May 14, 2025 • 37 mins
We like to think that we are seasonal decorating gurus around here, but I gotta tell you, summer, it can even challenge the three of us. And let's be honest, it's because spring is so easy, right? You've got bunnies, you've got pastel eggs, you've got flowers, throw some of them out, BAM, you are ready for Spring! In fall, you get some foliage, some pumpkins, BAM. Instant autumn joy! BUT summer, well, it's the season that just shows up in flip flops, and just expects you to go with the vibe. So today we're going to talk about how to handle the season that can be a little bit more about sunburns and maybe a glass of lemonade and aid, and how to create a home with an effortless summer look, without it looking like you raided a luau.
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jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (00:00):
We like to think that we are
seasonal decorating gurus aroundhere, but I gotta tell you,
summer, it can even challengethe three of us.
And let's be honest, it'sbecause spring is so easy,
right?
You've got bunnies, you've gotpastel eggs, you've flowers,
throw some of them out, bam, youare ready In fall, of course,
(00:22):
very easy.
Some foliage, some pumpkins,bam.
Instant autumn joy, but summer,well, it's the season that just
shows up in flip flops and noclear idea what to do and just
expects you to go with the vibe.
So today we're going to talkabout how to handle the season
that can be a little bit moreabout sunburns and maybe a glass
(00:44):
of lemonade and aid, and how tocreate a home with an effortless
summer look without it lookinglike you rated a luau.
So grab your sandals and let'sget to it.
(01:59):
Well, this morning it is justthe two of us and Stuart is out
of town working on a project,but allegedly he might join us.
So we'll see if he joins in withus today.
But the truth is we can holddown the fort.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (02:12):
Yeah, we're fine.
We're fine.
We're fine.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (02:16):
so today we are discussing
something that, when you had afloral class a couple weeks ago,
you asked them what they wantedto learn about and one of the
things that they mentioned,which I thought was spot on,
'cause we've heard this from somany people, is how do we
decorate this transition periodbetween.
(02:38):
Spring, right?
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (02:39):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_0 (02:41):
I mean, technically the next thing
is fall.
I mean, we have summer, right?
But summer's like a one of thosehard seasons to decorate for.
Like you can't do bunnies.
It's way too early for pumpkins.
You can't put out too, I mean,if you love Halloween, I guess
you can put a witch out.
I don't know.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (02:56):
Uh, do what?
Do what you want.
Yeah.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (02:58):
what you want.
um.
it's helping figure out how dowe bridge the gap between spring
and when you feel comfortablebringing out the fall, things
later on, and what can you doaside from of July, Memorial
Day, Americana, red, white, andblue stuff,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (03:20):
Right, right.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (03:21):
Yeah.
So that's the idea of what we'retalking about today.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (03:23):
Well, part of it is, I feel like it,
and this sounds crazy and noteverybody can do it, and
everybody's not everybody's analand crazy as I am, but I feel
like for each season, if you getready for it and you go shopping
in your own house first, right?
It
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (03:40):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (03:41):
forces you to have your house ready if
somebody knocks on your frontdoor and you know, people don't
do that anymore, but the wholeEastern Kentucky.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (03:50):
welcome in my house.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (03:51):
Right.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (03:52):
up.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (03:52):
Well, my parents would do that, and
it's a very, was was a veryEastern Kentucky thing when I
grew up as a small lad that, uh,you could just go to somebody's
house, pull up and they'dwelcome you, and you sit on your
front porch and you'd have, uh,you know, so very southern, but
you have sweet tea, or you goand have some pinto beans in
(04:13):
somebody's kitchen and they'rejust ready for you.
Right.
So I always feel like, um.
Your house needs
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (04:21):
between my family and your family.
My mom would've turned thelights off and everybody head in
the house.
Nobody act like you're home.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_ (04:26):
Seriously.
Wow.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (04:28):
bit.
My mom.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (04:29):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well I, so for me then, thatmeans the house is always gonna
be ready, which always means noton guard, but you just don't lay
around and slip around and waittill last minute to clean the
house.
'cause you got company comingevery 10 minutes.
The house just needs to be.
Pretty and ready all the time.
So really all that does is itmakes you, do something every
(04:50):
day, right?
Just do a little something everysingle day.
So the point of this one for meis when we change out for
seasons, then that makes us do alittle bit of a slight deep
clean.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (05:03):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (05:04):
uh, that we move things around and
yeah, I add new stuff and I getsome new stuff from the store,
or mostly the store.
I can't even say I buy anythingelse from anywhere else anymore
'cause Right.
Hey, don't go anywhere.
I don't wanna go anywhere.
I'm always here.
Right?
And that's not a bad dig, that'sa blessing.
But, uh, so if I add anything,which still is not a lot at this
(05:24):
point, it will come from here.,So that's one of the things is,
is to use this opportunity to,clean house a little bit deep,
clean, just a little bit,getting the house ready.
Um, like for example, lastweekend, Chloe,, my daughter
was, in town.
She lives, about an hour and ahalf away from us, but she was
helping her boyfriends, Brothermove outta his dorm room.
(05:48):
And I had put on a roast thatmorning and I didn't even know
that they, they were gonna be intown or anything, but I was just
gonna have that roast and uh,'cause I've is first, if you've
heard of Mississippi pot roast,Lord have mercy.
How good is it?
Right.
If not, we'll put the recipe up.
Right.
Jeremy,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (06:06):
I, because
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (06:07):
you've said to me.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (06:08):
have talked about this for years.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (06:10):
is so good and so easy and so
nothing to this.
And shout out to Kate, her lastname ever to say that, uh, one
of her employees that works hereevery third Saturday of the
month, she's, she, she thoughtit was a secret family recipe of
her husband's.
And I just Googled and I waslike, yeah, no, there's no
secret to this recipe.
(06:30):
Uh, but anyway, I still dunno ifshe knows that.
So she's listening.
Sorry, Kate.
Um, anyway, very good recipe.
So threw it in the pot.
And, then I thought, oh, she'sin town so I, you know, if
you're moving a dorm orfurniture and stuff.
And I thought, well, maybethey'll need to eat.
Hey, do you and Lucas wanna cometo eat?
And she said, absolutely, yes.
Hmm.
Thank you Daddy.
I love you roast.
(06:51):
And uh, I.
Probably about less than anhour.
Uh, talked to her and she said,Hey, do you mind if, Logan,
which is her boyfriend's brotherand his mom, her tobe
mother-in-law comes over fordinner also?
And I was like, absolutely.
Because the house was ready.
(07:12):
There's no run around screaming,hollering first.
My personality's laid backenough, even if it wasn't, it's
like I don't, like, I don't careif it's not ready, but we threw
in a few little extra biscuitsand a little bit more corn and a
little open, a can of pea andsome butter, and we were ready
to go and had the best evening.
Right?
But it also is about being atease with entertaining and
(07:34):
being,.
Ready for people to walk in thedoor.
This is what I'm saying is, andit's, it's, if you're
comfortable, I keep coming back.
If you're comfortable in yourown skin, you're comfortable in
your own house, you're like,come on in.
Right.
If it's got some, it's gotsomething on the kitchen island
can only throw it away or I'mperfectly fine.
I do.
I pull the jewelry of childs andit's like, if it ain't ready and
it's not fixed and it's notcooked yet, hey, put the apron
(07:56):
on.
Come over here and help me.
Right, and people love that.
You know that, right?
People don't have to beentertained 24 things like if
they wanna be part of something.
So the whole gist of that is,um.
What I've did, uh, in the lastcouple weeks is we have, um, you
know, put the money rabbitsaway.
Got'em all.
There's probably, oh, I knowthere is.
(08:17):
We, I saw it last night.
We have a kitchen, hood over ourstove that looks like a mantle,
right?
And it's pretty big.
And there's this sign that'slike a cutout letters.
They don't judge me'causethey're cute.
And it says, happy Easter hasthis happy Easter on it.
And I looked up there lastnight, I was like.
There she is.
She's still up there.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (08:37):
Well, Easter, Easter was just a couple
weeks
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (08:39):
know, I know.
But I thought I got everything.
It's like I have found therandom Santa in the formal
living room with a bookcase inuh, uh, February.
He's just hanging out.
He is like, Hey.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (08:50):
he's still around.
He may be, uh, resting, but hecan, he's still around.
Well, we have still yet have yetto, uh, lift the bunnies.
I don't really put anything outthat's quote unquote.
bunny figures is about as EasterI'm gonna get, so no Easter
signs, anything like
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (09:10):
Right.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (09:11):
out
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (09:11):
No pink glitter sign.
It says Happy Easter.
Huh?
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (09:14):
and no pink, no pink litter for
sure.
Uh,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (09:17):
is pink glitter.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (09:18):
but next, uh, one of our.
Come upcoming live sales.
We're planning on coming over tothe house and changing it from
spring to summer.
So that's, I've justpurposefully left,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (09:29):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (09:30):
out, so you know, they'll be there.
So this morning as I wasgrabbing my, protein shake, I
looked down and I was like, ohyeah, there's those bunnies.
Yeah, they'll be gone saying,they'll be gone.
Saying, for me, I think the bestway to approach trying to get
ready for the summer is.
You know, kind of like how weapproach spring as far as like
looking out and then bringingthat in.
(09:51):
But I do mine in a much moreedited way.
So, you know, spring we have allthe colors, right?
All the everything's blooming.
And I know that that continuesthrough summer.
I know that there's stillflowers.
