Ep 288: Trials and Triumphs

How to Decorate

Caroline McDonald

Arts, Business, Design

4.4 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It’s a fun trials and triumphs episode this week! We cover everything from fancy diffusers from Target to fill your home with lovely scents, and how pressure washing a white home can make a world of a difference. Liz finally tells the “tub story”, and we discuss how a new house doesn’t mean it comes without issues and putting some TLC into it. At the end, everyone shares their holiday plans and we dream about shopping in Paris. What You’ll Hear on This Episode: Diffusers are great for old homes with a funky smell, or new homes with older dogs that also have a funky smell. Some tips for hosting a book club at your home. More on woven blinds and how they can level up a room. Some of the first steps What do you do with your kids when you’re having people over? Wait, do our kids actually think we’re cool? As Liz heads to Paris, we share some of our favorite places to shop there. Mentioned in This Episode: E. Dehillerin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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 for tips, tricks, and tails from interior
0:23.2	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.
0:28.8	So don't forget to send them to podcast of Ballarddesigns.net.
0:31.9	Yes, we love answering them.
0:33.5	Now on with the show.
0:35.7	Yeah, here we go, ladies. It's been a minute since we've done a Trials and Triumphs episode.
0:40.8	I know.
0:42.0	It's just there's got to have been some stuff happening in your homes by now, right?
0:45.8	I have many.
0:47.7	I knew it.
0:49.7	All right, go for it, Caroline.
0:51.4	Okay, I have two things that I wanted to talk with you about Liz because you recommended
0:57.8	them and they, one of them is, I don't know that we were talking about this on the podcast.
1:03.0	We might have been talking about it in real life, but we were talking about like sense and diffusers and reads and stuff unless you were like oh
1:14.2	I have it all I use it all and so then I sort of sent you some follow-up texts and I got the
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