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Who's Driving- High Point Market S3E14
The hosts discuss their recent experience at the High Point Furniture Market and share the emerging design trends they observed, focusing on earthy tones, mixing antiques with modern pieces, and the return of patterns in upholstery.
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Speaker 2:Uh-huh, you late today too, but I'm going to let it slide.
Speaker 1:It has been quite the week Coming up. In this episode we're going to talk about the High Point Furniture Market, though, and the trends we saw. It's time for another episode of who's Driving Beep, beep, beep, beep. So I'm here I don't actually know how I'm here, but I am here, and we got another busy week coming up. So, since last week, in the last week we went to the High Point Furniture Market, had a lot of fun, saw a lot of great things, ordered a lot of great things, and your granddad died, yes. So then my granddad passed away. He was 95, lived a great full life, and you know what's impressive? I hope I got his genetics. I just really hope.
Speaker 2:I think you did.
Speaker 1:I hope so, because he was sharp as a tack, which I'm not sharp as a tack as we start, so that could be where it goes wrong.
Speaker 2:That could be bad. Yeah, you could linger a long time. You're not going to know beans and peas.
Speaker 1:He was still running his plumbing business, yeah, and that sort of thing and keeping the family in check.
Speaker 2:Yes, I mean he could get everybody in check. From what I understand, yeah absolutely For sure.
Speaker 1:But such a great man and it was funny going back to the funeral, you know, and hearing the stories and how they were saying like he could still, because he had the plumbing business, his whole you know adult life or whatever, and we live in a small town, covington, tennessee, and how to this day he could remember where every pipe was like, if he had installed it or something. If you called him he'd be like oh, it's in this wall over here or it's over you know this many feet in the ground over here.
Speaker 2:Like he could still but I can kind of see that because, like when you do things, I'm very you're talking about me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but.
Speaker 2:I could remember, like when you do something like I could go to my, my house I haven't been in for 10 years and I could tell you exactly where things are, because I was there, either did it or instructed someone to do it, um, but think of doing that for like, years and years and years. Yeah, but I think your mind would just be no, yeah, you would kind of just.
Speaker 1:I guess so.
Speaker 2:But was it a celebration? It was very good.
Speaker 1:It was good. So I was at the High Point Furniture Market and then my grandfather passed away. I was back for two days. Then I flew home and I was only there for Two days, two and a half days or whatever. Well, last night, well, I was supposed to get home at 945 and I didn't get home until 2 am because of travel delays with storms and that sort of thing. And this is the one time. I do not remember any other time in my life that Daniel has actually taken me to the airport, no matter how long I'm usually gone a day or 10,. I will take my own car and park and pay the parking.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, he took you. So he took me to the airport because he was like I might need your truck because I have the hitch on it. I might need the trailer while you're gone or I might get some mulch or something like that. I'll just take you. And I was like OK. And I was like, and I get back at nine forty five at night. He's like that's not too late, you know, because he's not a night owl like me. Well, he had to keep staying up and up to come pick me up at the airport, but he was a good sport about it. So I'm a little dragon today. Dragon, A dragon.
Speaker 2:A dragon today. Well, no, getting back to the funeral I was hoping because he was 95. I mean, he lived a great life.
Speaker 1:Great life. So it was a good celebration. And my aunts you know, my dad has passed away, so my aunts planned everything and it went so well and they did it all in one day, instead of having like a visitation one night and then having to go back the next day. But it was a long day because it started at 10 and didn't get done until like 8 at night by the time. Wow, it was like family visitation and then everyone and the funeral and it rained really bad that day and they thought they weren't going to be able to have the graveside, but then at the last minute it stopped raining but it was muddy, but it all worked out. But it was a lot of, you know, my other cousins some of them told stories and it was it was nice, it was great stories and it was, it was nice, it was great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, did you tell a story? I did not tell a story. I, I, the, the, the male grandchildren were all pallbearers and then the girls all read something or told stories oh, that was nice. Everyone had a part okay yeah, so I wasn't in the storytelling department.
Speaker 2:Oddly, I've met most, most of that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it was good. Also, this is the first time I've seen all of my cousins.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we did Clay's wedding in New York City. You and I did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and so I saw all of my cousins. I forget how many of us there are All at one time. It's probably been like 15 years since all of us have been together. Yeah, it was kind of cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was crazy. But and then when Clay got married in New York is when I met your Aunt, betsy.
Speaker 1:Mm, hmm.
Speaker 2:And I met your cousin Liz, yes, and your cousin Kim, yes, and I remember we went to Serendipity.
