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How to Decorate

Ep. 160: designer Sean Scherer

How to Decorate

Ballard Designs

Arts, Business, Design

4.2785 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Painter, shop owner, decorator, and author Sean Scherer joins us this week. We talk about creating authentic interiors that tell a story, and Sean shares the inspiration behind his new book, Kabinett & Kammer. We also talk with Sean about using scale and composition to keep balance and flow within a room, using small objects and bright colors to create a large impact, and why it’s okay to just go ahead and purchase that piece you’ve been eyeing up. What You’ll Hear On This Episode: Trials and triumphs on some expensive roman shades, rewiring a lamp, a broken chair, tree talk, and exciting new house plans! In Sean’s new book, Kabinett & Kammer, he celebrates practical yet beautiful interiors in an honest and humble way. It’s all about taking the things we already have and love and displaying them in a new way to get a striking effect. Sean’s mother was a collector, and by watching her reorganize and repurpose, he fell in love with the process. In Sean’s new book, Anderson Cooper wrote the foreword and appreciated the aspect of how we can create a unique and authentic sanctuary for ourselves in our home. We can play with scale to make smaller objects more noticeable, and also use smaller objects as a way to experiment with bright colors. How Sean shops for the Kabinett & Kammer storefront, and uses the shop as another form of artistic output. If you really love something, buy it! It’s all part of building a conversation in our home that shows what we love and who we are. Ways we can take an object and successfully use it out of context, like a great taxidermy piece. Mentioned In This Episode: Karen's roller shades Kabinett & Kammer Kabinett & Kammer Book @kabinettandkammer Find all of the Show Notes at Ballarddesigns.com/podcast

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.

0:06.9

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.

0:15.7

I'm Caroline around the Ballard Design's blog, How to Decorate.

0:18.7

And I'm Taryn. I'm on the product design team at Ballard.

0:21.4

And I'm Karen and I head up branding at Ballard.

0:23.4

And we're your hosts.

0:24.5

Hi.

0:40.3

Okay. So ladies, should we do a trial and a triumph?

0:45.0

Yes.

0:46.0

My trial is I can't sing.

0:49.5

It's a recent development.

0:52.6

Just kidding.

0:53.7

Yes, your voice is changing with your age.

0:56.6

So changing.

0:58.0

All right, can I talk about something I've been working on?

1:00.8

Yes.

1:01.1

Please.

1:01.9

If you could see listeners, listeners, dear listener, if you could see what's going on in the screen right now, you would see that I work in the sunroom in my house

1:11.2

and it has three beautiful windows but they're unadorned in any way and they used to have kind

1:16.9

of matchstick shades on them that roll down and I I can't remember our guest that we had it was a gentleman

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