When Did Perfect Homes Get So Boring

Cookie-cutter is losing its grip, and we are honestly relieved. We’re catching up the only way we know how with rodeo stories, a mechanical bull detour, and some unfiltered truth about what’s been going on in real life lately, including Barbara’s brief and intense run-in with GLP-1 weight loss injections and what it taught us about side effects, appetite, muscle, and the mental game behind “quick fixes.”

From there, we pivot into spring 2026 home decor trends and what we’re seeing in real estate and interior design right now. The big theme is story-driven homes: personal collections, antiques, and pieces that look like they’ve lived a life before they found you. Round Top comes up for a reason, because it’s a masterclass in vintage furniture, old-world details, and the kind of patina you cannot fake with mass-produced decor. We talk about mixing eras on purpose, using unique glassware and vintage lighting, and building rooms that reflect personality instead of a catalog.

We also dig into the cozier side of design: nooks, darker mood moments, color choices that feel grounded, and why mid-century and 60s to 80s homes keep winning hearts. And yes, we go there on authenticity, from AI-generated art that looks almost right to filters that make people unrecognizable. The goal is the same as good design: feel at home in what’s real. If you enjoyed this, subscribe, share the episode with a friend who loves design, and leave a review so more people can find us.

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Transcript

Welcome And Spring Catch-Up

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Welcome to the House Next Door. With Barbara Gillio. And Anthony Harris. Where real estate meets reality.

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Welcome back to the House Next Door.

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Yes, I'm Barbara Gillio.

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And I'm Anthony Harris.

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And we're also part of the House Next Door Real Estate Group.

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Woo! Woo!

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Never get tired of saying that.

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Ten years later.

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Ten years later. Uh, so today's episode is season two, episode three. We're kind of into spring now. We're kind of into 2000.

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The weather's been amazing.

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2020 sucks. I couldn't remember what year we're in. Um, so let's talk about springing into trends for 2026, which we love trends and we love decor. So this is an ongoing, like we've already talked about this in season one, um, but we will talk about trends and decor and design.

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And controversial con uh concepts.

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And controversial concepts and design. We will talk about this will be a reoccurring thing because we've both we like the drama. We love it so much. We just we love um we love design.

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Yes.

Rodeo Nights And Mechanical Bull Stories

SPEAKER_01 1:09

It is our thing. Even if we're not always good at it. We pretend. And we have people we know who are good at it. Exactly. Or we know how to use chat. We oh chat GPT, our best friend. Uh-huh. So, um, so first of all, I want to catch up with Anthony. Yeah. Because Anthony is in his um, I'm loving this for him. He's in his rodeo phase. Yes. Which I think is very spring to be in your rodeo phase.

SPEAKER_03 1:35

Because it starts in February, or at least in our area. Um I think San Antonio is probably the first big one. And then um Austin and then Houston. Yeah. So um I've been going to San Antonio, it's about to well, it ended. Um, and the Austin rodeo is about to start. So um I went two times to San Antonio Rodeo.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

I have a little group of friends that we go, they're season pass holders, so we go and he sends me these pictures of him just like selfies having fun at the rodeo while I'm while I'm sitting watching Housewives, the Traders at home, bored. No. I'm like, Anthony has so much energy.

SPEAKER_03 2:16

Um so uh so yeah, we've been we went to San Antonio Rodeo, we're gonna go to the Austin Rodeo.

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And okay, it doesn't stop there. So he decided to go out with friends the other night.

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You went country dancing. You went country dancing breaks in theater.

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Okay, okay. See, you went out, you went country dancing, and we had a blast and lots of alcohol. And you rode a a a saddle.

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Yep. So we wanted they have a mechanical bull. Yeah. And we weren't I wanted to ride it, but because it was too cold outside. Oh, was it um yeah, and so they didn't have it set up.

SPEAKER_01 2:51

Yeah, one time and Bang Camp. It's my time, Bang Camp. Um but it it's kind of a similar story. Not really, no, what am I saying? Never mind.

SPEAKER_03 3:03

Um we're unhinged again.

SPEAKER_01 3:05

When I was at when I was in my uh how I don't know, it was kind of like when you get divorced, you go through this weird period where you go out a lot when you don't have your kids. Because it's like you just I don't know, you don't know what else.

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You're depressed and you're trying to find somebody.

