This is like a little dressing room or something.

Okay, so this is a really great tip, too.

Woodwork.

This is just simple molding and trim.

Pretty.

at any hardware store a lot of times they'll cut it for you too but i love a contrast color this is wallpaper from my pal india hicks i think it's so pretty go ahead and put a pattern on but the green on the blue looks really great and the way you make it work is then make sure you add a lot of green elements with accessories.

Lamp, a little vase, you know, you see the little green box.

You can put

like this is going to be like

we're going into the holiday season.

Everyone needs a gravy.

Well, this is from like Chris say you can get William Sonoma $66.

I've actually bought a couple of these put him in my closet.

This to me is a perfect.

Yeah, everybody needs a little gravy, but it's festive.

literally, it's like everybody's like, put a little wine in there and just glug,

And I'm kind of repeating what I said before, but it's so important.

So I'll throw in a little bit of a commercial for Seller Finance and notes in general is one of the things that kind of drove me this way was multifamily, not myself, but it was actually my father-in-law and got into a couple of different deals that promised all kinds of really great things and they fell apart.

Two separate deals totally fell apart and he ended up getting about a quarter of his capital back.

When I contrast that with notes just as an asset class with a note that you've created or you've purchased, it's an established set of terms.

So whatever it is today is what it is for the next however long that term is, 20, 30 years, whatever it is.

With fairly good accuracy, you can predict whether that person is going to make a payment next month and the month after that and the month after that.

So it's not a predictive return sometime in the future when this building gets built or once this rentals turn around, once something happens, then we'll get some kind of a profit.

Nice.

And I'm kind of repeating what I said before, but it's so important.

So I'll throw in a little bit of a commercial for Seller Finance and notes in general is one of the things that kind of drove me this way was multifamily, not myself, but it was actually my father-in-law and got into a couple of different deals that promised all kinds of really great things and they fell apart.

Two separate deals totally fell apart and he ended up getting about a quarter of his capital back.

When I contrast that with notes just as an asset class with a note that you've created or you've purchased, it's an established set of terms.

So whatever it is today is what it is for the next however long that term is, 20, 30 years, whatever it is.

With fairly good accuracy, you can predict whether that person is going to make a payment next month and the month after that and the month after that.

So it's not a predictive return sometime in the future when this building gets built or once this rentals turn around, once something happens, then we'll get some kind of a profit.

Nice.

I saw

it.

And she coined it because I said, what do you want your house to be? And she was like, Country Girl Lala.

And I said, what is that? And she said, you'll know it when you see it.

you know what it is it's cottagecore's cheeky little sister you know it's cottagecore where it's a color and pattern but it's got to have some fun and quirk to it too so this is what i came up with for country girl lala it started with this great wallpaper from wall shop to give us our pattern and our color and then i am I'm dying

Why do you think that's so appealing, Nathan? I think

the reason I like it is it draws this middle ground of minimalism and maximalism.

So it's rooted in French style, which we all know is kind of warmed up.

Mm

... what I liked for my own homes, and I think it all stems from starting in this business as an antique dealer.

I love to collect things.

I love layers.

But as a decorator, it's not really my job to take what I like and put it on my clients.

My job, in my mind, is to, you know, to look at where my clients live, look at the kind of house they have, the way they live, and interpret that, and then use my skill set, my talents, and my taste, and everything else to give them the best home for considering all of those things.

So with that in mind, i- you look at it, and all the projects are very different.

... and how's the install going, and how's that going, and how's my clie- I... right?

I'm wondering, do you think that you thrive in those kind of environments? And is there any challenge that really sticks out of you when you think, when you think of like, "Oh my gosh, how am I gonna get out of this one?" And then you hit it out of the park.

You know, [chuckles] God, it's just, I always say to people that are starting with me in the office that I just need to remind you that basically decorators, we're just problem solvers.

That's all that, like, it comes down to.

Like, no matter how on top of your game you are, and we're on our game here.

We're like, I have an amazing team.

It's just the nature of the business because you have-- you cannot prevent human error.

And if you take, look at one piece of furniture, like a sofa, and you look at the process from the shopping for the fabric to ordering the fabric to the fabric being delivered to then the sofa being made and then the trim arriving, and then the-da-da, all the things, and then it has to be delivered and then the...

Tell us about the collection and how that sort of started and where you get your, your inspiration for patterns.

Right.

You know what I mean? You know, it's my job to, like, convince them they have to trust me.

You know what I mean? Let's-

[laughs]

I don't, I don't know if I'd m- make it, but, like, listen, I am a big believer in do what makes you happy.

And this is sort of a dedication to

your life's work.

I really wanted to write the book to share my... process and how i execute rooms um but the most interesting and best houses i'm ever in or do are really personal to people so the other message i wanted to put out is this is your house yeah so it should be filled with the things that make you happy and make you feel good and not like worry about trends and yeah i'm the decorator and i'm the expert but it's about you yeah you know i'm

that

is.

Building color is a process.

It's like to create a color story.

You start with like a foundation color.

I feel like we could be in a photo shoot, all of us, for

this.

So all white.

I did a white satiny, which I kind of veer from shiny materials in my life.

But like it's New Year's Eve and go a little bit that way.

Sparkles.

I love to, it's all about layering, layering on these mirrored like plates, silver accents, white flowers, these like kooky tinsel kind of old school looking, you know, it's just all super festive.

we talked about that.

This

is my favorite.

Not everybody cooks.

Not everybody enjoys cooking.

So why not set a really great table and order Chinese takeout? So I did a blue and white vibe.

All of this mixed match is from Williams-Sonoma, which makes it really easy.

Pull out some little silver pieces or whatever you have.

Yes.

doesn't make sense.

But I love it.

And just because it's fall and it's getting colder does not mean you can't have a barbecue or go outside.

So here we have what I call camp chic.

I love that camp vibe.

I love these classic camp wear dishes.

Those are so cute.

this pulled pork?