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How to Decorate

Ep. 64: designer Bunny Williams

How to Decorate

Ballard Designs

Arts, Business, Design

4.2785 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2018

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Design superstar and podcast fan favorite Bunny Williams joins us to talk about her new studio and creative getaway, her new upholstery collection, how to change a room with a simple few statement pieces, and a whole Living Room 101 lesson. What You'll Hear on This Episode: Bunny's new office that is adjacent to her home and how she converted a four bedroom house into one giant room with a beautiful viewA glimpse into her busy New York office and how she finds time and space to get inspiredHer new book “Affairs with Other Houses” due in the springHow Bunny Williams Home started 10 years ago, built out of a need for certain products for Bunny’s design projects and how it grew into upholstery, lighting and accessoriesThe optimum size and height of a drink table and why no guest should ever be without a place to set their drinksThe addition of modern fixtures in a traditional home and the ability to mix contemporary with antiqueBunny’s tips for organizing things by groups to create an interesting statementBreak up the finishes, textures and colors so each piece stands out on it’s ownHow to know what brown furniture to keep as is and which to paintWhy pieces should move around throughout the house over time, even as your tastes changeWhy we should invest in wonderful furniture pieces as a lifetime purchaseWhy the furniture has to fit the scale and proportions of the room it is going in, so you may want to opt for the 7 foot couch vs the 9 foot couchHer new upholstery collection, including a scallop backed sofa, chairs and casegoodsThe origin of the name of 'slipper chairs'Raffia as a great way to provide a clean and streamlined texture to a roomLighting options including standing lamps, and lighting fixtures on an end tableWhy your collection of items should be personal to you and not something you have someone else purchase just to fill the roomHow studying magazines will give you the confidence to make decisions in your own home

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi and welcome back to the How to Decorate Podcast from Ballard Designs. We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator. 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. I'm Caroline. I run the Ballard Designs blog, How to Decorate. And I'm Taryn, and I'm on the product design team at Ballard.

0:23.0

And I'm Karen Mooney, and I had a branding at Ballard.

0:26.3

We are your host.

0:27.4

Welcome back, Caroline.

0:28.8

Yay.

0:29.2

I'm so excited.

0:31.9

Oh, we missed you so much.

0:33.9

Taryn and I are so bad at this person.

0:35.4

I realize, yeah, you are, like, the three of us make quite a good balance.

0:40.2

Oh, God.

0:40.8

You're on Cornerstone.

0:41.8

We were literally like idiots.

0:43.3

Yeah.

0:43.9

We're like, oh, we just have dilemmas?

0:45.1

Who brought those?

0:45.8

We don't know.

0:46.3

I don't know.

0:46.8

Who's in charge here?

0:47.4

Oh, sorry.

0:48.6

No more babies for either of you.

0:50.4

Yes. Yeah. Don't worry. I mean, she is wonderful, but I can't handle another one anytime soon at this point.

0:58.2

Well, and I, Karen and I try to answer or I respond to everyone who did sit in dilemmas.

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