Ep. 334: Holiday Decorating and Hosting Q&A (Part 1)

How to Decorate

Caroline McDonald

Arts, Business, Design

4.4 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It’s a fun episode this week as we get ready for all things holiday. From large holiday parties to intimate festivities, we answer your questions about food, decor and hosting. We discuss how to set a beautiful table for the holidays, great food and drink that will wow your guests without costing a fortune, and setting up your home to welcome guests. We also share our checklist for when expecting guests to stay over and why it’s always more fun at the kids table. Watch along with this week's episode here on the Ballard Designs official YouTube channel. What You’ll Hear On This Episode: Kids tables - yay or nay? And if yay, how to make them cute, decorative and easily cleanable after the inevitable mess has been made. Setting a beautiful table on a budget. Favorite dishes to bring to a holiday dinner. Flow of the party: pacing the meals out correctly and making sure everything is served in the right order and in time. Some suggestions for great table wine that won’t break the bank. Getting creative with seating that will make your guests feel social and comfortable. A check list of items to prepare for if you are expecting house guests. Mentioned in This Episode: Ballard Designs Bunny Williams Mr. T’s Pierogies Barefoot Contessa 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.
0:09.6	Each week will help you unleash your inner decorator.
0:12.0	I'm Caroline, and I'm on the marketing team.
0:14.4	And I'm Taryn, and I'm a product designer.
0:16.4	And I'm Liz.
0:17.2	I head up the Ballard creative team.
0:18.9	We're your host.
0:20.4	Join the expert team at Ballard
0:21.8	Designs for tips, tricks, and tales from interior designers, stylists, and other talents in the
0:25.8	design world. Plus, we'll answer our listener question at the end of each show. So don't forget to send
0:30.2	them to podcast at Ballarddesigns.net. Yes, we love answering them. Now on with the show.
0:36.7	All right, welcome back. We are going to be doing your
0:40.9	holiday frequently asked questions. So we've got Karen here today. Yay! And we put up a little
0:50.8	question box on our Instagram and these are some of your questions.
0:54.9	And it's just going to be kind of, we're going to chat.
0:58.6	We're going to answer some questions.
1:00.0	We'll probably go on some tangents.
1:01.7	Never.
1:02.2	And don't be, if you want to see, you can obviously listen on your podcast app, which you may be doing.
1:07.1	Or if you want, you can go check out YouTube.
1:09.7	And we're going to also post the video on YouTube so that'd be kind of fun and we'll kind of share some photos as well so everybody
1:16.4	ready yeah let's go okay we are going to start with hosting and I'm going to pass the card okay
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