Transcript
Caroline (0:01)
Welcome to how to Decorate from Ballard Designs, a weekly podcast all about the trials and triumphs of decorating and redecorating your home. I'm Caroline. I'm on the marketing team.
Taryn (0:10)
And I'm Taryn and I'm a product designer.
Liz (0:12)
I'm Liz. I head of the creative team.
Caroline (0:14)
We're your hosts. Join the expert team at Ballard Designs for tips, tricks, and tales from interior designers, stylists, and other talents in the design world.
Taryn (0:22)
Plus, we'll answer your decorating dilemmas at the end of each episode.
Liz (0:25)
We love answering your questions, so don't forget to email us@podcastallardesigns.net now, on with the show.
Caroline (0:33)
Okay, so here we are. We are doing some throwback episodes.
Taryn (0:37)
So that is so exciting.
Caroline (0:38)
Getting close to 400. So we had 400 episodes. That sounds a lot of episodes.
Taryn (0:45)
It's a lot of wonderful tips and tricks.
Caroline (0:48)
Yes. So for any of our new listeners, it's a holiday. So we're gonna reshare with you some old episodes. If you're new around here, you might not have gone back and listened to, like, any of the early ones. We have so many. Right. So, you know, kind of going in to this episode, I. I kind of was, you know, scrolling through and. And marked 4 to 5 that I was like, I think these are going to be my favorites. These are the ones that in my memory, I just really enjoyed. But I wanted to go back and listen to them and make sure that the design advice and the tips and the discussion was as insightful as I remember. Just so that people are getting good bang for their buck, right? For the episode, tell you who I listened to, but the one that I was kind of, I'm. I'm picking one that I was a little bit surprised by. I knew I enjoyed meeting this designer, but when I went and listened back, I was like, God, she is brilliant. I just loved this episode so much. It is Atlanta interior designer Susan Ferrier. It was episode number 84. So this was when we were recording in person. She came to our office. Absolutely lovely. I had known of her work for a long time. She was a designer with Bobby McAlpin for a long time, who's also been a guest. And then I think maybe about five years ago, she started her own design firm. And I just. She's such a talent. And I listening back, I knew I enjoyed speaking with her. I knew that I loved her work, like her body of work, but she just is so insightful. And the episode I thought was chock full of great little Nuggets. You know, there were so many takeaways that I had. Even just listening back, I was thinking, like, there were so many things. I think partially the timing. And when we interviewed her, right. I believe it was around spring, summer of 2019, which is right when I bought my house. And so listening back, I was like, oh, I did that. Oh, that was great advice. I ended up doing that. As I was re listening, I was remembering, like, all of this stuff that I did. I didn't necessarily remember that she was the one that planted that seed. But, you know, I put it into practice, I guess. You know, for example, like, we talked for a little while about using your view and putting things in front of the view to draw your eye to the view, which seems, I think, to many counterproductive. Like you're blocking the view, but really, by putting something in front of the view, like a chair, a piece of furniture, a piece of art, you're really drawing the eye to the view, and so you're going to admire the view more. And that was something that I did in our living dining room, for example, when we toured the house, the old owners, they had the sofa facing the window. I have the sofa in the window facing away from the window. But for one, it really just like draws your eye over the window because that's where the sofa is. But also, when you're sitting on the sofa, you're looking out over the view. And so there were just lots of little things. We talked about textures. We talked about light and dark. We talked about metals.