February 11, 2025 • 54 mins
Are you ready to ride along!? Remember you can now watch our podcast in our members only community at www.WhosDrivingPodcast.com. This episode dives into the exciting trends shaping Christmas 2025, focusing on the influence of traditional elements and the rise of elegant, jewel-toned themes, moving away from whimsical decor. Join us as we discuss the latest insights from market trends, the significance of bows, and our personal reflections on embracing unique festive styles.
• Insights on Christmas 2025 trends from recent markets
• Embracing Ralph Lauren aesthetics and vintage charm
• The growing appeal of bows in home decor
• Trends pointing towards refined over whimsical designs
• Surprising absence of gingerbread and nutcracker-themed items
• Jewel tones and rich color palettes leading in both decor and home design
• Importance of personal style in holiday decorations
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Girl, I'm here.
It's time for another episodeof who's Driving.
Are you ready?
I'm ready, starting the yearoff strong.
I mean, it's February, but thisis just episode two.
We're back at it.
It's time for another episodeof who's Driving.
Welcome to who's Driving.
I'm Wesley Turner.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And I'm Stephen Merck .
We're two best friends andentrepreneurs.
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These are the stories we share and topics we discuss,
as two best friends would on along road trip.
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Along the way, we'll check in with friends and offer
a wide range of informativetopics centered around running
small businesses, social mediaand all things home and garden.
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Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
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You never know who's driving or where we're headed.
All we know is it's always afun ride.
So let me get settled in.
I got to get used to this wholenew setup.
I think we're going to getthere.
Yeah, you ready.
If you missed last week'sepisode, shame on you.
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(01:07):
other off.
I don't know what happened.
You know we did what 40something episodes, I think 45
last year.
So I'm sure there's probablysome moments in there that.
Yeah, I don't know what kind ofmoments will happen this year.
But anyway if you missed it, youcan now watch our episodes of
(01:30):
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Well, I mean, it's not like we're making bank on it
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No, we're just trying to pay for the damn bank we're
trying to break even.
Because we don't.
We need, you know, it took us ayear and a half, well, really
the whole two years.
Peeps were asking us to do avideo version and we never did.
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off the podcast.
It's a connection with ourlisteners.
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We're not.
You know, we don't havecommercials yet or sponsors, but
if anyone wants to sponsor us,we will be happy to take that.
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Yes, so yeah, we're just tryingto make the podcast pay for
itself so that we're notspending more and more on it,
but it's so much fun, we doenjoy it, we really enjoy it, so
that's good.
So that's that.
I changed my name on InstagramWesley Turner Living.
(02:43):
That's me, hey, girl.
And there'sWesleyTurnerLivingcom where you
can find out all the thingsabout everything going on Our
vacation rentals podcast isthere Businesses?
Businesses are there.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Flower farm.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Everything's there.
So if you missed last week's,that's what you missed out on,
but this week, probably one ofthe most requested things I've
gotten recently is to talk aboutmarkets and the market trends
and just so you know, when we doJanuary markets, that is when
(03:18):
we buy the bulk of all of ourChristmas for the following
Christmas season.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
So we finish Christmas and then we have to
order Christmas, which is reallygood.
I mean it is exhausting becauseyou're like, oh my gosh, I just
finished Christmas, but it'sall fresh on the brain.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I still get so excited when we go to do the
Christmas.
When I was at market I wouldget messages like oh my gosh,
how do you do it?
But I still get excited allover again.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It's amazing, though, just like what a two or three
week break does for your brain.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It is true, and how you forget.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, and you're like oh my gosh, you know you're
getting excited already, Right,Because then you're like oh gosh
, you know, you're gettingexcited already, right?
Because then you're like ohthings I'm going to do different
then, or whatever.
And and what you have to alsoremember is we and it's a good
thing and it's a bad thingwhereas you guys, typically for
(04:20):
the, you know you have yourchristmas, but then the normal
people that are not in retail,normal, you get to add to your
Christmas.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
You're building.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You're like, oh, this is looking rough, I'm going to
retire this or donate this orpass this on to the kids,
whereas we, because of what wedo, we have to come up with
everything new Every year, everyyear, for ourselves and our
business.
Yes, so it is a lot going on,yes, exactly, and I'm very
(04:56):
excited.
Just, I'm very excited aboutChristmas, I feel like about
Christmas 2025.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I feel like Christmas 2025 is really coming into your
era.
Oh, this is so.
Let's start off.
Okay, so we went to market.
You were there.
You watched on Instagram If youdidn't, you should have but
you're there now.
So, okay, we went there.
We'll go through the wholemarket.
First, we started shopping for,like you're talking about
(05:25):
holiday 2025.
So what's the trends?
What are you seeing?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
If I could sum it all up, Christmas 2025, I would
just say Ralph Lauren.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yes, you are correct.
So for Christmas 2025, a lot oftraditional and a lot of Ralph
Lauren look, which you and Italked about.
I thought there would be moreof that Ralph Lauren look for
2024.
And there was some.
But in 2023, we were like, oh,next year is going to be, we
(06:03):
were like a year ahead, and thenthis year it is definitely, it
is on.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And that is my, I love it, and it's that I
wouldn't say retro.
I would say more vintage,layered and red and plaids and
heavy and gold yeah.
Yeah, you know, if you look ina Ralph Lauren book, that's what
(06:32):
it is Rich colors, yeah, andnot everything is the Ralph
Lauren look, but whatever isnext to that.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
So, if you want to go more traditional reds and golds
or if you want to do your jeweltones or jewel tones, yeah,
belvets.
And then the other biggest onethat's really not in that look
is a soft sage green mixed in.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, there there's lots of shades of greens that
are popular.
What is not?
And I'm all for it, or thepinks and the whimsy and yeah no
, the whimsical looks havereally taken a sidestep now you
know.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Okay, here's the thing, let's back up before
you're like I love whimsical.
You do you in holidaysspecifically, more than anything
, like in christmas.
Nothing's ever really out ofstyle.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
It's whatever makes your house, whatever makes you
feel festive yeah and a lot ofpeople do multiple trees Right,
so you do you.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Enjoy it If you want to have your gingerbread tree in
your kitchen or maybe in yourliving room, whatever.
Nothing's out of style when itcomes to Christmas.
It's just what are we talkingabout?
Are the biggest shifts intrends?
Trends, yes, and the biggestone shift away is from being
more cutesy, whimsical Christmasand it's moved, more elegant,
(07:56):
rich, rich tones, refined verynice.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
More from your bright colors to your jewel tones
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
More from your bright colors to your jewel tones
Right, even the products likemoving away from glitter.
There's always going to beglitter, it's holiday, but from
glitter to like metallics, likemixed metals and even metallic
red, whatever color they be, orinstead of glitter, you're going
to see more jeweled.
Right yeah, so it just takes ona more refined look and less
(08:28):
whimsical.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
And I would say A little more.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Zsa Zsa.
Yeah, a little more rich,elegant layered.
I love that, like just bougie.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Curated look.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Like that look that just feels like you should be at
a ski lodge, not with we don'thave, you know, moose heads or
anything.
We're talking brass, plaids,velvet and a fire going and rich
, rich like he rich.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I'm there for it.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
So, yeah, that is the biggest trends in Christmas
with going into each one.
So Stephen and I always have tocome up with basically six to
eight themes for our stores andsometimes we take a theme and
remix it and remix it to be athing you know whatever.
But yeah, a lot of traditional.
(09:29):
It's a lot more traditional.
Reds and golds or like theRalph Lauren look, where you
might throw in a different colorwith it than reds and golds,
would be the biggest trends andit did look really good and we
got some really good Christmasstuff.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I'm doing a lot for 2025.
I'm doing a lot of the brassy,brass, red.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah, rich Greens.
I mean, it's basically look athis meal, condo and put it into
Christmas on a Christmas tree.
That's it, it's just liketaking everything from your
house and hanging it on a tree.
It's true, and that's the look,it works for you, it's true,
and I love it too.
I'm doing for mine.
I'm sticking more traditionalred and gold.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
We did not order our trees.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
We did not order our trees.
We've got to order our trees.
I made notes, though.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I have a photo of our tree.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
We're getting new trees this year?
No, we did order them.
Oh, we changed our mind.
We changed our mind, didn't weorder them?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yes, we did, I just remembered.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
We changed our mind three times.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Three times Three times, but we did settle on it
and order those right.
Yes, we did.
Okay, we better have we did,and it's crazy how much they've
gone up, just like in the pastsix years.
Well, everything, everythinghas but trees especially they
have.
And it's funny, though, becausetalking about that, we, we even
(11:10):
at this market because we bothhave the same trees that we got
eight, nine, nine years ago nineyears ago, um, and this year I
said I have to have a new tree.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
This year one of my branches went out.
It's just time one of mine didI mean they've just been.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah, we've moved and moved and yeah, yeah so it's
fine, it's time.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
We even tried to find a less expensive.
That's why we changed our mindthree times, because we were
like, oh, this one, we love thisone, but it was still expensive
.
Then we were like we love thisone, oh, but it's still
expensive.
It's just the price of trees.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
The damn things are just a high for a nice.
Nice they are and and see, Ihurt.
This is a personal thing for me.
You know some people like thetraditional triangle tree and
that's fine.
I like a natural, cut lookingtree I think that's the other
problem.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
We like the certain shape where it looks natural,
there's branches sticking out,and that Not just your perfectly
triangle cone shaped tree.
So that's where the price comesin it is.
To get that look it has to be ahigh quality or it looks dumb.
We're like I can't do this, soanyway.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And then they had one that we liked that looked like
a natural cut tree as well, withmore missing branches, and
that's really what I thought Iwanted.
And then I was like we can't dothat because it was too open.
It was too open and with all ofmy windows it would have looked
(12:47):
really naked.
You'd have seen through it,seen through to it too much,
yeah.
So yeah, we just did the nextgeneration of the ones we had.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Right.
So if you are interested inthat, be watching in July and
we'll do a live sale for that.
So we actually went to twomarkets.
We went to Dallas for a day andI'm surprised we you know now
that it's we made it back andeverything went well.
