Ep. 228: All About Holiday Decorating

How to Decorate

Ballard Designs

Arts, Business, Design

4.2 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

The holiday season is finally here! Today we’re talking all about decorating for the holidays with Ballard’s own Skye Westcott and Li Kurczewski. Skye is the SVP of Merchandising, Design, & Sourcing and Li is our Director of Decorative Accessories. Both are veterans in the industry and instrumental in curating Ballard’s holiday style every year. This episode will have you ready to pull out your holiday decorations and begin decking the halls! What You’ll Hear on This Episode: Trials & Triumphs with a special guest, Karen! Li & Skye’s impressive career backgrounds and where they’ve intertwined. Skye believes in starting holiday decorating with tradition. How to layer holiday decorating and evolve the house aesthetic through the seasons. How to evoke emotion and hit all senses with decorating. The debate over real and faux trees… and why Skye and Li are leaning faux! The trends and color schemes for outdoor décor and lighting this season. What patterns are in for this season? What tree topper is everyone using? All about tablescapes for this season. Some holiday entertainment ideas, gift-giving tips, and other traditions. Gift wrapping trends and ideas. What are the holiday movies everyone watches each year? A fun response game on our holiday styles (plus what is a tree collar)?! Fun ideas to bring the whole family into the holiday decorating. Mentioned in This Episode: Ballard’s Holiday Décor Gingerbread Lane Gift Wrap Ep. 212 with Skye Westcott Meet Skye Westcott

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0:00.0	Welcome to How to Decorate from Ballard Designs, a podcast all about the trials and triumphs of decorating and redecorating your home.
0:08.7	Each week will help you unleash your inner decorator.
0:11.6	I'm Caroline, and I'm on the marketing team.
0:13.7	And I'm Taryn, and I'm a product designer.
0:15.8	And I'm Liz.
0:16.5	I head up the Ballard Creative Team.
0:18.2	We're your host. Join the expert team at Ballard Designs
0:21.6	for tips, tricks, and tales from interior designers, stylists, and other talents in the design world.
0:25.9	Plus, we'll answer our listener question at the end of each show. So don't forget to send them to
0:30.0	podcast at Ballarddesigns.net. Yes, we love answering them. Now on with the show.
0:36.1	Liz, would you like to do some trials and triumphs?
0:38.9	Oh, let's do them.
0:40.1	But we have a special guest for our trials and triumphs.
0:43.7	Very excited.
0:44.9	Very excited.
0:46.7	Karen, will you say hello?
0:48.6	Hi, guys.
0:49.7	It's Karen.
0:50.8	I'm back.
0:51.5	I have literally been harassing this team.
0:53.5	Like, can I come back on my Caroline's gone?
0:56.5	So we have murdered Caroline, but Karen has made it back on. I got slotted in. Well, welcome back. So we are going to do some trials and triumphs. And Karen, you're welcome to do a little update on your life and or a trial just because
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