Ep. 12 with editor Betsy Riley

How to Decorate

Caroline McDonald

Arts, Business, Design

4.2 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

**Disclaimer: We had some technical difficulty with one of our mics. It refused to cooperate! We hope you'll enjoy the show anyway.** Being the design-aholics we are, we couldn’t turn down an opportunity to interview the Editor-in-Chief of Atlanta Magazine’s HOME, Betsy Riley. We have Betsy to thank for reviving the title in 2015. Each issue brings some of the most gorgeous and inspiring spaces in Atlanta, so we were thrilled to pick her brain about what makes a house magazine-worthy and how she decorates in her own home. WHAT YOU’LL HEAR IN THIS EPISODE: Karen’s bathroom-related entertaining disaster Karen tested our Brian Patrick Flynn’s drapery training trickTaryn talks about her entertaining pet peeve — everyone gravitating to the kitchenTaryn’s shade swap with a big lighting lesson — take your lamp base to the store!Why some beautiful homes just aren’t right for a magazineHow she picks which homes to feature and what types of spaces don’t make it to the magazineWhat her biggest decorating challenge isWhy you have to be able to let things goBetsy’s tips for making your spaces look good in photographsWe talk about Betsy’s black and white issue

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the How to Decorate Podcast from Ballard Designs.
0:04.0	This is a bi-weekly podcast where we want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator.
0:10.0	Yay!
0:11.0	We'll be interviewing interior designers, stylists, and other talents in the design world,
0:15.0	sharing the trials and triumphs of our own homes and also answering your decorating questions.
0:21.6	You're burning decorating dilemmas.
0:24.7	Yes.
0:25.9	I'm Carol.
0:26.5	I'm McDonald and I run the Ballard Designs blog, How to Decorate.com.
0:30.2	And I'm Terrence Schwartz and I'm in the product design part of Ballard designs.
0:34.6	And I'm Karen Mooney and I head up branding for Ballard.
0:37.6	And we're your hosts.
0:38.9	Welcome.
0:39.7	Hey.
0:56.0	Yay. Oh, can I go first?
0:57.6	Yeah.
0:57.8	Taryn, do you care?
0:58.8	No, go ahead.
0:59.6	Okay, I know.
1:00.4	I always jump it.
1:01.0	You want to go first?
1:01.7	No, I'm not as good as yours as I can go.
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