I know there's rose bushes, thatblue.
I know there's all those, youknow, other things that, that
come up that have lots of color.
But for me, when I bring itinside, it's, I just wanna go
green and I'll do white.
(10:13):
Right?
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (10:13):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (10:14):
one of my always go-tos is I love
ferns.
Uh, well, I will add me a fernanywhere and everywhere and on
the shelves and the fern frons.
And it just helps me feel likeI've got a little bit of the
outside in.
I love you just listen.
You get, you get you nice littlecollection of ferns and you can
set them little bitches aroundand it makes it feel like, you
(10:36):
know, it's much more, um,summary to me.
I feel like,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (10:40):
Yeah, it, it brings life into the
house.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2 (10:44):
though they're fo'cause listen, I only
have one house plant that I'vebeen able to keep alive for
multiple years and she's, she'sstruggling.
I don't, I I, and this is sad.
I, and listen, if y'all, ifyou're plant lovers, and you
don't judge me when I tell youthis, but I have this beautiful
little pot that she's in and Ilove the pot and I, I need to
really re-pot her to put her insomething else.
(11:06):
And I don't wanna put anotherpot where it goes.
So I'm just forcing her to staythe same size.
I don't know.
Is that bad?
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (11:14):
Uh, well a little, yeah.
Yeah.
It's like, it's like shovingyour children's feet in the
shoes that don't quite fit.
I don't know if I wouldrecommend that.
Let her, let her spread her toesout.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (11:26):
Oh, well.
Okay.
I'll have to get another one.
She'll die for shit now, but
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (11:31):
You know, there's a great little
store called House by JSD thatsells great little pots.
I bet you can get one in theback.
X.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (11:36):
the thing is, it's not, it's not,
it's not the fact that, and I'llshow it next week in our life
sale, but it's not the fact thatI can't find another pot.
It's the, I love the pot it's inand I don't wanna replace it, so
I'll
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (11:49):
We'll buy another baby, buy another
there.
That's just an opportunity.
Everything's an opportunity.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (11:56):
Well, so I always look to ferns'cause
I always will kill everything.
So I will always do faux ferns.
And I like all ferns.
I don't think you can ever gowrong with having too many,
unless you start turning and youlook like you're in a plant
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (12:07):
Now let me tell you something or ask
you something or anything.
Have you ever tried to grow areal maiden hair fern?
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2 (12:13):
'cause I know they're bitches.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (12:14):
Okay.
I, they look like they'redelicate and difficult, so, you
know, we have, I dunno if wehave'em right now.
Um, sold, maiden hair Ferns,right?
Fo made hair fern.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (12:23):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (12:24):
that we've ever gotten in, I go, eh,
right.
Because a real maiden hair fernhas such a particular look to
it, and I just don't, yeah.
I just don't feel like thatthey've got the artificial ones
right yet.
So.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (12:38):
off a
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (12:38):
Color it off, textures off.
And so I just won't, I justwon't buy it.
Right.
I, people come in and I'll use'em, but it's not my first
choice.
And they'll like, yeah, I'm goodwith that.
I'm like, I'm glad you are.
I don't like it.
Uh, but I know, so I,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (12:51):
just maiden hairs, not the other
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (12:53):
yeah.
No, no.
You don't put other words in mymouth.
People.
I just said maiden hairs.
All I said, that's all I said.
'cause we have great other ones,so no.
Throwing the Chinese plasticunder the bus.
I'm just not, I just don't likethat one.
Uh, but then the same instance,like, I guess I'm never gonna
have one because if, like yousaid, they're persnickety and
(13:13):
difficult, I'm just not gonnadeal with it.
So let's go back to you, youknow, um, about our, our
cloches, the bell jars, I.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (13:20):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (13:21):
I have a pretty good little
collection over the last 30years of probably I even sold
some back to other people andpaired'em down.
And so I probably have sticks.
Well, I finished my basement acouple years ago, uh, for my
parents to live in partially,and, that meant I had to give up
a lot of storage and therefore alot of.
Broken things from the storethat I've been hoarding from 12
(13:43):
years I never used.
And uh, I don't, it was justjunk.
So it took a long time to editthrough all that stuff.
And, but there's still junk downthere.
But one of the things that's notjunk is my collection of bell
jars that I've ended up.
I.
Wanting to keep five or six of'em.
I still have that many afterhaving 8, 9, 10, right?
And so I brought them up, uh, Iuse'em at Christmas time and put
(14:06):
uh, winter things in them and Icreate little, if anybody
doesn't know what a cloche orbell jar is, look it up and how
to use them.
But they're a great tool todecorate with.
So, you know, I put SantaClauses in and were actually
snowmen for us and we do awinter scene.
So I put them up clean and I gotgot'em back out and I put bunny
rabbits in them and createdlittle moments out of them.
Well, I was looking at them andI really, really don't have room
(14:30):
to put'em in the basementbecause now we're looking at
tweaking something else and Iwas like, if they go down there,
they're gonna get moved andbroken.
I just need to leave them here.
So they've been sitting nakedempty for like, there's three of
'em upstairs right now for twoor three weeks.
And I'm like, well, what am Igonna do with these things?
And I don't, I didn't wanna go.
(14:52):
Buy more tchotchkes and thingsto put under there and nothing
seems appropriate.
It's like the whole thing, whatyou're talking about.
Well, what do you put under,under?
It's easy to put something therein the fall.
You put pumpkins in the clothes,right?
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (15:04):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (15:05):
put Santa or snowman or something
like that for Christmas.
Uh, and I can even leave thesnowman out for winter, right?
Then I transfer over to bunnyrabbits, got my clothes figured
out.
Then they sat there for threeweeks, two weeks, three weeks
for two or free, right?
And I do this for a living.
I go, I don't know what to putunder these.
And it just hit me.
(15:26):
They're meant to grow plants,right?
There are many geranium that are
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (15:31):
Well, sun, it's like sun houses
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (15:33):
sun, right?
I can't say that.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (15:35):
Sun.
Sun.
What are those called?
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (15:40):
I don't know, greenhouse, they,
they're like a little minigreenhouse because you, you'll
use, they used to, you know,friend, uh, the French, uh,
cliche clo,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (15:47):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (15:48):
they would put'em in your garden and
protect delicate plants, right?
And so it, it creates a littlegreenhouse, like you say.
And I thought, oh, okay, thenI'm gonna use them for what they
really were meant to be, not my,uh, crap.
I stick under them.
So, uh, we have a PhilPhilodendron.
Is that again the correct word?
That's a little heart shape.
So mom had this plant at her.
(16:09):
They had a second little housenear me and they lived there,
just partial.
Uh, and for about nine years shetried to kill that.
Fill the dinner.
It barely, it had like sixinches of soil in there and it
was, you know, the dirt where itgets kind of white on top of it
because it was crusted over andthere's not enough water.
So I would, it literally hadthree little sprinkles on it,
(16:31):
and it's all wilted.
But I would go check on thehouse, make sure the water's not
leaking and whatever.
And I would give that plant somewater.
And just enough to keep it alivefor 7, 8, 9 years.
So she's moving and she'sgetting ready to throw that
plant away.
And I'm like, oh, oh God, no.
I've kept that thing alive fornine years and it's a living,
breathing plant.
(16:52):
You're like, like, it's like youthrow that away.
You're like, throwing part of meaway.
You're killing me.
Right.
It's like the death plant youget from the funeral.
You can't throw it away.
'cause it's,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (17:00):
peace lilies.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (17:01):
you know, these lilies, you can't
throw'em out.
And, um.
So I took it and then I wateredit and I gave it some dirt and
now it's the size of a smallcountry.
True story.
It's massive.
It is massive.
And Mama said before, she said,where do you get that pretty,
uh, plant from?
I said, well, I said, when youtry to kill for 10 years, there
(17:21):
you go.
Right?
Uh, what'd you do to it?
Water, dirt.
That's it.
Literally, I don't think it'sever had a drop of miracle's,
just water and dirt.
Long story is I cut some of thetendrils off, put them in these
little willow, you know, ourcandles that we sell that, uh,
in the little, so I'm, again,hoarder and I say those.
I think they're pretty.
And if you go cut flowers fromthem.
So these little willow, probablyfive inch little things.
(17:43):
Put some water in them, put'eminside the clo cliches with
little pieces of my philodendronand they're sitting there and I,
uh, love it.
See, look at that song pad myown little garden.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (17:55):
Well, oddly enough, I also have
cloches in my living room thatit are often empty because I'm
like, what do I put it in thesummer?
So now I'm like,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (18:02):
CB.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2 (18:03):
little
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (18:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (18:06):
life, and they
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (18:07):
yeah, yeah.
And it's, uh, we sellsucculents, so if you wanna do
artificial succulents in it, Ireally, uh, it sounds like I
don't love what we sell, butbecause I've have, I just think
what we sell is good.
But I just think you have to useit in very edited ways.
And not every surface needs a foflower arrangement, or every
(18:28):
surface needs a fake, plant.
Right?
You can use them, but use themin very.
Purposeful ways and um, I thinkyou almost disagree'cause you
don't, you don't grow very muchreal stuff, do you?
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (18:39):
No, I mean outside, you
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (18:41):
No, that's what I mean inside that
You just don't
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (18:43):
No,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (18:43):
No,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (18:44):
I've got one.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (18:45):
that's one.
That's one.
Okay.
