#CoolShitProj Project Tell All

are you ready are you ready i was born ready give me that microphone [Music] hello everyone welcome back to our channel my name is kelly i mean um we are here at our cool proj for our first ever project tell all i have the design team here with me and um are you guys ready to just get into it yeah we're right here ready so excited well um i have some questions is this okay that i start asking them yeah andy i mean kelly okay great well hi kylie ray hi kelly hi so you are the lead designer on this project give me some background info who's the client where are we right now we are in scottsdale arizona um north scottsdale to be exact our client is amazing they are business owners in the area um and truly have just been amazing to work with they trusted our vision completely completely completely well doesn't really happen wait first it doesn't first round design yes we got a glowing go for it okay then i think she came back a little bit with some remember yes there were some hesitations because we really changed the space like tightly yeah what did you change i mean we yeah we reoriented a lot a lot and so it's hard for people you know it's hard it's hard for people to trust the vision we provided really extensive renders for it that rj put together that really helped but yeah i can't she definitely trusted the vision but it took took a little bit getting there for sure which is i think it's completely normal yes completely normal so this was a renovation yes okay okay so you're cracking me up i love it um whose phone is on someone's phone is like can we get that on yeah i'm sorry thank you all right okay are we ready to move on some of us aren't amateurs okay so this is called the practice i think i know your halloween costume this year okay tell me about it when we break okay okay stop interrupting me um yeah please okay um this is called the cool proj for a reason right um so why is it really even that cool excuse me yeah it's pretty i mean i've seen it people haven't yeah yeah well hopefully you've seen it by now um the cool proj and when we so all of our projects we try to come up with a hashtag and some projects the street name just kind of guides us like it's got a great strong street name and we're good other projects the street name would not have been enough not even close to being able to explain this project so i feel like it didn't take us long it just came to our life where it's like this there's such a in here and then we're like and it just stuck and so it's the culture project okay um are you gonna say hi to me you're just wondering i was getting there okay hi kristen fujio hi aunt kelly so um wait that felt so good i know what's the coolest part oh my god like you have to you have to be one wait room or like thing or like one moment moment the coolest moment i mean i honestly literally can only pick one okay no i'm gonna pick two for me personally for me personally um the range moment the fan favorite will be the dog feeder station yes one that will be the fan favorite mm-hmm i know you guys that'll be that'll be that'll be good people dog people which we are dog people lots of dog people yeah lots of dog people okay so um what was the inspiration behind the project there are so many stark contrasts with the black the porcelain just tell me everything where did you guys come up with the ideas yeah so from a design process standpoint our clients whose phone is that i know it's not mine i swear it was on airplane how do i do this do not destroy you okay [Laughter] process standpoint we start our process well maybe not we don't necessarily start a process the client involvement in our process begins in the very beginning with a pinterest board and that pinterest board is where they go and they pin all of their ideas and the p like us going into the pinterest board can either be really terrifying whoa how do we get here what is this or like so exhilarating so question have you ever had a client whose pinterest board was just like what the is happening yes definitely yes we have not this one but yeah they shall remain they shall remain nameless yeah but yes we have we're not trying to put anybody on blood yet yeah and here's why the client pedro sports like they don't know what they're doing that's why they hired us you know what i mean so we're looking for colors in terms of in likeness we're looking for yeah trends we're looking for some cohesion when they're all over the place which happens honestly a lot we get we get a lot all over the place sometimes for sure sometimes we are we're questioning like why did you hire us like hot blue is not normally going to be something that we work with um so it gives us an opportunity to have a conversation but from the get go this client cool shit's mama was next level like i mean and it was expansive like there were like sections the best pins on yeah the best pins you could possibly find she went so deep yeah she went deep and so like from the second we opened that and we're like whoa and literally i remember kylie coming in and her being like dude cool we didn't it wasn't even called yeah but we were like said client who yeah again but yeah we were like she could yes she can handle this and part of our job in design is to make sure that we're setting our clients up for success right and so we can't show them something that we know they can't digest like there's just there's there are limitations while we have access to amazing resources and while we see the vision sure and while we can put everything on paper to help them see the vision 3d renders everything to scale like this is what it's going to look like some people just can't get there and so it's our job to try to assess that early enough before we spent all this time designing right and this particular project was one that we knew she had the budget to go there and she wanted to go there right and even