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How to Decorate

Ep. 1 Meet the How to Decorate Team

How to Decorate

Caroline McDonald

Arts, Business, Design

4.2785 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Hosting each episode will be three ladies from the Ballard Designs team — Caroline McDonald, Taryn Schwartz, and Karen Mooney. You know Caroline from rour blog How to Decorate where she is constantly posting and answering your questions in our comments section. Taryn Schwartz is a trained industrial designer (and also super talented artist) who designs product for Ballard Designs. Finally, Karen Mooney is our fearless leader who we sit down with to discuss each new season. You’ve read our interviews with her here, and we also shared her kitchen renovation … and her backyard. In today’s episode, we’ll be telling you more about each of us, how we work together designing the rooms you see online and in our catalog, and what projects we’re working on in our own homes. We also answer questions about which sofa pillows could coordinate with the floral pillows Lauren already has. We answer Samina's question about how to layout a room if you have a corner fireplace, and we help Rachel decorate the stair landing that is a focal point right when you walk in the door.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi and welcome to the How to Decorate Podcast from Ballard Designs.

0:04.5

I'm Carolyn McDonald and I am here with Karen Mooney and Terran Schwartz.

0:08.7

Terran, say hi.

0:09.7

Hi.

0:11.0

We're super excited to bring you our first ever podcast.

0:15.1

Welcome.

0:16.3

We don't know what we're doing.

0:18.5

That's the truth.

0:19.8

That's the truth.

0:20.7

If you only knew that it took an hour to actually

0:23.6

set everything up. Two of our three mics work. Okay. So we decided to start this podcast because we love

0:29.4

decorating and we love talking about decorating. We do. And we wanted to talk and share our decorating

0:35.3

stories and the story. And here you're decorating stories. That's true. And here you're decorating stories and the story.

0:37.7

And here you're decorating stories.

0:39.5

That's true.

0:40.1

And hear your decorating stories.

0:41.3

And talk about the decorating stories of our future guests.

0:44.8

We're not here today.

0:45.8

But we'll have more.

0:47.1

Yes.

0:47.4

More people besides us.

0:51.0

So that's what you can expect from the How to Decorate Podcast.

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