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How to Decorate

Ep. 108: realtor Haven Duddy

How to Decorate

Ballard Designs

Arts, Business, Design

4.2 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Haven Duddy is the founder of Main Line Haven and works with her team to do it all - from buying and selling, construction and renovation, to staging and interior design. She joins the show this week to talk about why it’s totally okay to embrace your style changing, how she came to start a business that offers a full-service experience in the real estate and design world, and simple things that make big changes in design and renovation. What You’ll Hear on This Episode: Haven’s husband worked in construction, and they combined forces to create Main Live Haven, helping people through whatever process they are in. When someone employes Haven to buy or sell real estate, they also get 4 hours of professional interior design service. Philadelphia has a more traditional housing style, and many of Haven’s clients will make changes throughout the years to reflect a more modern and present look. What you love today, you may not love in 10 years. Your style will change, so embrace it! What people get hung up on that they shouldn’t, and simple things that make big changes such as new lighting, updated toilets, glazing tile, and painting cabinets. Living in the house may give you a great idea of the functional way you want to design it. Common mistakes people make when they are renovating a home or looking to design it from scratch. The gals varied thoughts on open floor plans and the trends Haven is seeing with her clients. When you are selling your home, less is more, so get ready for some garage sales! The weirdest thing Haven has seen in someone’s house. The staging of science and general rules we should keep in mind when getting the most for our home.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:03.5

We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator.

0:07.2

So we'll be interviewing inter-designer, stylists, and other talents in the design world,

0:11.2

sharing the trials and triumphs of our own homes, and also answering your decorating questions.

0:15.5

I'm Caroline. I run the Ballard Designs blog, How to Decorate.

0:18.4

And I'm Taryn, and I'm on the product design team at Ballard Design's blog, How to Decorate. And I'm Taryn, and I'm on the product design team at Ballard.

0:21.1

And I'm Karen ahead of branding of Ballard.

0:23.1

We're your hosts.

0:23.7

Thanks. We have Haven Duddy here today.

0:43.9

Haven is a real estate agent here in the mainline of Philadelphia.

0:47.7

And your business, Mainline Haven, combines selling, buying, staging into your design, construction.

0:56.6

Y'all do it all.

0:57.7

Yeah, explain it.

0:58.4

Yeah.

0:58.9

Yeah.

0:59.4

So I think that it kind of came together because I realized, so my husband owns a construction

1:04.0

company.

1:04.5

I've been a realtor since 2007 and I've renovated my own homes.

1:08.5

And what I realize is that they all kind of go together when

1:11.3

you're creating a home you love. So sometimes you're buying a house and sometimes you're wanting to

1:15.6

renovate it and then sometimes you're want to make changes. So we just sort of talk about it all

1:20.8

and then help people through whatever process they are in that. Well, you were saying when someone

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