with all of those signs once we showed it to her even like we said there was still a little bit of caution which is not a bad thing you want to protect your investment you want to make sure you're going to love it in the end we do hold our clients accountable for what they like right like we'd be devastated if we installed this and then all of a sudden they're like i don't like what yeah well the whole yeah the whole thing is black you know so um yeah but from the very beginning she she showed us awesome inspo um i think we had conversations early about the galley so the style of the kitchen and how unique it was and how this is not common for arizona kitchens um and we really wanted to capitalize on that and so we we knew we had to create a focal point which in galley is challenging right because there's two main walls and they both kind of have to respond to each other and do you remember when we presented the kitchen one of her biggest hesitations was she loves symmetry yes oh yeah oh my god you're right and we were like that's sorry but this is the whole thing yeah and that's what so many of our clients they are like symmetrically symmetrical yeah they need it all symmetry hold on and they think they're symmetry freaks their comfort is things being symmetrical it's lined up will someone walk in here and think oh my gosh why is that off five inches right and we're balanced right it's like we're constantly like well yeah if you just move something a skew five inches that's going to be weird but if we balance that with something else and it's intentional and we can see that and there's a material change and all those things then no it's not going to be weird yeah i could i totally forgot about that yeah like this living space for example yeah it was originally everything was centered on the fireplace but you guys kind of shifted that footprint and made a total area between the fireplace and the tv the center point but to the na like to someone who maybe isn't a professional they might walk in well not now because it looks beautiful right but like originally like yeah in the planning process right it might seem like totally it's hard it's hard to envision and we had to expand the space right for our client to get what she wanted which was more seating right and and she had tried to rearrange this living room when she taught us ten times yeah yeah yeah it would never work and the reason why i would never work is because she was trying to fit her furniture in a box that wasn't big enough and so we had we had to elongate it and i think i think once you can get the client to kind of understand where you're going build the rapport build the trust like we continue she would ask us like what would you do and we were like all day long okay let's do it which is what's so awesome about the relationship i guess that's why they hire the experts right yes the lifestyle yeah okay we need to move on no we need to have time i have a lot of questions you're the boss this next question is for rj hi rj hi kelly kelly wait can can we address why we call her audrey oh god why don't you do this rj is the safe one rj ray j yeah so my name is actually rachel but when i was interviewing for the position like a year and a half ago there's already another rachel who worked there and they're like we love you but we already got a rachel's yeah yeah you know so change your name yeah basically change your name i was like you know in high school some people call me rj so i i actually went into the interview knowing they were gonna ask me that question which is funny and i think she did yeah yeah yeah of course she did that yeah my name in my phone is still rachel out and i did it so i changed it to rachel yeah so then kylie lovingly named her ray j yeah and it has absolutely stuck to the point of that's what i call you even even on video yeah yeah in front of everyone okay on that note on that note okay yeah tell me about the banquette what did you do okay so we designed this beautiful custom bank cut so i up just saying i up and it was literally probably like a week before the install um that we figured it out somehow um so we designed this house how did we figure it out i was on the phone with you yes i was in um a store trying to find art last minute and i call rj and i was like hey real quick can you pull the dimension of the bank out i need to know how big this this art piece needs to be um that we are having custom commissioned by other rachel and um i call her and she's like yeah no problem so she's pulling the coordinate for me and what are you what i pulled the coordinate to see like what the wall space was and told kylie and then she's then i maybe that can't be yeah and then we're like well the panca is bigger than the wall stace and i was like it is it is great um yeah so i had a freak out moment but we called our polster custom furniture maker and he was amazing and he fixed it giovanni love him and he fixed it before the install literally would think it was less than a week and the client didn't even know so until now yeah yeah that's the story on this yeah just so everybody knows like how often do things like this actually happen every time yeah every time yeah there's something no nothing no no no no it's not it's nice but something does something happens for sure and it's not perfect right no gosh we're human no and we're moving quickly and we're trying to be efficient and we're trying to do cool right and so when you do that especially when you custom make things i mean we all and truly we all looked over it yeah like nothing leaves this firm until it's been approved so kylie proved it i approved it and we just weren't looking at the right things to approve and then that's how it got it got missed but yeah the truly it is also a testament to wanting to make sure that you know and have a good relationship with your trades for the designers out there that are listening