Hear it again.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (18:47):
one.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (18:48):
and it's barely alive.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (18:49):
Not she, well, she holding on.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (18:51):
Okay.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (18:51):
looks okay, but I guess
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (18:52):
Yeah.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (18:53):
get her a twin sister
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (18:54):
Okay.
Get her.
See, look, we, we we're buyingthe plan now I don't know where
to go buy plants from'cause, uh.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (19:00):
got local place over here.
I'll stop by on the way.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (19:02):
You going to,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (19:02):
pick up my
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (19:03):
we're gonna say Pemberton's is gonna
get some of your money today.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (19:06):
They're gonna get
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (19:07):
And they deserve it.
They're good people.
They're good people.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (19:10):
Yeah.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (19:10):
They are good people.
Anyway, so I, I figured out whatto do with my cliches, right?
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (19:15):
Yeah.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (19:16):
And so I have been moving my blue
and white porcelain around.
Cleaning it, getting the dustoff.
Uh, I have these absolutemassive blue and white pots that
sit on our kitchen island, and Iput real sticks in them and our
beautiful magnolia stems.
These really big, long ones thatwe.
Found, I think last year I gotthree of those in it and I had,
(19:39):
a few of our white dogwoodartificial branches in there.
And it looks like I just wentand cut all this from my yard
and had that in that great bigpot.
One of'em had something in itand the other one doesn't, it
has a lid on it.
And that's been sitting on thekitchen island.
But, actually I have to tell thereal story.
So it's been sitting there and Ilove it and it's been, that
(19:59):
pot's been sitting there sincefall and I keep.
Putting just like what we've towto.
I put um, the magnolia's there.
The sticks are there, but I'veadded fall flowers to it.
Then I left it and I addedChristmas greenery to it.
'cause I like the houseChristmas time.
If all in Christmas, fuller andlusher and more over the top and
you like, you have to look likethrough jungle fever to see the
(20:21):
other side of the kitchenisland, it's so full and I love
it.
I love it.
I paired it down, emptied it outa little looser, a little more
sparse for spring, more twiggylooking.
So I have a client that Iconvinced her when we did this,
a major, remodel like everyroom, but with new kitchen in a
(20:41):
massive kitchen island in justbeautiful.
But she lives out on a farm, andwe did a picture window that is
the size of two houses becauseshe looks out her kitchen sink
and.
It is barns and horses andnothing like you can, I mean, it
really frames the beauty ofliving in the bluegrass
(21:02):
truthfully, right?
And so we were talking aboutwhat to put over the kitchen
island, what kind of lightfixtures.
And even though it's a bigkitchen, I kept saying nothing,
right?
I didn't wanna swat away.
I didn't want to feel like Ineeded to look through anything.
And this kitchen island is therein blank.
(21:22):
Now I was like, oh, but it needsa little something.
So I took my huge blue whitejars there.
'cause they're huge.
I keep saying they're 30 inchestall or something like that.
They're just massive.
So I took the jars over thereand tried'em.
She said, I absolutely love'em,but I want'em a little smaller,
real big.
And I was like, okay, but right.
But it, and I get it, I get it,you know?
Um, but it helped her tounderstand it.
(21:43):
So when I took him back to myhouse, I was like, I don't want
'em on the kitchen islandanymore.
Right.
I, I, it feels heavy.
It feels too much.
I don't want it in the kitchentable.
So I put them out on my frontporch.
You know, with the urns and theferns, and I just, I look at'em
and go, oh, and people say,well, you can't put porcelain on
your front porch.
(22:03):
Well, yeah, you can.
Yeah.
Because people don't know this.
Like, do you know, do you knowwhat a, um, a garden stool is?
Yeah, you do, right?
So if people don't No, no, youdo.
I, I should say listen toaudience maybe.
And then they're also gonnalaugh at me.
Of course, they don't want thegarden stool us, so we sell
garden stools.
And so, um, I had ordered inyears ago.
(22:24):
Uh, blue and white garden stoolsand those set between the
rocking chairs on the frontporch year round.
I don't even bring'em in forChristmas or winter or anything.
They just stay there year round.
So now drive up to the prettyhouse and imagine these 30 inch
blue and white ginger jars.
Nestle do are the ferns withpots in'em that have blues and
(22:45):
purple flowers in them, and blueand purple pillows, which sounds
a weird combination, but I loveit.
And blue, blue and white.
Um, uh, garden stools.
So also it goes back to thething we've said before is
always pay attention to yourfront door, right?
Clean your front door.
People don't go through thefront door.
I put a lot of effort,truthfully, if I say it.
(23:06):
I do it and believe it.
I put a lot of effort intomaking that front door
beautiful.
When you drive up, you have oneopportunity to say you've
arrived somewhere.
Right?
So basically all that is aboutmoving stuff around, shopping
your own house, buy what youlove from us and then, but you
get to move it around and changeit and put it in different
places and be ready for yourcompany.
That's part of my change up forthe seasons is getting ready.
(23:31):
Uh, um, for people to come andyou start moving things around.
So that's long story.
Yes.
That's kind of my approach.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (23:38):
You know, oddly enough, uh, the, one
of the only thing, I'm not a bigcleaner.
I mean, my husband is, thankGod, but, I.
The one thing that I lookforward to every year is when it
gets to spring, and then I knowI'm gonna clean all the windows
in the
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (23:50):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_0 (23:51):
I just, oh God.
It makes me so excited and I doit.
He did.
He doesn't even do it.
I'll do every one in the
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (23:56):
Are yours.
It's the old house is theindividual panes individual
glass.
Or is it like
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (24:01):
We replaced our windows,, a year
ago or whatever, but so they dohave the, uh, the
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0 (24:06):
millions?
Mm-hmm.
See, ours is not an old house.
It's less than 20 years old, butI insisted on putting Windows
uhhuh with true divided lights.
So every one of those 1 billionwindows is every one of those
little squares.
That's me cleaning every square.
(24:27):
I had a quote for somebody tocome and clean the windows once.
It's like a thousand dollars.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (24:33):
Oh, I don't even think that's a bad
knowing how many windows youhave.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (24:36):
I was like, I can't spend a
thousand dollars cleaningwindows.
It's a truth.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (24:40):
one of the ladies of the store, she
goes, this is what I treatmyself to every year, is I get
the window windows cleaned.
And I was like, well, how muchdoes it cost to clean the
windows?
And then she, uh, she gave mewhatever it was, and I was like,
holy sh.
I was like, you pay someone tocome do that?
And all they do is they water itdown with a water hose and all
that bull.
was like, oh, but it just looksso nice.
I'm like, well, I'll just cleanmine with some Windex.
(25:02):
My little glass cleaner.
All right, so we got it allclean.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (25:05):
Got it all clean.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (25:06):
We got it all clean.
And I need to paint my frontdoor so I'm not with the trim.
I gotta touch it at, um,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (25:11):
paint it the color?
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (25:13):
no, I mean, my trim's all white, so
I got, I got a.
really need to get that done.
It's been a few years.
Um, but I love, so, okay, soyou're talking about putting
your uh, blue and white outside.
Another thing, I think that'sreally easy for people to use to
decorate with somewhere, andthis is kind of, you know, it,
this is not rock rocket sciencepeople, but it's lanterns.
'cause people
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (25:30):
Hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (25:31):
you know, just having the little
candlelight and it's clear, youknow, clear glass and all that.
I think that's a great go-to, toadd some summer, uh, love into
the house too.
So I could also see that
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (25:41):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
It's a detail.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-0 (25:44):
detailed.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (25:44):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (25:45):
Um, and then for more of the green,
'cause again, I've always said,I already said I love the green.
You know, I've got your, you gotyour ferns.
Any kinda leafy foliage.
We have some budding branches.
I love, I think I'm using thehouse next week when we do our
live sale.
Um, but it's just somethingBranchy and I'm with you.
I don't want anything realheavy.
I
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (26:01):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (26:01):
it like, you know,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (26:02):
Yeah.
I feel like swatting away,lighting it up, edit out, take
away the heavy wool rugs, putdown thesal rug, that very
southern.
I don't do that, but I love thatidea what you do.
You know what I'm talking aboutwhen I say that.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (26:13):
not a clue.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (26:15):
If I'm wrong, I don't care.
That's getting ready to say,listen, audience, let us know.
I don't care.
That's the best answer for thisshow today.
Right.
Oh my god, I love me more thanlife.
Uh, so, so in the south, so Ibelieve and been told and read
(26:39):
to myself that I'm making upmaybe, is that you have a sisal
rug and then you have a, you seea layered with a wool rug on top
of that in the south.
They pull that wool rug up inthe summer to take the warmth
away and just leave the saal'cause it's cooler and lighter
feeling.
That's my story.
So take away your wool rug andjust leave the s uh, lay laying
(27:01):
there.
It does make sense, doesn't it?
Really?
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_0 (27:06):
I don't know.
If I get it down, it's, it's,we're lucky that it's down and
we're lucky if it gets vacuumed,so we're just gonna leave it
down.
another texture.
I think that's really good tofeel.
So let's say you have your, youhave a blue and white foot bath
there, right?
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (27:20):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08 (27:20):
Orchids.
You can never go wrong withorchids.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (27:22):
Oh, Lord.
Yeah.
We have some good ones rightnow.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (27:25):
We do have some beautiful ones, but
those are great.
They're airy, they have thatwhite, you can use the moss.
Moss is another thing I alwaysfeel feels very
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (27:32):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (27:34):
and so if you're struggling with
trying to figure out somethingmaybe with a little height and
you don't want it to feel veryfull, orchids are great option.