Speaker 1:We did, and that was my first time going to New York City.
Speaker 2:Yes, have we told the story? Yeah, I think we have.
Speaker 1:So my first time going to New York City I was doing my cousin Clay. He'd asked me he was getting married, asked me to do the flowers for it, and so I was like, okay, I'll, you know, yes, I'll do the flowers. And I still own McDonald's, then and I, you know, was doing everything at the store and going to drive them up there. And I was going to drive them by myself. I can't remember Daniel was doing something and I don't know.
Speaker 2:Originally I was going by myself, and then Stephen, was like, and I had said do you want me to go? And you're like no, I'll be fine. Yeah, I was like OK, well, I mean I need to work anyway.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was like, okay, well, I mean I needed work anyway, yeah. And then, like the day before Last minute, I was like I think you need to come into this More for the flower situation than the New York situation yeah, not the New York, you weren't scared.
Speaker 2:I drove us through New York City like a cab driver like a pro After I drove us 12 hours to New York. You take it in the city, but we did good, it was fine.
Speaker 1:We drove the van to serendipity, didn't we?
Speaker 2:The Ronald McDonald van the white Ronald McDonald van. We talked about this because I almost got arrested.
Speaker 1:This is when we were on the way back, when Stephen was hauling ass in Maryland. If you're going through Maryland, I guess that was on 95. Don't speed, because that's when Steven was pushed up against the back of the van getting frisked. I was going 92 miles an hour though. Yeah, speaking of getting frisked and spread against the back of the van, I have noticed something what? Every time I travel, like flying, when I walk through the, you know the body scan there's always. I get flagged and there's always a box over my crotch area.
Speaker 1:And they always have to frisk me.
Speaker 2:Must be zipper.
Speaker 1:That's what I'm like.
Speaker 2:Oh you wear, but no, you wear zipper. That's what I'm like. Oh you wear, but no, you wear zipper.
Speaker 1:Oh well, I wear. We talked about that in last week's episode. I'll do either button or zipper, but they're just normal pants. Why wouldn't everybody get flagged? I don't know, it happened on the way there, on the way back. Different pants, and it's happened. It happened at Christmas when I went. I flew home, no-transcript, something, I don't know what, but anyway I'm gonna have to watch that closely and determine what it is. So last week's episode we talked about button or zipper, and also your webcast debacle.
Speaker 2:Embarrassing. That was a debacle. Yes, I've had many messages.
Speaker 1:Our hotline blew up with both of those topics.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:So everyone knows about your it's so funny. Everyone knows about your webcam and everyone has opinions on button or zipper too. Someone asked me on the hotline so what is your? Oh, the other thing we got was breeders we talked about breeders.
Speaker 2:Our listeners didn't know they were breeders. Yes, a lot of people messaged, said I didn't know.
Speaker 1:We were called breeders so I learned something new. We were called breeders so I learned something new. But someone asked me on the hotline, saying they I'm assuming this was a female their co-worker came out of the restroom or had been in the restroom, and she noticed that his zipper was still down and part of his boxers were pulled through, you know, were sticking out, and so she wanted to know what was our thoughts. Should she have said something to him, yes, or just ignored it?
Speaker 2:No, always say something. Just say check your fly. Yeah, that's all you need to say. Yeah, you know, don't let the horse out of the stable.
Speaker 1:I mean whatever it is, I would just say yeah, like you just simple, of the stable, I mean whatever it is. But yeah, I would just say, yeah, like you just simple, check your fly. Yeah, hey, you may want to check your fly and then keep walking or something and let him die in embarrassment, but I was like I would say something for that. Yeah, although it's awkward, I'm pretty good about telling people if they have stuff in their teeth.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm pretty good about telling people if they have stuff in their teeth.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I do that. I check your teeth because I don't want to look at it.
Speaker 2:You got something really gross hanging right in there, right there in the middle.
Speaker 1:I don't mind telling, but I don't know, zipper, yeah, I would tell people because it's just, I mean, it's not a big deal. It's not a big deal at all, not at all what you got over there we got to talk about.
Speaker 2:We've got, you know, days of the week, some Southern-isms. You know we have that segment. Oh, stephen's keeping.
Speaker 1:We're not letting it go. Oh, you're not going to let it go, okay, no it's very important.
Speaker 2:This is a PSA for our listeners.
Speaker 1:If you visit the South.
Speaker 2:They're learning so much, or move here, you need to know this. Yeah, so if you're in the South, especially the country, we do not have power bills or electric bills?