you know you you want to make sure that you have a really good working relationship with these people because things will happen they'll screw things up trust me there's been plenty of times that we've gotten furniture on site and we're like what is this this is not the fabric we selected this is not the the arm we select whatever um and the same is true i mean it just happens and so we pay for it and we gotta move on and we did and they it honestly we weren't even sure truly we weren't even sure we were gonna get the bank out on time that's right for the install he surprised us yeah he surprised us he fixed it and we had it for the original install that our client was not expecting obviously coveted world yeah yeah you know we had no idea what we were going to have when we needed to install we first installed this project back in early december so they needed furniture and and they had some so yeah i love that question i know oh yeah gotta keep mumbling can't always be perfect and the same light i heard there was a little bit of drama surrounding the countertops kylie saw you please elaborate our beautiful amazing wonderful countertops that we love that we fell in love with at uh so we fell in love with them at cavis which is the kitchen and bath show in vegas so last january pre-covered world right so we went um i know it seems like forever ago we stumble upon safety and stone which is the manufacturer of the porcelain countertops safety and you're welcome yes and um this amazing wrap that her accent her accent yes i'll never forget completely sold us on this product and we were like we've got to use it somewhere it's so beautiful so when our client came to us and she said that she wanted a marble looking with tons of veins she said i want marvel and we said you can't right why you live here this is your primary residence you live here but tell me why marble is so like why that was not even an honor a very breathable stone and it absorbs everything so it you cut on it and you you you slide a va a cup a plastic cup over and it can it can scratch a single drop of oil yeah yeah no exactly would correct yeah and fine if you actually live in your spaces especially if you entertain like you don't want to have you don't want your girlfriend to be over you guys are hanging out you know having wine and cheese unless you go into that knowing no marble but she want did not want that she's very particular if there was one scratch on that marble she would be up for a week thank you we're gonna take a quick break stay tuned so much for not drinking during the week oh well we drink yesterday i know that's where today doesn't count that's yeah this week doesn't count no those whole weekends none of the weeks count are we are we back are we good we're back are we good welcome back to the project tell all we are here at the cool proj i am sitting with kylie rae seaberg kristen forgione rj jones and let's just get back into it hey um so i think you know we had a little bit of a break i want to start you guys off on like a good question and this is timely so how many bottles of rose were concerned consumed during the duration of this project i feel seen you guys we didn't even get to the actual countertops oh oh go back go back go back why did we get rewind can you tell me the question go back where am i going slabs i'm sorry i didn't answer your question okay so i have two questions right we fell in love with the flag let's just get back on track we heard there was some drama about the countertops back hung up on marbles hung up on marble versus porcelain sorry so let's just pick up from there okay so the drama so we fall in love with these slabs um turns out these slabs are from italy we happen to be in the middle of a worldwide pandemic so if you're new here the timing of things it just it couldn't have been could have been better um but getting materials from other countries is more challenging now than it has ever been yeah so getting these slaps from italy they've been on this boat said boat and they're porcelain yeah yes how nose long and um we've got a great wrap for the material that was keeping us up to date trying to trying to keep us up to date um and make sure that this labs got here on time so slash i'll say it our client is very freaking savvy she owns a business where she imports different things girl into the country girl pat yep and she knows and and can track containers yes she asks for a container number she asks for a boat number is that a thing about number right um a route there's probably some stuff like the whole thing yeah um and she knows what coordinates she knows waves that are happening she knew it all she knew she knew more than we did about truly about the importing process for the slaps so at one point you're probably getting there go how she wanted how we we there was talk of changing slack changing materials right because we can't get these yeah but that's a big deal huge yes huge if you already shut down our office a material covent didn't but this did issues and you want to change huge it's a big deal it's not just like oh let me just go pick another pickle yeah no and one of the biggest things when she told us her wish list for this project one of her biggest things was the countertops and that's what she movement and the character she really wanted that from the beginning is it safe to say that you designed a lot of the kitchen around the counter we decided our whole project we did we did yeah we started with a pair we absolutely arranged for her like must-haves yes and we went there and we first sure designed the entire thing and so at one point it got to a point where we had no idea where these countertops were if they were coming like any any are we going to get the allocation that they told us that we were going to get so with when you have this commodity that is these particular slabs sounds silly when people are dying