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go

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him and if it you guys on a house

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tours they

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come in and there's a living room armor race

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in a dynamo my less than a few

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looks to this is called the robertson

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she's giving us a tour of her beautiful

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philadelphia area house

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so how often a redecorating

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ah i'm really

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, it has there been a sounds

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serious salsa not look exactly the same

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i'm gonna say like six months or

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so wow

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by now kwanzaa story is

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pretty well known she blew up on social

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media after renovating her daughter's dollhouse

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but it led to a difficult decision

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keep working at a successful medical doctor

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or procedure dream for be are in interior

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design

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the episode we produced is called the doctor

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and a dollhouse and in it we briefly

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alluded to how reality t v and social

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media inspired condors interior

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design brief

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that the time we also spoke to

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a fashion journalist the had

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some interesting things to say about make over shows

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and instagram and how they have changed

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to a millennials decorate their homes and

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we want to share some of her thoughts with you

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this is home made an

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original podcast by rocket mortgage about

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the meaning of homes and what we can learn about

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ourselves in them, this

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is bonus episode number to the

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doctor s depend

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in the original story kwanzaa

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spoke about working really long days

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at the hospital coming home plopping

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down on the couch turning on a

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tv and discussing home make

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over shows

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so what do you feel like when

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you're watching these shows and they unveil

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a beautiful room there's nothing like

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i mean a beautiful homes a concept

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the to see that on t v and you see these reveals

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and the people cry in there

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still move because they didn't know that there's home

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, look that way some wonderful thing

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to was sites a little

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bit of joy

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wonder had grown up obsessed with interior

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design when she discovered

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make over shows it was a no brainer seed

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fall for them the shows aren't just

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a form of escape for tv viewers

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there have to spend a lot of different

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shows that have really seats

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the way that we think about interior

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in our own home

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if everything from the original

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queer eye which hide a lot

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of home decor advice all

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the way to things like the property

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brothers and all

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of the different shows that involves even

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exploring different properties around the world

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since he about buying properties

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this is liz sagarin author of the rocket

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years how your twenties watch the rest of your

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life we met her at home in cambridge

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massachusetts where she lives with her three

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kids and husband's

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very

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specific design

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accessible to the people that they are

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talking to and part

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of that is going into stores

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like home depot, portable

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furniture stores to buy the

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furniture for the client on the show

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and so i think that was on

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with somebody would wash a

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show and home and be really

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and fire

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by a really fine take

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over of them be the house and

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then he would be shopping at target

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for their family and realize that

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all you know i could pick up one or two little pieces

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that well as use up my living room

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where my dining room

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this definitely rang true for coins

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that's not how taught me how to do all of my lights

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and install flooring imagine

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all that stuff and had no idea what i was duly

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and i did it from watching tv

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make over shows had a massive effect on

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people's homes and their own ability to

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make some of these changes but reality

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tv was just beginning of this new era and home

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design this time quanta had started

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for medical practice she bought a big

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house in the suburbs of philadelphia was

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tinkering with design elements at home

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then she bought a dollhouse for her daughter

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would see thought i could use a makeover

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he put the image on instagram and within a week

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he went viral design influencers

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went crazy for it is

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brilliant having the dollhouse go viral

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hi of my

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the

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i felt immediate

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validation

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what a had tapped into a design revolution

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on social media so understand that

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phenomenon list segment says yes

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the start a few years earlier with the rise of

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the instagram influencer

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the first wave of though who

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were influencers on instagram tended

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to be in ,

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and they tended to be relatively young

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been there early twenties and then

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what happened is that these influences got

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a little bit older and started having

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families and inserted essentially

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and so i think than what happened is that

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happened is of millennials like myself

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as be dot older we just adopted

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this behavior

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the aging fashion influencer

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settles down start looking for something else

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someone else influenced

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what it means that you're constantly

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taking pictures of what you're up to in your life

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your backdrop almost matters as

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much

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the what you're wearing bright and

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authors you're taking pictures of yourself in yourself home

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your team pictures of your kids and so

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suddenly your home is being that

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by the world and a totally different way

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and this was the audience that saw coins

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as picture of her dollhouse make over

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and audience trained to identify and appreciate

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design have any skill

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people were like you can do that and and our

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house like you can do that in

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my wheelhouse

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and so decorating dollhouses turned into

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decorating real houses for people who likely

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learned about designs on social media

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i don't think the instagram set out to this

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so for heating and much deeper ways

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in terms of become a seat belt identity isn't

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all that interesting stuff not

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only are we try to crazies picture

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perfect selves and picture perfect

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lifestyles we now have to creepy

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perfect homes and

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these

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they're aware of this and are helping us do that

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which is fascinating i

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think that when i bought my own

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home and when i started decorating

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man faces i was

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profoundly influenced by they have different

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expectations i think them my mother

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when she was in my

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social media made our private living

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spaces public so it makes

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sense we needed to dress up our homes

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just like we might when company comes over

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knew how to do the make overs ourselves

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