Speaker 1:Oh, we have your light bill, the light bill, but you got to say bill.
Speaker 2:Light bill, light bill yeah, light bill Light bills do. My light bill went up. I got to go pay the light bill, light bill.
Speaker 1:Yeah, light bill, light bills do. My light bill went up. I got to go pay the light bill.
Speaker 2:And if you think about it. So I had this discussion with another friend about light bill, because she still says light bill and I said you know, it makes sense because when people first had power, that was what they associated with the power was the lights Right, so it was the light bill and that's what my grandparents always called it. Close that door. That light bill is going to be outrageous.
Speaker 1:Let us know in the comments or on our hotline what you call it. Is it light bill, or is it electric bill or power bill? I say power bill, I think I say electric.
Speaker 2:I say power.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we talked about this before and I say electric and I think, because here ours is Duke electric, so I think I just say electric bill, I just say power bill, I just say Powerbill.
Speaker 2:You got that Powerbill's due.
Speaker 1:Oh Lord, it's true. What other Southernism have you got?
Speaker 2:This is an obvious one, but one we really haven't discussed, and it needs to be. Is y'all?
Speaker 1:Oh, y'all, but y'all. Now I feel like has trickled all the way up. Yeah, other people say y'all, but y'all, now I feel like has trickled all the way up. Yeah, other people say y'all.
Speaker 2:Not the North, they don't. They say you guys.
Speaker 1:No, some of them say y'all. Now I've noticed like they'll say y'all, but I don't understand Very few Y'all is totally fine, because it is you all, y'all. It's a hyphen word. Yeah, fine, because it is you all, y'all. Hyphen word yeah. Hyphenated word y'all, y'all. You all is y'all and you all is plural yeah, so don't say y'all or whatever people. Sometimes people will mess y'all's yeah, y'all's dogs are out. Yeah, it's not y'all's it's y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, no y'all's it's y'all's, y'all. Y'all, y'all, no, y'all's, y'all's is like possessive yeah.
Speaker 1:But, somehow they'll do it some way, like meaning like I don't know I'll have to listen to it in a sentence and I'm like that's not right. It's y'all, which is you all, which is more than one.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, hey y'all, hey y'all, yeah.
Speaker 1:Hey y'all. Sometimes you say guys, though, and it bothers me. You'll say like guys listen, and it bothers me. I do, yeah, you say it on the podcast some, and I'm like it bothers me Because I feel like guys Is a what do you call it? Like a Gender Like guys, like male, uh, uh, and you'll say it no, guys is just like gender, like guys like male Uh-uh, and you'll say it like no Guys is just like everybody.
Speaker 1:No See, I don't like it, I don't take it that way and I'm like ugh, it bothers me for some reason, but we've never addressed that.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, I don't say hey, gals, but I say guys, like it's like fraternity.
Speaker 1:Fraternity can include sororities. No, yeah, and you know why that bothers me too, because, like I said, I feel like guys is referring to males in my mind and you'll say, now, listen, guys. Is usually you say y'all for other things but you'll say now, now, guys, I'm telling you whatever. But I hate when I have joined all randomly for research purposes or sometimes I just like watching people, we'll watch other people's live sales, and when they the whole time and it could be like a home decor one or whatever they refer to their audience as like come on, girls, come on, you know. And it's Like come on, girls, come on, you know. And it's hey, ladies, welcome in.
Speaker 2:No, I don't do that because we have men and women, but guys is inclusive. Well, how do you feel about that, ladies? I mean, but guess what? It's not going to change.
Speaker 1:No, I know, but I just want to know how other people interpret that. Yeah, I think, but I just want to know how other people interpret that, yeah, call us or put it in the comments. If you're part of the community, our hotline is 864-982-5029. When you hear guys, do you think that is male or do you think that is just a general people term?
Speaker 2:Well, you know where I got that. Really, I was thinking when did that start? It would have been at McDonald's. Yeah, I would walk in and say hey guys, how's everybody doing? Yeah, as just hey guys.
Speaker 1:Hey everyone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, as a people general, it's everyone to me.
Speaker 1:That's where you say hey y'all or hey you all.
Speaker 2:You know why I don't do that. There was an owner in leadership. I won't call her name. She's from the South and you know, I do think other than being naked on a webcast. I think there has to be some level of professionalism and decorum when you're in a leadership position and decorum when you're in a leadership position, and I just wanted to slap her all the time because when she would walk up to the podium to speak, it was real exaggerated. You know these types and she would get up there and say, hey, y'all.