but i'm serious right were we gonna get the allocation that we needed and we needed a ton of them because we put we ate full jumbo slaps so then we're kind of wondering like were they oversold are we getting the real story and again this is like no one was performing maliciously it's just like part it's part of the physics yeah exactly yeah a big unknown right exactly yeah it's a big yeah yeah so work timing at one point as far as i wanted to at one point our client was like should we just jump ship change counter tops and we were like i need countertops yeah it's christmas is coming we need countertops yeah and we said no no no no no right you told us from day one this is what you wanted this is what you needed and we designed the entire kitchen around it we're here to stop you from making stupid decisions literally that's what we wrote in the email yes like we are you hired us to stop you from making stupid decisions and this is a stupid decision yeah we design it you will be yes if you have every other quartz countertop that every other person and even yesterday when we were here styling for photography and video we said wow i am so glad that we stuck to our guns and we consulted her in the way that we should have and we told her no we need to wait for the right thing it will happen it will come and the difference was what you see now yeah yeah yeah it wouldn't be they're the same stunning they are worried and quartz is beautiful of course we all have courts at our house like it's it's beautiful and and i'm sure that we would have been able to find a close second but if you're if you have a project like this you want it to be special and she did it it should be special yeah and she wanted it to perform right specially which is why it is so important yep totally all right well moving on um getting to the actual important questions that i have how many bottles of rose were your rare were consumed during the duration of this project everybody wants to know a few quite a few cases wait jose with tears or rose without tears yeah well rose with tears was probably countertop gate right countertop gate how about tequila shots yup countertop gate lots of tequila okay so that kind of leads me into one of my next questions let's talk about the dining room yeah tell me about the private dining room what was the inspiration tell me everything okay so truly this kind of stemmed from another project our maverick drive project where we created what we call dom 44 our client's name is dominic and he's a dream and he frequents a steakhouse here in arizona called state 44. and it's just swanky and amazing and all things that you would anticipate a steakhouse would be and so we had this opportunity for them to give them their own private dining room and their own steakhouse and they had this amazing wine situation and i mean it's such a beautiful room and so we called it dog 44. so let's give ray j a chance to redeem herself for the banquet can you wow thank you shut up barb over to you can i hear about your favorite feature of the dining room not the banquet um it's definitely got to be the shelves which you also design flawlessly yeah so okay those are going to mess up on right exactly and tell us about the shelves because those are impressive they're not just any no so um we designed these shelves we wanted them to be mounted on the countertop go all the way to the ceiling and i think the ceiling in there is 12 feet so these are like massive you need a ladder to get on the top shelf um you need a ladder to go yes and not a standard ladder like a tall ladder a two-person handling yeah but it just makes the space feel so like cozy and it feels like you're not in a house like you're in yeah grand and you're in a you're in a private dining room in a nice restaurant like that's kind of the feel that it gives sorry i'm looking at it while i'm talking because it's so beautiful but um that's easily my favorite part of that space and there's so much space too for we made it really like a styling moment so we have some alcohol on there but really it's just beautiful with decor and glassware and everything so it's functional and it's beautiful at the same time yeah i think it doesn't feel overly barry this is a family home yeah with younger children and so we put the booze up high yeah where you need the ladder because if the 16 year old's grabbing the ladder you know he's getting sick you're up to no good it's like really going to hear that so we've all been there we know better we have all been there and we thought about that yeah exactly no that the space i i truly feel like if this past year hasn't taught us anything is the right if his passion i don't know kova changed everything has taught us anything clover change cove had changed everything how about that and so while going to a restaurant is amazing we started this project in the middle of covid truly and while we didn't know that this was going to happen obviously um the ability to be able to entertain in your own home in a way that feels elevated is truly what you what you hire professional design for you know like we we can't show up and we don't ever want to show up with sorry but a standard chandelier and 10 chairs around a rectangle like it's just why you know where would you hire someone right right i can always go back to that if that's what you want then you know that's what our clients want we'll go back to that but we always tell them that when we show them these like crazy ideas we say hey this is nuts we're gonna go like we can always go back to what all of your pins were or we can go this way we've talked about so much stuff in this project it's amazing you guys are going to absolutely die um we spent some time on the countertops and i have a question here asking about the hardest item to source but i think it's probably safe to say it's the countertops right no no oh yeah i'm wrong for sure the