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How to Decorate

Ep. 11 with Suzanne Kasler

How to Decorate

Caroline McDonald

Arts, Business, Design

4.2785 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest is not only one of our favorite designers and a hometown hero in the design world, she's also our design partner, Suzanne Kasler. Suzanne's interiors are usually riddled with classic furniture pieces, but she presents them with a modern point of view. They're tailored, edited, and punctuated with color. We launched our first collection with Suzanne in 2011, and ever since then, we've been making design magic together, so we're thrilled to have her as our guest today on the blog! WHAT YOU'LL HEAR ON TODAY'S SHOW: Karen's recent framing victory inspired by Natalie Nassar's houseTaryn talks about a product she recently designedA new hobby I'm trying outSuzanne talks about showhouses and why she loves themWhy she likes to keep her team smallHow she does it all and where she finds her creative energyHow her love of shopping translates to design inspirationWhy Suzanne can't share her favorite places to shopWhy she started working with design partnersWe talk about her new outdoor furniture collection, her Directoire collection in whiteWhy you should start planning your outdoor space earlySuzanne talks about using white as a paint color and she uses it so much in her clients' homesSuzanne talks about her 'architectural envelope' and why she pays so much attention to the architecture of her clients' homes

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the How to Decorate Podcast from Ballard Designs.

0:04.6

This is a biweekly podcast where we want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator.

0:10.7

Yay.

0:11.2

We'll be interviewing interior designers, stylists, and other talents in the design world, sharing the trials and triumphs of our own homes and also answering your decorating questions.

0:22.2

You're burning decorating dilemmas.

0:25.3

Yes.

0:26.5

I'm Carol. I'm McDonald and I run the Ballard Designs blog, How to Decorate.com.

0:30.8

And I'm Terrence Schwartz and I'm in the product design part of Ballard designs.

0:35.2

And I'm Karen Mooney and i head up branding for Ballard

0:38.0

and we're your hosts welcome

0:39.8

should we just jump into our trials and triumph?

0:58.2

Let's do a trial and triumph.

0:59.4

I'm excited.

1:00.1

Karen, you go first.

1:00.7

I have a good triumph this week.

1:02.5

I really struggled with my trial.

1:04.3

That's good, though.

1:05.0

I know.

1:05.3

I mean, my life is so awesome that there's nothing wrong.

1:09.4

Okay.

1:10.1

So I'm going to tell you my trial first because it's so lame, but it is indeed the

1:13.3

case.

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