I called Steven when I wasDaniel and I were in Florida and
(13:18):
I was like we really need to gosee this vendor that we found
at the Dallas market when wewent last June, because they had
some amazing great differentstuff and I was like, but if we
are going there, we kind of needto go to them first, so we know
what we need when we go toAtlanta, because it's like, how,
(13:39):
where do you start?
You know you can't go toAtlanta and then go there and be
like, oh, I wish I bought thisbecause you know, so we got.
Go to Atlanta and then go thereand be like, oh, I wish I
bought this because you know, sowe got up, flew to Dallas.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Got up at five in the morning and flew to Dallas.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I think it was before five that I had to get up.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I got up at five, did you?
But here's the thing.
Okay, guys, there's a fewthings you have to know.
You need to know anyway.
If you're traveling in theUnited States and just remember,
always know, I said it you donot fly United because they will
mess you up.
You do not fly through Newark,new Jersey, because they will
(14:20):
mess you up.
And if you live this isspecific, if you live in
Greenville, south Carolina, youdo not fly out of there on an
evening flight from Dallas,because that is the most
canceled flight there is.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Well, and guess what?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And there's no choice when you go to Dallas.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
When you go to Dallas , you got to fly through Dallas.
But when I said that in like oh, hope we get back tonight,
everyone was like I doeverything, not everyone.
But I got a lot of messagesfrom you that said I do
everything I can not to flythrough Dallas, because I always
get delayed, miss my flight orflight canceled and that's crazy
.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And they were having a snowstorm coming in the next
day, so I had already.
I was like, in order for me tonot hyperventilate, I have to
prepare.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Got to have plan A plan B, plan C, D, E, F, G.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
H I.
So I told Wesley.
I said okay, okay if we missour flight, we're not going
through all this getting hotelsand trying to fly out.
The next morning there's asnowstorm.
We are going to rent a car andwe are driving 13 hours, he
tells me this at the airportbefore we leave In Greenville.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
He said okay, I'm just warning you now so you can
prepare.
You don't have a meltdown,there's no arguing, I'm not
getting on this plane unless youagree.
This is what we're doing.
If we get to Dallas and we getto the airport and our flight
gets canceled.
We are renting a car and we aredriving back when we get out of
(16:13):
the path of snow.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
We can spend the night somewhere.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Oh my gosh.
So all day long I was nervousas shit.
I have to tell you I was likeplease don't let me have to ride
14 hours.
Please don't let me.
I didn't want to, but I knewyou were serious Like I knew you
were serious, like if theflight had been canceled, we
were going to be in a car, but Iknew you were serious, Like I
knew you were serious.
Like if the flight had beencanceled, we were going to be in
a car driving.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
And here was the thing we were caught between two
snowstorms, so we had snowcoming in Dallas where we were,
and then this was like on aWednesday.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
So Thursday morning it was going to be snow in
Dallas.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
And we were going to have snow coming in Greenville
on Friday.
So we didn't have time.
We did not have time to playaround with American Airlines
and Dallas.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
So and the funny thing is, I don't know if it's
funny, but we've passed it now.
So ha ha.
And the funny thing is, I don'tknow if it's funny, but we've
passed it now, so ha ha.
I have done this similar thingto Steven a couple of times,
where I call and I say, hey, weneed to go see this vendor.
Just for the day We'll be upthere and back.
It's one night, it's just onenight, it's so simple.
(17:31):
And we've gotten stuck One time,specifically Four days In New
York City for five days, sosimple.
And we've gotten stuck One time, specifically Four days In New
York City for five days.
And I think we've talked aboutthat in the past.
So I could see it turning intoone of those situations if we
didn't get out of there and Iknew he was serious.
So all day we were at market.
So we got up, went to theairport here in Greenville we
(17:51):
were in Dallas by like 11something, I think.
I think Went to the airporthere in greenville we were in
dallas by like 11 something, Ithink.
I think um went to the market,went to that vendor shop, that
vendor, which was a huge vendor.
That took us like three hours orso then almost four yeah
actually, and then we got to seeone or two other vendors one.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah, we placed one other, one other order.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
One other order and then we had to get back in the
Uber and go back to the airport,but we made it out.
And shout out to our Uberdriver, alice.
That's her name, alice, ifyou're listening to Dallas, we
love you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
She was amazing, so I immediately realized I like her
.
She is a native of Dallas andshe was like y'all have to get
your asses out of here tonight.
And she's like, if you missyour flight, you got to rent a
car.
And I'm like, girl, that's whatI've already said I'm like, so
(18:49):
we got her number, so that's ourDallas lady.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah, so Alice was like when y'all are done, just
call me no before we left.
She's like so we got her number.
So that's our Dallas lady.
Yeah, so Alice was like wheny'all are done, just call me no
before we left.
She's like I'll pick you upright here at this time.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
So she picked us up Nice, big four-wheel drive
suburban Took us to the airportDropped us off.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
So now we have our personal driver now in Dallas.
It's important, that'simportant.
Have our personal driver now indallas.
It's important, that'simportant.
She's like next time y'all arecoming, just call me, I'll pick
you right up at the airport.
It was amazing that worked out.
Yeah, so we did shop thatvendor and everything.
And then, um, so we did that ona wednesday, so we got back
wednesday night, then thursday,then it snowed on Friday.
(19:30):
Then that cleared up.
It was supposed to snow fiveinches, five to seven inches.
It was obviously, as I said atthe time on my stories, a man
who predicted that, because itwas a dusty dusting.
It was a little guy, if you knowwhat I mean.
Hey, little guy.
Yeah it was hey little guy.
(19:50):
So it was a dusting here.
After it screwed up the wholeweek of everybody like, oh, it's
going to snow, but that was.
So we went there on Wednesday,snowed here on Friday, and then
Sunday we went to the Atlantamarket and then we stayed there
nine or 10 days, whatever it was, and did all of our shopping.
So we started with holiday 2025, which we've talked about.
(20:11):
We're very excited.
The other thing that is thebiggest trend at market on
everything doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter, the seasondoesn't matter, what I mean, it
is on everything.
And I think it's funny becauseit kind of goes back to what
(20:33):
Stephen was, you know,complaining about previously.
But bows, bows are oneverything.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Bows are on tumblers, they're on sweaters, clothes,
everything, even cast in likemetal candelabras.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, bows.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
You name it.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Flower pots, bows were embossed in them.
I guess that's kind of what youor cast, like you said, ceramic
pots, and okay, I think I did,I think I did a little.
I might might still have it alittle clip of just a bunch of
things that I saw with bows.
I never completed it so Ididn't post it to instagram.
It might only have like four orfive things, but just to show
(21:21):
you the range, like it was fromeverything, and I'm not a bow
person bows and pearls pearlsare big pearls are big big on
jewelry, on ornaments, on youname it.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, anything, pearl , pearl and bow now I like
pearls.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, they're cute and the bows are cute in the
right place, like we orderedsome actual.
You know how people were tryingto make the pillow bows at
christmas.
We ordered you some that arecorrect, that you can buy in
2025.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
That are in scale and look nice.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Look like a bow.
Nice tails in scale.
We have them from big to small.
But it reminded me I meant totell you this and I think we
kind of talked about it one timebefore you know my stepmom back
in the day how I'd talk she'dget those dollar store red bows
that come off the pack and putall of her tree.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
My aunt did that Tacky Tacky.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Well now, I saw trees like that at market, but they
used a more refined dainty bow.
I don't know how to explain thebow, that and it.
It looked better, but it kindof gave me that.
I was like, oh my gosh, we'regoing back to this.
It was just a tree covered inbows.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah, my aunt did that and she, like my mother's
sister, has the creativity of adoorknob and she would do the
cheap red, the kind you got atlike CVS.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah, the dollar store in the pack on the sheet
of paper and it had the goldlittle twist tie, Even as a kid.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I can remember looking at it going.
That is so ugly and wrong.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
My stepmom would do that and I thought the same
thing I should have known.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I mean, you know, it's just they would line the
lights in a perfect line aroundthe tree and all the bows were
perfectly spaced.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It just looked, I mean as basic and boring, as you
could get.
Yeah, fluff it up a little, butmine would do just the simple
plain back in the day glass.
You know, know, balls that came12 in a pack or whatever.
What probably red, the mat ormaybe in gold, and then red bows
(23:41):
.
I specifically remember the redbows in the pack and the bows
had like it.
It was almost like sandwichtype bread, type twist type,
yeah, and it wasn't even a realbow.
Like it was just, it was theshape of a bow.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah, little velvet.
Yes, and you got like 12 perpack.
Yes, and they bought like 20packs.
I mean it was.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It was strong, and then mine would hang candy canes
on the tree.
Yeah, they did that sometimes,but then you couldn't get the
candy cane.
As a kid, don't touch the candycanes.
You couldn't get the candy caneoff the tree.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I can remember, like in the 80s, maybe 70s, saying to
my mom that tree doesn't lookright, because my mother was
like I know that's how mine wasLike I would be at my mom's
house and the tree would bebeautiful, that's how my mom's
was.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
It was right, it was.
My mom always did fun trees toowhen we were younger.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Pretty.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
And they would be colorful and bright and all kids
and right and right and fun.
And then I would go over to mydad's house and my stepmom's
tree would just be that andtheir tree.
They always got a real tree andit was always like five feet
tall.
It was short and it was as bigaround as a kitchen table.
It was fat but short.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
It was wrong from head to toe and I knew then.
I knew it was wrong then andthis is even worse.
So what my mom's sister didseveral years and this just
screams basic.
They would get the one with theroot ball, which looks so
stupid.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
That we're going to plant out in the yard.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
It looks so stupid.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
None of mine did that , because I'm surprised, but
none of them did that.
I'm like Because I'm surprised,but none of them did that.
I'm like I feel like that'ssomething.
If you want to do that, todecorate one on your porch or
something and then plant it inthe yard, I don't know, and it
looks stupid for years becauseit looked like a Christmas tree.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I mean till it grew out, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Someone's looking out their door right now going off.
Yeah, you know, someone'slooking out their door right now
going off, yeah, but the funnything is, I feel like this was
back in the day before Frazierfirs were the tree.
Yeah, they used to be a pineand they trimmed them and you
couldn't hang anything on them.
No, those needles falling offit was a mess.