lfa majestic um had an insane lead time we're talking like five months and i think yeah longer yeah yeah from italy yeah so what's so special about this particular range okay so it's a heritage site with being italian nostalgic heritage like it has all of those pretty moments that make it look so much different than your classic pro style range right it's it's this is a boutique piece this is a piece it truly is a forever piece like if that was mine i'd be moving with me wherever i'm going yeah just pack it up in here i'm not kidding like that is getting passed down to my children that thing is a lifetime piece um and so because they you know they're handmade and they have a long lead time um we thought that it had been sourced but it hadn't or i should say purchased um which doesn't fall under our job description but doesn't matter we're here to solve problems not create them so as soon as we found out that the lead time was going to be super long while we were already partially way through the project and it hadn't been ordered we started looking at how we could figure this out so we got so freaking lucky truly our local rep at one of our showrooms had one as a miss order i guess yeah ordered in the wrong collect yes and we have to believe that everything happens for a reason and wherever we end up is where we're supposed to be right and i mean i think we all believe that pretty strongly in our lives in general um and so we made a couple calls and our sweet jordan jordan jordan jordan shout out to he's like jordan thank you jordan he's like what you want is months and months away if you're good to wait for it i got you he's like but i do have one on the floor nothing wrong with it just was a miss order do you want to have your client come look at it like she'll be right there yeah literally she came back the first showroom is right behind her office building and she was like i will literally be there in 20 minutes she went and she she bought it right there yep that never happened literally never literally never ever happens like so divine intervention last lab gate we had um we had attract slabs from florida i remember i was sitting with you at coffee house when i got hijacked maybe it's you maybe it's you when they you were literally on the phone with five different people george george is about no i thought they would drive yeah she did i literally seen this because i was like i'm gonna lose my job because i think i just got like ten thousand dollars and it was like counter top i think that they just stole it yeah i was like but they showed up so design guys are with us that's my favorite the design guys are with us yes with us okay so moving on let's talk about we've talked a lot about the living room the kitchen the private dining room but what you guys can't see in this particular area is a whole other wing of the house that we did tell me the story about the guest house well we added it late they added it late right yes yeah so we had already been started on this the main house once they saw how amazing they pretty much yeah we'll trust you with another yeah yeah they're like okay this is gonna be really good let's just throw this in now right okay we're already moved out we're already contractors might as well we're going to demo all this we're redoing all that plumbers are here which is really smart honestly i'll get your part to make that economical choice yeah to add that one economical choice yeah but right so then we added the bunk house and it was just it was a guest house that had a queen bed in it and someone threw an elliptical in there yeah at one point and tv in a fireplace right that was the extent of the design and um whenever you hand the lifestyle co some different space that doesn't quite require the living capabilities that the main spaces take and require i mean i feel like we go bananas yeah just because we're gonna be like okay we'll put a bed yeah we're not three seconds exactly we're not and we're just gonna just put it all back we'll make it pretty right we were not that's not that's not the business right now so we were like what do you think about built-in bunks what do you think about creating i have a wellness room in my house and it has truly transformed my life it's right one of the best things that came out of quarantine what do you think about a wellness room um we also designed the lobby at savannah which is a local resort and it had this rope wall that we didn't design the architecture firm actually designed the rope wall and it complemented our furnishings so much that we wanted to bring it into another space and so this space needed a little separation but um couldn't have a full wall we didn't want to do more glass because we already did that here um and so we did this little kind of short run of a rope wall and played up the exercise room we did the bathroom create a wellness bar changed the where the door was located right to the door yeah took it from basic to like bananas bananas yeah banana was that a good enough answer for you yeah um i was fine it was fine it was fine so um it's fine we're fine everything everything's fine that's my mom you guys know that's mine okay so moving on with this being um a renovation what was the most difficult space to reconfigure should we say in unison again the kitchen all right and specifically specifically the hood okay so speaking of the kitchen kind of going back what is your favorite component or element design moment what have you of the kitchen definitely the hood for me the hood okay i want to hear from each of you so kristin's the hood the hood rj oh my gosh that's hard um you have to pick one all right okay probably this wall right here um i'm also good yeah with the glass partition and the lights and the floats the shelf it's just i mean you can't go wrong with any space in the kitchen and we had to work with the existing soffit which is above us because it