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You saved the picture. You brought it to your designer or your builder and said, this. This is what I want.<\/p>\n

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And then somewhere between that conversation and the finished room, it stopped looking like the picture. It looks fine. It\u2019s just not what you saw. And you probably decided it was a budget problem, or that you should have hired someone better.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s neither.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been trying to explain this to homeowners for twenty years and I could never actually show it. This week I can. I took four inspiration photos, this one (above), a warm rustic kitchen, a cozy neutral living room, and a creamy bathroom and watered them down on screen, one decision at a time, exactly the way it happens in a real project.<\/p>\n

You will recognize your own house in at least one of them.<\/p>\n

Watch it here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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