It's that time of year again to start thinking about your Thanksgiving table. Let's talk about what to put on the table. Are you a placemat or a tablecloth person? Paper or cloth napkins? China or paper plates? No matter, we've got tips for your table today.

If you want some ideas on how to fold your napkins check out these napkin folding videos HERE

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Anita's is crushing on the new Wisteria store coming to Houston Nov 2019. Since then, it has closed.

Kelly is crushing on the book, Little Farmstead Living HERE

Need help with your home? We'd love to help! We do personalized consults, and we'll offer advice specific to your room that typically includes room layout ideas, suggestions for what the room needs, and how to pull the room together. We'll also help you to decide what isn't working for you. We work with any budget, large or small. Find out more HERE

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Today we are curating that big blue overwhelming home decor resource known as IKEA.

Whether you are regular shopper or in IKEA virgin like Kelly, you'll be wow'ed at what we found.

Do you know anything about the man behind the big blue box? So interesting... We'll fill you in.

Then we dig right into the good & some laughs of course.

DTT IKEA PICKS:

Glass domed cloches

Gold bottom cloche

Chest of drawers

Sofa

Chunky knit throw

Cream & black throw

Duck egg blue or pink throw

Enamelware pitcher/vase

Blue storage boxes

Awning striped pillow cover

Black & white lumbar pillow cover

Pink wool pillow covers

Jute rugs

Indoor/outdoor natural color rug

Grainsack-esque tea towel

White dishes

Pink dishes

Black metal stool

Black metal rolling cart

Black circular table ( the one that caused Kelly to sweat a bit! )

Velvet pouf

Rattan chair

Metal side table

Rattan baskets

Drop cloth like 26" x 26" pillows

Willow branches

White wooden hangers

Crushes:

Kelly really enjoyed Alice Water's Master Class videos. Check out Master Class HERE. You can also/instead get a copy of Alice's book HERE.

Anita loved watching Monty Don's Gardens of France video series. Catch Monty for yourself HERE.

FYI - Ikea did not sponsor this episode. We just thought it would be fun to have a field trip & share our finds with you!

Need help with your home? We'd love to help! We do personalized consults, and we'll offer advice specific to your room that typically includes room layout ideas, suggestions for what the room needs, and how to pull the room together. We'll also help you to decide what isn't working for you. We work with any budget, large or small. Find out more HERE

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We're checking out home decor magazines. Find out which ones were our favorites and which ones didn't make the cut. We're covering magazines like House Beautiful, Veranda, Dwell, Country French, Milieu, Flowers, and so much more. Find out which ones had great paper, were full of articles, and which ones were full of ads.

Anita's is crushing on The Moth Podcast HERE

Kelly is crushing on this very affordable coffee table HERE

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Need help with your home? We'd love to help! We do personalized consults, and we'll offer advice specific to your room that typically includes room layout ideas, suggestions for what the room needs, and how to pull the room together. We'll also help you to decide what isn't working for you. We work with any budget, large or small. Find out more HERE

Hang out with us between episodes at our blogs, IG and Kelly's YouTube channels. Links are below to all those places to catch up on the other 6 days of the week!

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Your stuff should serve YOU, not the other way around.

Today we urge you to take action along with us and get rid of the stuff not serving you.

Grab a bag or a box and turn us up! Today we help free you from the stuff bogging you down.

This episode is not only action based, it is pretty funny too.

Let's get it done & have a few laughs too.

Crushes:

Anita is loving Joules Rain Ponchos. See them HERE.

Kelly says we should all have a look at Capricorn Press for beautiful handcrafted prints. Look HERE.

Need help with your home? We'd love to help! We do personalized consults, and we'll offer advice specific to your room that typically includes room layout ideas, suggestions for what the room needs, and how to pull the room together. We'll also help you to decide what isn't working for you. We work with any budget, large or small. Find out more HERE

Hang out with us between episodes at our blogs, IG and Kelly's YouTube channels. Links are below to all those places to catch up on the other 6 days of the week!

