Welcome to How to Decorate from Ballard Designs, a podcast all about the trials and triumphs of decorating and redecorating your home.

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I'm Caroline, and I'm on the marketing team.

And I'm Taryn, and I'm a product designer.

And I'm Liz.

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So our guest today is Ariane Bithay, and she is a interior designer in Charlotte, North Carolina,

and she has a decor shop called Dressing Rooms Interior Studio.

There she offers full-service interior design, as well as a carefully curated mix of vintage

finds selected by Arian herself. Welcome to the show.

We are so excited to have you. Thank you so much. Thank you. I just want to kind of describe it a little

bit to the people kind of get a feel for your style before we ask you all the sorts of questions

about it. It is just so fun to look through. I feel like there's so much joy found in

your spaces and you are not afraid of color. It could be, you know, just some magenta pillows on a neutral

sofa or it could be a full on magenta pink color in your own dining room. Right now on your

site, you had this incredible set of gold chairs that

were sort of pushed together to create like a sectional sort of a marigold color. I just felt like

color is so evident in your work. How did you get started? You have a shop and your designer,

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