(26:11):
Now they're all Frazier fir forthe most part.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Which do look better.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
And those look like a natural tree.
But same girl, same I even knewthen I was like this no, I want
to go home to my pretty treeand you know it's the people and
listen.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
If we're offending y'all, we're sorry, but you know
somebody needed to tell you,it's the people that have zero
creativity that do stuff likethat.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
And that's fine.
But copy somebody but see theydidn't have like Pinterest back
then or Instagram or anythingyou know.
I mean, unless you boughtSouthern Living, but like mom,
she probably never looked at aSouthern Living.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
You had to.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
She needed to.
I know it's true.
Oh my gosh.
And y'all are like y'all aretalking about.
Yeah, we are.
We are and we don't care ifthey're listening.
No, hopefully you are your treelooked like shit, like the rest
(27:25):
of your house.
Yes, I said it.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Oh gosh, you are bad.
Well, I forget, they'rewatching and listening.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Now it could be truth is the truth truth okay back to
market.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Let's, let's, reel it back in yeah how do we get back
so bows, bows on everything wedid.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Order you some appropriate bows we ordered some
things that were cute or pretty.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yeah, picked it out.
You know what we did not see inthe Christmas.
I would just like to point outMushrooms.
No, there wasn't a mushroom tobe found.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
They didn't sell that shit.
And they said we're not.
We're getting rid of theholiday mushrooms.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
The holiday mushrooms that we talked about last year
were not around at all.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
And you know I like some of the gardening, like at
our garden store.
There were some pretty ones,yes, but I'm talking about the
ones that took it to a whole new.
I think I may have ordered afew mushrooms that were really
cute for the garden store thisyear, yeah, but they're not it
was just different.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
It was different than what they were trying to make.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Oh, they were trying to make them like candy cane,
mushroom stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
It was not around this year for sure, and that was
funny.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
And then we shopped lots of gifts we won't us.
I don't really want to get into.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
we can want to get into talking about gifts because
people be listening, but youknow what wasn't around.
Also, that was very hard and Ifeel like this is a staple in
Christmas decor in general and,like we said, things come and go
in popularity, like sometimesthey're trending and sometimes
they're really trending.
(29:12):
You know what I'm saying?
It's like Leopard Leopard isalways trending, but then
sometimes it's really trending,so don't worry about if your
Christmas decor doesn't matchwhat we're talking about yeah,
you gotta do you, you gotta dowhat you like.
But what I did want some of andwe might have gotten a couple of
(29:34):
pieces but was surprisinglymissing from the Christmas
section at Market this time wasgingerbread things.
There was very, very littlegingerbread things and
nutcrackers.
And nutcrackers.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Nutcrackers had their year the past two years were
huge.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
But see, we had to move on from that because you
know Walmart had them lined upand.
Target.
So they tried, you know, tostay ahead and that sort of
thing.
But yeah, nutcrackers were alot less and gingerbread
Gingerbread was a lot less.
Gingerbread and candy yeah, andthe candy look less.
(30:15):
Gingerbread and candy yeah, andthe candy look um, but I feel
like those are staples that youalways see no matter what they
are, people like to have that intheir kitchen.
I feel like yeah, it never goesaway, but it was very much
missing.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Sometimes it's really hot on trend right and then now
it's kind of more on the back,like.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Like, for example, it's different from the pink and
bright colors, whereas thatwill eventually go away.
You won't see it because it'sjust a trend.
Yeah, gingerbread is a part ofChristmas, so to see it so
little this time, that's kind ofdifferent.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
And jewel tones are really popular and jewel tones
are really popular.
What amazes me what I did see alot of is they're really trying
to make like blue, like navyblue and purple happen In
Christmas and I like the colorsand maybe you could mix some of
(31:09):
the balls in, but I just I meanpretty colors, but I just don't
think anybody's going to doreally a.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
So here's the thing I feel like that is such a
specific few people that aregoing to do those colors we
always look at Christmas.
I mean, pink was a specific buteveryone really jumped on that
and liked it.
We did pinks for years Becauseif you have kids or like a girl
or you just wanted bright colors, but these very specific colors
(31:40):
, they're hard to mix in withother colors.
You know, you can say whenyou're being very traditional
with like red and gold, and thenthe next year you can go oh,
I'm going to do red and whiteand maybe some red birds or
something you can like adjustyour look just by sidestepping,
(32:01):
like one time.
But when you get into havingNavy and purple, it's like you
kind of have to start overcompletely as a consumer, you
know.
So those are kind of a hard,hard sell.
Very specific, very, yeah, verymuch so.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
And I kind of see, you know, with home decor, I
kind of see the trends are.
You know they're very similar.
You know, going into home decorYou're getting more color, more
patterns and you're richer yourjewel tones and your printed
(32:41):
fabrics, even printed sofas, andyour chintz flowers.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yeah, it's continued.
It's definitely continued downthe path of what we've seen in
home decor over the last threeyears More and more color,
bolder color, deep, deep, earthy70s still goes back to Ralph
Lauren, the whole Ralph Lauren.
Ralph Lauren, the rich, richcolors are coming in all over
(33:15):
again.
Do you remember back in the daywhen was it Home Depot or
Lowe's came out with the RalphLauren paint and you could?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
you could make it look like leather.
I bought it, yes, in my oldhouse in the hallway that was
Ralph Lauren leather paint.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
We had that in our bathroom at my mom's house I
mean, we did it it did look goodit was a good it was you could
do the drag through, look, or,but it was a whole ralph warren,
you would do.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
You would do a um.
In my hallway I did a base coat, yep, and then you did a glaze.
I did a glaze and then youbuffed it and it ended up
looking like leather.
It was muddle, it was prettyyeah.
But I don't know how that was,and I did that, like I remember
doing the hallway and it wasn'ta big hallway, but it was.
(34:04):
I remember just one Saturdayevening said, oh, I'm going to
do the hallway.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yeah, I mean now, you would never.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I wouldn't just say, oh, I'm just gonna do this
tonight real quick.
I mean, I remember like havingthe tv on peeking around the
corner and doing that wholehallway it was a fun time, um,
but yeah, those colors in home.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
You're seeing lots of bold, lots of green steel.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Lots of plaids in home decor.
Plaids are really hot Pillows.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Velvet steel and, like you said, print printed
fabric, laurel prints.
I even feel like botanicals are, which never go away, but
seeing a lot more botanical,everything fabric in your, your
cool gray, your, your cool gray,and I'm not talking about your
(35:00):
bronze grays, I'm talking yourcool grays, your blue gray yeah,
your blue, grays and whitesgone.
Yeah, and of course certainwhites are always great, like
alabaster, I think is always thestart the start yes, I know,
which makes me I feel like mydining room kitchen area has
(35:22):
that kind of starky blue itreally does, so I think I'm
gonna have to redo.
I don't think I don't, but Igotta get this first room redone
that you're gonna have have tohelp me paint.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Yes, I said I would the guest room.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
You know I've been going to redo it for well.
We've been here eight years,almost nine years, but really
going to redo it for four.
And then last year, when wewere at the beach, I thought I
was going to get someone topaint.
And then they were I mean, it'snot even that massive of a room
and they wanted what was itlike?
$7,000?
.
This is ridiculous.
I'm not paying that.
It will sit there until I gettired enough to paint.
(35:55):
See, the problem is I hatepainting.
Daniel even said he would paint.
He's like just go get the paint,so we're just going to do it.
I offered Group thing yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
I mean I enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
I know I find that shocking that you like painting
because it's so tedious.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
But you like hanging wallpaper, I hate it.
That's true.
I mean, we're all different.
Like you like hanging wallpaper, I hate it.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
It's true, it's a differentkind of tedious.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
But I don't know.
Yeah, everyone's different.
Yeah, I mean wallpaper.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
just, it may be because you know my OCD and
maybe that would take me to awhole new level and I feel like
painting is a lot easier for meto control yeah.
Maybe, so, Because you know Ican paint, for whatever reason.
I can paint a solid straightline, I can cut in.
(36:54):
I just get the feel yeah.
But you know, I bought my firsthouse I was young, I was 22.
And broke is a joke and thepainter for the whole house,
inside and out, was me.
(37:14):
That's how you do things whenyou're young and I hated it and
I went through all the differentlittle things you know.
I bought the sprayers, rentedthe sprayers and what I really
ended up knowing is I just likea good brush and a roller.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
You know that's the best way to paint in a house.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
It is Because you know you might as well just do
it, roll it and brush it Roll it.
I think Daniel, he's like oh, Ibought a sprayer and I'm like
we can't be spraying up in thehouse.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Well, and you spend so much time taping up and
trying to fix it and then youmiss that Like you tape over and
you can see a line.
No, it's easier, just to paint.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
It's true.
It's true.
What other trends?
Speaker 2 (38:08):
do?
We see A lot more antiques?
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Oh yes.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Yes, which I'm all about.
It's a very layered and curatedlook.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
For a couple of years now, lots more antiques being
worked on.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
I personally have never gotten away from that
because I've always liked mixingantiques.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Well, that's another one of those things.
Antiques are always their owntrend, or they're really, really
, really on trend.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
And now they're really, really, really and
taxidermy and mounts andanything like that.
Oh, you know, there's some ofthose people don't like that.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
I don't like that you killed it.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
I have certain friends I won't call them out,
because I do like them and Irespect them oh, you do.
Well, I mean I want to slapthem over the ass, but they'll
come in and go.
I can't look and do this number.
I'm like Covering their face.
Those deer died so many yearsago.
Chill out.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
They're the ones eating them and killing them.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Well, these friends are talking.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Whatever, whatever.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
They look good on my wall.
They do look good on your walland warm walls and you know, and
that's kind of just warm walls.
So and I would say, if you'relike, well, I like gray, well,
use gray, there are warm grays.
There are grays with green orbrown or bronze undertones Right
(39:37):
, those are great.
They're warm, they're cozy 'recozy, right?
You know, I'm looking at yourfile cabinets over there.
That is a great gray or like umthe.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
You know we use urbane bronze a lot which is a
great moody dark color.
But the one that's on there,the felted wool, is the lighter
version, much lighter, but it'sa warm, gray muddy muddy colors
yes, muddy, you went out and gotsome dirt mixed it in.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Yeah, it's the cool colors that are not as, yeah,
you're icy gray.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
You're stark.
