look at that.
That's the after
The next little tip, and it's inspired by a hallway
and a closet if we can get that picture.
So this is a self-adhesive wallpaper.
So this hallway was like this weird
honestly kind of creepy hallway.
It was dark, there's no windows.
It was the, the hallway that goes to
a bedroom in a different part of the house.
I gotcha.
And so I wanted people to
actually get excited...
Have it broken up.
I wanted people to get excited
about going this hall instead of creepy.
So what I thing was I did wallpaper
and this is the closet in the primary bedroom.
Most people don't think of putting wallpaper in a closet.
But I love putting wallpaper in a closet
because it just adds that little cool moment.
Like you pull your clothes apart and you're like, ah
there's that cute wallpaper, right?
Like it's your little friend.
These self-adhesive are great because you don't have to
hire an installer because if it's a regular wallpaper
you should hire an installer, it's a lot.
So they just pull off like that.
And I always like to get my little squeegee.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Bubbles. And you just put it on.
Thank you.
There you go.
And that's how easy it is.
Ta Dah!
Smooth it back.
And then another great tip that I like to use is
wallpaper isn't just for walls.
You can actually use it to be a great backing for
Isn't that cool?
A bookcase.
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There we go, a little double stick tape.
Fantastic.
And then you've got a nice little drama there.
Boop! You can put your little stuff there.
That's perfect.
Ta dah!
Ta dah, ta dah.
Now another inspiration from the house.
Oh yeah.
Is runners.
So a lot of times people are think,
Oh I need to do a full size rug in a room.
You don't have to because especially like,
I don't always love rugs under the table
because they can get food on them.
Oh my god. I do runners under beds,
under it goes through the bed, so when
you put your feet on the floor.
Exactly.
Ah!
That! Or, if you have the space,
instead of doing a rug that goes all the way through
because eight by tens are too big.
I love this
Five by sevens are too small.
You put a runner on each side
Ah!
and these are.
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