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How to Decorate

Ep. 24 with designer Nancy Braithwaite

How to Decorate

Caroline McDonald

Arts, Business, Design

4.2785 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2017

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Atlanta interior designer Nancy Braithwaite stops by the podcast to talk about her signature style, her book Simplicity, how she trained her eye to see rather than just look, and of course she helps us answer your decorating questions. WHAT YOU'LL HEAR ON THIS EPISODE: -Nancy talks to us about her style, how she zeroed in on it, and what steps she takes creating it  -Nancy talks about seeing vs. looking  -Nancy compares dressing a room with dressing yourself, and why accessories sometimes take away from your design  -Why proportion and scale are crucial to creating a well designed room  -She tells us a story about being mesmerized at a decorators showhouse in New York and how it changed the ways she decorates  -We ask Nancy how we can train our eyes to see instead of look  -Nancy tells us about working with Deanne Levison, one of the top American antiques dealers in the country  -How Nancy and Deanne came to work together and their adventures at antique shows all over the country  -How to compose your room -- start with large pieces then add what makes those large pieces feel better  -We talk slipcovers, which ones Nancy likes, and why she uses them so often in her spaces  -She tells us about staining the floors in a recent project black and why it transformed the space  -We talk about how she helped her daughter decorate her home which was featured in Cottage Living  -How you can learn from the best by studying their work and learning to see rather than look  -We talk about when to stop  -Nancy talks about when she started to really understand her own style and aesthetic  -Why it's so important to just go for it -- try something and move things around if they don't work  -We discuss one of the pillar's of Nancy's style -- whimsy  -Nancy chimes in about where you should invest your decorating dollars  -When to use symmetry and when to use asymmetry

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the How to Decorate Podcast. Thank you so much for listening. We want to teach you how to

0:05.4

decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator. So we'll be interviewing interior designers,

0:10.7

stylists, and other talents in the design world, sharing the trials and triumphs of our own homes,

0:16.2

and also answering your decorating questions. I'm Caroline. I run the Ballard Design's blog, How to Decorate.com.

0:23.0

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

0:26.4

Hi, and I'm Karen, and I am head of brand for Ballard.

0:31.9

And welcome.

0:32.4

And welcome, yeah, we're your hosts.

0:34.2

Music Yeah, we're your hosts.

0:50.9

Should we do our trials and triumphs? I'm going to be first.

0:51.9

Okay.

0:52.3

So this month,

0:55.0

David and I decided to

0:58.1

try the trending diet of the whole 30.

1:02.6

Everybody's talking about this whole 30 thing. Everybody. My friends are all

1:05.9

doing it. They felt better. They loved it.

1:08.2

Blot, blah, blah. Hey, Carolyn, have you done it? No. Okay, me either.

1:11.6

Absolutely not.

1:12.3

I personally don't recommend.

1:15.3

I've never tried this or any diet, and this is awful.

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So, wait, how long have you been on it?

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Oh, because last, on our last podcast recording, we were having bellini's and I poured you a bellini and then you gave it back to me and you're like I'm on whole 30 I forgot okay so it's been at least two weeks yes I'm at day 15 of the 30 days I don't feel better I hate everyone I'm in the worst mood.

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