Welcome to How to Decorate from Ballard Designs, a weekly podcast all about the trials and triumphs of decorating and redecorating your home.

I'm Caroline. I'm on the marketing team. And I'm Taryn and I'm a product designer.

I'm Liz. I head of the creative team. We're your hosts. Join the expert team at Ballard Designs for tips, tricks, and tales from interior designers, stylists, and other

talents in the design world. Plus, we'll answer your decorating dilemmas at the end of each episode.

We love answering your questions, so don't forget to email us at podcast at balauredesigns.net.

Now on with the show.

Our guest today is Santa Monica-based designer, Christine Marquatos Lowe, a fine artist turned designer whose work has been recognized by Traditional Home Magazine, Lux Magazine, House Beautiful, The Los Angeles Times, and more.

In her where Christine combines traditional and modern elements, as well as a vibrant mix of pattern and color to create timeless spaces for her clients.

Today, we're going to talk about how color and spatial relationships can elevate your space.

So, Christine, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me.

I loved getting to browse your portfolio and your website and was really excited about the topic because,

you know, you're a fine artist turned designer. You went to UPIN, you had an MFA in fine art,

and I could really see that through the color palettes in your portfolio.

And I imagine you have a lot to say on color and shapes just because of your fine art background.

So I'm curious maybe to start, you can kind of talk about your background in fine art and how that's impacted the way that you decorate and particularly the way you use color in your decor. Sure, of course.

So I think that I would say, you know, my background in art really has informed the way I see

things in the world more than anything. I studied undergrad. I have a studio art degree,

and I was really involved in painting, color theory, printmaking, and sculpture. And I decided at the

end of school that it was really sculpture that I thought I was, you know, the most interested in

and had applied and was accepted and did an MFA program at Penn. thought I was, you know, the most interested in and had applied and was

accepted and did an MFA program at Penn. And it was while I was at Penn that I really realized

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