has hvac running through it and so the way to absolutely add ten thousand dollars onto your budget is to mess with that so we were like this needs to stay we gotta figure out how to make this work you made this off it looked like the most a million dollars soffit i've ever seen in my life what's your favorite so close to home was like asking you to pick a favorite product i know uh honestly the sink favorite okay it's so hard i agree with you what we said earlier the fan favorite is 100 gonna be the dog the dog pool station the dog i love this run but i also love this run and i think not even just the range but yeah the built-in drywall boxes yeah it's so much with the cabinetry yes that's another thing that caused me to drink well i see three different colors in here so tell me about why did you do why not only three different finishes in the cabinets but there were so many areas that couldn't be completed and like measured for until something was else so the biggest thing was these drywall boxes i didn't sleep for so many nights i'm still paying for that [Laughter] but truly like the drywall boxes that had to be framed in then you have to account for the drywall thickness and you have to count for every other thing that's happening around on that run and the timing of that that all plays out for each other it was so many things one after another after another after another and you have trade saying i'm not doing that until this guy does that and we're like but can you can you guys all come on site because he can't do this he has this and like you all need to talk and everyone plays nice in the sandbox but ultimately like we have to orchestrate the relationship and so we're doing that and we're saying okay i'm we're going to have this done here we need to have this and ultimately you can't send custom cabinetry like this into production until everything is filled verified and thank god because we would have everything would have been off by an inch here an inch there uh you know ray j measurements seven eighths like which is so true yeah and that's how close you're cutting is right now yeah totally well i think it's time for us to give a toast to the kitchen so can you oh yeah i already drank too much can i get a review no everybody we are back we are back at our cool proj been here the whole time we're still here we're still here the whole time here okay you know what i'm just trying to be professional it's fine andy go ahead okay i am still at the cool fridge i have been here all day loving every minute back tomorrow and i can't wait haven't eaten lunch haven't eat lunch yet more pizza is over there and i can smell it it's so good um but i really i really do only have a few more questions to ask these ladies but i want to make sure that we get all of the juicy details that you want people to know so let's just get back at it let's do it or get back to it anyways um so off air i heard a little bit of um tea as people say these days gen z um something about a burner couch can anybody give us any details about that who wants to start kylie do you want me to talk yeah i do okay so we initially designed the living room set up covered sorry but yeah if has really messed up the supply chain i already mentioned this but you can't get anything and i think consumers are noticing that now if you're buying from retail level or buying the wholesale market it's all it's halfed up um so we picked these beautiful couches um statement making characteristic yeah and we had these letters strapping on them rest in peace rest in peace not about it that we're talking about it what we ended up with they're beautiful so we picked these two similar sofas yes that that were perfect and truly our client loved them so much she wanted to wait for him so they kept getting so she waited we we ordered them back in september the burger couch kept getting delivered no the initial initial count wouldn't be called the burner couch yeah if it got delayed so we picked we picked these sofas and they were ordered in september they were supposed to arrive late october then it kept going mid-november late november december blah blah blah blah blah i still don't think they're available but she loved them so much she wanted to wait for them and initially at first we were like yes like we should wait for them they're so beautiful they have so much they're they're unique enough that you should wait for them they're not just a standard sofa right so we are waiting and waiting and waiting and finally it comes close to the holidays the house is getting closer to done and they're nowhere to be here so and insert the burner couch so we get this burner couch so that they have something to sit i say barbs i'm gonna buy you a burner couch so lovingly and generously she says offers okay what's gonna look like yeah i'm like don't worry it's gonna be great but we're gonna buy your burner couch we will never buy you guys so yeah we bought a burner couch like a burner phone use it discard it use abusing gun so it might end up at my house who knows yeah yeah you may see it in another project the world will never know all right and the couches that we ended up with that we had to respect because the original spec is still still in the water yeah if yeah if it even got that far are way more comfortable they are we also use them in our um sexton ranch project which was so good and we fell in love with them then there and i think they look fantastic which you'll be able to see of course in the home tour and in the photography from the space um but yeah they're super super i'm happy i'm again design gods exactly this is where we ended up the first show those couches would have been horseshit which they said the burner couch was not comfortable which was fine because it wasn't the forever right but this is more comfortable let's keep talking furniture what is your favorite piece of furniture in this entire