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You have like divorced friends, and you know, so Craig and I were just dating. It was after I'd been divorced, and we were going out doing things that I normally don't do. Um, and like and riding saddles. And Gabe was not with me, he was with his dad. And it wasn't it was my weekend. And um we went to this bar called Shooters in Cedar Park, and I do believe it's still there. You could smoke inside. Okay, and this was at the time when I smoked because that's what you know, that's what cool divorce do. And oh, they had this mechanical bowl. So I got on the mechanical, I got on the back of the okay, so there was that right. No, so no, I was like piggybacking with somebody else. So there was another girl in front, and I was holding on to her waist behind her, and we were riding the mechanical bowl. Okay. I'm just gonna say a couple of things about this situation, just just the physics of it. So the other girl was much larger than me in height, stra, you know, stra can why can't I say stretcher, stature, stature? I can't talk. Anyway, she I'm uh I'm sure she was tall and she was strong and she was big. She was a big girl compared to me, in not in terms of like overweight, just like hefty. She, yeah, she could go work the carts, you know, in the fields. Unlike me, I'm like, oh, I'm withering away. Um because also I was like, that was when I was really skinny because you know I was stressed and smoking and divorced and had to look hot.

SPEAKER_02 4:46

Uh now now we now we go to the the weight loss injections.

SPEAKER_01 4:51

Oh, yeah, we'll get to that. So I'm hanging on to this this woman, and then they start doing the thing, and we do a couple turns, and then I just like fly off. Like I just get air. I just like and they had it like we kept going on and doing it over and over, and people had all their cameras out.

SPEAKER_03 5:09

And how drunk were you?

SPEAKER_01 5:10

Oh, I it makes it even more fun. But it was it was uh it's humiliating because she was like staying on, and I just kept like fleeing.

SPEAKER_03 5:18

Well, you were also on the back of the bowl.

SPEAKER_01 5:19

Yeah, I just kept sliding off that thing and flying. Because she was like, Oh, where'd that gnat go that was on me? Where'd she go? It was awful. Those are days I I never want to remember those days. They're embarrassing. So why not talk about them on my podcast?

SPEAKER_03 5:36

So everybody gets to hear.

SPEAKER_01 5:38

So I yeah, I had a rodeo phase. Yeah. Because I have to make it about me. Yeah, but he you sent me that picture of you on the saddle, and it was so fun. Yeah.

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Yeah, we had so much fun. We all had fun. Um, and just a I don't want to take too much time. Yeah.

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Yeah. We had to get into our trends.

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One of my friends, um, she sh so last time we went out was like 10 years ago.

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Wow.

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And like as a friend group, like all of us. Yeah. And we all went to high school together and all that. And so the last time we went out, we went to San Antonio, got a room, like a hotel room, and we were gonna go out that night and just have fun. And she forgot her ID.

SPEAKER_01 6:17

Oh, and so we couldn't go anywhere. In your world, you're young enough for that matter.

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Yep.

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My woman for that matter. They're not asking for anything.

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So So we we couldn't go out that night. So I was teasing her on the way to the the place. I was like, you got your ID, right? And she's like, ha ha, so funny. Yeah, I have it, blah, blah, blah. So we get to the place, she's like, Where's my ID? I don't have nope, it was in San Antonio.

GLP-1 Shots And Real Talk

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Did they let you in anywhere though? Yeah, because now you're older. Yeah. Okay, one more thing before we get to our trends, because I gotta talk about this too. And okay, so we were talking about being, you know, thinner in in our younger days. So I know everybody is, you know, there's this big wave of um taking, you know, the GLP one injections, right? So over the break, I decided to to do that.

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And how long did you last? Let's tell everybody.

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I lasted one injection.

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Um you lasted like two hours because I'm over this.

SPEAKER_01 7:21

It's like it's like a week. You're on like Mr. Toad's ride for a week. But it was crazy.

SPEAKER_03 7:26

Every day Barbara would tell me.

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Yes. And so, you know, I'm in periominopause and I'm older, and it's like it's so hard to not just be like a fluffy lady sometimes. And so I was like, I just want something. And so my, you know, I know my friends do it, my mom has tried it, you know, and they've all looked great. So I'm like, okay, I wanna, I wanna try. And do you do you wanna try? I wanted to try. And so I ended up getting very, very ill. I like not, I know you get nauseous and stuff, and I microdosed, I did a tiny, tiny amount. And by the way, I did not get these legitimately. This was the doctor did not prescribe me any of this. This was from my mother's stash. Okay. So it was totally irresponsible of me. And we're microdosing that. My sister's helping, my mom's helping. And I get so I mean, we're talking nauseous beyond nauseous for a week. Yeah, pretty much for a whole and no appetite. It took me almost three weeks to get my appetite back. It was the weirdest feeling ever to just not be hungry. And I remember Anthony and I were working at the time, and he's like, Let's go to lunch. I'm like, I had a freaking tic-tac this morning. I'm good for like seven days.

