Ep. 85: designer Cheryl Luckett

How to Decorate

Ballard Designs

Arts, Business, Design

4.2 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Designer Cheryl Luckett joins the show today to talk about form, function, and why we should love a good antique. She shares her background story as a professional dietician turned blogger and talks about pairing multiple fabrics together, where to invest and where to save, and the details people most often overlook. What You’ll Hear on This Episode:Cheryl’s story of working in corporate America for 15 years as a dietician and what led her to a path of design.How to take an antique and make it work to add depth, history, and warmth to a home.More about Cheryl’s experience as a blogger and ways she loves communicating with her clients and followers.What are good pieces to invest in, and where you can save.How we pair two fabrics together, and examples of recent clients where she put it to the test.The details people often overlook, which can help you save time by knowing where your TV remote iThe importance of form and function when creating a cozy yet sleek aesthetic.When you should spend a whole night in your own guest quarters.The essentials of what to put in a guest bathroom and bedroom. Get that plunger ready!Why the smallest knick-knack can have a huge impression on creating a “lived in” feeling in a home.Our love of white towels and pillows with just the right amount of fluff.White towels.Why we should live with something a few days before we make a final verdict on whether we like it or not, or if it works for our home.

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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.
0:06.7	So we'll be interviewing interior designers, stylists, and other talents in the design world,
0:10.6	sharing the trials and triumphs of our own homes, and also answering your decorating questions.
0:14.8	I'm Caroline. I run the Ballard Design's blog, How to Decorate.
0:18.0	And I'm Taryn, and I'm on the product design team at Ballard. And I'm Karen and I head up branding at Ballard.
0:22.8	We are your hosts.
0:23.7	Hey, y'all.
0:37.3	Okay. I think we're going to do some trials and triumphs this week. Awesome. Yay. As you guys know,
0:38.5	I did the basement renovation. And while we had our contractor there, we decided to renovate
0:44.7	an upstairs bathroom. So when we renovated the house like four years ago, renovated the kitchen,
0:51.5	and then added a second floor.
0:54.8	But we didn't do anything with one of the bathrooms on the main floor.
0:59.5	It's basically the only piece of the house we didn't touch.
1:02.2	And it seemed fine before we renovated it.
1:04.7	But after everything got renovated, then it seemed really sad and depressing and like really like, oh.
1:13.1	So when we had the guy there, we had him it you know it took like hardly any time um but so we ripped out the tub and i just put
1:20.0	in a glass shower and i had bought a vanity from ballard um probably all like a year or two ago
1:27.0	oh wow we don't sell it anymore it was the it was like a year or two ago. Oh, wow.
1:28.1	We don't sell it anymore.
1:28.8	It was like a, it looked like our Belgaard cabinet.
1:31.4	I love it.
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