Speaker 1:That would drive me crazy it wasn't cute, it was exaggerated.
Speaker 2:We know you're from the South, not everybody. It was a very diverse group of people. But I'm like calm down, just say how's everybody doing Something. But it was so hey y'all. And I'm like, calm down, just say how's everybody doing Something. But it was so hey y'all. And I thought it was just me. And finally, one of my good friends, he said you know that shit really irritates me. It was my friend John. He's like I just don't like that.
Speaker 2:I'm like yeah, I don't either, yeah. So I think that's why I've always kind of gone with hey guys, because I don't want to be exaggerating.
Speaker 1:But then you just slide into your southern way on everything else, but anyway.
Speaker 2:Oh, listen, I'm as country, as grits.
Speaker 1:And tell us, do you say y'all where you?
Speaker 2:live yeah.
Speaker 1:If you're from up north, do you say y'all? Or out west or northeast? Do you say y'all where you?
Speaker 2:live. Yeah, if you're from up north, do you say y'all?
Speaker 1:Or out west or northeast, do you say y'all? I want to know because I think it's now trickled throughout.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to think Like my ex's family. They were all like California and New York and stuff. None of them said y'all because I stuck out like a sore thumb. I guess it just depends. Well, okay, here is our last Southernism, and this is a good one. This is one of my dad's favorite things to say he's as worthless as tits on a bull.
Speaker 1:It's true, worthless as a tit Is tits on a bull, meaning you ain't getting no milk From that name producing you ain't worth nothing.
Speaker 2:That's when you are just Sorry.
Speaker 1:Worthless as tits on a bull. I've heard that my whole life, not about me. I've heard that saying yeah, yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2:It is yeah. So you know, if you come here to the South and someone says you're as worthless as tits on a bull, that's not a good thing.
Speaker 1:Not a good thing, not a good thing, yeah, not a good thing, not a good thing. Well, and we've talked, I'm sure, about but it's all known now about bless your heart. I mean, that's a Southern. Bless your heart, that's not meant as a like, it means you're an idiot. Yeah, that's, that's a Southern way of saying oh, you dumb ass, bless your heart.
Speaker 2:She Southern way of saying oh you dumbass, bless your heart. She just, I don't know, bless her heart, she's dumb Right.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness, that is too funny.
Speaker 2:Especially if you're at church. Bless her heart, yeah.
Speaker 1:That's where you have to be polite and say the things. For sure, for sure, what else you got over there before we get into the High Point Furniture Market, that's it.
Speaker 2:That's all I got. That's all I have, guys.
Speaker 1:Speaking of our schedule being busy though, so we were at the High Point Furniture Market back for a few days, then I flew home to Tennessee. I'm back today, and then tomorrow, which is Monday, we're heading to the Atlanta market. It's there they have a small, like they call it, cash and carry show there. It's mainly where vendors are switching out their showrooms for the summer market. So any samples that maybe they're not continuing on with. What are we looking at? The water in the pond just went really weird. I just saw it from my window, my view. I thought something was landing in it.
Speaker 2:I thought something was getting ready to come. Get us the way you were looking. I'm like should I run? I was like gawking.
Speaker 1:It went like that I thought something had landed in it, but it wasn't. I guess wind caught the watch, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I got distracted, Sorry y'all.
Speaker 1:Anyway, sorry, guys, cash and Carrie, they're switching out their samples or things that you know they're not continuing for the next season, whatever, and vendors, you can go there and buy those, but we're going there to do live sales. So if you're listening listening on Tuesday and Wednesday when this comes out make sure you join us inside the Nested Fig app. If you don't have our app yet, what the hell are you waiting on? You need it. Go to your app store, search the nested fig and you can watch us there. I mean, if you like our podcast and you're not watching the live sales, then you are really missing out, because they're a real shit show it's a, it's a, it's a live shit show right and you never know what's gonna be happening there.
Speaker 1:Um. So, anyway, that's what we got coming up this week. But let's head on to the High Point Furniture Market. It was fast and furious there. I felt like it was a really good one. It was a hustle and a bustle, yeah and it was busy, it was busy.
Speaker 2:And if there was one word if I had to describe, if somebody said trends in one word what it would be would say greens, greens, which has been trending more and more.
Speaker 1:I would say one word, that would encompass everything. I would say earthy would be my one word. Yeah, so every color tone is going and I feel like maybe we've talked about this, but earthy, muddy, colors muddy, which is that's my a lot more color. I mean, I feel like we've been on this. You know we've been going up this roller coaster. We've been on the part, that's like for the last two years, but now we are at the top and rolling through.