house let's go down the line again i like when we do that let's start with rj does the bunk bed count as furniture yeah i think it does and yeah while we're on the topic can you give us a little bit of background on the bunk beds no they were great i mean well we kind of like thought of a concept for the bunk beds and then i rendered it out because they had to be custom made so we made it fit the space and we wanted it so you could sleep like i think it could sleep probably three or four people well four for sure four four people yeah it's two queen queen over two queens right it's queen over queen um but and then we found a local cabinet millwork guy that we love we've used multiple times and he built the bunk beds took quite a while but except the guy before that oh right we're gonna try a new train yeah because we were very specific about the needs for this said bunk bed and that trade sailed us down the freaking rosy river and then came back to us after kylie had spent how long corresponding with him wow and said oh by the way we probably can't do that anytime this year yeah or next great okay anytime this year so you is what you're telling me all right sounds good moving right along so we went back to our tried and true right and yep caesar sweet caesar and he did come in clutch but he took his sweet ass time i mean yeah it took a while but you know what they turned out they are so custom looking like you cannot find anything like that they're pretty good yeah so yeah okay so rj bunk bed that's kristen what about you um furniture and we can't answer the banquette sorry oh i was going to i really love the dining chairs dining chairs they look like a little tripod spider guy i have like a deep i hate real spiders but i love design sticky like yeah moments like that yeah um and those i love we saw those at market two years ago and have been waiting to use them for the perfect space where they would get the moment that they needed you guys do that yep and so that was for sure yeah kylie mine i think it's interesting because like there's some projects where furniture stands out so much and in this one i mean i love every single piece but i think it's all on a very equal level and i think the hardscape does a lot of the talking in this project a lot of the lighting the tile the cabinets like we picked so much so many finishes that were intentional in the hardscape um but if i had to pick furniture it would be the bunk beds or the dining room chairs okay yeah and um these actually are also their breakfast nook chairs they are so comfortable these are really cool also this was old because the original choice was nowhere to be coming no one knew a timeline for it um and i'm happy we chose these because they're a little more substantial than the dining room chairs that we picked and i love them i think they're they're great for the space yeah and i love it too and i mean i know i'm not a expert like you guys but i do know that these feel good yes great for a project hello i'm good at sitting in a chair i am great at sitting in a chair i'm afraid of talking i'm great at drinking wine so here we go um moving on what just kind of getting to the end what is your favorite space of the entire project and it could be a room it could be a moment it could be i mean i just don't think you can hold a candle to the kitchen no yeah it's so unique and for organic desert living the reason why we designed under the umbrella of organic desert living it's our trademarked aesthetic it is truly what guides us the lifestyle um is because it's so translatable it can transition from what we need it to but like you're never going to see pops of pink from the lifestyle go like that's not us you know if i ever go there like stop it stop me yeah no not a sweater in the store this is not pink this is brick pink is this pitch for real have you ever seen me wear a pink sweater no whoa kelly it's rough it's like rose it's brick okay i'm sorry it's brick guys i messed up it's brick it's brick thank you very much so we're gonna edit that out cut that yeah anyway so right it's our aesthetic and so it guides us and it helps us there will be times when we will every time every time i can honestly say every time we design something someone in the room says is that the most us is that us is that like are we are we trying too hard are we pushing too hard are we trying to manipulate something too hard to check it is it's a great gut check and so i think in this space specifically it is surprising to see this much glam it's not glam it's lux it's rich it's euro it's all those things but i think a consumer eye will relate this to glam right it's not to us but that's okay it's not you know it's not an insult by any means but organic dessert living is so translatable and it feels so elevated whether the budget's big or the budget's small it feels elevated and that's what i think i love so much about it and why i think it's so important that we design to our aesthetic totally so on that note i have one more question for you guys and i think it'll be a great way to just kind of wrap things up i don't want it to be over now okay all right i don't want to be able to give you any more questions but all good things must come to an end true until the next project but if you guys watch this do the like do the subscribe do the share hit the bell keep filming more yeah and every project will do a project hell out maybe not every project but once we have things to tell which is every project yeah so everybody 99.9 yeah so just on let's leave the people with one last feeling what does this project make you feel how like what do you love most about it tell me about the end result lead designer take it away i yeah let's hear from you i just think this project is just it's so unique and so different and very different we've said this time and time again but it's nothing like you see in arizona specifically um the