Kelly's IG HERE

Anita's IG HERE

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Choosing the right white paint can be very daunting. But have no fear we are here! We know how to choose the right white paint and are sharing the process with you today.

There are 4 categories of white paint,

BLUE-WHITE

TRUE WHITE

OFF-WHITE

CREAM

Kelly loves using Samplize HERE for repositionable paint samples so you can visualize what the paint color will look like in the room.

Here are some of our favorite white paint colors

SW EIDER WHITE

BM WHITE DOVE

FARROW AND BALL CRISP WHITE

SW EXTRA WHTIE

BM SIMPLY WHITE

BM DECORATORS WHITE

CLARE WHIPPED

BM CHANTILLY LACE

BM PAPER WHITE

BM MAYONNAISE

BM OFF WHITE

BM WHITE DOVE

SW ALABASTER

SW NATURAL CHOICE

BM WHITE LINEN

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Anita is crushing on this Kate Spade insulated lunch bag HERE

Kelly is crushing on Stacy Kent's music. Find her CDs HERE

and HERE

Need help with your home? We'd love to help! We do personalized consults, and we'll offer advice specific to your room that typically includes room layout ideas, suggestions for what the room needs, and how to pull the room together. We'll also help you to decide what isn't working for you. We work with any budget, large or small. Find out more HERE

Hang out with us between episodes at our blogs, IG and Kelly's YouTube channels. Links are below to all those places to catch up on the other 6 days of the week!

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Kelly's Youtube HERE

Kelly's blog HERE

Anita's IG HERE

Anita's blog HERE

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Whether you are already a New Traditionalist, don't know if you are one or want to be one, we have lots of advice for you to make the most of this beautiful & easy to live with style.

In a nutshell new traditionalist style effortlessly mixes & blends traditional furnishings with modern, sleeker elements to create a whole new fresh take. New traditionalist rooms are interesting because of the mix of periods & provences of the pieces. ( say that 3x fast! )

Whether you have a house full of traditional furnishings or tend toward the modern today you'll learn the key pieces to add, take away or combine to achieve this very now look.

We talk about new traditionalist designers that you'll want to check out.

They are all women & putting their own spin on traditional.

Click the names to be directed to their sites:

Summer Thorton

Heather Garrett

Katie Lydon

Taylor Borsari

Ginger Brewton

Frances Merill

Anita shares why we need to avoid alumium in our cooking and in doing just that she is crushing on parchment paper. Get a roll HERE.

Kelly enjoyed another book! Her crush is GHOSTED by Rosie Walsh. HERE

Need help with your home? We'd love to help! We do personalized consults, and we'll offer advice specific to your room that typically includes room layout ideas, suggestions for what the room needs, and how to pull the room together. We'll also help you to decide what isn't working for you. We work with any budget, large or small. Find out more HERE

Hang out with us between episodes at our blogs, IG and Kelly's YouTube channels. Links are below to all those places to catch up on the other 6 days of the week!

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Anita's IG HERE

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High style at low cost is such an easy thing to achieve if you know a few tricks of the trade. High style doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg. There are some very simple things you can do to get you there, and we've tried so many of them. We're sharing our favorite ways to rev up style without breaking the bank. One thing you can do, for example, is to declutter your home or freshen up your paint, but we've got so many more ideas. Come take a listen.

Be sure to watch Kelly's video on low cost high style HERE

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Want the tutorial for how to make a long drop bedspread from dropcloth? It's in Anita's book, French Accents HERE

Anita is crushing on these white sneakers made by Sperry HERE

Kelly is crushing on Grande Lash mascara HERE

Need help with your home? We'd love to help! We do personalized consults, and we'll offer advice specific to your room that typically includes room layout ideas, suggestions for what the room needs, and how to pull the room together. We'll also help you to decide what isn't working for you. We work with any budget, large or small. Find out more HERE

Hang out with us between episodes at our blogs, IG and Kelly's YouTube channels. Links are below to all those places to catch up on the other 6 days of the week!

