Ep. 26 Art 101 with Karen Fleenor

How to Decorate

Caroline McDonald

Arts, Business, Design

4.2 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Our resident art expert Karen Fleenor stopped by the podcast to talk buying, hanging, and framing art! We talk about how to pick the perfect piece, how to size art over your furniture, framing options, cost, commissions, and gallery walls. What You'll Hear on This Episode: We all talk about our best art moment in our homes -- where we got them, how we hung them, and why we love them so muchKaren tells us about her background in the art world and how she started working with Ballard DesignsHow do you know if it's the right piece for your home and for your spaceWhy you should hang a piece of art over a piece of furniture with a contrasting styleWe talk about our exclusive artists and why it's perfectly fine to have art that isn't originalsTaryn asks us how she can update a piece of art that belonged to her husband's grandfatherWe talk about how to hang art -- including what height they should hang and how far apart pieces should beWe talk about small art -- hanging it with other pieces, on a small sliver of wall, or hang it low over a piece of furnitureWe talk about framing and why it's so expensive (it basically comes down to materials and labor)What size piece should you get if you're hanging it over a piece of furniture

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the How to Decorate Podcast from Ballard Designs. We want to teach you how to decorate
0:05.2	your home and unleash your inner decorator. So we'll be interviewing interior designers and stylists
0:10.6	and other talents in the design world, sharing the trials and triumphs of our own homes, and also
0:16.6	answering your decorating questions. I'm Caroline. I run the Ballard Design's blog, How to Decorate.com.
0:23.0	And I'm Terran Schwartz, and I'm on the product design team.
0:26.1	I'm Karen Mooney, and I head up branding for Ballard.
0:29.5	Hi, y'all.
0:29.9	You're your hosts.
0:30.8	Hi.
0:31.4	Welcome.
0:31.6	Welcome. We have a very special guest today.
0:48.9	Our wall merchant, Karen Flanour, is here to give us a 101 lesson in art. It's one of my favorite subjects.
0:58.3	Glad to be here. Yay, thanks for coming. Yeah. Yeah. So we got a great comment from one of our listeners,
1:03.5	and we loved it so much. We're going to do it. And she suggested if we don't have any
1:09.0	awesome trials and triumphs, then we could do some other
1:12.9	segment in the top of the show. So that's what we're going to do. And Caroline has dreamed
1:17.5	up something really good for us. Yeah, so since it's the Art 101 episode, I thought we could
1:23.2	all talk about our best, our most successful art moment in our houses.
1:29.2	What do you all think?
1:30.1	I like it.
1:31.4	I'm ready.
1:32.0	Yes.
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