But
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (27:41):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (27:42):
want anything floral.
For example, um, also mossballs.
We have setum balls.
Um, anything like that.
I think that that's a reallygood
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (27:52):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (27:53):
edgy that the color right, it
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (27:55):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05 (27:56):
something's alive in the
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (27:57):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (27:58):
thing without having to be floral.
Yeah.
I
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (28:03):
True that.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (28:03):
ball.
I love balls too.
Mm.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (28:05):
I don't care for the, the moss
balls, even though we saw a lotof them, but the sedum, orbs
that we have, I love, I reallydo, really do love those.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08 (28:12):
They're, they're beautiful.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (28:14):
Yeah.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (28:14):
then, know, I don't turn my back
entirely on flowers for thesummer, right?
Like, I always use a hydrangea.
a hydrangea of any color, Ithink that you're, you're good.
But now for me, I'm always gonnause white.
'cause you know, I'm boring, butI love Mia y Hydrangea and you
just ma those in anything and itdoesn't have to feel fixed or
fussy.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (28:35):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (28:35):
if you, if you put that in
something and then you feel likeit does feel.
Too cloud-Like let's say thatthat's, you need to split it up,
put you a little lemon leaf init.
Uh, use the ma uh, hydrangea,use the magnolia leaf kind of
tucked into it.
It helps break it up a littlebit.
Um, but it doesn't feel fussy, Idon't think.
(28:56):
I think that that's a, that'salways want what I want summer
to feel like, I want it to feellike carefree.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (29:01):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (29:01):
that, that's effortless, right?
I don't want to,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (29:04):
It's, it's you Miss Daisy with your
floppy hat and basket out withyour clippers.
Just cutting bundles of greensand hydrangeas and just
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (29:12):
Yes.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (29:13):
them in there.
Yeah,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (29:15):
fist and margaritas.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (29:16):
go.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (29:16):
You know, that is summer to me.
I can't.
Mm-hmm.
Now I want a margarita.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (29:23):
It's a little early.
We're taping this at, uh, nine30, so it's a little early for
margaritas.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (29:30):
not for me.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (29:31):
Well, okay, nevermind.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (29:32):
Glory B y'all.
Glory B.
Following along in the lines ofwhat we talked about with the
moss balls and the sedum.
There's, we also have someshort, and, you know, these,
these, uh, little short greensedum berry stems, we have'em in
green and purple.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (29:47):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (29:48):
I, you ma those little
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (29:50):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (29:52):
then it feels like it's a little
interesting little texture.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (29:54):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2 (29:55):
always where I'm looking how that.
To add it in.
Um, but I love those things andthose are good to use year
round, but you can keep thoseloose and airy again without
making it really feel reallyfull until it gets to the fall.
And then I'm start shoving fallfoliage and everything.
And then there's pumpkins,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (30:11):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (30:13):
out everywhere.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (30:15):
Um, Joe made us, our floral
designer, made, um, some flowerinstruments.
This beautiful, glass, vase, Imean, probably.
Eight inches tall and we have orhad the, the pretty pink,
bundles of tulips you found thatwe've been selling.
And she put'em in acrylic waterand she and I took one of those
home and put it on our vanity inthe bathroom.
(30:38):
And I did that for, spring,right?
And I looked at it the other dayand I was like, should I edit
that and change that?
And I went, Nope.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (30:46):
No,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (30:47):
stay there.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_0 (30:47):
I
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (30:48):
All summer long till fall.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (30:50):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0 (30:50):
sometimes you don't have to do anything,
right?
Truthfully, that one.
But the basic thing is don'tforget about your powder
bathroom.
You know, if anybody's gonna,they're gonna walk in your
foyer.
They might see your powderbathroom, they may not see your
master, right?
That'd be weird.
But they, if they're there usingthe bathroom, you know they're
gonna see your powder.
So, always put some effort intoit.
So do, do one of our beautifullittle flower arrangements.
(31:12):
Do a, a pretty little fern thatJeremy loves.
But add a little touch ofgreenery.
Summer people will say, well doare not that, it's not summer,
but it is fresh.
It's idea of fresh flowers, havebeen delivered and these look
incredibly real.
They really do.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (31:29):
this, I think I've said this on here a
thousand times, but if it's afresh flour that you can get at
your Kroger or your local
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (31:35):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2 (31:36):
during the, any time of the year, I
think it's okay to use in yourhouse.
And so for us, I think we canget tulips at
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (31:42):
No.
Yeah.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2 (31:43):
local.
Like we can always get tulipsand they're just, you know, you
may not be able to every color.
Uh, but yeah, no, those tulipsto me, I think those are
absolutely round.
I.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (31:52):
Oh, you got, I got a cringe moment.
So one of the girls showed me,she's had a customer, text her
on the store cell.
Um, a lady had a for wreath.
What pre no.
Do you know about this one?
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (32:06):
No, I don't.
But I can only imagine wherethis is going'cause I know how
you are.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (32:13):
Okay.
For those who don't know, forForsythia Blooms in the spring,
it has a very limited life andwith our philosophy, if it's
hanging on your front door.
It looks as if you went and cutit and you made it into a basket
or a wreath from the clippingsin your lawn or in the property
(32:34):
that you live on the compound.
So if it's winter on thecompound, like lobbyist, snob, I
don't care, uh, that if you forforesee the aath hanging there
in January.
You weave should be snatched offyour head, right?
If you have it hanging there inJuly, you should be smacked.
(32:59):
I'm just telling you how itgoes, right?
There's a window that'sappropriate for these.
So old girl sent a picture andwanted to have a bow made for
it, and it be there in a bowthat would last all summer long.
You can see my face right nowand I,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (33:20):
know,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (33:21):
yeah.
Well that can happen.
Okay.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (33:30):
and that was the end of the story.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (33:31):
Yeah.
Next.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (33:33):
my favorite part.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (33:34):
Yeah.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (33:35):
That was just the gift of it.
I was waiting for you to
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (33:37):
No, that just, no, I, I'll make your
bow and I'll take your money.
I'm happy with that, but I'm notperpetuating a mistake.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (33:51):
We, I
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (33:51):
So you don't, so you don't know.
It's right.
There's a, there's a, there's atrigger when it comes to the
forcey eth, there's a trigger,right?
I,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (33:59):
is the trigger is what I thought
was gonna end up being thesmall, it's a way small world
that it was gonna be, that, that
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (34:03):
well, tell, tell the trigger, tell, so
there's, I'm not mean.
Yeah.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (34:07):
on a, a well-known street where we
live, and uh, it often leaves.
Its for forsythia wreath on itsdoor.
Well, I think it's never comeoff of it.
I think it's been on there foryears On end note.
Now, honest to God, the peoplethat probably live there
probably live in Florida fulltime now, and they don't even
have.
They're not even at the house.
That's why it stays up there.
But he just wants to drive thecar off the street and drive
through
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (34:26):
That's every time.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (34:27):
the
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (34:27):
Every time, every time I just drive my
car just kind of veers overtoward that.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (34:31):
the ironic part is I also felt the
same way about this before wehad ever talked about it.
'cause it's been there.
It has been there.
So, well, I just took Air ForceFifth wreath off our,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (34:44):
Little late.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (34:45):
uh,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (34:46):
You were a little late, brother.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (34:48):
ago.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (34:49):
Little late.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (34:50):
No, was like Easter was like two
weeks ago.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (34:55):
I'm tell you.
Don't,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (34:56):
rule is I can leave it up until
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (34:58):
well, that's not why roll.
There's, well, you're wrong.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (35:00):
it's my house.
Get the hell over it.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (35:01):
I'll run through your door too.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (35:07):
Well,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (35:08):
Anyway, the, yeah, that's a no no.
So be aware of the seasonspeople be aware there are
seasons.
Okay.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (35:17):
And so hopefully today with our
discussions on what to add tothe house to
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (35:21):
Just
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (35:22):
this
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (35:22):
you've been kind of mean today about
this.
Yeah.
You've been mean and judged.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (35:27):
told, you told people that you didn't
care if you were wrong.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (35:30):
They know this.
This is nothing new.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (35:34):
This, oh Lord.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (35:35):
nothing new.
jeremy-host828_1_05-0 (35:36):
hopefully out of our podcast today, you
learned a few little extratextures that you can throw into
the house and sprinkle around tohelp you get through this, uh,
transition period between whichit's funny to call summer
transition period, but it's justwhat it is.
It's just a lot of people justdon't know what to use.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (35:49):
You know what, I'm, I'm gonna stop
you there and say, what I'mwalking away with is what, what
to do.
It really is almost what not todo.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (35:58):
Oh,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (35:59):
In that I feel like summer should
be a little lighter and a littlemore edited and a little less
and very, everything in this oneshould be a more purposeful and
edited is really what this isabout.
And so if you do something, youbuy something, you move
something, you tweak something,be be the idea, be more likely
(36:20):
to take away than to add.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (36:22):
Hmm.
Yeah.
There you go.
Life by Twain
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (36:26):
There you go.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (36:27):
chapter three.
Well, now that we know what notto do, hopefully today's podcast
helped add, some information onwhat to add to the home.
So as always, thank you so muchfor joining us and, we will be
back next week with a newpodcast.
If you have not checked out ourmobile shopping app,
HouseFloral, please be sure todownload and, join us in our
(36:48):
live sales that we have.