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That's how I felt.

SPEAKER_01 8:42

And I did lose eight pounds, but I didn't look good.

SPEAKER_03 8:46

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 8:46

Um, I just we'll take it. I like when I lose eight pounds doing Pilates and yoga, I look good. When I left eight lost eight pounds doing that, I just looked, I don't know. I didn't look good.

SPEAKER_03 8:57

When apparently there's a new trend.

SPEAKER_01 8:58

What?

SPEAKER_03 8:59

Um when you take the shot, it makes your breast saggy or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 9:04

Oh, well, because great, a 50-year-old woman needs help with that.

SPEAKER_03 9:08

So that's the spring twin trend.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

That's the spring trend. Is yeah, well, this is on on par for spring trends. So for me, it's because you gotta have that summer body. Yeah, it didn't work for me, and it also triggered my um I it struggled with eating disorders, not anymore, uh obviously. But um in in my past, I from the time I was about 15 to probably about 40, I struggled with them. And so it really also ignited that where you get that reward of seeing the scale going down, and so you chase that high. And then on top of like just not being hungry, and then when you start to eat again, like weirding out, I just you go down a rabbit hole. And so it was, and then I found out my muscle mass is really, really good. And so I'm like, I don't, I don't want to do that. I want to protect my muscle mass, be strong, eat my food, and be happy. But I know it works so well for people, and it's been a lifesaver, and I respect that journey.

SPEAKER_03 10:05

But for me, it was not fun, it was not a good journey. It was a hard, I mean, it was it was a short journey.

SPEAKER_01 10:12

It was yeah, but it was like I was doing weird stuff that I like that that was coming off the heels of my my um Charmin allergic reaction. And then this, it's like uh it's enough. No more changes.

SPEAKER_03 10:23

Okay, so let's springing into the trends.

SPEAKER_01 10:26

Let's get into our trends. Um, and we talked about this before. Yes, but um it's spring show is going on at um What is Spring Show for the people that don't know? Yeah, so Round Top, which is about an hour from Smithville, where I am, and it is one of the largest antique shows in North America. And it's crazy because it's like thousands of people, right? It's just in our backyard.

SPEAKER_03 10:50

And it's just yeah, a cowfield.

SPEAKER_01 10:51

Yeah, I think it's oh I love Round Top. It's beautiful. I go in the off season all the time. The um Ellis Motel is a great place to get drinks. You can't actually Did I say El Motel? Um you can't stay there. It's just a bar. Oh, and it's so cool.

SPEAKER_03 11:05

Have you been to Pie H uh Haven?

SPEAKER_01 11:07

Yes. Yeah, yes.

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And so I mean one of my friends work there in high school.

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There's so it's such a cute little town that there's a lot going on besides just show, but the antique show is one of the biggest in North America. And you just it's miles and miles of antique vendors and storage units and all big buildings just full of so many cool things, really cool things. And so um, so I go, of course, because I am addicted to antiques, it's a problem. And I'm meeting one of my friends who's a designer, um, and we're gonna go through show together. And I've never gone through show with an interior designer before, so this is gonna be so fun. She's like, I call her my drug dealer in some ways, and I again don't want to be disparaging to any like, you know, I'm trying to be so like I'm trying to be so PC. Do we say PC or just woke? I don't know, but I'm trying not to offend anyone and I might as well just offend people. But um, she is my drug dealer because she's an interior designer, and everything that she shows me, I'm like, I need, I need um that's why your house has been redecorated four times in the last two months. I redecorate every week because it's fun. Um, it's a problem. So anyway, she's going to show with me. So I'm very excited, but she was telling me a lot of these trends because she goes up to Dallas and she has a store and she buys all these wonderful things. So she's really in the know and she designs homes too. And so the biggest thing is she was so excited to tell me this because she's like, Barbara, your stuff, your style is in right now. It's all about I agree with that. It's all about personal collections in story-driven homes, unique story-driven homes. So instead of this stark kind of model home, everything matches, you know.

SPEAKER_03 12:53

The bedroom set from rooms to go.

