Ep. 36 with James Farmer, decorator, garden expert, and author

How to Decorate

Caroline McDonald

Arts, Business, Design

4.2 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

'Jack-of-all-trades' is the only way to describe this week's guest. He is a licensed landscape architect, a gardening expert, a flower arranging expert, host extraordinaire, celebrated decorator, and even a cookbook author. James Farmer does it all , so we were thrilled when we finally caught up with him at Discover ADAC to bring you this show. WHAT YOU'LL HEAR ON THIS EPISODE: James talks about how one of his earliest memories foreshadowed his life nowWe talk about pruning, hydrangeas, and crepe myrtlesWe talk about James' new house FarmdaleWe talk about James' interior design projects and why he finds himself working all over the countryJames shares his secret for building a new home that looks oldJames tells us about his latest antique findWe talk about china patterns and how many James hasJames spills his dinner party formula -- pork tenderloin, roasted vegetables, and biscuitsTaryn asks James for a suggestion for the centerpiece of a shower she's hostingWe talk about James' projects, his approach to layering, and how many projects he's working on at onceWe talk about James' next bookWe talk about trends and using the classics

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome back to the How to Decorate Podcast from Ballard Designs.
0:04.6	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,
0:13.0	sharing the trials and triumphs of our own homes, and also answering your decorating questions.
0:17.6	I'm Caroline. I run the Ballard Designs blog, How to Decorate.com. And I'm Taryn,
0:22.5	and I'm on the product design team at Ballard. And I'm Karen, and I head up branding at Ballard.
0:27.8	We're your host. Thanks for tuning in. We're so glad you're listening this week. We have another
0:33.9	episode from Discover Adac. We're here at the Atlanta at Decorative Arts Center, and they give us this little sweet.
0:41.3	It's a little echoy.
0:42.8	Echoo-y.
0:43.3	It's a very nice sweet.
0:45.3	So we're really sorry about that.
0:46.5	It's a sweet, sweet.
0:48.1	It's a sweet, sweet.
0:49.3	And they've got only deep seat outdoor furniture in here.
0:53.2	It's literally almost lying down. It is a deep seat. My in here is literally almost lying down it is a deep seat my mic is
0:56.9	angled downwards because the table is 30 i your chin barely comes above the table i feel very in a like
1:04.9	don't fall asleep right yeah stay away unprof, but I'm really comfortable. Good.
1:10.8	That's all that matters.
1:11.8	We're casual.
1:12.8	I like it.
1:13.7	Casual and comfortable.
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