White, yeah, but gray still.
You'll hear people saying oh'sout.
It's not, gray is out, it's theblue, cold gray that is out.
So make sure you have a warmgray and shiplap is out.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Everything you read, everything you'll see.
Having said that, it alsodepends on how you use it.
It also depends on how you useit.
I think a lot of people have intheir mind all shiplap has to
be like farmhouse.
Look, we have one wall in ourbeach cottage.
(40:55):
That's shiplap.
To me it doesn't even lookshiplap it looks, coastal it
looks very coastal.
It's all how you use it.
You know, some people might sayyour walls in your living room
are shiplap.
They're really not.
They're actually concrete hardyplank but they're textured,
(41:15):
yeah, so it's not the same.
Look Right and don't get caughtup in that Like.
If you have a shiplap wall,don't be like oh my God, I'm out
of stock.
No, just you know change.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
The color, the color.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Make it warmer, yeah, or do something different, or,
you know, caulk the cracks, makeit less obvious yeah, you know
there's ways to work around allof it, right, I don't ever get
too caught up on trends anyway.
Yeah, I kind of do.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
I mean it has to be pretty extreme, like a trend,
like shiplap there's so manyhouses with shiplap in there.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
It ain't going away.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
That is not going away and you don't have to go
rip your shiplap in there.
It ain't going away, that isnot going away and you don't
have to go rip your shiplap out.
But it's like our house, likeour dining room, looks most, I
would say, like shiplap, I guesskind of.
I mean, it's just slacks.
But our house was built in the90s and they built it that way,
yeah, and when we moved in, itwas a you know a dark color,
(42:19):
which?
Speaker 2 (42:19):
looks great.
It's really not shiplap.
Yeah, this is not, honestly, alot of it was just reclaimed
wood Right, it was using old tobuild new.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
And I'm glad they did that.
Yeah, it's not cookie cutter atall, so you don't have to go oh
my gosh, it's how you style,it's the overall style.
It's the overall style.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
It's not the paneling of 1978.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Right, you know.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Yeah, and even with paneling like we have.
Our condos at Hilton Head werebuilt in 1981.
We have paneling Mm-hmm and youknow you can caulk and paint
paneling and it's great.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Yeah, some of mine has like a smear over it.
It gives it texture and thensome rooms has it.
You work around it, you just doit.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
You work around it.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
I really hate.
That's one thing I hate withsocial media, I mean and we're
sitting here talking abouttrends too, but I hate when
people get on there and they'reso adamant Like shiplap is gone
and get it out, and I'm like no,let's not, you got to work, you
got to be, you got to berealistic.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
And you know everybody can't afford to do
that.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
So what can you do to work around the need to do that
?
What are you going to do nextmonth?
Something else is out.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
But if you're like, oh, I don't want to see the you
know the spaces that you caulkit.
Yeah, oh, I don't want whitebecause I don't want to draw
attention to it, paint it awarmer color, right, like it's
not an end, all be all.
And you can always caulk it inwallpaper too.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Right and it's still very, very on trend.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
We talked about like modern cottage look, I would say
that's definitely where it didcontinue, and wallpaper is
continuing just to be booming.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
I'm kind of surprised about wallpaper.
Me too, I love wallpaper.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
But the good kind.
The reason, I think, the reasonit has stuck around longer is
because the quality has changed.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Because when we opened the home store back in
2013, wallpaper was juststarting to come back.
I mean, we've been sellingwallpaper since then and it has
grown in popularity, but Ithought it would be a quicker
turnaround trend, but it isgetting bigger and bigger and
(44:47):
bigger.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
It's because of the quality of the paper.
You can actually get it off thewall without tearing your house
down.
Yeah, I haven't tried to getany of mine down yet, but you
know that 70s and 80s paper itwas like super glued.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Well, it was also the material that it was.
It became part of the wall.
That's what I mean, it was justthe glue, just it was there,
yeah, and so it is easier to getoff now.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
So people had that hatred of that paper and it was
legit.
Yeah, I can remember a littlepiece coming off.
Now you can take it off.
I think it's just technology,right.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
And see it took a whole like couple of generations
of people to forget about howhard it was to get off, because
if you're an older listeneryou're probably like I'm not
wallpaper and shit you stillhave PTSD.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
Yeah, and I had a little bit of it because you
know my dad's a contractor, soit was drilled into my head for
many years no paper, no paper nopaper.
Yeah, and I didn't have paperin my other homes but in this
one I decided to paper.
Two bathrooms, yeah, which isgood.
(46:00):
Yeah, they're small and I'mlike they're.
You know, doesn't break thebank to change it.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
And so that's like here I have this wall behind
this paper, which is just onewall, and then I have our, your
hallway, our hallway, and thenthe powder room.
That's it.
Yeah, you know what I did inthe powder room, though, because
it's small and well, it was all.
It wasn't paneling, it wasbeadboard, and then it had a, I
(46:27):
think had a center.
Yeah, it's still there, it has a, you know a chair rail, a chair
rail, and it was beadboard andbeadboard on the top.
So I painted the bottom half isblack and then I wallpapered
the top half.
But I went and got the really,really thin.
It's like board, it's in the,it's comes in sheet like a four
(46:48):
by eight, but it's almost likeit's one step from cardboard.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
Yeah, you know it's like a reed.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
Yeah, it's so thin yeah, and I've covered the walls
in that, because I was like, ifI want this wallpaper down, I
can just rip this board off andit'll be gone.
Oh, that's what I did in thebathroom.
And I like that, but I neededto do any way to cover up
because I couldn't put thewallpaper on the beadboard.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
I like that paper down there.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
Yeah, I was just like one day I might want the
beadboard back or something youmight.
You might want somethingdifferent, so that's what I did
there.
Oh, you thirsty over there.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Yeah, I have to drink my water.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Oh, you gotta stay hydrated, that's right.
Gotta stay hydrated with mybottle that blinks when I drink
water, which I turned you on tothat bottle.
I need to get back on that aswell, because it does help you
drink more.
He has this bottle.
Speaker 2 (47:38):
I'm so addicted to them.
Dylan's mom bought me a sparebecause you know I break them
every couple years.
You know you drop it one toomany times.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
So, tina, at Tamumi's House we Go is the one who
originally where I found outabout these?
Is it a hydro?
What's it called Hydrate Spark,hydrate Spark?
And so I got one and then yougot them and you've stuck with
yours.
I broke mine, but it is cool.
If you're maybe, in 2025,wanting to drink more water as
(48:10):
your goal, this bottle waterbottle.
You fill it up and it has anapp that connects to your phone
and it tracks how much you drinkthrough the day.
It really, really helps.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
Because I was never a water drinker.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Right, and if you get an OCD type person like Steven,
it becomes a game, because itflashes like, oh, you need to
drink more.
Or when you drink enough, itflashes like you did it.
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
And I would if I do not have my bottle.
I do not drink, I know, and sothat's what.
So for, and I would if I do nothave my bottle.
I do not drink the water, andso that's what.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
So for a while I carried mine around with nothing
.
It didn't work because Idropped it or whatever too many
times and I would still drink,but I've gotten really bad.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
Highly highly recommended.
It's called Hydrate Spark, it'sH-I-D-R-A-T-E Spark Hydrate
Spark and they have twodifferent types of bottles in
two different sizes.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
I'll put a picture of it.
In our new members-onlycommunity with a link to it, we
don't get anything from it.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
We should see if we can.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
We should Do they have an affiliate link we should
, I'll have to look, but no,we'll put it in the notes if you
want to see it.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
I link.
We should.
I'll have to look.
But no, we'll put it in thenotes.
But it's I'm on my fourth orfifth one in five years, so I go
through one, about one a yearand they're like 69 bucks.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
Well worth the money right it is, I need to get a new
one.
So when I publish this and putthe link in there, I'm going to
order me a new one becauseBecause it does give you the
challenge of like oh, I got todrink more water.
It does.
Honestly, if you are like wetalked about I don't know if it
was this episode or the onebefore this it's time for me to
(49:53):
lose weight.
I've gained 20 pounds.
Water helps you lose weight somuch quicker.
Yeah, you're not eating.
But, something about it, justflushes you out too it does, so
I got to get me one more ofthose.
Well, I feel like this is maybea little bit quicker of an
episode, I don't know, but wegot to wrap it up because we got
(50:15):
to pull this baby over.
I feel like now that they canwatch, us we should just sit in
our car and film this.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
You know like there's a steering wheel.
I wish it worked.
I wish it was.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
It's time to pull this baby over because we have
to go.
It's Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
We have to go to our second shift job.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
We got to go do a live sale, so you know what that
means.
You got to join us inside theNested Fig app.
We're typically live for theNew Year Sunday, tuesdays and
Thursdays, although when thisepisode comes out, I'll be at
the beach and you'll be doing alive, so I don't know what the
schedule will be.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
We're doing a couple of lives, so when you're gone
you're leaving.
On Sunday, we're going to do alive Tuesday night.
That's Valentine's week.
You're going to do a liveThursday night because I'm going
to be up to my eyeballs inflowers.
Speaker 1 (51:12):
And then don't you like how I've set up, that I go
out of town on Valentine's?
Speaker 2 (51:17):
now, you know it doesn't matter to me because I
enjoy, like I love working atthe garden store on Valentine's
and Mother's Day.
It's just I really do like it,so it doesn't matter to me.
Yeah, I mean it doesn't make adifference.
Speaker 1 (51:33):
And they honestly don't need.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
They don't need two cooks in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
They don't, because we get bossy and bitchy.
Yeah, I mean, you know what I'msaying.
Yeah, they like for us to leavethem alone.
I don't blame them.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
And then I'm going to do one another Dylan and I will
do one Sunday night and thenwe're going to Atlanta Monday
and we're going to do a coupleof lives from Atlanta with
Amanda.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
Yeah, it's going to be fun while I'm gone.
And I'll do live, like you said, from.
I'll take samples and do livesfrom the beach house.
That's always fun.
I like doing that too.
Keeps it mixed mixing it up.
Mix and match.
So we got to sign off so thatwe can go do our job, go do a
live sale.
Second shift.
