Combine Design Styles, According to HGTV’s “Mash-Up” Experts

It is a tale as previous as time: a pair purchases a new residence or decides to renovate their longtime residence, only to comprehend that they have extremely distinctive design tips. The situation is typical sufficient that Christina Valencia and Kele Dobrinski, the pair driving the Sacramento-centered imaginative studio Colossus Mfg., have established a new HGTV television collection devoted to helping out design-conflicting homeowners. 

In the clearly show, “Mash-Up Our Property,” the married design staff supplies assistance for partners with differing models and tastes, and allows them develop a household that equally events can agree on. For these who are seeking to mash-up their types at home and come across them selves devoid of professional designers on hand, Valencia and Dobrinski shared some of the strategies to their mash-up empire.

“The way that we go about it is, when we wander through house, we independent the home owners and we check out [to] get as a lot info from them as we can,” Dobrinski claimed. “I consider it’s a genuinely good commencing spot.” The crucial to accomplishment is being pretty straight-ahead in your passions initially, even if you know they are not the exact same as these of your lover. “I imagine when you’re in a romance for a extended time you tend to imagine about ‘we’ a great deal. And I assume it is awesome to essentially start off by currently being selfish and be like, ‘Okay, what do I want in my house?’”

From there, partners can begin generating a listing collectively of likes and dislikes and see if there’s any crossover or overlapping passions. It’s also practical to identify what each individual unquestionably can not have in their area. It is significant, Dobrinski shared, to search over and above just style and actually take a look at certain products and colours that might be of shared fascination.

Valencia pointed out that an “unbiased third party” can be specially useful for couples. “Even if you experienced a pal over that can be unbiased and be like, ‘How substantially color do you actually will need? How much of the rainbow will make you pleased?’,” she advised. “[Having] anyone get the job done via that in fact could be a seriously enjoyment delighted hour.”