Every week and we just startedour lunch with the boys.
So if you have, a little timeduring your lunch, you can sit
down and have some fun with uswhile we make some stuff and
just chat about pretty things inthe app.
So until next week, guys, thanksso much for joining.
We will see you then.
Bye.
We like to think that we are
seasonal decorating gurus aroundhere, but I gotta tell you,
summer, it can even challengethe three of us.
And let's be honest, it'sbecause spring is so easy,
right?
You've got bunnies, you've gotpastel eggs, you've flowers,
throw some of them out, bam, youare ready In fall, of course,
(00:22):
very easy.
Some foliage, some pumpkins,bam.
Instant autumn joy, but summer,well, it's the season that just
shows up in flip flops and noclear idea what to do and just
expects you to go with the vibe.
So today we're going to talkabout how to handle the season
that can be a little bit moreabout sunburns and maybe a glass
(00:44):
of lemonade and aid, and how tocreate a home with an effortless
summer look without it lookinglike you rated a luau.
So grab your sandals and let'sget to it.
(01:59):
Well, this morning it is justthe two of us and Stuart is out
of town working on a project,but allegedly he might join us.
So we'll see if he joins in withus today.
But the truth is we can holddown the fort.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (02:12):
Yeah, we're fine.
We're fine.
We're fine.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (02:16):
so today we are discussing
something that, when you had afloral class a couple weeks ago,
you asked them what they wantedto learn about and one of the
things that they mentioned,which I thought was spot on,
'cause we've heard this from somany people, is how do we
decorate this transition periodbetween.
(02:38):
Spring, right?
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (02:39):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_0 (02:41):
I mean, technically the next thing
is fall.
I mean, we have summer, right?
But summer's like a one of thosehard seasons to decorate for.
Like you can't do bunnies.
It's way too early for pumpkins.
You can't put out too, I mean,if you love Halloween, I guess
you can put a witch out.
I don't know.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (02:56):
Uh, do what?
Do what you want.
Yeah.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (02:58):
what you want.
um.
it's helping figure out how dowe bridge the gap between spring
and when you feel comfortablebringing out the fall, things
later on, and what can you doaside from of July, Memorial
Day, Americana, red, white, andblue stuff,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (03:20):
Right, right.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (03:21):
Yeah.
So that's the idea of what we'retalking about today.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (03:23):
Well, part of it is, I feel like it,
and this sounds crazy and noteverybody can do it, and
everybody's not everybody's analand crazy as I am, but I feel
like for each season, if you getready for it and you go shopping
in your own house first, right?
It
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (03:40):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (03:41):
forces you to have your house ready if
somebody knocks on your frontdoor and you know, people don't
do that anymore, but the wholeEastern Kentucky.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (03:50):
welcome in my house.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (03:51):
Right.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (03:52):
up.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (03:52):
Well, my parents would do that, and
it's a very, was was a veryEastern Kentucky thing when I
grew up as a small lad that, uh,you could just go to somebody's
house, pull up and they'dwelcome you, and you sit on your
front porch and you'd have, uh,you know, so very southern, but
you have sweet tea, or you goand have some pinto beans in
(04:13):
somebody's kitchen and they'rejust ready for you.
Right.
So I always feel like, um.
Your house needs
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (04:21):
between my family and your family.
My mom would've turned thelights off and everybody head in
the house.
Nobody act like you're home.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_ (04:26):
Seriously.
Wow.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (04:28):
bit.
My mom.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (04:29):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well I, so for me then, thatmeans the house is always gonna
be ready, which always means noton guard, but you just don't lay
around and slip around and waittill last minute to clean the
house.
'cause you got company comingevery 10 minutes.
The house just needs to be.
Pretty and ready all the time.
So really all that does is itmakes you, do something every
(04:50):
day, right?
Just do a little something everysingle day.
So the point of this one for meis when we change out for
seasons, then that makes us do alittle bit of a slight deep
clean.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (05:03):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (05:04):
uh, that we move things around and
yeah, I add new stuff and I getsome new stuff from the store,
or mostly the store.
I can't even say I buy anythingelse from anywhere else anymore
'cause Right.
Hey, don't go anywhere.
I don't wanna go anywhere.
I'm always here.
Right?
And that's not a bad dig, that'sa blessing.
But, uh, so if I add anything,which still is not a lot at this
(05:24):
point, it will come from here.,So that's one of the things is,
is to use this opportunity to,clean house a little bit deep,
clean, just a little bit,getting the house ready.
Um, like for example, lastweekend, Chloe,, my daughter
was, in town.
She lives, about an hour and ahalf away from us, but she was
helping her boyfriends, Brothermove outta his dorm room.
(05:48):
And I had put on a roast thatmorning and I didn't even know
that they, they were gonna be intown or anything, but I was just
gonna have that roast and uh,'cause I've is first, if you've
heard of Mississippi pot roast,Lord have mercy.
How good is it?
Right.
If not, we'll put the recipe up.
Right.
Jeremy,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (06:06):
I, because
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (06:07):
you've said to me.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (06:08):
have talked about this for years.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (06:10):
is so good and so easy and so
nothing to this.
And shout out to Kate, her lastname ever to say that, uh, one
of her employees that works hereevery third Saturday of the
month, she's, she, she thoughtit was a secret family recipe of
her husband's.
And I just Googled and I waslike, yeah, no, there's no
secret to this recipe.
(06:30):
Uh, but anyway, I still dunno ifshe knows that.
So she's listening.
Sorry, Kate.
Um, anyway, very good recipe.
So threw it in the pot.
And, then I thought, oh, she'sin town so I, you know, if
you're moving a dorm orfurniture and stuff.
And I thought, well, maybethey'll need to eat.
Hey, do you and Lucas wanna cometo eat?
And she said, absolutely, yes.
Hmm.
Thank you Daddy.
I love you roast.
(06:51):
And uh, I.
Probably about less than anhour.
Uh, talked to her and she said,Hey, do you mind if, Logan,
which is her boyfriend's brotherand his mom, her tobe
mother-in-law comes over fordinner also?
And I was like, absolutely.
Because the house was ready.
(07:12):
There's no run around screaming,hollering first.
My personality's laid backenough, even if it wasn't, it's
like I don't, like, I don't careif it's not ready, but we threw
in a few little extra biscuitsand a little bit more corn and a
little open, a can of pea andsome butter, and we were ready
to go and had the best evening.
Right?
But it also is about being atease with entertaining and
(07:34):
being,.
Ready for people to walk in thedoor.
This is what I'm saying is, andit's, it's, if you're
comfortable, I keep coming back.
If you're comfortable in yourown skin, you're comfortable in
your own house, you're like,come on in.
Right.
If it's got some, it's gotsomething on the kitchen island
can only throw it away or I'mperfectly fine.
I do.
I pull the jewelry of childs andit's like, if it ain't ready and
it's not fixed and it's notcooked yet, hey, put the apron
(07:56):
on.
Come over here and help me.
Right, and people love that.
You know that, right?
People don't have to beentertained 24 things like if
they wanna be part of something.
So the whole gist of that is,um.
What I've did, uh, in the lastcouple weeks is we have, um, you
know, put the money rabbitsaway.
Got'em all.
There's probably, oh, I knowthere is.
(08:17):
We, I saw it last night.
We have a kitchen, hood over ourstove that looks like a mantle,
right?
And it's pretty big.
And there's this sign that'slike a cutout letters.
They don't judge me'causethey're cute.
And it says, happy Easter hasthis happy Easter on it.
And I looked up there lastnight, I was like.
There she is.
She's still up there.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (08:37):
Well, Easter, Easter was just a couple
weeks
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (08:39):
know, I know.
But I thought I got everything.
It's like I have found therandom Santa in the formal
living room with a bookcase inuh, uh, February.
He's just hanging out.
He is like, Hey.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (08:50):
he's still around.
He may be, uh, resting, but hecan, he's still around.
Well, we have still yet have yetto, uh, lift the bunnies.
I don't really put anything outthat's quote unquote.
bunny figures is about as EasterI'm gonna get, so no Easter
signs, anything like
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (09:10):
Right.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (09:11):
out
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (09:11):
No pink glitter sign.
It says Happy Easter.
Huh?
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (09:14):
and no pink, no pink litter for
sure.
Uh,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (09:17):
is pink glitter.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (09:18):
but next, uh, one of our.
Come upcoming live sales.
We're planning on coming over tothe house and changing it from
spring to summer.
So that's, I've justpurposefully left,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (09:29):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (09:30):
out, so you know, they'll be there.
So this morning as I wasgrabbing my, protein shake, I
looked down and I was like, ohyeah, there's those bunnies.
Yeah, they'll be gone saying,they'll be gone.
Saying, for me, I think the bestway to approach trying to get
ready for the summer is.
You know, kind of like how weapproach spring as far as like
looking out and then bringingthat in.
(09:51):
But I do mine in a much moreedited way.
So, you know, spring we have allthe colors, right?
All the everything's blooming.
And I know that that continuesthrough summer.
I know that there's stillflowers.
I know there's rose bushes, thatblue.
I know there's all those, youknow, other things that, that
come up that have lots of color.
But for me, when I bring itinside, it's, I just wanna go
green and I'll do white.
(10:13):
Right?
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (10:13):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (10:14):
one of my always go-tos is I love
ferns.
Uh, well, I will add me a fernanywhere and everywhere and on
the shelves and the fern frons.
And it just helps me feel likeI've got a little bit of the
outside in.