I mean, we have so many good newthings at the Nested Fig.
(52:21):
If you haven't shopped with usthis year yet, we've talked
about it on the live sales Atthe end of last year we tried to
sell off as much of ourwarehouse as we could.
Speaker 2 (52:34):
We get bored.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
We want fresh, because we were like we want
fresh and we did it Like I meanwe had like the shelves were
like Vire, empty, empty.
So I would say about 90% of ourinventory is brand new
inventory.
So we have amazing new thingsand I love it.
That's what I was going to say.
So I love it.
I get so excited because we'regoing to go do a box opening and
(52:57):
I'm like I can't wait to openthe new things and we're getting
Easter in and spring.
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It's time for another episodeof who's Driving.
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Because we don't.
We need, you know, it took us ayear and a half, well, really
the whole two years.
Peeps were asking us to do avideo version and we never did.
Because do a video version andwe never did because you know it
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So we're getting there, but we,you know, we don't make money
off the podcast.
It's a connection with ourlisteners.
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We're not.
You know, we don't havecommercials yet or sponsors, but
if anyone wants to sponsor us,we will be happy to take that.
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Yes, so yeah, we're just tryingto make the podcast pay for
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but it's so much fun, we doenjoy it, we really enjoy it, so
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So that's that.
I changed my name on InstagramWesley Turner Living.
(02:43):
That's me, hey, girl.
And there'sWesleyTurnerLivingcom where you
can find out all the thingsabout everything going on Our
vacation rentals podcast isthere Businesses?
Businesses are there.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Flower farm.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Everything's there.
So if you missed last week's,that's what you missed out on,
but this week, probably one ofthe most requested things I've
gotten recently is to talk aboutmarkets and the market trends
and just so you know, when we doJanuary markets, that is when
(03:18):
we buy the bulk of all of ourChristmas for the following
Christmas season.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
So we finish Christmas and then we have to
order Christmas, which is reallygood.
I mean it is exhausting becauseyou're like, oh my gosh, I just
finished Christmas, but it'sall fresh on the brain.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I still get so excited when we go to do the
Christmas.
When I was at market I wouldget messages like oh my gosh,
how do you do it?
But I still get excited allover again.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It's amazing, though, just like what a two or three
week break does for your brain.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
It is true, and how you forget.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, and you're like oh my gosh, you know you're
getting excited already, Right,Because then you're like oh gosh
, you know, you're gettingexcited already, right?
Because then you're like ohthings I'm going to do different
then, or whatever.
And and what you have to alsoremember is we and it's a good
thing and it's a bad thingwhereas you guys, typically for
(04:20):
the, you know you have yourchristmas, but then the normal
people that are not in retail,normal, you get to add to your
Christmas.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
You're building.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You're like, oh, this is looking rough, I'm going to
retire this or donate this orpass this on to the kids,
whereas we, because of what wedo, we have to come up with
everything new Every year, everyyear, for ourselves and our
business.
Yes, so it is a lot going on,yes, exactly, and I'm very
(04:56):
excited.
Just, I'm very excited aboutChristmas, I feel like about
Christmas 2025.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I feel like Christmas 2025 is really coming into your
era.
Oh, this is so.
Let's start off.
Okay, so we went to market.
You were there.
You watched on Instagram If youdidn't, you should have but
you're there now.
So, okay, we went there.
We'll go through the wholemarket.
First, we started shopping for,like you're talking about
(05:25):
holiday 2025.
So what's the trends?
What are you seeing?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
If I could sum it all up, Christmas 2025, I would
just say Ralph Lauren.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yes, you are correct.
So for Christmas 2025, a lot oftraditional and a lot of Ralph
Lauren look, which you and Italked about.
I thought there would be moreof that Ralph Lauren look for
2024.
And there was some.
But in 2023, we were like, oh,next year is going to be, we
(06:03):
were like a year ahead, and thenthis year it is definitely, it
is on.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And that is my, I love it, and it's that I
wouldn't say retro.
I would say more vintage,layered and red and plaids and
heavy and gold yeah.
Yeah, you know, if you look ina Ralph Lauren book, that's what
(06:32):
it is Rich colors, yeah, andnot everything is the Ralph
Lauren look, but whatever isnext to that.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
So, if you want to go more traditional reds and golds
or if you want to do your jeweltones or jewel tones, yeah,
belvets.
And then the other biggest onethat's really not in that look
is a soft sage green mixed in.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, there there's lots of shades of greens that
are popular.
What is not?
And I'm all for it, or thepinks and the whimsy and yeah no
, the whimsical looks havereally taken a sidestep now you
know.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Okay, here's the thing, let's back up before
you're like I love whimsical.
You do you in holidaysspecifically, more than anything
, like in christmas.
Nothing's ever really out ofstyle.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
It's whatever makes your house, whatever makes you
feel festive yeah and a lot ofpeople do multiple trees Right,
so you do you.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Enjoy it If you want to have your gingerbread tree in
your kitchen or maybe in yourliving room, whatever.
Nothing's out of style when itcomes to Christmas.
It's just what are we talkingabout?
Are the biggest shifts intrends?
Trends, yes, and the biggestone shift away is from being
more cutesy, whimsical Christmasand it's moved, more elegant,
(07:56):
rich, rich tones, refined verynice.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
More from your bright colors to your jewel tones
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
More from your bright colors to your jewel tones
Right, even the products likemoving away from glitter.
There's always going to beglitter, it's holiday, but from
glitter to like metallics, likemixed metals and even metallic
red, whatever color they be, orinstead of glitter, you're going
to see more jeweled.
Right yeah, so it just takes ona more refined look and less
(08:28):
whimsical.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
And I would say A little more.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Zsa Zsa.
Yeah, a little more rich,elegant layered.
I love that, like just bougie.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Curated look.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Like that look that just feels like you should be at
a ski lodge, not with we don'thave, you know, moose heads or
anything.
We're talking brass, plaids,velvet and a fire going and rich
, rich like he rich.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I'm there for it.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
So, yeah, that is the biggest trends in Christmas
with going into each one.
So Stephen and I always have tocome up with basically six to
eight themes for our stores andsometimes we take a theme and
remix it and remix it to be athing you know whatever.
But yeah, a lot of traditional.
(09:29):
It's a lot more traditional.
Reds and golds or like theRalph Lauren look, where you
might throw in a different colorwith it than reds and golds,
would be the biggest trends andit did look really good and we
got some really good Christmasstuff.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I'm doing a lot for 2025.
I'm doing a lot of the brassy,brass, red.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah, rich Greens.
I mean, it's basically look athis meal, condo and put it into
Christmas on a Christmas tree.
That's it, it's just liketaking everything from your
house and hanging it on a tree.
It's true, and that's the look,it works for you, it's true,
and I love it too.
I'm doing for mine.
I'm sticking more traditionalred and gold.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
We did not order our trees.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
We did not order our trees.
We've got to order our trees.
I made notes, though.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I have a photo of our tree.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
We're getting new trees this year?
No, we did order them.
Oh, we changed our mind.
We changed our mind, didn't weorder them?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yes, we did, I just remembered.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
We changed our mind three times.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Three times Three times, but we did settle on it
and order those right.
Yes, we did.
Okay, we better have we did,and it's crazy how much they've
gone up, just like in the pastsix years.
Well, everything, everythinghas but trees especially they
have.
And it's funny, though, becausetalking about that, we, we even
(11:10):
at this market because we bothhave the same trees that we got
eight, nine, nine years ago nineyears ago, um, and this year I
said I have to have a new tree.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
This year one of my branches went out.
It's just time one of mine didI mean they've just been.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah, we've moved and moved and yeah, yeah so it's
fine, it's time.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
We even tried to find a less expensive.
That's why we changed our mindthree times, because we were
like, oh, this one, we love thisone, but it was still expensive
.
Then we were like we love thisone, oh, but it's still
expensive.
It's just the price of trees.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
The damn things are just a high for a nice.
Nice they are and and see, Ihurt.
This is a personal thing for me.
You know some people like thetraditional triangle tree and
that's fine.
I like a natural, cut lookingtree I think that's the other
problem.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
We like the certain shape where it looks natural,
there's branches sticking out,and that Not just your perfectly
triangle cone shaped tree.
So that's where the price comesin it is.
To get that look it has to be ahigh quality or it looks dumb.
We're like I can't do this, soanyway.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And then they had one that we liked that looked like
a natural cut tree as well, withmore missing branches, and
that's really what I thought Iwanted.
And then I was like we can't dothat because it was too open.
It was too open and with all ofmy windows it would have looked
(12:47):
really naked.
You'd have seen through it,seen through to it too much,
yeah.
So yeah, we just did the nextgeneration of the ones we had.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Right.
So if you are interested inthat, be watching in July and
we'll do a live sale for that.
So we actually went to twomarkets.
We went to Dallas for a day andI'm surprised we you know now
that it's we made it back andeverything went well.
I called Steven when I wasDaniel and I were in Florida and
(13:18):
I was like we really need to gosee this vendor that we found
at the Dallas market when wewent last June, because they had
some amazing great differentstuff and I was like, but if we
are going there, we kind of needto go to them first, so we know
what we need when we go toAtlanta, because it's like, how,
(13:39):
where do you start?
You know you can't go toAtlanta and then go there and be
like, oh, I wish I bought thisbecause you know, so we got.
Go to Atlanta and then go thereand be like, oh, I wish I
bought this because you know, sowe got up, flew to Dallas.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Got up at five in the morning and flew to Dallas.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
I think it was before five that I had to get up.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I got up at five, did you?
But here's the thing.
Okay, guys, there's a fewthings you have to know.
You need to know anyway.
If you're traveling in theUnited States and just remember,
always know, I said it you donot fly United because they will
mess you up.
You do not fly through Newark,new Jersey, because they will
(14:20):
mess you up.
And if you live this isspecific, if you live in
Greenville, south Carolina, youdo not fly out of there on an
evening flight from Dallas,because that is the most
canceled flight there is.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Well, and guess what?
Speaker 2 (14:45):
And there's no choice when you go to Dallas.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
When you go to Dallas , you got to fly through Dallas.
But when I said that in like oh, hope we get back tonight,
everyone was like I doeverything, not everyone.