Speaker 2:Even purples eggplants, it doesn't matter what color, but earthy. Earthy jewel tones Moody.
Speaker 1:But green would be the dominant of the dominant. Any tone of green still on the earthy side, but any tone of green in anything.
Speaker 2:It's crazy. And I love green. Green, I mean, I love all of this this is a trend that I am. You are back on trend, baby. I am back on lots of antiques mixed with more transitional and contemporary pieces, which is me. I did that when it wasn't in style, so I'm back but that never goes out of style.
Speaker 1:This is the funny thing I do feel like this is your core style and the funny thing is, if you go to your previous house or your condo now, it's reflected in that and everyone always thinks it's cool because it looks cool. Yeah, but now everyone is gonna try to be like you, because it is on yeah, because I'm on trend.
Speaker 2:Baby you are finally.
Speaker 1:I've been, I've waited for this day, but mixing in the antiques, which is always, you know, popular to do.
Speaker 2:Very Ralph Lauren, the whole thing. If you think of Ralph Lauren, you buy a Ralph Lauren coffee table book. That is. That is the trend, that is definitely, and you know, in home decor and clothing and everything. Ralph Lauren is never not, it's always a classic. Yeah, it's always good, yeah.
Speaker 1:You can never go wrong. The biggest other trend is seeing, like in upholstery, lots of print pattern, a lot more, which when we started, I would say really in home decor you know circa 13, 13, 14, um, big prints were popular then. Then it kind of went to everything was solid or solid with like a texture into it, like a it would have a, a different weave or something into it, but it wasn't a print like, it wasn't a floral print or something like that.
Speaker 1:And now those are back in plaids, oh my gosh, and I mean I love which we've been seeing in our store, you know, over the last six or eight months anytime we get a plaid chair or anything plaid in, it goes out the door within days.
Speaker 2:Um, so even the customer level is already gravitating towards the place and Greenville's always behind Tom and I feel like Greenville is with it. With it right now.
Speaker 1:Well, because it's very traditional, Traditional and homey.
Speaker 2:It suits that's a southern word it suits, it suits means uh, it, it works, it works, it suits that suits you it?
Speaker 1:does you think that's a southern thing?
Speaker 2:see, I think it is, but tell us it. Do you say that up north or out west it? Suits that that's. You know that color suits you yeah I think that's a southern thing too, you do, oh lord, I mean, we've got them, we've got, they're endless we got all kinds, so yeah, but prints and we're starting to even see prints again on sofas.
Speaker 1:You know, if you're really willing to commit, you could do some prints on sofas.
Speaker 2:That's a commitment, I did it in 1999, and I'm not doing it again.
Speaker 1:It just depends on how long you want. You know you could probably do that and it would be good for seven years. Typically Trends you know big trends usually last that long I'm so tired of it, but for me I always like to do a solid sofa and then a fun print on a chair. If I'm going to do a print, or if you're going to do a print on a sofa.
Speaker 2:Do a smaller print, not the big, bold. Not the big because you just get tired of it sooner. If you're going to do big and bold, do it on a chair. It's cheaper. To switch out if you just have to have it on a piece of upholstery would be my advice. But you know, then again, if you don't have a budget and money is no object, I say slap a print on your sofa and when you of it, haul it out and get you a new one.
Speaker 1:That's right I mean, it does just depend on what you want to do, or pass it down, or whatever.
Speaker 1:It just depends on you, don't mind honestly, it depends on your budget and if you like to change up more, yeah but or you know, if you have kids and you want to do a print because you know that sofa's gonna be worn out in five to seven years anyway, you know it. Did you know? Judge by the life of what you know that sofa's going to be worn out in five to seven years anyway. You know, judge by the life of what you think a sofa that you're going to keep is. But I just love doing it on a chair because it's like a pot in a rug. I just like my sofas more solid, which I need new. I need all new upholstery.
Speaker 2:Well, you need to learn to take care of yours too, but I've had mine, for we've been here nine years. I know, but I've had my sofas now.
Speaker 1:I'm on my second set.
Speaker 2:I'm on my second set, yeah, but I'm not ready for a third. Yeah, you will be, I will be. I mean, I've been looking at fabrics but honestly, I love that frame. Yeah, I love that Madeline by row frame.
Speaker 1:The problem is he doesn't sit on the damn thing, so nothing happens to it. He'll say that's a lie, we'll sit out, you do not sit on it occasionally every day actually just about every day when we say sit on his sofa. This is light, proper sitting. They're not lounging and they're watching the tv.
