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How to Decorate

Ep. 119: designer Lisa Furey

How to Decorate

Ballard Designs

Arts, Business, Design

4.2785 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Interior Designer Lisa Furey joins the show to talk about keeping neutrals chic yet interesting, her award-winning luxury boutique firm, Lisa Furey Interiors in Philadelphia, and how she fell in love with her Palmetto Bluff vacation home. Lisa shares how she went from a career as a divorce lawyer, her passion for the “bricks and sticks” aspect of design and building, and her approach to creating beautiful and practical homes that are just as livable as they are beautiful. What You’ll Hear on This Episode: Trials and Triumphs featuring misbehaving bats, ruthless bin cleaning, leaf blowers, and delegating out Christmas light tasks. Tips on ribbons and accessories that are both kid-proof and beautiful for the holidays. Real talk on where everyone stands on ornaments as Christmas gifts. How Lisa’s core business is Lisa Furey Interiors in Philadelphia on the mainline, but she also does work in Georgia and South Carolina. More about Lisa’s projects including the Beach Cottage in South Carolina, the main house in Palmetto Bluff, and her own personal home featuring an upside-down design of the living room upstairs with floating stairs. How Lisa fell in love so much with Palmetto Bluff that she came home and purchased a loft for her personal use. More about the original cottage that people loved so much that it led her to a carriage house, and then a main house. Fun fact: Lisa was a divorce lawyer before a designer and actually attended two colleges at once. Lisa describes her style as minimal with an emphasis and natural and simple. She enjoys using clean lines and nice materials that create a relaxed and welcoming feel. Why Lisa loves using woven pieces to give spaces an organic look. A glimpse into the process from when Lisa decides to work with a client to working with them on a large renovation, remodel, or building from the ground up. Some risks Lisa has taken recently in her own home and work, including some fun blue cabinets and an upside down home. What similarities and differences Lisa sees between working in Philadelphia and the South. While we do love some photos of your cute pets, we are all for editing and trimming out the unnecessary parts within a room. Tips for matching appliances, and how to use different shades of the same color with it still looking clean and cohesive. Mentioned In This Episode: Ballard Designs Ornaments Lisa Furey @lisafureyinteriors Beautiful Kitchen and Baths Palmetto Bluff Marie Kondo Sunset Villanova Harcum College GE Cafe Hartwell Sofa Decorating Dilemma Congrats on your place! Lisa would cover up the gray tile with as much rug as she could using natural fiber rugs. She recommends two, maybe an indoor / outdoor version to kid proof them, and if you are looking for more color you can put a prettier rug on top. A pendant light would bring the ceiling down, and make it feel a bit more comfortable and welcoming. If you do the bar stools, one option would be to get the saddle ones without backs, so that you can tuck the stools under the table for easy storage. Instead of a mirror above the fireplace, Lisa suggests a wreath or tobacco baskets with two candle sconces on either side. She would also have the layout of the space be: kitchen on one side, fireplace in the middle, and built in on the other side to elevate and bring in a sense of balance.

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0:00.0

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

0:03.2

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

0:06.6

So 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.

0:15.1

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

0:18.1

And I'm Taryn. I'm on the product design team at Ballard. And I'm Karen Mooney, and I had a branding of Ballard.

0:23.2

We're your hosts.

0:24.2

Hi.

0:24.4

Hi. I had so many. Do you want me to go first?

0:40.5

Yeah.

0:40.8

I had so many I had to actually write him down.

0:42.9

I usually am like, what did it happen?

0:45.2

Well.

0:45.7

You only get to do one.

0:47.7

Yes, I'm only going to do one.

0:49.7

Okay.

0:51.0

Did I tell you about my bats, my cool bats I hung up for Halloween, like your butterflies?

0:57.4

And they're little stickers you put on the back of these little vinyl bats that kind of go up.

1:01.7

They're sort of three-dimensional.

1:02.8

Yes. It looked fantastic. I did it with black bats for Halloween. It was fantastic.

1:07.5

Well, I took them down. Uh-oh. Did it take the wall, the paint off the wall? Yeah.

1:11.8

They were 3M stickers, so they really worked. Like, the bats stayed up great. When I took them down,

1:17.2

it ripped the pain off. Oh, no. And it was like, is it the sticker that came with them?

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