galley style and the finishes and our client truly let us take her to a place that she she had a great eye and she could have gotten to a beautiful kitchen she totally could have she 100 she could have done this on her own and she could have gotten herself to a beautiful kitchen that most people would have been we even would have walked in and said why did you hide grace yeah but i think that her trusting us and our vision really took it to the next level and that's what you need like right you need a good eye and you also need trust so i think that i hope that this project leaves people with if you have a good team and you're surrounding yourself with good people and good traits and you really got good process and you believe in the people that are telling you what to do that you can get really cool yeah yeah exactly yep and i yeah it's good for me i think i think coming from a a little bit higher level where kylie is involved in every trade conversation and every walk and and i'm looking at it from a little bit different lens because of course i'm i'm trying to manage the client relationship and i'm trying to manage our aesthetic and trying to make sure that we're doing everything we're supposed to be doing and minimizing our risk and being a resource for our trades and a resource for our client and ultimately we are responsible whether we whether we are we're not we we are and um this particular project i think will always stay with me in a way because our client gave us such trust just like i said like it's not it doesn't come every time and no matter how much people want my own mother like i love you know i love her to death but not but i love her to death mom i love you you know that um we are going we are getting ready to renovate um wit together and it's always challenging right and i'm constantly like just trust me she's like i can't and i'm like i understand but just trust me yeah and so when you get that magic and we really have it with so many of our clients like we we we look for that um and it creates such beautiful work and this is timeless this is going to look like this it will be this good for 20 years yeah because it has such elements that are unique that are not going to date you that like yeah it gives we always talk been around for sense yeah we always talk about the space giving what does the space have to give to us like this it gives so much and that's what we want ultimately we don't live here we are like reveling and sitting here and getting a chance to film i'm pretending i am too i know i'm pretending and like but we don't live here it wasn't our money it was our clients money and so we need to leave it in a way that they will be able to quickly pick it back up right where we left off right and live their lives in a way that is comfortable and they can move back into it and they can enjoy it and that that's really our job right like cool design is it cool is i don't think the most amazing i think the process and the connection and the execution and and you know we're already talking about phase two and that's that's great just the best part yep ray j i'm sorry i did not realize i was gonna go after you rej what does this project mean to you rayjay i have a question and don't look at me yeah no what is this friend of media pass how about this you've you've worked for us for a year and a half right you came in as a design associate you're now a lead you i was gonna say i think you yes i agree i think from the beginning i went to the initial console with you and i was really involved in like the design and executing everything and the rendering right the rendering so i think for me the best way to learn has been like working side by side on the leads especially kylie and specifically in this project so learning like everything that you need to complete the project and um i think for me like to see from start to finish and i've seen a couple projects but this one is like just next level insane and so it's been really good to see from the concept to yeah where we are and we haven't mentioned it but i feel like i should maybe you know where i'm going with this maybe you don't i don't we love our contracting partners we only work with a few by design and this the general contractor she is a female she is a dad yep she does not want to be named because she is behind the scenes she cherry picks her projects because she has that kind of clout because she's that fantastic and wonderful um we absolutely loved working with her every time she called us it was just like girl power and looked forward look yes like she hated us so many times comes from the same place as us of yes is the question she never was like i can't build that and she never told us no yeah the hood was a good example of she kind of was like i'm not sure how to build this and we were like well yeah in the field she called us like i've got framers there like what what do we think the radius is gonna be how is this gonna look like how are we gonna insert this line like we were we were in conversation almost every day for quite some time trying to figure out how to make that happen totally and she was just fantastic and she does work so our client brought her to us because she does they do work on the commercial side together and she was just such a dream and i i adore yeah i love her i don't know that we can afford her again but you know she was great yeah we can't wait to work with you guys oh she wanted that that's okay michaela well we'll bleep it mikayla we love you michaela thank you for making it so easy for us well there you have it we spilled all of the details we got you the juicy stuff that you always ask about on social media now all we're all you have to do is just watch this video so thank you so much for being here our first ever project tell all kylie's going to cry let's cheer cheers [Music] you

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