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How to Decorate

Ep.70: Carson Kressley & Thom Filicia

How to Decorate

Ballard Designs

Arts, Business, Design

4.2785 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week, we are five peas in a podcast with besties and designers Carson Kressley and Thom Filicia. These hilarious gentlemen talk to us about how they met at the gym and eventually became members of the smash show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and a sneak peek into their new show Get a Room on Bravo. They also talk about why bad taste is better than no taste, their love of using design to tell a story, and how authenticity is the number one design trend in modern day culture. What You’ll Hear on This Episode: The hilarious story on how Thom and Carson met at the gym How they auditioned and got picked for Queer Eye, and went on to bond filming over 100 episodes together Their mutual love for taking on both large budget “dream” projects, and more small affordable DIY’s The impressive knowledge that there is a difference between draperies and curtains Thom and Carson’s tips to make a big impact with small places and smaller things Why we shouldn’t be afraid to mix brands and prices in design, the same way we do with fashion More about anchor pieces in each room, and why it’s crucial to invest in at least these items What makes their design show Get a Room unique, and how the show was developed Carson and Thom’s mission when working with people: to tell their story and bring it out in a beautiful way, and be serious about design while not taking themselves (or life) too seriously Why your kitchen may be your new living room

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

0:04.7

decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator. So we'll be interviewing interior designers,

0:08.7

stylists, and other talents in the design world, sharing the trials and triumphs of our own homes,

0:13.2

and also answering your decorating questions. I'm Caroline. I run the Ballard Design's blog,

0:17.6

How to Decorate. And I'm Taryn, and I'm in product design at Ballard.

0:22.6

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

0:23.7

My name's Carson and I shop there a lot.

0:26.2

My name's Tom, and I love to decorate.

0:30.0

I think we've got everything cover.

0:32.8

John, okay, see you next week.

0:34.9

Thanks for listening to How to Decorate the Podcast, episode 70.

0:48.8

Hi.

0:49.6

Hi.

0:50.4

How much fun is this?

0:53.5

I'm excited.

0:54.5

We're like five P's in a podcast.

0:56.5

We are.

0:57.3

How long have you been rehearsing that?

0:59.6

I just came up with that this second.

1:01.4

I looked at Pod and I was like, what am I going to do with Pod?

1:03.7

And I was like, peas, of course.

1:05.4

What else is there?

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