Speaker 2:You're not we do that sometimes, but I like my chair, yeah, and I am so excited and you don't have pets that get on.
Speaker 1:You know, the biggest problem I made and I knew when I did it and steven kind of taught I'm blaming you kind of taught me into it. It'll be fine. Whatever, I need an attached back sofa because the dogs will get up on the. You know, whatever pillow is up there, if it's a cushion and it sinks down and then you can never you got to fluff it daily. It's training issues, it is, but anyway I want them to be at home. So I need a new sofa, two of them.
Speaker 1:Well, I I'll slide them into our up all street order and he'll never know. He'll be like where'd these come from? Oh, I'll know, just take it out of my paycheck we're not like that. We get what we need when we want it we don't, um okay, so anyway, back to high point. Uh, prints on sofas are super popular. Yes, it prints. Prints on anything, prints on anything.
Speaker 2:Prints on top of prints. Mm-hmm Vintage fabric print.
Speaker 1:Yes, they're doing a lot of that block print.
Speaker 2:Block print.
Speaker 1:I guess that's what you call it.
Speaker 2:You know I'm going to say something. That's one thing I'm not a huge fan of. You're not Mm-mm.
Speaker 1:Well, the block print print.
Speaker 2:I feel like that is popular and they've chosen and they've brought back from previous. It's a little country to me it does.
Speaker 1:It goes a little country which kind of goes on trend with the cottage look, but to me it's that more country cottage look.
Speaker 2:Yeah look.
Speaker 1:But to me it's that more country cottage look. Yeah, and the cottage look that I like is the more refined transitional cottage look, and so we haven't ordered any of those style fabrics. They just look like you would have those short little kitchen window drapes with the print. It just doesn't read right.
Speaker 2:I don't. Now we do have a designer that works for us and she's used the block print with, like a Ralph Lauren plaid Mm-hmm, and it actually pulls. You know, it pulls off with that because it has that whole Ralph Lauren look. It gives it more of a vintage look than a country look. Yeah, but on its own I'm not a fan. Yeah, I went and looked at them. It's too faded, it's just too. I don't know just not just not your thing. That's okay, it's not my thing, that's okay.
Speaker 1:You don't have to be on, you won't see you won't.
Speaker 2:You will not see a block print pillow in my home, but I mean I in the right place.
Speaker 1:I think they're nice about a year from now, he'll think it's the coolest thing isn't that funny though, how some things do? You're like I'm not sure about that, and then, once you see them more and see it used, different, you're like, oh, I like it.
Speaker 2:It's kind of well, that's how I'm always like that with cars. I'm like oh yeah, they ruin this one and then, after, after a couple years, I'm like'm like well. I mean. I guess, I like it now. Yeah, I guess, when you don't have a choice, you know you're limited, like if you want to drive this kind, this type of car, and that's the new one. But you know, I, I loved, always drove BMWs, and I mean for years and years and years, and my favorite car ever was my BMW X5.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And they changed the body style and I was like, nope, Not doing it.
Speaker 1:Mm-mm Hadn't gone back.
Speaker 2:Mm-mm, mm-mm. I'm liking them a little bit more now. They're not as bulbous, mm-hmm, but yeah, I'm like that with some stuff.
Speaker 1:But I was really like that. You know, when we first started um and gold was coming back, I was like no, no gold. And then that. Then it grew on me because you know, gold in the 90s if you were around in the 90s, um, gold, brassy, bright gold was the trend that yellow cheap cheap gold and so then everything had transitioned away from that.
Speaker 1:And then when we back again in like 13, 14, when we were really getting into the furniture, home decor, gold started coming back and I was was like, oh no, but now it's a pretty gold and I love it. I mean everything.
Speaker 2:And very little is silver.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you know silver will come back around in that nickel, but I was never a fan of that. I always did the bronze instead of Bronze or black, yeah, instead of the. I never went towards the silver and the nickel, no it just it reads harsh to me Cold, yes, cold. That's a good word, no matter what it's in it, just reads but maybe at least we'll stick with like the antique brass. Yeah, stick around. Yeah, oh, I'm sure to be something new.
Speaker 2:And I am glad that we mix metals now.
Speaker 1:That is true Mixing metals, and you were touching on the antiques Antiques mixed in with your furniture, like you can have very transitional and then an antique piece mix in there for that statement piece, which I love that look too, me too, because it really when you do that it highlights the antique piece. When you have a bunch of antiques it feels busy. You know it can to the eye visually, but when you mix it in with like a clean piece, or something.