But I got a lot of messagesfrom you that said I do
everything I can not to flythrough Dallas, because I always
get delayed, miss my flight orflight canceled and that's crazy
.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And they were having a snowstorm coming in the next
day, so I had already.
I was like, in order for me tonot hyperventilate, I have to
prepare.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Got to have plan A plan B, plan C, D, E, F, G.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
H I.
So I told Wesley.
I said okay, okay if we missour flight, we're not going
through all this getting hotelsand trying to fly out.
The next morning there's asnowstorm.
We are going to rent a car andwe are driving 13 hours, he
tells me this at the airportbefore we leave In Greenville.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
He said okay, I'm just warning you now so you can
prepare.
You don't have a meltdown,there's no arguing, I'm not
getting on this plane unless youagree.
This is what we're doing.
If we get to Dallas and we getto the airport and our flight
gets canceled.
We are renting a car and we aredriving back when we get out of
(16:13):
the path of snow.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
We can spend the night somewhere.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Oh my gosh.
So all day long I was nervousas shit.
I have to tell you I was likeplease don't let me have to ride
14 hours.
Please don't let me.
I didn't want to, but I knewyou were serious Like I knew you
were serious, like if theflight had been canceled, we
were going to be in a car, but Iknew you were serious, Like I
knew you were serious.
Like if the flight had beencanceled, we were going to be in
a car driving.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
And here was the thing we were caught between two
snowstorms, so we had snowcoming in Dallas where we were,
and then this was like on aWednesday.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
So Thursday morning it was going to be snow in
Dallas.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
And we were going to have snow coming in Greenville
on Friday.
So we didn't have time.
We did not have time to playaround with American Airlines
and Dallas.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
So and the funny thing is, I don't know if it's
funny, but we've passed it now.
So ha ha.
And the funny thing is, I don'tknow if it's funny, but we've
passed it now, so ha ha.
I have done this similar thingto Steven a couple of times,
where I call and I say, hey, weneed to go see this vendor.
Just for the day We'll be upthere and back.
It's one night, it's just onenight, it's so simple.
(17:31):
And we've gotten stuck One time,specifically Four days In New
York City for five days, sosimple.
And we've gotten stuck One time, specifically Four days In New
York City for five days.
And I think we've talked aboutthat in the past.
So I could see it turning intoone of those situations if we
didn't get out of there and Iknew he was serious.
So all day we were at market.
So we got up, went to theairport here in Greenville we
(17:51):
were in Dallas by like 11something, I think.
I think Went to the airporthere in greenville we were in
dallas by like 11 something, Ithink.
I think um went to the market,went to that vendor shop, that
vendor, which was a huge vendor.
That took us like three hours orso then almost four yeah
actually, and then we got to seeone or two other vendors one.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah, we placed one other, one other order.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
One other order and then we had to get back in the
Uber and go back to the airport,but we made it out.
And shout out to our Uberdriver, alice.
That's her name, alice, ifyou're listening to Dallas, we
love you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
She was amazing, so I immediately realized I like her
.
She is a native of Dallas andshe was like y'all have to get
your asses out of here tonight.
And she's like, if you missyour flight, you got to rent a
car.
And I'm like, girl, that's whatI've already said I'm like, so
(18:49):
we got her number, so that's ourDallas lady.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah, so Alice was like when y'all are done, just
call me no before we left.
She's like so we got her number.
So that's our Dallas lady.
Yeah, so Alice was like wheny'all are done, just call me no
before we left.
She's like I'll pick you upright here at this time.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
So she picked us up Nice, big four-wheel drive
suburban Took us to the airportDropped us off.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
So now we have our personal driver now in Dallas.
It's important, that'simportant.
Have our personal driver now indallas.
It's important, that'simportant.
She's like next time y'all arecoming, just call me, I'll pick
you right up at the airport.
It was amazing that worked out.
Yeah, so we did shop thatvendor and everything.
And then, um, so we did that ona wednesday, so we got back
wednesday night, then thursday,then it snowed on Friday.
(19:30):
Then that cleared up.
It was supposed to snow fiveinches, five to seven inches.
It was obviously, as I said atthe time on my stories, a man
who predicted that, because itwas a dusty dusting.
It was a little guy, if you knowwhat I mean.
Hey, little guy.
Yeah it was hey little guy.
(19:50):
So it was a dusting here.
After it screwed up the wholeweek of everybody like, oh, it's
going to snow, but that was.
So we went there on Wednesday,snowed here on Friday, and then
Sunday we went to the Atlantamarket and then we stayed there
nine or 10 days, whatever it was, and did all of our shopping.
So we started with holiday 2025, which we've talked about.
(20:11):
We're very excited.
The other thing that is thebiggest trend at market on
everything doesn't matter.
Doesn't matter, the seasondoesn't matter, what I mean, it
is on everything.
And I think it's funny becauseit kind of goes back to what
(20:33):
Stephen was, you know,complaining about previously.
But bows, bows are oneverything.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Bows are on tumblers, they're on sweaters, clothes,
everything, even cast in likemetal candelabras.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, bows.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
You name it.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Flower pots, bows were embossed in them.
I guess that's kind of what youor cast, like you said, ceramic
pots, and okay, I think I did,I think I did a little.
I might might still have it alittle clip of just a bunch of
things that I saw with bows.
I never completed it so Ididn't post it to instagram.
It might only have like four orfive things, but just to show
(21:21):
you the range, like it was fromeverything, and I'm not a bow
person bows and pearls pearlsare big pearls are big big on
jewelry, on ornaments, on youname it.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, anything, pearl , pearl and bow now I like
pearls.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, they're cute and the bows are cute in the
right place, like we orderedsome actual.
You know how people were tryingto make the pillow bows at
christmas.
We ordered you some that arecorrect, that you can buy in
2025.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
That are in scale and look nice.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Look like a bow.
Nice tails in scale.
We have them from big to small.
But it reminded me I meant totell you this and I think we
kind of talked about it one timebefore you know my stepmom back
in the day how I'd talk she'dget those dollar store red bows
that come off the pack and putall of her tree.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
My aunt did that Tacky Tacky.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Well now, I saw trees like that at market, but they
used a more refined dainty bow.
I don't know how to explain thebow, that and it.
It looked better, but it kindof gave me that.
I was like, oh my gosh, we'regoing back to this.
It was just a tree covered inbows.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah, my aunt did that and she, like my mother's
sister, has the creativity of adoorknob and she would do the
cheap red, the kind you got atlike CVS.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Yeah, the dollar store in the pack on the sheet
of paper and it had the goldlittle twist tie, Even as a kid.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I can remember looking at it going.
That is so ugly and wrong.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
My stepmom would do that and I thought the same
thing I should have known.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
I mean, you know, it's just they would line the
lights in a perfect line aroundthe tree and all the bows were
perfectly spaced.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It just looked, I mean as basic and boring, as you
could get.
Yeah, fluff it up a little, butmine would do just the simple
plain back in the day glass.
You know, know, balls that came12 in a pack or whatever.
What probably red, the mat ormaybe in gold, and then red bows
(23:41):
.
I specifically remember the redbows in the pack and the bows
had like it.
It was almost like sandwichtype bread, type twist type,
yeah, and it wasn't even a realbow.
Like it was just, it was theshape of a bow.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Yeah, little velvet.
Yes, and you got like 12 perpack.
Yes, and they bought like 20packs.
I mean it was.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
It was strong, and then mine would hang candy canes
on the tree.
Yeah, they did that sometimes,but then you couldn't get the
candy cane.
As a kid, don't touch the candycanes.
You couldn't get the candy caneoff the tree.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
I can remember, like in the 80s, maybe 70s, saying to
my mom that tree doesn't lookright, because my mother was
like I know that's how mine wasLike I would be at my mom's
house and the tree would bebeautiful, that's how my mom's
was.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
It was right, it was.
My mom always did fun trees toowhen we were younger.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Pretty.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
And they would be colorful and bright and all kids
and right and right and fun.
And then I would go over to mydad's house and my stepmom's
tree would just be that andtheir tree.
They always got a real tree andit was always like five feet
tall.
It was short and it was as bigaround as a kitchen table.
It was fat but short.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
It was wrong from head to toe and I knew then.
I knew it was wrong then andthis is even worse.
So what my mom's sister didseveral years and this just
screams basic.
They would get the one with theroot ball, which looks so
stupid.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
That we're going to plant out in the yard.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
It looks so stupid.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
None of mine did that , because I'm surprised, but
none of them did that.
I'm like Because I'm surprised,but none of them did that.
I'm like I feel like that'ssomething.
If you want to do that, todecorate one on your porch or
something and then plant it inthe yard, I don't know, and it
looks stupid for years becauseit looked like a Christmas tree.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I mean till it grew out, you know.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Someone's looking out their door right now going off.
Yeah, you know, someone'slooking out their door right now
going off, yeah, but the funnything is, I feel like this was
back in the day before Frazierfirs were the tree.
Yeah, they used to be a pineand they trimmed them and you
couldn't hang anything on them.
No, those needles falling offit was a mess.
(26:11):
Now they're all Frazier fir forthe most part.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Which do look better.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
And those look like a natural tree.
But same girl, same I even knewthen I was like this no, I want
to go home to my pretty treeand you know it's the people and
listen.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
If we're offending y'all, we're sorry, but you know
somebody needed to tell you,it's the people that have zero
creativity that do stuff likethat.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
And that's fine.
But copy somebody but see theydidn't have like Pinterest back
then or Instagram or anythingyou know.
I mean, unless you boughtSouthern Living, but like mom,
she probably never looked at aSouthern Living.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
You had to.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
She needed to.
I know it's true.
Oh my gosh.
And y'all are like y'all aretalking about.
Yeah, we are.
We are and we don't care ifthey're listening.
No, hopefully you are your treelooked like shit, like the rest
(27:25):
of your house.
Yes, I said it.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Oh gosh, you are bad.
Well, I forget, they'rewatching and listening.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Now it could be truth is the truth truth okay back to
market.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Let's, let's, reel it back in yeah how do we get back
so bows, bows on everything wedid.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Order you some appropriate bows we ordered some
things that were cute or pretty.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yeah, picked it out.
You know what we did not see inthe Christmas.
