How to Decorate
We want to teach you how to decorate! We'll help you unleash your inner decorator with interviews from interior designers, sharing the trials and triumphs from our own homes, and answering your burning decorating questions. Brought to you from the Ballard Designs team.
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Ep. 27 with designer Meg Braff
We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator. Each episode, we'll interview talents in the design world, share the trials and triumphs of our own homes, and answer your decorating questions.
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Ep. 26 Art 101 with Karen Fleenor
We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator. Each episode, we'll be interviewing interior designers, sharing the stories of our own home, and also answering your decorating questions.
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Ep. 25 with designer Maggie Griffin
Interior designer Maggie Griffin from Gainesville, Georgia decorates spaces much like her personality, warm, happy, and with classic Southern charm. We loved touring her house and couldn't resist the opportunity to get her on the podcast. If you aren't ye
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Ep. 24 with designer Nancy Braithwaite
We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator. Each week, we interview interior designers and other talents in the design world, share the trials and triumphs of our own homes, and answer your decorating questions.
77 min
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Ep. 23 with the Madcap Cottage Gents, Part 2
We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator. Each episode, we'll be interviewing interior designers and other talents in the design world, sharing the trials and triumphs of our own homes, and answering your decorating
66 min
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Ep. 22 with designer Cindy Meador
We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator. We're interviewing interior designs, sharing the trials and triumphs of our own homes, and answering your decorating questions.
52 min
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Ep. 21 with "The Professor" Phil Lancaster
We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator. We interview interior designers, share the trials and triumphs from our own homes, and answer your decorating questions.
91 min
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Ep. 20 with designer Lisa Mende
Lisa Mende's room in the Traditional Home Southern Style Now Showhouse stopped us in our tracks, so we knew we had to get her on the podcast. Her spaces are bold, jubilant, and inviting, and we quickly learned that she herself is too. If you've ever...
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Ep. 19 with Margot Shaw of Flower Magazine
On Ballard Designs' weekly How to Decorate podcast, we want to teach your how to decorate your home. We interview interior designers, share stories from our own homes, and answer your decorating questions.
87 min
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Ep. 18 with designer Mark D. Sikes
This week we have a very special guest all the way from California, interior designer Mark D. Sikes. Mark is a veritable renaissance man with a furniture line, fabric collection, rug collection, book, fashion line, and of course his interior...
59 min
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Ep. 17 with Domino Magazine's Jessica Romm Perez
We recently traveled to High Point, North Carolina for their Spring Market and had the chance to sit down with some of our favorite tastemakers. This week, we're sharing our interview with the Editor in Chief of Domino Magazine, Jessica Romm...
71 min
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Ep. 16 Mother's Day Edition
This week, we're bringing you a very special Mother's Day edition. Our guests are our three moms! We gave them a little pop quiz and challenged them on how well they know us and how well we know them. We talk about our childhood bedrooms, how our...
69 min
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Ep. 15 with Gen Sohr of Pencil & Paper Co
Our guest this week has seriously enviable style that blends vibrant colors with doses of white and black. We love the way she uses vintage pieces but creates rooms that feel totally fresh and modern. Gen Sohr is one half of the husband and wife team...
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Ep. 14 with designer Beth Webb
Interior designer Beth Webb's spaces are comfortable, tailored, and utterly timeless, so you can our imagine our delight when she joined us for this week's episode of the podcast. We talk about her recent challenge of blending her own style with her...
58 min
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Ep. 13 with Bunny Williams
Hold onto your earbuds because our guest today is none other than our own design partner, author, acclaimed interior designer, and hostess extraordinaire Bunny Williams! We traveled to Bunny's office in New York to record this special episode in...
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Ep. 12 with editor Betsy Riley
**Disclaimer: We had some technical difficulty with one of our mics. It refused to cooperate! We hope you'll enjoy the show anyway.** Being the design-aholics we are, we couldn’t turn down an opportunity to interview the Editor-in-Chief of Atlanta...
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Ep. 11 with Suzanne Kasler
Today's guest is not only one of our favorite designers and a hometown hero in the design world, she's also our design partner, Suzanne Kasler. Suzanne's interiors are usually riddled with classic furniture pieces, but she presents them with a modern...
65 min
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Bonus Boston Episode #2 with Katie Hutchison
We're opening a new store outside of Boston at Natick Mall, and to celebrate, we wanted to talk to some local design talents. You may remember me mentioning Katie Hutchison's book The New Small House on our episode with Annette Joseph. We ended up...
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Bonus Boston Episode #1 with Erin Gates
We're big fans of interior designer, blogger, and author Erin Gates, so when we headed to our new Boston store at Natick Mall, we knew we had to sit down with this local stylemaker. She joined us for our first live podcast recording in the front...
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Ep. 10 with interior designer Melanie Turner
We can't help but be struck by how powerful yet restrained interior designer Melanie Turner's spaces are, and we were even more struck by how down-to-earth and cool she is. In only seven short years after opening her interior design...
75 min
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Ep. 9 with interior designer Miles Redd
Go ahead and pinch us because we can’t quite believe we get to introduce this week’s podcast guest, interior designer Miles Redd! We were beside ourselves when he agreed to sit down with us while recently in his hometown of Atlanta (and ours)....
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Ep. 8 with Stylist Natalie Nassar
Natalie has worked with us here at Ballard Designs for years, so when we caught a glimpse of her chic, layered family home, we knew we had to share. We posted her whole home tour here on How to Decorate yesterday, but we couldn't pass up the...
74 min
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Ep. 7 with Stylist & Author Annette Joseph
This week on the podcast, we're talking with stylist, entertaining expert, author, and workshop master of ceremonies, Annette Joseph. Annette does it all and makes it look so easy. We sat down to talk about the villa in Italy she's renovating, her...
59 min
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Ep. 6 with Bedding Expert Beth Mars Dean
This week, we are interviewing our own bedding expert, the stylist that makes all of the beds in our gorgeous rooms, Beth Mars Dean. You probably never knew a bedding stylist exists, but she's the lady that makes sure all of our beds look picture...
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Bonus Episode: 2016 and 2017 Trends
What's In and What's Out for 2017
26 min