Welcome to How to Decorate from Ballard Designs, a podcast all about the trials and triumphs of decorating and redecorating your home. Each week will help you unleash your inner decorator. I'm Caroline and I'm on the marketing team. And I'm Taryn and I'm a product designer. And I'm Liz. I head up the Ballard creative team. We're your host. Join the expert team at Ballard Designs for tips, tricks, and tales from interior

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Okay. Our guest today is Kara Cox of Carra Cox Interiors in Greensboro, North Carolina.

She's a native to North Carolina right here in the heart of furniture industry,

so you know she loves craftsmanship, handmade details, and supporting her local artisans.

Her work has been featured in traditional home magazine, Domino, HGTV magazine, and more.

Kara, welcome.

Thank you so much for having me.

Yes, thank you for being on with us today.

Yes.

Your work is so beautiful.

And I've just got to say the word beautiful.

I feel like your work in looking through your portfolio feels like a quintessential southern woman. Like it's pulled together. It's feminine. It's stunning. But there's also a layer of texture and intrigue, which I think is really important and really kind of shows through in your rooms.

Well, thank you so much.

Yeah, I think being a Southern designer is definitely a critical part of my business and has definitely affected my

aesthetic over the years.

So it's such a wonderful part of the country to live in for entertaining and focus on our

homes and something that Southerners definitely take a lot of pride in.

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