I love you just listen.
You get, you get you nice littlecollection of ferns and you can
set them little bitches aroundand it makes it feel like, you
(10:36):
know, it's much more, um,summary to me.
I feel like,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (10:40):
Yeah, it, it brings life into the
house.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2 (10:44):
though they're fo'cause listen, I only
have one house plant that I'vebeen able to keep alive for
multiple years and she's, she'sstruggling.
I don't, I I, and this is sad.
I, and listen, if y'all, ifyou're plant lovers, and you
don't judge me when I tell youthis, but I have this beautiful
little pot that she's in and Ilove the pot and I, I need to
really re-pot her to put her insomething else.
(11:06):
And I don't wanna put anotherpot where it goes.
So I'm just forcing her to staythe same size.
I don't know.
Is that bad?
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (11:14):
Uh, well a little, yeah.
Yeah.
It's like, it's like shovingyour children's feet in the
shoes that don't quite fit.
I don't know if I wouldrecommend that.
Let her, let her spread her toesout.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (11:26):
Oh, well.
Okay.
I'll have to get another one.
She'll die for shit now, but
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (11:31):
You know, there's a great little
store called House by JSD thatsells great little pots.
I bet you can get one in theback.
X.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (11:36):
the thing is, it's not, it's not,
it's not the fact that, and I'llshow it next week in our life
sale, but it's not the fact thatI can't find another pot.
It's the, I love the pot it's inand I don't wanna replace it, so
I'll
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (11:49):
We'll buy another baby, buy another
there.
That's just an opportunity.
Everything's an opportunity.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (11:56):
Well, so I always look to ferns'cause
I always will kill everything.
So I will always do faux ferns.
And I like all ferns.
I don't think you can ever gowrong with having too many,
unless you start turning and youlook like you're in a plant
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (12:07):
Now let me tell you something or ask
you something or anything.
Have you ever tried to grow areal maiden hair fern?
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2 (12:13):
'cause I know they're bitches.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (12:14):
Okay.
I, they look like they'redelicate and difficult, so, you
know, we have, I dunno if wehave'em right now.
Um, sold, maiden hair Ferns,right?
Fo made hair fern.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (12:23):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (12:24):
that we've ever gotten in, I go, eh,
right.
Because a real maiden hair fernhas such a particular look to
it, and I just don't, yeah.
I just don't feel like thatthey've got the artificial ones
right yet.
So.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (12:38):
off a
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (12:38):
Color it off, textures off.
And so I just won't, I justwon't buy it.
Right.
I, people come in and I'll use'em, but it's not my first
choice.
And they'll like, yeah, I'm goodwith that.
I'm like, I'm glad you are.
I don't like it.
Uh, but I know, so I,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (12:51):
just maiden hairs, not the other
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (12:53):
yeah.
No, no.
You don't put other words in mymouth.
People.
I just said maiden hairs.
All I said, that's all I said.
'cause we have great other ones,so no.
Throwing the Chinese plasticunder the bus.
I'm just not, I just don't likethat one.
Uh, but then the same instance,like, I guess I'm never gonna
have one because if, like yousaid, they're persnickety and
(13:13):
difficult, I'm just not gonnadeal with it.
So let's go back to you, youknow, um, about our, our
cloches, the bell jars, I.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (13:20):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (13:21):
I have a pretty good little
collection over the last 30years of probably I even sold
some back to other people andpaired'em down.
And so I probably have sticks.
Well, I finished my basement acouple years ago, uh, for my
parents to live in partially,and, that meant I had to give up
a lot of storage and therefore alot of.
Broken things from the storethat I've been hoarding from 12
(13:43):
years I never used.
And uh, I don't, it was justjunk.
So it took a long time to editthrough all that stuff.
And, but there's still junk downthere.
But one of the things that's notjunk is my collection of bell
jars that I've ended up.
I.
Wanting to keep five or six of'em.
I still have that many afterhaving 8, 9, 10, right?
And so I brought them up, uh, Iuse'em at Christmas time and put
(14:06):
uh, winter things in them and Icreate little, if anybody
doesn't know what a cloche orbell jar is, look it up and how
to use them.
But they're a great tool todecorate with.
So, you know, I put SantaClauses in and were actually
snowmen for us and we do awinter scene.
So I put them up clean and I gotgot'em back out and I put bunny
rabbits in them and createdlittle moments out of them.
Well, I was looking at them andI really, really don't have room
(14:30):
to put'em in the basementbecause now we're looking at
tweaking something else and Iwas like, if they go down there,
they're gonna get moved andbroken.
I just need to leave them here.
So they've been sitting nakedempty for like, there's three of
'em upstairs right now for twoor three weeks.
And I'm like, well, what am Igonna do with these things?
And I don't, I didn't wanna go.
(14:52):
Buy more tchotchkes and thingsto put under there and nothing
seems appropriate.
It's like the whole thing, whatyou're talking about.
Well, what do you put under,under?
It's easy to put something therein the fall.
You put pumpkins in the clothes,right?
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (15:04):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (15:05):
put Santa or snowman or something
like that for Christmas.
Uh, and I can even leave thesnowman out for winter, right?
Then I transfer over to bunnyrabbits, got my clothes figured
out.
Then they sat there for threeweeks, two weeks, three weeks
for two or free, right?
And I do this for a living.
I go, I don't know what to putunder these.
And it just hit me.
(15:26):
They're meant to grow plants,right?
There are many geranium that are
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (15:31):
Well, sun, it's like sun houses
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (15:33):
sun, right?
I can't say that.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (15:35):
Sun.
Sun.
What are those called?
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (15:40):
I don't know, greenhouse, they,
they're like a little minigreenhouse because you, you'll
use, they used to, you know,friend, uh, the French, uh,
cliche clo,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (15:47):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (15:48):
they would put'em in your garden and
protect delicate plants, right?
And so it, it creates a littlegreenhouse, like you say.
And I thought, oh, okay, thenI'm gonna use them for what they
really were meant to be, not my,uh, crap.
I stick under them.
So, uh, we have a PhilPhilodendron.
Is that again the correct word?
That's a little heart shape.
So mom had this plant at her.
(16:09):
They had a second little housenear me and they lived there,
just partial.
Uh, and for about nine years shetried to kill that.
Fill the dinner.
It barely, it had like sixinches of soil in there and it
was, you know, the dirt where itgets kind of white on top of it
because it was crusted over andthere's not enough water.
So I would, it literally hadthree little sprinkles on it,
(16:31):
and it's all wilted.
But I would go check on thehouse, make sure the water's not
leaking and whatever.
And I would give that plant somewater.
And just enough to keep it alivefor 7, 8, 9 years.
So she's moving and she'sgetting ready to throw that
plant away.
And I'm like, oh, oh God, no.
I've kept that thing alive fornine years and it's a living,
breathing plant.
(16:52):
You're like, like, it's like youthrow that away.
You're like, throwing part of meaway.
You're killing me.
Right.
It's like the death plant youget from the funeral.
You can't throw it away.
'cause it's,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (17:00):
peace lilies.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (17:01):
you know, these lilies, you can't
throw'em out.
And, um.
So I took it and then I wateredit and I gave it some dirt and
now it's the size of a smallcountry.
True story.
It's massive.
It is massive.
And Mama said before, she said,where do you get that pretty,
uh, plant from?
I said, well, I said, when youtry to kill for 10 years, there
(17:21):
you go.
Right?
Uh, what'd you do to it?
Water, dirt.
That's it.
Literally, I don't think it'sever had a drop of miracle's,
just water and dirt.
Long story is I cut some of thetendrils off, put them in these
little willow, you know, ourcandles that we sell that, uh,
in the little, so I'm, again,hoarder and I say those.
I think they're pretty.
And if you go cut flowers fromthem.
So these little willow, probablyfive inch little things.
(17:43):
Put some water in them, put'eminside the clo cliches with
little pieces of my philodendronand they're sitting there and I,
uh, love it.
See, look at that song pad myown little garden.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (17:55):
Well, oddly enough, I also have
cloches in my living room thatit are often empty because I'm
like, what do I put it in thesummer?
So now I'm like,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (18:02):
CB.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2 (18:03):
little
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (18:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (18:06):
life, and they
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (18:07):
yeah, yeah.
And it's, uh, we sellsucculents, so if you wanna do
artificial succulents in it, Ireally, uh, it sounds like I
don't love what we sell, butbecause I've have, I just think
what we sell is good.
But I just think you have to useit in very edited ways.
And not every surface needs a foflower arrangement, or every
(18:28):
surface needs a fake, plant.
Right?
You can use them, but use themin very.
Purposeful ways and um, I thinkyou almost disagree'cause you
don't, you don't grow very muchreal stuff, do you?
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (18:39):
No, I mean outside, you
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (18:41):
No, that's what I mean inside that
You just don't
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (18:43):
No,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (18:43):
No,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (18:44):
I've got one.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (18:45):
that's one.
That's one.
Okay.
Hear it again.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (18:47):
one.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (18:48):
and it's barely alive.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (18:49):
Not she, well, she holding on.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (18:51):
Okay.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (18:51):
looks okay, but I guess
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (18:52):
Yeah.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (18:53):
get her a twin sister
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (18:54):
Okay.
Get her.
See, look, we, we we're buyingthe plan now I don't know where
to go buy plants from'cause, uh.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (19:00):
got local place over here.
