Ep. 42 with designer Barbara Westbrook

How to Decorate

Ballard Designs

Arts, Business, Design

4.2 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The impossibly talented Barbara Westbrook stops by the podcast to talk antiquing, her book Gracious Rooms, her client work, renovating her homes, and her decorating pet peeve. And of course, we answer your decorating questions! WHAT YOU'LL HEAR ON THIS EPISODE: Barbara tells us about some of her earliest memories antiquing with her mom in a shop in her hometown of Lynchberg, VirginiaHow she ended up in Atlanta in the interior design business working for one of our podcast guestsBarbara tells us a story of Suzanne Kasler's bathroom, and we talk about Miles Redd's mirrored bathroomWe talk about Barbara's previous home in a historic neighborhood in AtlantaShe talks about why it's a good idea to live in your home before you renovateBarbara tells us about why she bought her new house and the improvements she's making to itWe talk about collecting items you love and finding a place for them laterWhy she loves designing kitchens and how she'd love to just design kitchens one dayHer best lesson for designing a kitchen or bathroom -- edited the design down to two 'tricks'How she transitioned from a petite home to a larger homeWe talk about picture frames and Barbara's approach to incorporating them into your decor

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0:00.0	Hi, and welcome back to the How to Decorate Podcast from Ballard Designs.
0:03.3	We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator.
0:07.0	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.
0:15.1	I'm Caroline. I run the Ballarddesigns blog, How to Decorate.com.
0:18.5	And I'm Terran Schwartz and I'm on the product design team at Ballard.
0:21.5	Hi, and I'm Karen Mooney, and I head up branding at Ballard.
0:24.3	And we're your hosts.
0:25.1	Hey, y'all.
0:40.1	All right.
0:42.4	We're going to do some trials and triumphs.
0:45.8	My trial is that it is during the holidays.
0:52.8	I always have issues finding space in my home to put up my tree and my decorations.
0:57.0	And trying to move around the furniture. It is so hard to figure out like I had to move a side table and like put it in another room
1:04.0	just to accommodate like the Christmas tree in the corner. And so that is always my trial and
1:10.0	you take down like picture frames off the mantle.
1:12.1	I'm sure you guys do.
1:13.4	And then you go to try to put them back.
1:15.8	And partially you don't remember.
1:19.2	Well, take a picture.
1:20.7	But the other part of me is I kind of don't like remembering because then I have
1:24.9	big, I put all my picture frames.
1:26.8	You can rework it. Start over. And my stuff in the Tupperware and I put all my picture frames you can rework it
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