I would just like to point outMushrooms.
No, there wasn't a mushroom tobe found.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
They didn't sell that shit.
And they said we're not.
We're getting rid of theholiday mushrooms.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
The holiday mushrooms that we talked about last year
were not around at all.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
And you know I like some of the gardening, like at
our garden store.
There were some pretty ones,yes, but I'm talking about the
ones that took it to a whole new.
I think I may have ordered afew mushrooms that were really
cute for the garden store thisyear, yeah, but they're not it
was just different.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
It was different than what they were trying to make.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Oh, they were trying to make them like candy cane,
mushroom stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
It was not around this year for sure, and that was
funny.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
And then we shopped lots of gifts we won't us.
I don't really want to get into.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
we can want to get into talking about gifts because
people be listening, but youknow what wasn't around.
Also, that was very hard and Ifeel like this is a staple in
Christmas decor in general and,like we said, things come and go
in popularity, like sometimesthey're trending and sometimes
they're really trending.
(29:12):
You know what I'm saying?
It's like Leopard Leopard isalways trending, but then
sometimes it's really trending,so don't worry about if your
Christmas decor doesn't matchwhat we're talking about yeah,
you gotta do you, you gotta dowhat you like.
But what I did want some of andwe might have gotten a couple of
(29:34):
pieces but was surprisinglymissing from the Christmas
section at Market this time wasgingerbread things.
There was very, very littlegingerbread things and
nutcrackers.
And nutcrackers.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Nutcrackers had their year the past two years were
huge.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
But see, we had to move on from that because you
know Walmart had them lined upand.
Target.
So they tried, you know, tostay ahead and that sort of
thing.
But yeah, nutcrackers were alot less and gingerbread
Gingerbread was a lot less.
Gingerbread and candy yeah, andthe candy look less.
(30:15):
Gingerbread and candy yeah, andthe candy look um, but I feel
like those are staples that youalways see no matter what they
are, people like to have that intheir kitchen.
I feel like yeah, it never goesaway, but it was very much
missing.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Sometimes it's really hot on trend right and then now
it's kind of more on the back,like.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Like, for example, it's different from the pink and
bright colors, whereas thatwill eventually go away.
You won't see it because it'sjust a trend.
Yeah, gingerbread is a part ofChristmas, so to see it so
little this time, that's kind ofdifferent.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
And jewel tones are really popular and jewel tones
are really popular.
What amazes me what I did see alot of is they're really trying
to make like blue, like navyblue and purple happen In
Christmas and I like the colorsand maybe you could mix some of
(31:09):
the balls in, but I just I meanpretty colors, but I just don't
think anybody's going to doreally a.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
So here's the thing I feel like that is such a
specific few people that aregoing to do those colors we
always look at Christmas.
I mean, pink was a specific buteveryone really jumped on that
and liked it.
We did pinks for years Becauseif you have kids or like a girl
or you just wanted bright colors, but these very specific colors
(31:40):
, they're hard to mix in withother colors.
You know, you can say whenyou're being very traditional
with like red and gold, and thenthe next year you can go oh,
I'm going to do red and whiteand maybe some red birds or
something you can like adjustyour look just by sidestepping,
(32:01):
like one time.
But when you get into havingNavy and purple, it's like you
kind of have to start overcompletely as a consumer, you
know.
So those are kind of a hard,hard sell.
Very specific, very, yeah, verymuch so.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
And I kind of see, you know, with home decor, I
kind of see the trends are.
You know they're very similar.
You know, going into home decorYou're getting more color, more
patterns and you're richer yourjewel tones and your printed
(32:41):
fabrics, even printed sofas, andyour chintz flowers.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yeah, it's continued.
It's definitely continued downthe path of what we've seen in
home decor over the last threeyears More and more color,
bolder color, deep, deep, earthy70s still goes back to Ralph
Lauren, the whole Ralph Lauren.
Ralph Lauren, the rich, richcolors are coming in all over
(33:15):
again.
Do you remember back in the daywhen was it Home Depot or
Lowe's came out with the RalphLauren paint and you could?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
you could make it look like leather.
I bought it, yes, in my oldhouse in the hallway that was
Ralph Lauren leather paint.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
We had that in our bathroom at my mom's house I
mean, we did it it did look goodit was a good it was you could
do the drag through, look, or,but it was a whole ralph warren,
you would do.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
You would do a um.
In my hallway I did a base coat, yep, and then you did a glaze.
I did a glaze and then youbuffed it and it ended up
looking like leather.
It was muddle, it was prettyyeah.
But I don't know how that was,and I did that, like I remember
doing the hallway and it wasn'ta big hallway, but it was.
(34:04):
I remember just one Saturdayevening said, oh, I'm going to
do the hallway.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yeah, I mean now, you would never.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I wouldn't just say, oh, I'm just gonna do this
tonight real quick.
I mean, I remember like havingthe tv on peeking around the
corner and doing that wholehallway it was a fun time, um,
but yeah, those colors in home.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
You're seeing lots of bold, lots of green steel.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Lots of plaids in home decor.
Plaids are really hot Pillows.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Velvet steel and, like you said, print printed
fabric, laurel prints.
I even feel like botanicals are, which never go away, but
seeing a lot more botanical,everything fabric in your, your
cool gray, your, your cool gray,and I'm not talking about your
(35:00):
bronze grays, I'm talking yourcool grays, your blue gray yeah,
your blue, grays and whitesgone.
Yeah, and of course certainwhites are always great, like
alabaster, I think is always thestart the start yes, I know,
which makes me I feel like mydining room kitchen area has
(35:22):
that kind of starky blue itreally does, so I think I'm
gonna have to redo.
I don't think I don't, but Igotta get this first room redone
that you're gonna have have tohelp me paint.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Yes, I said I would the guest room.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
You know I've been going to redo it for well.
We've been here eight years,almost nine years, but really
going to redo it for four.
And then last year, when wewere at the beach, I thought I
was going to get someone topaint.
And then they were I mean, it'snot even that massive of a room
and they wanted what was itlike?
$7,000?
.
This is ridiculous.
I'm not paying that.
It will sit there until I gettired enough to paint.
(35:55):
See, the problem is I hatepainting.
Daniel even said he would paint.
He's like just go get the paint,so we're just going to do it.
I offered Group thing yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
I mean I enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
I know I find that shocking that you like painting
because it's so tedious.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
But you like hanging wallpaper, I hate it.
That's true.
I mean, we're all different.
Like you like hanging wallpaper, I hate it.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
It's true, it's a differentkind of tedious.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
But I don't know.
Yeah, everyone's different.
Yeah, I mean wallpaper.
Speaker 2 (36:33):
just, it may be because you know my OCD and
maybe that would take me to awhole new level and I feel like
painting is a lot easier for meto control yeah.
Maybe, so, Because you know Ican paint, for whatever reason.
I can paint a solid straightline, I can cut in.
(36:54):
I just get the feel yeah.
But you know, I bought my firsthouse I was young, I was 22.
And broke is a joke and thepainter for the whole house,
inside and out, was me.
(37:14):
That's how you do things whenyou're young and I hated it and
I went through all the differentlittle things you know.
I bought the sprayers, rentedthe sprayers and what I really
ended up knowing is I just likea good brush and a roller.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
You know that's the best way to paint in a house.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
It is Because you know you might as well just do
it, roll it and brush it Roll it.
I think Daniel, he's like oh, Ibought a sprayer and I'm like
we can't be spraying up in thehouse.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Well, and you spend so much time taping up and
trying to fix it and then youmiss that Like you tape over and
you can see a line.
No, it's easier, just to paint.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
It's true.
It's true.
What other trends?
Speaker 2 (38:08):
do?
We see A lot more antiques?
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Oh yes.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Yes, which I'm all about.
It's a very layered and curatedlook.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
For a couple of years now, lots more antiques being
worked on.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
I personally have never gotten away from that
because I've always liked mixingantiques.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Well, that's another one of those things.
Antiques are always their owntrend, or they're really, really
, really on trend.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
And now they're really, really, really and
taxidermy and mounts andanything like that.
Oh, you know, there's some ofthose people don't like that.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
I don't like that you killed it.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
I have certain friends I won't call them out,
because I do like them and Irespect them oh, you do.
Well, I mean I want to slapthem over the ass, but they'll
come in and go.
I can't look and do this number.
I'm like Covering their face.
Those deer died so many yearsago.
Chill out.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
They're the ones eating them and killing them.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Well, these friends are talking.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Whatever, whatever.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
They look good on my wall.
They do look good on your walland warm walls and you know, and
that's kind of just warm walls.
So and I would say, if you'relike, well, I like gray, well,
use gray, there are warm grays.
There are grays with green orbrown or bronze undertones Right
(39:37):
, those are great.
They're warm, they're cozy 'recozy, right?
You know, I'm looking at yourfile cabinets over there.
That is a great gray or like umthe.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
You know we use urbane bronze a lot which is a
great moody dark color.
But the one that's on there,the felted wool, is the lighter
version, much lighter, but it'sa warm, gray muddy muddy colors
yes, muddy, you went out and gotsome dirt mixed it in.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Yeah, it's the cool colors that are not as, yeah,
you're icy gray.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
You're stark.
White, yeah, but gray still.
You'll hear people saying oh'sout.
It's not, gray is out, it's theblue, cold gray that is out.
So make sure you have a warmgray and shiplap is out.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Everything you read, everything you'll see.
Having said that, it alsodepends on how you use it.
It also depends on how you useit.
I think a lot of people have intheir mind all shiplap has to
be like farmhouse.
Look, we have one wall in ourbeach cottage.
(40:55):
That's shiplap.
To me it doesn't even lookshiplap it looks, coastal it
looks very coastal.
It's all how you use it.
You know, some people might sayyour walls in your living room
are shiplap.
They're really not.
They're actually concrete hardyplank but they're textured,
(41:15):
yeah, so it's not the same.
Look Right and don't get caughtup in that Like.
If you have a shiplap wall,don't be like oh my God, I'm out
of stock.
No, just you know change.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
The color, the color.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Make it warmer, yeah, or do something different, or,
you know, caulk the cracks, makeit less obvious yeah, you know
there's ways to work around allof it, right, I don't ever get
too caught up on trends anyway.
