Welcome to How to Decorate from Ballard Designs, a podcast all about the trials and triumphs of decorating and redecorating your home.

Each week will help you unleash your inner decorator.

I'm Caroline, and I'm on the marketing team.

And I'm Taryn, and I'm a product designer.

And I'm Liz.

I head up the Ballard creative team.

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All right, we have a special guest today.

Her name is Suzanne Reinstein.

She was born in New Orleans, an internationally recognized interior designer, but she now lives in Los Angeles, where her long-time shop, Holly Hawk, was.

It's now closed, but, Suzanne, you have just completed your third book with Rosoli,

which we were thrilled to get an advanced copy of. It's called a welcoming elegance, and we're so

happy to have you and get to pick your brain about this gorgeous book. So welcome to the show.

Thank you. I'm glad to be here. You've written two books

before, but you were mentioning before we started recording that you had not shared any of these

homes, you know, before writing the book and compiling it. So I was curious just kind of, you know,

how you were approaching a third book because you've shared so much. So what was sort of your

concept for this? Well, these are fairly recent projects and I decided not to put them in a magazine,

but to save them for this book because all of these clients were people who came with a point of

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