Ep. 273: Decorating with Emotion with Anne Hepfer

How to Decorate

Caroline McDonald

Arts, Business, Design

4.2 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Toronto-based interior designer Anne Hepfer joins the podcast to talk about her new book, Mood, plus why her client work is led by emotion. Anne shares her design work is anchored in rooms that make her clients' feel and how we can all bring more feeling into our spaces. On the show you'll hear: The evolution of Anne's new book, Mood Her path to writing her book on her own before shopping it to a publisher The format and concept of the book, and all of the heart she poured into the book Why it's important to uncover your emotional triggers and use them in your decorating Color as a way to evoke emotion in a room, but how to bring emotion into a neutral room too Pattern and why it's such an inspiration to Anne's work Why it's important to consider texture when choosing upholstery items Anne shares the inspiration behind her lake house, which has a totally different feel than her house in the city Anne's passion for travel and how it refills her design cup Why asking yourself the 'why' questions are so important to the design process, whether you're working with a designer or decorating for yourself Why you should incorporate nostalgia into your spaces The color and spine of her new book Mentioned in this Episode: Anne Hepfer Anne's new book, Mood Anne's Instagram

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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.
0:11.5	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 of Ballarddesigns.net. Yes, we love answering them. Now on with the show.
0:36.7	All right.
0:40.1	So our guest today is Toronto designer Anne Hepfer.
0:44.5	Her firm, Ann Hepford, has completed projects all over the United States and Canada,
0:48.9	was named a top 25 designer by Canadian House and Home, has been featured in House Beautiful, Lux Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and More.
0:51.9	And this month, she is releasing her first book with gibbs smith mood
0:56.0	interiors and inspiration which chronicles her design work and the seven key emotions every house
1:01.8	should evoke happy relaxed energized cozy sexy tranquil and nostalgic and welcome to the show we're
1:08.8	happy to have you thanks i'm excited to be here so Thanks. I'm excited to be here. So today we're
1:12.7	obviously going to be talking about your new book. It's gorgeous and we're going to be just
1:18.5	gushing over it all episode. But we're also going to be talking about emotions and capturing
1:25.0	emotion and mood in your interiors. It's something we've touched on a little bit
1:29.3	on the show before, but we're going to dive a little bit deeper today. And so to dive in,
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