Speaker 2:It's very curated, it's very purposeful.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:If you get too many. It looks like you just cleaned out your grandparents' houses and threw it all together. Right, we don't want that. I like the curated look, but I do love just an old piece thrown in the mix.
Speaker 1:And see your place works, because your condo itself has a different feel of being more lofty, industrial, and then you can throw in the antique places. Yeah, it's a weird mix.
Speaker 2:I mean, our loft is a weird mix because it is, you know, 150 years old. It's industrial, but it's also got the old world the old.
Speaker 1:I think we need to schedule a home tour. We should do that. We should just do our own home tour of your place. Let's do it. We'll sell tickets. It benefits us, so it's not towards anything all of the proceeds go to us, yeah. We should do a home tour. Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2:That would be fun. It's funny, like that building in general. It is so funny to me. I can be somewhere and they ask my address. I mean, it can be so random, like the doctor's office, what's your address? They're like, oh, do you live in that building, in that old mill? And I'm like, yeah, I've always wanted to go in there. Yeah, I just, I've always wanted to.
Speaker 1:Well, it's so well done, it's crazy though.
Speaker 2:How many people haven't been in there that really just want to go in and see what they're like? Yeah, I mean I would want to. If I'd never been in, we could have them lined up.
Speaker 1:I got to think of a good price too, because it would be a little. But you know you could have it this weekend because your home is always ready, it is, it's ready, it's ready, so it wouldn't take much effort. I could print some tickets.
Speaker 2:We need to throw some cameras up just in case somebody tries to steal something we can have. That would make for great, great publicity. If somebody stole something, it would.
Speaker 1:We could have like cards and y'all could read off of the history of certain pieces and, like you, could even make up stuff. This was my great, great and listen.
Speaker 2:It's really funny how, um, for whatever reason, people assume that everything we have in there is like really really expensive and super high end oh yeah, it's just because it reads that way it's like, like my favorite things in, there are things I found at a yard sale or a junk store I mean, literally, I am that person. If I really like something and it's at a yard sale, I'm gonna buy it. I may paint it, I may change it up, but I'm gonna get it like it doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 1:And occasionally he'll be like, oh, it doesn't fit, here you go.
Speaker 2:I have a few pieces in my storage, yeah, that I can't part with, but I'm willing to.
Speaker 1:I have these damn trunks throughout my house now that. I let them round up Because there's one. The one in the laundry room is so out of place, but Stephen's like here.
Speaker 2:when he moved from his house he was like, well, I can, we can't let it go. I mean, we can put it in storage.
Speaker 1:You can take these, but you can never get rid of them, and so now I'm stuck with pieces of furniture, but they are so great. They are great For storage.
Speaker 2:And you know, and I'll tell you something, One thing that is crazy is, since all this trend has changed the price of the large antique pieces. Oh, just in the last nine months. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Or let's say a year ago, the antiques at the furniture markets are just seeing antiques in general Because you know, last year we talked about this antiques being mixed in and even some vendors were starting to do reproductions of antiques to give you that. Look the price of them from a year ago, the true antiques to this. It is crazy. They know, hey, this is our time to shine, we're in demand and the price is going way up. Oh, it is crazy. Way up on that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it is, and you know you can't really argue like what some things are, just that much, but it's like dang, that is a lot of money, it is true. I mean, yeah, but if you want it, you, you want it if you're willing to pay but you know that several years ago, like the huge pieces, the big french armoires and and those pieces, the price went way down. Yeah, because I felt like.
Speaker 2:I feel like they were so big people didn't know how to use them, what to do with them, and now they have shot up. You know, some of those pieces are $20,000, $30,000 for one piece.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the other thing I think we should touch on because this was a couple of episodes ago and people said we got a lot of feedback was about the tariffs. Again, we talked about tariffs a few, two I think that would have been two episodes ago Nothing political, but we were just talking about how it's affecting our business or not, or whatever, how it works. There wasn't as much tariff talk at market as I thought there would be. I don't know if they were like just don't mention it. I thought when we would get there more of the vendors and some of them did, I know I had at least three say you know, if you order this, that was part of their sales tactic If you order, if you get your order in by, I think, like May 1st or May 15th, then it's at this current price. After that we don't know what's going to happen. But there was no, you know.
Speaker 2:Know what I said with that, yeah well, we don't know, so we're going to leave it at that I'm not taking it sooner than I need it. Yeah, I'm not doing it right.