SPEAKER_01 12:55

Yeah, which I have a bedroom set from rooms to go, great pricing. Um, but I threw in antiques. Um, but it's instead of having the matchy matchy, like we have to have this piece match and this piece match, and the you know, the artwork matches. Now it's all about the things that you love and collecting the things that you love and putting that story out in your house. Yep. So it completely reflect reflects a personal space.

SPEAKER_03 13:20

And and I think I see that trend with the younger buyers or people too. Like my friends, so me and Auburn, we we go antique shopping all the time now. I love that. And and there's some really cool homey things that we found. Like me and Barbara went and um I drag them antique. You don't drag me. I I willingly jump into the car. I start the car for you. Um and like one of the things was an old Crown Royal bottle. Yeah, and it's um just a cool little yeah, it's just a really cool um statement piece.

SPEAKER_01 13:56

Well, yeah, and it has like history. I always say like some things, I can feel them, like I can feel the energy vibrating off of them, and I could almost like envision them in their original form. You know, so I got this really cool. I've been chasing um uh mail um as in US mail MA.

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Like email, like email.

SPEAKER_01 14:20

And so there's like my Gmail account. It's like post office memorabilia, right? And so I've gotten some really cool things from uh like a money order door that's operable with a drawer. It's in my in my bedroom. And we're building it up to a table, and it has a drawer that has just little coin things because it was before paper money. Yeah, and it dates back to um 1900. Wow. I think it was it might even be late 1800s. Uh so cool. And every time I look at it, it even has like the operable window that still works. I think, oh my gosh, like how many people stood in front of that and and had mail orders and you know, like we were talking about that the money orders, not mail orders.

SPEAKER_03 15:02

That's a different thing. That's the Sears catalog. Sears Robux or OnlyFans. But we were talking about that the other day when you were in St. Marcus, um, because Bash Trop and St. Marcus have a really cool old downtown that they've preserved really well. Um and you still see that. Like in Bash Trop, they have an old bank that has the um the vault still there and you can and they have the registry of how much money was in each person's account. It's really cool.

SPEAKER_01 15:31

It's so cool to see that. And um, I was looking at commercial buildings because a kind of side project, I'm thinking about investing in commercial buildings, but I want to I want them to be historic and in um you know, Smithville or Bastro, and and uh have a you know support a local presence, of course, and redo those and you know lease them out to people who want to do local local businesses. Um and man, you go into these old buildings and some of them have like all the records of the building and every it's so cool. And they have the original like furniture and light fixtures. Of course, all has to be redo redone because it's cash is on fire. It's knob and tube wiring, right?

SPEAKER_03 16:15

But it's so cool to see these old papers and these old display cases, and a lot of the at least in my experience, a lot of the houses in Bastrop haven't really transferred to ownership that much. No, no, and you can literally go back five.

SPEAKER_01 16:30

Same with these commercial buildings, like people hold on to them. And so these back to our trends. Um we're trending away from our stories pieces, things that mean something to you, that say a collective, a story. I think all very important.

SPEAKER_03 16:48

I think for my generation, it's the uniqueness because we're so drowned in materials that you can go find at Target. TJ Maxx, the the mass production. Yeah, um, like the fast fashion. It's that, but houses.

SPEAKER_00 17:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:00

And it's like, okay, we've seen that at Home Goods like a hundred times.

SPEAKER_01 17:04

And now it's so cool to see young people wanting to collect things and antique. I went to see, I went up to Baylor University to with my my girlfriend, and she her daughter's at a sorority, and we met we were seeing a production of her doing something with her sorority. And afterwards, we the next day we went antiquing. And she's like, Oh, these are all the cool antique. And she's like 20 and she's collecting like she wants silver platters and little teacups and china, and I'm like, Pyrex. So yeah, you go be careful about some of that because it's got lead in it. But interesting. Yeah. Like the cornyware. But anyway, um, I was like, my my little old lady antique car was so happy because that's how I was when I was younger, but that wasn't really the norm when I was in a when I was young.

SPEAKER_03 17:54

I would go to estate sales with my grandma and yard sales, and we'd go get that interesting stuff.

Cozy Nooks Color And Real Art

SPEAKER_01 17:59

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's so cool to see that trending. And cozy spaces. That was the other thing. Cozy nooks, creating like a little dark, moody moment with painted doors, and you know, we already talked about color drenching. Are you coming on board to the color drenching world? Okay. Not really, but uh creating these nice, cozy spaces, like taking, let's say, like a little nook under your staircase and making it a little library or a little office, I've seen.

