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How to Decorate

Ep. 3 with the Madcap Cottage Guys

How to Decorate

Caroline McDonald

Arts, Business, Design

4.2785 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We were so excited to have as our guests on this week’s episode, Jason Nixon and John Loecke, the Madcap Cottage Guys! Their style is on point, and their love for color and pattern is infectious. We picked their brain about combining furniture styles harmoniously, their upcoming travel plans, why they love decorating with the color green, and their pack of adorable rescue dogs.  WHAT YOU'LL HEAR ON THE SHOW Where Jason and John find inspiration, both abroad and at home. They’re as inspired by things they see in London as they are around their hometown in North Carolina. Inspiration is everywhere. They talk about their next vacation spot — Tokyo — and why they’re dying to make it there next. What do they do with all of the treasures they bring home? What do they see as living a ‘well-lived life?’ They share their more casual approach to entertaining, like ways to entertain without making everything from scratch. Why we should throw out the idea of having a ‘camera ready’ home all the time. Jason and John’s decorating pet peeves Inspirations for their fabric like for Robert Allen How their mothers’ styles impacted their own sensibilities What they would save if their house was on fire They mention the Traditional Home Napa Showhouse which they decorated using many of our products. You can see a whole tour of their space here. Jason and John help us answer your questions, including how to pull off mix and match bar stools, guidelines for hanging artwork over a console table or sideboard, and how to update a built in cabinet with paint or stain.

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0:00.0

Hi and welcome to the How to Decorate Podcast from Ballard Designs, where we are going to teach you how to decorate your homes.

0:06.7

We're going to be interviewing interior designers and sharing the stories, the trials and triumphs of our own homes, and also answering your burning decorating questions.

0:16.4

This is episode three where we'll be talking to Jason and John the Madcap Cottage guys.

0:21.9

Let's unleash you to enter Decorator.

0:40.7

All right. Hello, hello. welcome back and thank you for listening.

0:45.2

I'm Caroline McDonald, and I'm here with Teran Schwartz and Karen Mooney.

0:45.7

Hi.

0:47.6

And we're your hosts.

0:48.2

Hi, y'all.

0:49.4

We came back again.

0:50.3

Once again.

0:57.1

Let's jump right into our trials and triumphs, where each of us will share a good and a bad story from our own world of design. Karen, I think you should start. Okay, I can't. I'm so torn this

1:04.6

week because I can't decide. About your trials and trials? Yes. The good one of the bad one.

1:10.4

Well, I had one all decided and then at the end of the day, something happened to me.

1:15.8

Whichever's funnier, because that's why these people are listening.

1:18.0

Okay.

1:18.7

Entertain us.

1:19.2

Well, you can't see what I'm wearing today, but it has to do with my outfit.

1:22.3

So I feel like that has a little bit to do with design and fashion and all that stuff. It all kind of intermingles in the world.

1:28.9

So I'm wearing black pumps with like black studs on them and black sort of leather leggings

1:37.8

and this long black tunic with a really wide black belt.

1:43.4

I'm in a lot of black.

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