Ep. 304: Wallpaper and Textiles with Caitlin McGauley

How to Decorate

Caroline McDonald

Arts, Business, Design

4.4 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We welcome back Caitlin McGauley, incredible watercolor artist and textile designer. Caitlin’s work has been featured by clients including Hermes Paris, the Ritz Paris, Christian Dior, Estee Lauder and many more. Prior to designing her own collection in 2014, Caitlin got her start in the industry as a designer for Ralph Lauren home. She talks about her journey to the wallpaper and textile industry, tips for adding beautiful textiles into your home, and also tips for designing a home studio. What You’ll Hear On This Episode: How working at Ralph Lauren Home was a fun and educational experience for Caitlin. Caitlin’s background in live portrait events, even working with Hermes. How Caitlin got into designing her own wallpaper. Caitlins love of open patterns with a really wide and open repeat, which lends itself better to window treatments than a chair. Her process of creating a mural. How have the home renovations gone for Caitlin? Caitlin talks about finding inspiration in nature. Tips for designing a studio. How she came into watercolor painting and learned on a limited palette. When you’re designing your patterns, is Caitlin thinking about other patterns that might play nicely or keeping it neutral? Mentioned in This Episode: Ballard Designs Room Planner Caitlin McGauley: IG | Website Decorating Dilemma: Caitlin understands how daunting renovation can be! That being said, she does like your plan of having the kitchen in the back of the house. She also wonders if you are sitting in the dining area and looking at the deck to the left of the kitchen, if that could be the information seating with the L shape? That way, you could kind of have the best of both worlds. She also does love the idea of a really large island. That’s what she did in her kitchen, and it serves as a space for where they eat and where they gather when people come over. We love the idea of combining the sitting area so that everybody wins. If you can delineate that other somehow and make it really special, that would be amazing. Send us pics of what you finally decide, including the view! 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
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
0:29.7	to podcast of Ballarddesigns.net. Yes, we love answering them. Now on with the show.
0:35.8	Our guest today is Caitlin McGaulay.
0:38.7	Caitlin is a watercolor artist and textile designer.
0:41.8	Her beautiful artwork has been featured by clients including Hermes of Paris,
0:46.1	the Ritz Paris, Christian Dior, Estée Lauder, Tori Birch, and many more.
0:51.3	Prior to designing her own collection in 2014,
0:56.5	she got her start in the industry as a designer for a Ralph Lauren home. She has continued to bring her phenomenal creative talents
1:01.8	to the wallpaper and textile industry, and we're so excited to have her on the show today to talk all
1:07.8	about it. Caitlin, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me.
1:11.7	I'm a longtime listener of your podcast, and I'm just so thrilled to be here.
1:17.3	We are so excited to have an artist on, because as you know, we have a lot of interior designers, and we've had a few artists, but I always love the perspective you bring, again, you have a beautiful home too.
1:29.4	So tell us how you got started with your design career at Ralph Lauren Home and how your path
1:38.1	has brought you to surface design for wallpaper and textiles. So yeah, I started out at Ralph Lauren Home, which was just an
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