Ep. 31 with designer Virginia Cheek

How to Decorate

Caroline McDonald

Arts, Business, Design

4.2 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Once we photographed Virginia's house, we knew we had to get her on the podcast. She graciously invited us over to talk about her Atlanta bungalow and of course to answer your decorating questions. What You'll Hear on This Show: We all talk about the decorating compromises we've made in our homesTaryn tells us about her brown on brown den that she hatesWe talk about 'sit-abouts' and how silly they areKaren tells us about the leather-wrapped rockVirginia tells us about why she left architecture school to get into interior designWe talk about Virginia's style and how she blends traditional, southern style with the California cool she picked up while living on the west coastVirginia tells us about micro-sealing and how she plans to do this to her homeWe talk about the difference between her clients in California and her clients in AtlantaWe talk about contrast and why it's important to consider when you're furnishing your homeWe discuss whether it's a yay or a nay to paint antiquesWe talk about Virginia's genius TV trickWe talk about whether each of us appreciated interior design when we were youngWe talk about working with renovation choices that previous owners had doneWe talk about lighting and why dimmers are important

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome back to the How to Decorate Podcast from Ballard Designs. We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator.
0:08.2	So we'll be interviewing interior designers, stylists, and other talents in the design world, sharing the trials and triumphs of our own homes, and also answering your decorating questions.
0:18.4	I'm Caroline. I run the Ballard Design's blog,
0:21.2	How to Decorate.com.
0:22.5	I'm Terran Schwartz,
0:23.5	and I'm in product design of Ballard.
0:25.5	And I'm Karen Mooney
0:26.4	and I head up branding of Ballard.
0:48.9	I'm... This week we have a very special guest, my friend and an interior designer here in Atlanta, Virginia Cheek.
0:49.8	Welcome.
0:51.1	Hi, thank you.
0:51.7	Hi, Virginia.
1:13.2	We're sitting in Virginia's dining room table this week. Yes, thank you for having us over. Yeah, glad to have you guys. Thank you. gorgeous. So we just shot Virginia's house for our blogs, do a little house tour. And so I thought we would sit down and we can talk about your projects and your style. And, you know, we're kind of taking a little break from trials and triumphs, but it will be back at some point.
1:16.6	I've got some really good ones when we get them going again.
1:19.2	You're going to just be blown away.
1:21.6	Blown away.
1:24.4	I'm sure we will.
1:26.3	I'm sure.
1:27.1	And every listener.
1:28.4	That's right.
1:29.7	With bated breath.
1:32.2	But this week, we thought we got a really good dilemma from one of our listeners about something that she's compromising with in her home.
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