I'll stop by on the way.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (19:02):
You going to,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (19:02):
pick up my
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (19:03):
we're gonna say Pemberton's is gonna
get some of your money today.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (19:06):
They're gonna get
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (19:07):
And they deserve it.
They're good people.
They're good people.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (19:10):
Yeah.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (19:10):
They are good people.
Anyway, so I, I figured out whatto do with my cliches, right?
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (19:15):
Yeah.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (19:16):
And so I have been moving my blue
and white porcelain around.
Cleaning it, getting the dustoff.
Uh, I have these absolutemassive blue and white pots that
sit on our kitchen island, and Iput real sticks in them and our
beautiful magnolia stems.
These really big, long ones thatwe.
Found, I think last year I gotthree of those in it and I had,
(19:39):
a few of our white dogwoodartificial branches in there.
And it looks like I just wentand cut all this from my yard
and had that in that great bigpot.
One of'em had something in itand the other one doesn't, it
has a lid on it.
And that's been sitting on thekitchen island.
But, actually I have to tell thereal story.
So it's been sitting there and Ilove it and it's been, that
(19:59):
pot's been sitting there sincefall and I keep.
Putting just like what we've towto.
I put um, the magnolia's there.
The sticks are there, but I'veadded fall flowers to it.
Then I left it and I addedChristmas greenery to it.
'cause I like the houseChristmas time.
If all in Christmas, fuller andlusher and more over the top and
you like, you have to look likethrough jungle fever to see the
(20:21):
other side of the kitchenisland, it's so full and I love
it.
I love it.
I paired it down, emptied it outa little looser, a little more
sparse for spring, more twiggylooking.
So I have a client that Iconvinced her when we did this,
a major, remodel like everyroom, but with new kitchen in a
(20:41):
massive kitchen island in justbeautiful.
But she lives out on a farm, andwe did a picture window that is
the size of two houses becauseshe looks out her kitchen sink
and.
It is barns and horses andnothing like you can, I mean, it
really frames the beauty ofliving in the bluegrass
(21:02):
truthfully, right?
And so we were talking aboutwhat to put over the kitchen
island, what kind of lightfixtures.
And even though it's a bigkitchen, I kept saying nothing,
right?
I didn't wanna swat away.
I didn't want to feel like Ineeded to look through anything.
And this kitchen island is therein blank.
(21:22):
Now I was like, oh, but it needsa little something.
So I took my huge blue whitejars there.
'cause they're huge.
I keep saying they're 30 inchestall or something like that.
They're just massive.
So I took the jars over thereand tried'em.
She said, I absolutely love'em,but I want'em a little smaller,
real big.
And I was like, okay, but right.
But it, and I get it, I get it,you know?
Um, but it helped her tounderstand it.
(21:43):
So when I took him back to myhouse, I was like, I don't want
'em on the kitchen islandanymore.
Right.
I, I, it feels heavy.
It feels too much.
I don't want it in the kitchentable.
So I put them out on my frontporch.
You know, with the urns and theferns, and I just, I look at'em
and go, oh, and people say,well, you can't put porcelain on
your front porch.
(22:03):
Well, yeah, you can.
Yeah.
Because people don't know this.
Like, do you know, do you knowwhat a, um, a garden stool is?
Yeah, you do, right?
So if people don't No, no, youdo.
I, I should say listen toaudience maybe.
And then they're also gonnalaugh at me.
Of course, they don't want thegarden stool us, so we sell
garden stools.
And so, um, I had ordered inyears ago.
(22:24):
Uh, blue and white garden stoolsand those set between the
rocking chairs on the frontporch year round.
I don't even bring'em in forChristmas or winter or anything.
They just stay there year round.
So now drive up to the prettyhouse and imagine these 30 inch
blue and white ginger jars.
Nestle do are the ferns withpots in'em that have blues and
(22:45):
purple flowers in them, and blueand purple pillows, which sounds
a weird combination, but I loveit.
And blue, blue and white.
Um, uh, garden stools.
So also it goes back to thething we've said before is
always pay attention to yourfront door, right?
Clean your front door.
People don't go through thefront door.
I put a lot of effort,truthfully, if I say it.
(23:06):
I do it and believe it.
I put a lot of effort intomaking that front door
beautiful.
When you drive up, you have oneopportunity to say you've
arrived somewhere.
Right?
So basically all that is aboutmoving stuff around, shopping
your own house, buy what youlove from us and then, but you
get to move it around and changeit and put it in different
places and be ready for yourcompany.
That's part of my change up forthe seasons is getting ready.
(23:31):
Uh, um, for people to come andyou start moving things around.
So that's long story.
Yes.
That's kind of my approach.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (23:38):
You know, oddly enough, uh, the, one
of the only thing, I'm not a bigcleaner.
I mean, my husband is, thankGod, but, I.
The one thing that I lookforward to every year is when it
gets to spring, and then I knowI'm gonna clean all the windows
in the
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (23:50):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_0 (23:51):
I just, oh God.
It makes me so excited and I doit.
He did.
He doesn't even do it.
I'll do every one in the
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (23:56):
Are yours.
It's the old house is theindividual panes individual
glass.
Or is it like
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (24:01):
We replaced our windows,, a year
ago or whatever, but so they dohave the, uh, the
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0 (24:06):
millions?
Mm-hmm.
See, ours is not an old house.
It's less than 20 years old, butI insisted on putting Windows
uhhuh with true divided lights.
So every one of those 1 billionwindows is every one of those
little squares.
That's me cleaning every square.
(24:27):
I had a quote for somebody tocome and clean the windows once.
It's like a thousand dollars.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (24:33):
Oh, I don't even think that's a bad
knowing how many windows youhave.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (24:36):
I was like, I can't spend a
thousand dollars cleaningwindows.
It's a truth.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (24:40):
one of the ladies of the store, she
goes, this is what I treatmyself to every year, is I get
the window windows cleaned.
And I was like, well, how muchdoes it cost to clean the
windows?
And then she, uh, she gave mewhatever it was, and I was like,
holy sh.
I was like, you pay someone tocome do that?
And all they do is they water itdown with a water hose and all
that bull.
was like, oh, but it just looksso nice.
I'm like, well, I'll just cleanmine with some Windex.
(25:02):
My little glass cleaner.
All right, so we got it allclean.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (25:05):
Got it all clean.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (25:06):
We got it all clean.
And I need to paint my frontdoor so I'm not with the trim.
I gotta touch it at, um,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (25:11):
paint it the color?
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (25:13):
no, I mean, my trim's all white, so
I got, I got a.
really need to get that done.
It's been a few years.
Um, but I love, so, okay, soyou're talking about putting
your uh, blue and white outside.
Another thing, I think that'sreally easy for people to use to
decorate with somewhere, andthis is kind of, you know, it,
this is not rock rocket sciencepeople, but it's lanterns.
'cause people
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (25:30):
Hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (25:31):
you know, just having the little
candlelight and it's clear, youknow, clear glass and all that.
I think that's a great go-to, toadd some summer, uh, love into
the house too.
So I could also see that
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (25:41):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
It's a detail.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-0 (25:44):
detailed.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (25:44):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (25:45):
Um, and then for more of the green,
'cause again, I've always said,I already said I love the green.
You know, I've got your, you gotyour ferns.
Any kinda leafy foliage.
We have some budding branches.
I love, I think I'm using thehouse next week when we do our
live sale.
Um, but it's just somethingBranchy and I'm with you.
I don't want anything realheavy.
I
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (26:01):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (26:01):
it like, you know,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (26:02):
Yeah.
I feel like swatting away,lighting it up, edit out, take
away the heavy wool rugs, putdown thesal rug, that very
southern.
I don't do that, but I love thatidea what you do.
You know what I'm talking aboutwhen I say that.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (26:13):
not a clue.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (26:15):
If I'm wrong, I don't care.
That's getting ready to say,listen, audience, let us know.
I don't care.
That's the best answer for thisshow today.
Right.
Oh my god, I love me more thanlife.
Uh, so, so in the south, so Ibelieve and been told and read
(26:39):
to myself that I'm making upmaybe, is that you have a sisal
rug and then you have a, you seea layered with a wool rug on top
of that in the south.
They pull that wool rug up inthe summer to take the warmth
away and just leave the saal'cause it's cooler and lighter
feeling.
That's my story.
So take away your wool rug andjust leave the s uh, lay laying
(27:01):
there.
It does make sense, doesn't it?
Really?
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_0 (27:06):
I don't know.
If I get it down, it's, it's,we're lucky that it's down and
we're lucky if it gets vacuumed,so we're just gonna leave it
down.
another texture.
I think that's really good tofeel.
So let's say you have your, youhave a blue and white foot bath
there, right?
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (27:20):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08 (27:20):
Orchids.
You can never go wrong withorchids.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (27:22):
Oh, Lord.
Yeah.
We have some good ones rightnow.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (27:25):
We do have some beautiful ones, but
those are great.
They're airy, they have thatwhite, you can use the moss.
Moss is another thing I alwaysfeel feels very
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (27:32):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (27:34):
and so if you're struggling with
trying to figure out somethingmaybe with a little height and
you don't want it to feel veryfull, orchids are great option.
But
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (27:41):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (27:42):
want anything floral.
For example, um, also mossballs.
We have setum balls.
Um, anything like that.
I think that that's a reallygood
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (27:52):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (27:53):
edgy that the color right, it
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (27:55):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05 (27:56):
something's alive in the
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (27:57):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (27:58):
thing without having to be floral.
Yeah.
