Ep. 109: designer Barbara Balongue

How to Decorate

Ballard Designs

Arts, Business, Design

4.2 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Designer Barbara Balongue specializes in hospitality design — restaurants, bars, and boutique hotels. We loved chatting with her about the intricacies of restaurant design, how it impacts our dining experience, and everything those goes into building out a gorgeous venue. She blew our minds with all of the details we’ve never even thought about! What You’ll Hear on This Episode: The challenges with restaurant designWhy you can take a bigger risk in restaurant design than you might at homeWhy booths are great and why they’re great to use in residential spaces as wellThe science and psychology of restaurant designWe talk about restaurants that haven’t used designers and a client of Barbara’s who was blown away by how interior design changed his bottom lineNew trends in restaurant designHow Barbara chooses color in her projectsRestaurant noise — how to combat it and why its an after thoughtWhy people covet the ‘hotel feel’ when they’re designing their own homesBathroom lighting and everything you need in your guest room WilliamMcClure @balonguedesign BalongueDesign TheWhiteDogCafe Schumacher Autograph RestaurantImpossible Sunbrella

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0:00.0	Hi, and welcome back to the How to Decorate Podcast from Ballard Designs.
0:03.4	We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator.
0:06.8	So we'll be interviewing interior designers, 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 Design's blog, How to Decorate.
0:18.6	And I'm Terran. I'm on the product design team at Ballard Designs blog, How to Decorate. And I'm Taryn. I'm on the product design team at Ballard.
0:21.2	And I'm Karen ahead of branding your Ballard.
0:23.4	We are your hosts.
0:24.4	Huh. Okay, should we do some trials and triumphs?
0:43.8	And also, I just need to assure everyone before we get into it.
0:47.4	Then we're not getting rid of trials and triumphs.
0:49.0	No.
0:50.1	Trust us.
0:51.1	We like talking about ourselves entirely too much.
0:53.2	No, I'm kidding.
0:53.8	But we just have mostly had a scheduling issue. Just trying to get all of us. We like talking about ourselves entirely too much. No, I'm kidding. But we just have mostly
0:55.3	had a scheduling issue. Just trying to get all of us in the office the same time. Karen was in France.
1:03.3	Yeah, Karen, way to travel. I guess that's a triumph, huh? I should write that down. That's my,
1:09.9	France.
1:11.2	Just the word triumph.
1:12.9	That is.
1:14.4	Well, you guys have heard.
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