BONUS episode: Lauren Robbins' Tudor Home in Augusta, GA

How to Decorate

Ballard Designs

Arts, Business, Design

4.2 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We are super excited to be launching a new House Tours series on our YouTube channel! To kick things off, we visited Lauren Robbins' gorgeous Tudor home in Augusta, Georgia. Caroline chatted with Lauren for over an hour about her decorating process and style. Now you can see all the visual details of Lauren's home that bring her design conversations to life, and listen here to their uncut hour-long discussion on this bonus episode. Lauren chats about her bright and happy "pretty room”, bedroom essentials, using colors to tell a story, and more about her signature elegant yet playful, gorgeous style. She also gives some great recommendations on picking an anchor fabric and tips for picking a loved piece to start as a jumping-off point for creating a whole home you love. What You’ll Hear On This Episode: More about the inspiration behind the home’s color palette and “pretty room”. The fun ways that optical illusion creates visual interest in designs. Starting with a loved piece as a jumping-off point. How to use hallways and entries to create a bridge to the other rooms. Why did Lauren paint the floor in the entryway? Design choices for a family-friendly kitchen and family room. Using a single color palette for a cohesive look in a bedroom. Picking a color palette for a public room vs. a private room such as a bedroom. The essentials of a bedroom. Why Lauren chose a moodier color palette in the family room and bar. Durability and care for the family room fabrics. Personalizing design choices for children’s rooms. Show Notes: Watch the Full Episode Lauren Robbins Interiors Ep 311 with Lauren Robbins

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0:00.0	Welcome to How to Decorate from Ballard Designs, a weekly podcast all about the trials and
0:07.1	triumphs of decorating and redecorating your home. I'm Caroline. I'm on the marketing team. And I'm
0:12.0	Taryn and I'm a product designer. I'm Liz. I head up the creative team. We're your hosts. Join the
0:17.1	expert team at Ballard Designs for tips, tricks, and tales from interior designers,
0:21.1	stylists, and other talents in the design world. Plus, we'll answer your decorating dilemmas
0:24.8	at the end of each episode. We love answering your questions, so don't forget to email us at
0:29.0	podcast at ballarddesigns.net. Now on with the show. Hey, how to decorate listeners. We are
0:36.7	dropping a bonus episode into our feed today because we're launching a new project and we wanted to share with you.
0:42.7	So we have been recording the How to Decorate podcast since 2016, eight years. It's hard to believe.
0:49.1	And, you know, we've heard from so many of you about how much you love the show and how much you've learned.
0:54.0	And we've learned so much, too you about how much you love the show and how much you've learned.
0:58.2	And we've learned so much, too, from our wonderful designer guests.
1:02.6	It's just been a really wonderful way for us to hear from all of you and to share some design inspiration.
1:04.0	And over the years, we've always, you know, heard some comments.
1:07.2	Like, I love listening to the episodes.
1:08.8	I just wish sometimes I could see what you're talking
1:11.7	about. So I'm really excited to share that we are launching a house tour series on our YouTube
1:17.6	channel. So really the idea behind it is to share all of the great conversations that you
1:23.5	hear here on the How to Decorate Podcast, but to also be able to show you the gorgeous homes that we're
1:29.7	talking about. So a couple of weeks ago, I went up to Augusta, Georgia with our incredible
1:35.0	video team, our producer Kelly, our videographer Brian, and our audio tech, Patrick, and we all
1:42.3	went up there and visited Lauren Robbins, who you may remember
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