Yeah, I kind of do.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
I mean it has to be pretty extreme, like a trend,
like shiplap there's so manyhouses with shiplap in there.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
It ain't going away.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
That is not going away and you don't have to go
rip your shiplap in there.
It ain't going away, that isnot going away and you don't
have to go rip your shiplap out.
But it's like our house, likeour dining room, looks most, I
would say, like shiplap, I guesskind of.
I mean, it's just slacks.
But our house was built in the90s and they built it that way,
yeah, and when we moved in, itwas a you know a dark color,
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which?
Speaker 2 (42:19):
looks great.
It's really not shiplap.
Yeah, this is not, honestly, alot of it was just reclaimed
wood Right, it was using old tobuild new.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
And I'm glad they did that.
Yeah, it's not cookie cutter atall, so you don't have to go oh
my gosh, it's how you style,it's the overall style.
It's the overall style.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
It's not the paneling of 1978.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Right, you know.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Yeah, and even with paneling like we have.
Our condos at Hilton Head werebuilt in 1981.
We have paneling Mm-hmm and youknow you can caulk and paint
paneling and it's great.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
Yeah, some of mine has like a smear over it.
It gives it texture and thensome rooms has it.
You work around it, you just doit.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
You work around it.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
I really hate.
That's one thing I hate withsocial media, I mean and we're
sitting here talking abouttrends too, but I hate when
people get on there and they'reso adamant Like shiplap is gone
and get it out, and I'm like no,let's not, you got to work, you
got to be, you got to berealistic.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
And you know everybody can't afford to do
that.
Speaker 1 (43:33):
So what can you do to work around the need to do that
?
What are you going to do nextmonth?
Something else is out.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
But if you're like, oh, I don't want to see the you
know the spaces that you caulkit.
Yeah, oh, I don't want whitebecause I don't want to draw
attention to it, paint it awarmer color, right, like it's
not an end, all be all.
And you can always caulk it inwallpaper too.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Right and it's still very, very on trend.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
We talked about like modern cottage look, I would say
that's definitely where it didcontinue, and wallpaper is
continuing just to be booming.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
I'm kind of surprised about wallpaper.
Me too, I love wallpaper.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
But the good kind.
The reason, I think, the reasonit has stuck around longer is
because the quality has changed.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Because when we opened the home store back in
2013, wallpaper was juststarting to come back.
I mean, we've been sellingwallpaper since then and it has
grown in popularity, but Ithought it would be a quicker
turnaround trend, but it isgetting bigger and bigger and
(44:47):
bigger.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
It's because of the quality of the paper.
You can actually get it off thewall without tearing your house
down.
Yeah, I haven't tried to getany of mine down yet, but you
know that 70s and 80s paper itwas like super glued.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
Well, it was also the material that it was.
It became part of the wall.
That's what I mean, it was justthe glue, just it was there,
yeah, and so it is easier to getoff now.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
So people had that hatred of that paper and it was
legit.
Yeah, I can remember a littlepiece coming off.
Now you can take it off.
I think it's just technology,right.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
And see it took a whole like couple of generations
of people to forget about howhard it was to get off, because
if you're an older listeneryou're probably like I'm not
wallpaper and shit you stillhave PTSD.
Speaker 2 (45:39):
Yeah, and I had a little bit of it because you
know my dad's a contractor, soit was drilled into my head for
many years no paper, no paper nopaper.
Yeah, and I didn't have paperin my other homes but in this
one I decided to paper.
Two bathrooms, yeah, which isgood.
(46:00):
Yeah, they're small and I'mlike they're.
You know, doesn't break thebank to change it.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:06):
And so that's like here I have this wall behind
this paper, which is just onewall, and then I have our, your
hallway, our hallway, and thenthe powder room.
That's it.
Yeah, you know what I did inthe powder room, though, because
it's small and well, it was all.
It wasn't paneling, it wasbeadboard, and then it had a, I
(46:27):
think had a center.
Yeah, it's still there, it has a, you know a chair rail, a chair
rail, and it was beadboard andbeadboard on the top.
So I painted the bottom half isblack and then I wallpapered
the top half.
But I went and got the really,really thin.
It's like board, it's in the,it's comes in sheet like a four
(46:48):
by eight, but it's almost likeit's one step from cardboard.
Speaker 2 (46:52):
Yeah, you know it's like a reed.
Speaker 1 (46:54):
Yeah, it's so thin yeah, and I've covered the walls
in that, because I was like, ifI want this wallpaper down, I
can just rip this board off andit'll be gone.
Oh, that's what I did in thebathroom.
And I like that, but I neededto do any way to cover up
because I couldn't put thewallpaper on the beadboard.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
I like that paper down there.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
Yeah, I was just like one day I might want the
beadboard back or something youmight.
You might want somethingdifferent, so that's what I did
there.
Oh, you thirsty over there.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Yeah, I have to drink my water.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
Oh, you gotta stay hydrated, that's right.
Gotta stay hydrated with mybottle that blinks when I drink
water, which I turned you on tothat bottle.
I need to get back on that aswell, because it does help you
drink more.
He has this bottle.
Speaker 2 (47:38):
I'm so addicted to them.
Dylan's mom bought me a sparebecause you know I break them
every couple years.
You know you drop it one toomany times.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
So, tina, at Tamumi's House we Go is the one who
originally where I found outabout these?
Is it a hydro?
What's it called Hydrate Spark,hydrate Spark?
And so I got one and then yougot them and you've stuck with
yours.
I broke mine, but it is cool.
If you're maybe, in 2025,wanting to drink more water as
(48:10):
your goal, this bottle waterbottle.
You fill it up and it has anapp that connects to your phone
and it tracks how much you drinkthrough the day.
It really, really helps.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
Because I was never a water drinker.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Right, and if you get an OCD type person like Steven,
it becomes a game, because itflashes like, oh, you need to
drink more.
Or when you drink enough, itflashes like you did it.
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
And I would if I do not have my bottle.
I do not drink, I know, and sothat's what.
So for, and I would if I do nothave my bottle.
I do not drink the water, andso that's what.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
So for a while I carried mine around with nothing
.
It didn't work because Idropped it or whatever too many
times and I would still drink,but I've gotten really bad.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
Highly highly recommended.
It's called Hydrate Spark, it'sH-I-D-R-A-T-E Spark Hydrate
Spark and they have twodifferent types of bottles in
two different sizes.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
I'll put a picture of it.
In our new members-onlycommunity with a link to it, we
don't get anything from it.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
We should see if we can.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
We should Do they have an affiliate link we should
, I'll have to look, but no,we'll put it in the notes if you
want to see it.
Speaker 2 (49:22):
I link.
We should.
I'll have to look.
But no, we'll put it in thenotes.
But it's I'm on my fourth orfifth one in five years, so I go
through one, about one a yearand they're like 69 bucks.
Speaker 1 (49:30):
Well worth the money right it is, I need to get a new
one.
So when I publish this and putthe link in there, I'm going to
order me a new one becauseBecause it does give you the
challenge of like oh, I got todrink more water.
It does.
Honestly, if you are like wetalked about I don't know if it
was this episode or the onebefore this it's time for me to
(49:53):
lose weight.
I've gained 20 pounds.
Water helps you lose weight somuch quicker.
Yeah, you're not eating.
But, something about it, justflushes you out too it does, so
I got to get me one more ofthose.
Well, I feel like this is maybea little bit quicker of an
episode, I don't know, but wegot to wrap it up because we got
(50:15):
to pull this baby over.
I feel like now that they canwatch, us we should just sit in
our car and film this.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
You know like there's a steering wheel.
I wish it worked.
I wish it was.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
It's time to pull this baby over because we have
to go.
It's Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
We have to go to our second shift job.
Speaker 1 (50:33):
We got to go do a live sale, so you know what that
means.
You got to join us inside theNested Fig app.
We're typically live for theNew Year Sunday, tuesdays and
Thursdays, although when thisepisode comes out, I'll be at
the beach and you'll be doing alive, so I don't know what the
schedule will be.
Speaker 2 (50:55):
We're doing a couple of lives, so when you're gone
you're leaving.
On Sunday, we're going to do alive Tuesday night.
That's Valentine's week.
You're going to do a liveThursday night because I'm going
to be up to my eyeballs inflowers.
Speaker 1 (51:12):
And then don't you like how I've set up, that I go
out of town on Valentine's?
Speaker 2 (51:17):
now, you know it doesn't matter to me because I
enjoy, like I love working atthe garden store on Valentine's
and Mother's Day.
It's just I really do like it,so it doesn't matter to me.
Yeah, I mean it doesn't make adifference.
Speaker 1 (51:33):
And they honestly don't need.
Speaker 2 (51:35):
They don't need two cooks in the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
They don't, because we get bossy and bitchy.
Yeah, I mean, you know what I'msaying.
Yeah, they like for us to leavethem alone.
I don't blame them.
Speaker 2 (51:44):
And then I'm going to do one another Dylan and I will
do one Sunday night and thenwe're going to Atlanta Monday
and we're going to do a coupleof lives from Atlanta with
Amanda.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
Yeah, it's going to be fun while I'm gone.
And I'll do live, like you said, from.
I'll take samples and do livesfrom the beach house.
That's always fun.
I like doing that too.
Keeps it mixed mixing it up.
Mix and match.
So we got to sign off so thatwe can go do our job, go do a
live sale.
Second shift.
I mean, we have so many good newthings at the Nested Fig.
(52:21):
If you haven't shopped with usthis year yet, we've talked
about it on the live sales Atthe end of last year we tried to
sell off as much of ourwarehouse as we could.
Speaker 2 (52:34):
We get bored.
Speaker 1 (52:35):
We want fresh, because we were like we want
fresh and we did it Like I meanwe had like the shelves were
like Vire, empty, empty.
So I would say about 90% of ourinventory is brand new
inventory.
So we have amazing new thingsand I love it.
That's what I was going to say.
So I love it.
I get so excited because we'regoing to go do a box opening and
(52:57):
I'm like I can't wait to openthe new things and we're getting
Easter in and spring.
It's just so much fun.
So go check out the nested figas well, Remember?
Maybe you started listeninghalfway through the episode or
whatnot?
Go to our website for thepodcast, which is
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