Kelly's IG HERE

Kelly's Youtube HERE

Kelly's blog HERE

Anita's IG HERE

Anita's blog HERE

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Let us boost your COLOR CONFIDENCE today! Pick the best paint colors for your home with our advice.

There are soooo many choices and many, many variables that impact how the paint will appear on your walls.

We go deep into detail on how the process of picking samples, testing the paints and making your ultimate selection.

Do NOT let anyone rush you into choosing a paint color!!

Get a 12 x 12 sample of paint on a repositional sheet from Samplize HERE.

Anita suggested this paint formula translator. Try it HERE.

We mentioned this fabulous rich navy wall color - Hale Navy. Someone try it and send us pictures! See it HERE.

We found out Julie used double sided Gorilla Glue for her utensil art. Who knew G Glue made a double sided tape? See it HERE.

Anita is crushing on the refreshing taste & mineral boost she gets from Gerlhsteiner Mineral Water. Check it out HERE.

Kelly upp'ed her beauty routine with the eye de-puffer from Sunday Riley called Auto Correct. Have a look HERE.

Kelly has Anita using this de-puffing balm from Kate Somerville as well. See it HERE.

Need help with your home? We'd love to help! We do personalized consults, and we'll offer advice specific to your room that typically includes room layout ideas, suggestions for what the room needs, and how to pull the room together. We'll also help you to decide what isn't working for you. We work with any budget, large or small. Find out more HERE

Hang out with us between episodes at our blogs, IG and Kelly's YouTube channels. Links are below to all those places to catch up on the other 6 days of the week!

Kelly's IG HERE

Anita's IG HERE

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What's the deal with antiques? Is it a great time to buy? to sell? Are they still popular? We're talking about which items that have gone up in price and which have gone down. We're also discussing why there has been a big shift in pricing recently. No matter how you slice it, if you love antiques, then enjoy yours. If you want to sell yours, and the total value is over $1,000, then you might want to contact Sothebys to get an auction estimate HERE

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Anita is crushing on this tea kettle HERE

Kelly is crushing on this hotel HERE

Need help with your home? We'd love to help! We do personalized consults, and we'll offer advice specific to your room that typically includes room layout ideas, suggestions for what the room needs, and how to pull the room together. We'll also help you to decide what isn't working for you. We work with any budget, large or small. Find out more HERE

Hang out with us between episodes at our blogs, IG and Kelly's YouTube channels. Links are below to all those places to catch up on the other 6 days of the week!

Kelly's IG HERE

Anita's IG HERE

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Come on over to our houses! We want to share with you what we are up to inside and out.

Anita is thinking about becoming an Air BnB host. We have an episode on just that. Listen HERE.

Kelly is so pleased with the growth of her hedges after feeding her plants with THESE organic fertilizer stakes.

Awnings are a nice addition to many homes. They provide sun/rain protection and might just be the touch you need. Kinda like an eyebrow on a face. Kelly has researched adding one to the back of her house. She found THIS one on Wayfair.

Crushes:

Anita is enjoying homemade hibiscus tea.

Anita's recipe is: 1/2 gallon water

Get sachets of hibiscus tea HERE..

Kelly really likes the Au Natural foundation/concealer she picked up at Wholefoods. See it HERE

Thanks to Susan E. for starting the conversation about shopping local and what that means to us in 2019.

Pressure Cooking is what we were thinking of! Our friend Debbie takes the stress out of pressure HERE.

Need help with your home? We'd love to help! We do personalized consults, and we'll offer advice specific to your room that typically includes room layout ideas, suggestions for what the room needs, and how to pull the room together. We'll also help you to decide what isn't working for you. We work with any budget, large or small. Find out more HERE

Hang out with us between episodes at our blogs, IG and Kelly's YouTube channels. Links are below to all those places to catch up on the other 6 days of the week!

Kelly's IG HERE

Anita's IG HERE

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