SPEAKER_03 18:35

Yeah, like a closet, like a linen closet at the very front. So the big wide open spaces, they're still great, but trending is also some more compartmentalized nooks and rooms where the kitchen isn't maybe necessarily flowing into the um something that I've seen recent more recent, like is people loving the 60s to 80s homes.

SPEAKER_01 19:02

Yeah, we talked about that.

SPEAKER_03 19:04

And um, I just had a client that I showed this last weekend, and they own a house in downtown Austin, and just I'm sure it's modern, I'm not sure, but yeah, it probably is. Um, but they're looking for a mid-century. They're they want to get out of the city, they're downsizing, and that's their aesthetic.

SPEAKER_01 19:23

And it's so cool um to see these old things have homes again in a younger generation.

SPEAKER_03 19:30

Could you imagine in fifty years are crap?

SPEAKER_01 19:32

I know.

SPEAKER_03 19:33

It's not it's not the same.

SPEAKER_01 19:35

It's not the same. It won't be. It won't be.

SPEAKER_03 19:37

It probably won't even last 50 years.

SPEAKER_01 19:38

I know. I have some pieces that are hundreds of years old.

SPEAKER_03 19:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

And you know, my parents collect and they have some really cool art. They have some stuff from Egypt. I mean, they have some old stuff.

SPEAKER_03 19:50

And that's another thing too that I think our gener my generation is liking is unique art. And it doesn't have to be a famous artist, but just that unique print or or art piece that's not sold at home goods, not created using AI. Have you heard about that? No. So the A so there's art at home or at these home stores that is created using AI, and you know how it screws up your hands and stuff. So when you start looking closely, you can see the hands are all messed up.

SPEAKER_01 20:19

Like seven finger. This what was the the seven-fingered man or the six-fingered man from Princess Pride?

SPEAKER_03 20:28

So I think I think even art pieces are changing.

SPEAKER_01 20:31

Yeah. I do too. And um, although, you know, back to AI. Love and hate AI. She's my friend, she's not my friend.

SPEAKER_03 20:42

Um, but she's your friend that gets on your nerves.

SPEAKER_01 20:44

But w and you're talking about photos with AI. So I I did some, I do some where um AI turned this picture into like a Norman Rockwell painting, and it looks kind of cool and whatever, and it still kind of looks like me, but it's a painting. Um, but I am so sorry, this is a total segue. I am so over the face tuning and the the filters.

SPEAKER_03 21:08

The filters.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

Yeah. It's like, okay, I see I saw you last week. And you didn't have seven.

SPEAKER_03 21:16

Do you remember? Do you remember uh the end of last year where everybody was doing the Christmas photos with the biggest?

SPEAKER_01 21:20

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:21

You're like, okay, Stacey. You gained 50 pounds since that.

SPEAKER_01 21:27

Stop. You're mean. But it's true. It's like like you're pretty in where you are in life. Stop trying to look like a Kardashian or something. And it's it means it's just a filter.

SPEAKER_03 21:38

The only person that can get away with that is Dolly Parton.

SPEAKER_01 21:41

I mean, she embraces it. Well, and it's like when somebody meets you, they're gonna be like, Oh shit. And it's not like you're rough, but you know, when you make yourself look like I don't know, your face is like a marshmallow glow, and then they see you in person, like oh it's like the real turf.

SPEAKER_03 22:00

Headshots that they haven't done in 10 years. And then when you meet them, you're like, oh, you look totally different.

SPEAKER_01 22:05

Yeah, you don't look like that. And I'm like, I am not my most flattering self, but you know, I'm not 20. Yep. That's okay. But anyway, back to trends. Our trends.

SPEAKER_03 22:15

Our trend is that we get off trend.

SPEAKER_01 22:17

It is. And but AI and face tuning is a non-interior design trend, but it is a trend. And I think it's one that needs to definitely pull back these days because it's overused. I want to see people being authentic, even if it's, you know, I actually appreciate it and respect it more when um when they are authentic. You know, your your imperfections are perfection. Yep. In my mind. And that's okay, I'm gonna be cheesy and I'm gonna loop it back to the houses because there are little antiques that we get. They're scratched, they're weird colors, they're cracked. Like I I have an antique clock that is held together by every piece of gorilla glue. But I love it. I don't care. I don't care that I see the cracks and everything. That's what makes it so authentic and cool and unique. Our little bodies and humans were like that too. Stop trying to look like a lizard or something. I don't know. Like, no, it's not a lizard, but I don't know, a marshmallow.

SPEAKER_03 23:14

I like going to the antique stores and seeing how to stop. Like, I bought sconces. Sconces, right? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:21

Scones, you bought scones.

