Behind the Scenes at My Home Tour Shoot With Two Pages

I recently had the chance to shoot a home tour with one of my favorite home brands, Two Pages curtains. Here’s a little behind-the-scenes look at what we captured that day.

A camera crew visited my home a couple of weeks ago to capture a home tour with Two Pages, and it was such a fun and interesting experience. The tour was for a series on Two Pages’ YouTube channel called “Open Door,” and I was so honoured that they asked me to be a part of it. My home is definitely a little different than most of the homes that they typically share, so I hope when editing is finished and it all comes together, it will be a unique and enjoyable little home tour video. Here’s a little look at how everything unfolded during our home tour shoot.

Preparing for the Home Tour Shoot

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I’m not going to lie, even though I visit homes everyday to capture spaces for our clients with our interior design photography business, I was quite nervous about having people come into my own home and I really wanted everything to be as perfect as possible for them. A lot of the spaces we typically photograph are freshly renovated, but our home has been updated slowly over time and is very much lived in. We actually spent months touching up paint, fixing trim work, and doing all kinds of repairs in the lead-up to our shoot day. I also spent weeks cleaning and styling every space to make sure that the film crew would be able to get every shot they wanted to without issue and to give them lots of pretty little moments to work with.

Although a lot of the curtains in my home were already from Two Pages from times when I had partnered with them in the past, we installed their curtains and shades in a few more spaces and added a lot of their beautifully patterned pillows here and there throughout our home to complete the look.

The Day of the Shoot

Our kids actually slept over at a family member’s house the night before (Kennedy was home at the time for her art gallery opening), so we didn’t have to rush them to get up and out the door that morning, and that was so helpful. We were up early to do all the final little things: I had to get ready to be on camera, beds needed to be made perfectly, everyday things like our real-life black plastic coffee maker had to be tucked away, and Chris was outside on a ladder doing a final clean of all the windows from the outside, and getting rid of all the spider webs that had magically appeared over night.

When Jason and Wilson from Two Pages arrived, everything was clean, candles were lit, and the morning light was dancing in through the leaves. We couldn’t have asked for a better day with the beautiful light we had.

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The Home Tour Shoot: Capturing Each Space, Interviews, and Sharing Every Little Detail About Our Home

Once the team got to work, it really was such a calm and straightforward experience. Jason and Wilson worked their way through each space, capturing video, a few photos, and even some more casual iphone footage for social media. When all that was complete, it was time for me to walk them through each space and talk about the different renovations we had completed and the design choices that I had made. Let me be very clear: This is definitely something that was outside of my comfort zone, but I think they were so smart about the way they had me speak on camera and hopefully it will allow them to string something together in editing. 🙂

Two Pages had instructed me to prepare a script, but they caught me a bit off-guard by asking me to just talk freely about whatever while we went through each space, and I think that was by design. I was completely unprepared to do this, but they know what they’re doing, so I’m sure they usually get a better end result by doing this. After we walked through the house for the tour, they asked me a bunch of questions about our home, which I was also completely unprepared for, so I found that really interesting.

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Finally, they had me read through the script so they’ll be able to use that as a voiceover wherever needed. After five hours of shooting, I was actually fairly exhausted so I’m just crossing my fingers and hoping that part went OK. At the very least, it was so fascinating to see how they capture so may different conversational moments in different ways to piece it all together in final editing.

The Final Video

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It’s quite a process for them to take all that footage and put it together into a polished home tour, so it will likely still be a couple of months before we get to see how the final video turned out. Although this was something that was completely new to me, it was such a neat experience and I loved getting to see how this talented team works together to capture interiors. Of course, I have a list a mile long of things I would have liked to do differently, and things I wish I had more experience with, but I guess I’ll just have to try again one day and see if I can be a little bit better next time. 🙂

I’ll share the final video with you when it comes out!

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