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How to Decorate

Ep. 6 with Bedding Expert Beth Mars Dean

How to Decorate

Caroline McDonald

Arts, Business, Design

4.2785 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, we are interviewing our own bedding expert, the stylist that makes all of the beds in our gorgeous rooms, Beth Mars Dean. You probably never knew a bedding stylist exists, but she's the lady that makes sure all of our beds look picture perfect and snooze worthy. For all of your bedding questions answered, be sure to listen to this episode! WHAT YOU'LL HEAR ON THIS EPISODE The most recent catastrophe that happened with our photoshoot The surprising amount of time it takes to make a bed for one of our photo shoots All of the extra things Beth adds to her beds that you wouldn't normally use From start to finish, how Beth makes a gorgeous catalog-worthy bed Whether all of us make our beds every day, what the nation-wide average is, and what percentage of our How to Decorate readers make their beds everyday How many pillows each of us have on our beds What Beth's bed looks like and how she makes it every day How Beth became a bedding stylist How you can create a luxurious bed in a realistic way We answer all of your burning bedding questions, including how to coordinate with your existing bedding collection, how to streamline bed making so you're more likely to do it, where to put your pillows when you get into the bed, and how many throw pillows are too many?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi guys, welcome back to the How to Decorate Podcast. We are the Ladies of Ballard Designs,

0:06.4

and we're going to teach you how to decorate your homes. Yay.

0:25.9

Before we get into our trials and triumphs, we're just going to introduce ourselves.

0:27.5

I'm Caroline MacDonald.

0:29.6

I'm in charge of our blog, How to Decorate.com.

0:33.5

And I'm Terran Schwartz, and I'm in the product design area.

0:36.6

I'm Karen Mooney, and I'm in Brand.

0:38.7

And we're your hosts.

0:39.3

We're your hosts.

0:39.5

Hi.

0:46.7

So let's do our trials and triumphs where we each share good and a bad thing going on in our world of design.

0:50.4

I know I feel I'm struggling with this, Caroline.

0:52.1

I need to do more designing. Mine are all disasters, mostly. Mine are very, very, Caroline. I need to do more designing. So I have...

0:54.2

Mine are all disasters, mostly.

0:56.8

Mine are very, very loosely associated with design.

1:00.9

All right, let's hear...

1:01.5

Okay, my bad thing is that today, my RF and V keys on my keyboard stopped working.

1:10.9

Okay, that has nothing to do with design.

1:12.4

I know it doesn't.

1:13.2

But isn't that annoying?

1:14.3

It has to do with your design blog.

1:15.7

It has to do with my, yeah, with work.

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