I
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (28:03):
True that.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (28:03):
ball.
I love balls too.
Mm.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (28:05):
I don't care for the, the moss
balls, even though we saw a lotof them, but the sedum, orbs
that we have, I love, I reallydo, really do love those.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08 (28:12):
They're, they're beautiful.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (28:14):
Yeah.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (28:14):
then, know, I don't turn my back
entirely on flowers for thesummer, right?
Like, I always use a hydrangea.
a hydrangea of any color, Ithink that you're, you're good.
But now for me, I'm always gonnause white.
'cause you know, I'm boring, butI love Mia y Hydrangea and you
just ma those in anything and itdoesn't have to feel fixed or
fussy.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (28:35):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (28:35):
if you, if you put that in
something and then you feel likeit does feel.
Too cloud-Like let's say thatthat's, you need to split it up,
put you a little lemon leaf init.
Uh, use the ma uh, hydrangea,use the magnolia leaf kind of
tucked into it.
It helps break it up a littlebit.
Um, but it doesn't feel fussy, Idon't think.
(28:56):
I think that that's a, that'salways want what I want summer
to feel like, I want it to feellike carefree.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (29:01):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (29:01):
that, that's effortless, right?
I don't want to,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (29:04):
It's, it's you Miss Daisy with your
floppy hat and basket out withyour clippers.
Just cutting bundles of greensand hydrangeas and just
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (29:12):
Yes.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (29:13):
them in there.
Yeah,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (29:15):
fist and margaritas.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (29:16):
go.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (29:16):
You know, that is summer to me.
I can't.
Mm-hmm.
Now I want a margarita.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (29:23):
It's a little early.
We're taping this at, uh, nine30, so it's a little early for
margaritas.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (29:30):
not for me.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (29:31):
Well, okay, nevermind.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (29:32):
Glory B y'all.
Glory B.
Following along in the lines ofwhat we talked about with the
moss balls and the sedum.
There's, we also have someshort, and, you know, these,
these, uh, little short greensedum berry stems, we have'em in
green and purple.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (29:47):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (29:48):
I, you ma those little
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (29:50):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (29:52):
then it feels like it's a little
interesting little texture.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (29:54):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2 (29:55):
always where I'm looking how that.
To add it in.
Um, but I love those things andthose are good to use year
round, but you can keep thoseloose and airy again without
making it really feel reallyfull until it gets to the fall.
And then I'm start shoving fallfoliage and everything.
And then there's pumpkins,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (30:11):
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (30:13):
out everywhere.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (30:15):
Um, Joe made us, our floral
designer, made, um, some flowerinstruments.
This beautiful, glass, vase, Imean, probably.
Eight inches tall and we have orhad the, the pretty pink,
bundles of tulips you found thatwe've been selling.
And she put'em in acrylic waterand she and I took one of those
home and put it on our vanity inthe bathroom.
(30:38):
And I did that for, spring,right?
And I looked at it the other dayand I was like, should I edit
that and change that?
And I went, Nope.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (30:46):
No,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (30:47):
stay there.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_0 (30:47):
I
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (30:48):
All summer long till fall.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (30:50):
Mm-hmm.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0 (30:50):
sometimes you don't have to do anything,
right?
Truthfully, that one.
But the basic thing is don'tforget about your powder
bathroom.
You know, if anybody's gonna,they're gonna walk in your
foyer.
They might see your powderbathroom, they may not see your
master, right?
That'd be weird.
But they, if they're there usingthe bathroom, you know they're
gonna see your powder.
So, always put some effort intoit.
So do, do one of our beautifullittle flower arrangements.
(31:12):
Do a, a pretty little fern thatJeremy loves.
But add a little touch ofgreenery.
Summer people will say, well doare not that, it's not summer,
but it is fresh.
It's idea of fresh flowers, havebeen delivered and these look
incredibly real.
They really do.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (31:29):
this, I think I've said this on here a
thousand times, but if it's afresh flour that you can get at
your Kroger or your local
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (31:35):
Mm-hmm.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2 (31:36):
during the, any time of the year, I
think it's okay to use in yourhouse.
And so for us, I think we canget tulips at
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (31:42):
No.
Yeah.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2 (31:43):
local.
Like we can always get tulipsand they're just, you know, you
may not be able to every color.
Uh, but yeah, no, those tulipsto me, I think those are
absolutely round.
I.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (31:52):
Oh, you got, I got a cringe moment.
So one of the girls showed me,she's had a customer, text her
on the store cell.
Um, a lady had a for wreath.
What pre no.
Do you know about this one?
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (32:06):
No, I don't.
But I can only imagine wherethis is going'cause I know how
you are.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (32:13):
Okay.
For those who don't know, forForsythia Blooms in the spring,
it has a very limited life andwith our philosophy, if it's
hanging on your front door.
It looks as if you went and cutit and you made it into a basket
or a wreath from the clippingsin your lawn or in the property
(32:34):
that you live on the compound.
So if it's winter on thecompound, like lobbyist, snob, I
don't care, uh, that if you forforesee the aath hanging there
in January.
You weave should be snatched offyour head, right?
If you have it hanging there inJuly, you should be smacked.
(32:59):
I'm just telling you how itgoes, right?
There's a window that'sappropriate for these.
So old girl sent a picture andwanted to have a bow made for
it, and it be there in a bowthat would last all summer long.
You can see my face right nowand I,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (33:20):
know,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (33:21):
yeah.
Well that can happen.
Okay.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (33:30):
and that was the end of the story.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (33:31):
Yeah.
Next.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (33:33):
my favorite part.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (33:34):
Yeah.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (33:35):
That was just the gift of it.
I was waiting for you to
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (33:37):
No, that just, no, I, I'll make your
bow and I'll take your money.
I'm happy with that, but I'm notperpetuating a mistake.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (33:51):
We, I
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (33:51):
So you don't, so you don't know.
It's right.
There's a, there's a, there's atrigger when it comes to the
forcey eth, there's a trigger,right?
I,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (33:59):
is the trigger is what I thought
was gonna end up being thesmall, it's a way small world
that it was gonna be, that, that
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (34:03):
well, tell, tell the trigger, tell, so
there's, I'm not mean.
Yeah.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025_ (34:07):
on a, a well-known street where we
live, and uh, it often leaves.
Its for forsythia wreath on itsdoor.
Well, I think it's never comeoff of it.
I think it's been on there foryears On end note.
Now, honest to God, the peoplethat probably live there
probably live in Florida fulltime now, and they don't even
have.
They're not even at the house.
That's why it stays up there.
But he just wants to drive thecar off the street and drive
through
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (34:26):
That's every time.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (34:27):
the
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (34:27):
Every time, every time I just drive my
car just kind of veers overtoward that.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (34:31):
the ironic part is I also felt the
same way about this before wehad ever talked about it.
'cause it's been there.
It has been there.
So, well, I just took Air ForceFifth wreath off our,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (34:44):
Little late.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (34:45):
uh,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (34:46):
You were a little late, brother.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (34:48):
ago.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (34:49):
Little late.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (34:50):
No, was like Easter was like two
weeks ago.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (34:55):
I'm tell you.
Don't,
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (34:56):
rule is I can leave it up until
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (34:58):
well, that's not why roll.
There's, well, you're wrong.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (35:00):
it's my house.
Get the hell over it.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (35:01):
I'll run through your door too.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (35:07):
Well,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (35:08):
Anyway, the, yeah, that's a no no.
So be aware of the seasonspeople be aware there are
seasons.
Okay.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (35:17):
And so hopefully today with our
discussions on what to add tothe house to
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (35:21):
Just
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (35:22):
this
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_0904 (35:22):
you've been kind of mean today about
this.
Yeah.
You've been mean and judged.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (35:27):
told, you told people that you didn't
care if you were wrong.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (35:30):
They know this.
This is nothing new.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-20 (35:34):
This, oh Lord.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090 (35:35):
nothing new.
jeremy-host828_1_05-0 (35:36):
hopefully out of our podcast today, you
learned a few little extratextures that you can throw into
the house and sprinkle around tohelp you get through this, uh,
transition period between whichit's funny to call summer
transition period, but it's justwhat it is.
It's just a lot of people justdon't know what to use.
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (35:49):
You know what, I'm, I'm gonna stop
you there and say, what I'mwalking away with is what, what
to do.
It really is almost what not todo.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-2025 (35:58):
Oh,
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_090425 (35:59):
In that I feel like summer should
be a little lighter and a littlemore edited and a little less
and very, everything in this oneshould be a more purposeful and
edited is really what this isabout.
And so if you do something, youbuy something, you move
something, you tweak something,be be the idea, be more likely
(36:20):
to take away than to add.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08-202 (36:22):
Hmm.
Yeah.
There you go.
Life by Twain
dwayne_1_05-08-2025_09042 (36:26):
There you go.
jeremy-host828_1_05-08- (36:27):
chapter three.
Well, now that we know what notto do, hopefully today's podcast
helped add, some information onwhat to add to the home.
So as always, thank you so muchfor joining us and, we will be
back next week with a newpodcast.
If you have not checked out ourmobile shopping app,
HouseFloral, please be sure todownload and, join us in our
(36:48):
live sales that we have.
Every week and we just startedour lunch with the boys.
So if you have, a little timeduring your lunch, you can sit
down and have some fun with uswhile we make some stuff and
just chat about pretty things inthe app.
So until next week, guys, thanksso much for joining.
We will see you then.
Bye.
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