SPEAKER_03 23:24

Uncivilized. Um, so I bought sconces, but I would have never went to the store and looked for sconces. And like that's not even a 2020 thing.

SPEAKER_01 23:33

It well, no, it's not. But that's a 2005 thing, yeah for sure. And also a 1900s thing.

SPEAKER_03 23:40

And I love them. I love the sconces. And I love that color is coming back. I love green.

SPEAKER_01 23:45

Green and moody and dark and going back beige if you do it right.

SPEAKER_03 23:50

Going back to like interior trends, also glassware.

SPEAKER_01 23:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:54

I think glassware is going backwards as well.

SPEAKER_01 23:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:57

Um, getting those unique depression type glass patterns and um the greens and the pinks and the yellows.

Porches Native Yards And Bee Gardens

SPEAKER_01 24:06

And some of the best places to go finding antiques in my particular area, which is um Bathshop Smithville, that's my home base. Um, man, it's such a it's just a hotbed for stuff like that. And um so old world antiques in LaGrange, shout out to them. Um, because I go there like once a week and just peruse their stuff. They have amazing stuff. They're at show. Broadway Paul's in Page, Texas, he's a master picker.

SPEAKER_03 24:35

And so you go through there and you can go and pick the thing too is when you go to antique places like this, the pickers know the story from the original person that got it. They have so much stuff they pick, and he'll be like, Oh, I got that from a gentleman that collected US Mill, and yeah, he did this and that, and he had a collection of this and whatever. And you get to know a story behind it.

SPEAKER_01 24:57

Everything in my house is pretty much had it had a life before it found me. So mass production, it's out.

SPEAKER_03 25:05

Yeah, I think porches. I think people are really because we went through a time of where people weren't outside and it really care about their outdoor space.

SPEAKER_01 25:13

I feel like people are migrating to really amplifying those and changing them and my porches are all about I've I've styled them for comfort, lifestyle, everything.

SPEAKER_03 25:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:26

And just sitting and looking at the deer. My next thing is to build a garden for bees. Oh yeah. Because bees are super important too. So you know, interior design inside and also our outer scapes. You know, so our landscapes and our porches, and it's really important to do. I again believe in instead of a manicured kind of sterile yard, native stuff. I like it to look a little wild and with gophers. In it I have like a million gophers in my yard. I am keeping them alive. And dandelions. Dandelions people will kill the dandelions.

SPEAKER_03 26:03

I like the dandelions.

SPEAKER_01 26:04

You had to keep the dandelions because they are the first food source for bees. I learned that from the Smithville Garden Club.

SPEAKER_03 26:10

Oh, we didn't even talk about that.

SPEAKER_01 26:12

I'm very active in my Smithville Garden Club. I love those ladies and I love it.

SPEAKER_03 26:16

I guess this kind of goes back to the old soul.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

Yeah, it is also, it's been around for so long. And um I'm in charge of the Smithville uh parade coming up, the Jamboree. Oh, yeah. Jamboree Jamboree. Jamboree. I forgot about it. Yeah, I forgot about that.

SPEAKER_03 26:31

That's an April, guys.

SPEAKER_01 26:33

That's coming up. So we're designing the floats.

SPEAKER_03 26:34

I know when you told me the float committee, I was like for Christmas.

SPEAKER_01 26:38

Well, we did well we forgot about Jamboree. We just did Christmas, and that was awesome. I got to be um the pig from Toy Story. Ham. I walked in a big old like pig outfit, and we won first prize. Smith Hill Garden Club won first prize for theme for our float. These ladies don't play. Oh you know, and um, yeah, it is kind of going back to old things, right? Um committees and floats and small town parades and community and a home full of things that tell a story about who you are, and a yard that feeds the bees and maybe doesn't look perfect.

SPEAKER_03 27:13

Yeah. I think people are going away from the cookie cutter neighborhoods too, and they want that unique space. They want it to match their personalities.

SPEAKER_01 27:22

So I agree. So that's kind of our just revisiting our trends and I don't think we said anything controversial, did we? Oh, I probably do. I tend to offend in a little bit. Oh well, oh well. It is what it is.

SPEAKER_03 27:38

Life goes on.

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SPEAKER_01 27:40

So moving forward. Okay, so we had our first three episodes where we're just kind of catching up and doing our Anthony and Barb thing. And next episodes are gonna be guest readers. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:53

Yeah. I'm excited about that.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

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SPEAKER_03 27:55

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SPEAKER_01 27:56

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