Speaker 1:If it's 10 more, it's 10 more yeah, and so that's what I did, and I'm not because I was doing some orders and I was like, well, we don't need it now, so we'll just deal with that then and then. But you know, okay, so I haven't even talked to you about this. But I have a vendor who has messaged and I feel like they're trying to pressure, like take this now, or there's going to be whatever, and I think I'm just going to cancel the order just because I'm like I just didn't like the way who is it Write it down. I just didn't like the way that it read and I was just like I don't know. It felt a little demanding more than helpful sort of thing.
Speaker 1:But that's one of our big ones, yeah, and I was just like I don't know, but we only have a couple of. It is a big vendor. We only have a couple of summer orders with them and then it'll be holiday and we'll see what happens by then. But I don't know.
Speaker 2:Well, they can come across. I feel like that vendor in particular, and let me be tactful about this, let me be tactful about this Depending on the country, culture, the culture of that country, they can come across, sometimes wrong, yeah, and I don't know, or harsh. I don't know that it's meant that way, but it sure can come across that way, right, but so far.
Speaker 1:Abrupt.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so far, though, I don't think we've had any tariffs yet that I know of vendors that are coming in, but I do think this week we're going to start seeing that, like some people have said, oh, if it hasn't hasn't changed by this week, um, so we'll keep talking, you know, talking about it because I think it's um, you, I think it's cool to see again on your part as the consumer, how, what you hear and how long it takes.
Speaker 1:Now we are in home decor and seasonal, so it's not, you know, it's not hitting us as fast as something that is, you know, turning a lot quicker. You know, maybe car parts that are coming in every day or whatever, because you know we talked about it the whole, or the manufacturer, vendor, whoever, whichever person is paying for it as it comes into the US. They don't pay until it's actually here, and it can take four months for things to leave, say, china, and get here. So it doesn't matter what has happened in between that time. It matters what is in place the day that it lands, the day that it is received at the port, is what the vendor will pay in a tariff.
Speaker 2:And it should be what they're passing on, unless they're being shady. Yeah, you know you're always going to have that small, small number of people that are going to try to take advantage. But if you know, if you know your business, you're going to say, hey, wait a minute. Yeah, and like we talked about, it.
Speaker 1:It does get bits of. It gets divided up or absorbed along the way. The manufacturer will do some, the vendor will do some. You know it goes through several hands, so it gets absorbed along the way.
Speaker 2:And there may be only 20% of one product that, say, is from China. So there's only 20% of that one product affected by a certain tariff, and if the rest is here in the United States, your cost may only go up 5%, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So what do you say like, as vendors may get a certain amount, even it could be multiple items, but say we're buying from X vendor, they may only get Even it could be multiple items, but say we're buying from X vendor, they may only get, let's even say, 50% of their inventory from China, which has the highest tariffs, and then they get the other 50% from other countries that may only have a 10%. So they look at their whole inventory and then say to us we might get a 5%, which isn't huge in that instance.
Speaker 2:It's an increase, but it's not horrible.
Speaker 1:Right, so that's how it works. It's not as like ah, but it can be.
Speaker 2:So we're watching it.
Speaker 1:We are watching it day by day, what will happen, and I think, like we said in the first time we were talking about it, the bigger thing that I'm watching more is not I'm not as concerned about the tariffs as I am the consumer response, and it's more. It's more the consumer response to media because it gets people like, oh my gosh, what's going to happen? Oh, I don't need to do this, oh, I'm going to do this. That is more of what I'm watching than the tariffs.
Speaker 2:We have to stay the course all of us as consumers and keep everything going, but it's definitely a fluid situation, definitely.
Speaker 1:We'll keep it going. I think for us in our industry, in our business, the best thing is it's right now, because this is kind of our steady season, more than our holiday season. So we'll see how it plays out closer to midsummer when we're starting to get our holiday decor and stuff like that We've already taken delivery of some of our holiday decor because they were like we don't know what's going to happen if you take it now. It's at this price. So we're like, okay, we'll do that.
Speaker 2:So we've gotten some of our holiday decor, but just for that purpose, we could already be selling Christmas.
Speaker 1:In fall, isn't?
Speaker 2:that crazy, we should just roll on into it. I mean it's crazy how you know it's so planned.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:As a consumer. You just don't realize how far in advance.
Speaker 1:You're working on things and that sort of thing, it's true. Well, I want to remind you we're going to wrap this one up because we got things to do, we got to get ready to leave go to.
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