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How to Decorate

Ep. 88: designer Lisa Mende returns

How to Decorate

Ballard Designs

Arts, Business, Design

4.2785 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Designer Lisa Mende returns to the show to talk with us about designing our rooms to the fullest of their potential, and truly creating the home of your dreams. She also shares more about the ins and outs of renovation, her blog The Design Connector, and why design dilemmas are really just opportunities for us to be creative. What You’ll Hear on This Episode: An update on her famous pink sofa, and who else in her household may love it even more than her. Why functionality is just as important as design, and how Lisa helps her clients use every room to the fullest of their function. The crazy story of her studio roof leaking, and how it ended up being a blessing in renovation. Yes, you can both make your home feel like a hotel and have a billiard table in the middle of your living room. More about her blog, The Design Connector, and how it connects us with the people, products, and places we need to know about in the home design world. What she loves about her work with Ballard, and how it inspires us to have a reimagined and fresh new look. The brilliant solution to outdoor couch cushions, and a few of Lisa’s favorites in the outdoor Ballard products including Miles Redd’s collection. Lisa’s answer to Caroline’s painting question for the ceiling in her soon to be new home. How to still use neutral colors in a rich way when you may be not ready to commit to a color. Why design dilemmas are not anything to freak out over but instead are actually great ways for us to be creative problem solvers. Where one can buy leather or fake leather by the yard. Lisa’s rules for using either satin or eggshell finish. Mentioned In This Episode: Lisa Mende Design @lisamendedesign The Design Connector  Miles  Redd’s  Outdoor  Collection

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 into your 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 Design's blog, How to Decorate. And I'm Taryn and I'm on the product design team at Ballard.

0:21.9

And I'm Karen and I head up branding at Ballard.

0:24.7

We're your hosts.

0:25.6

Hey.

0:29.7

We are so pumped.

0:35.1

We in Charlotte today.

0:36.5

We had an amazing event last night in our Charlotte store,

0:39.1

and our guest today was one of our panelists last night. Her name is Lisa Mindy of Lisa Mindy Designs.

0:45.3

And if you have been listening to the podcast for a while, you probably remember her from episode 20.

0:51.2

I believe Lisa, we sat down with you, or we caught up with you and we were all in High Point.

0:55.6

And I know we talked a lot about color.

0:58.2

I think you gave us a good, like lots of good info about paint.

1:02.0

We talked a lot about paint in that episode.

1:04.3

And I remember when we talked to you, you I think had just moved into a new house.

1:10.0

Yes.

1:10.2

You had no furniture.

1:11.4

You had like one sofa. You had our one pink sofa. Yeah, I did. I had your one pink sofa,

1:17.2

which I still have. But that pink sofa has gravitated from the living room to the guest

1:23.4

room. So it's a very versatile piece and everybody in the house loves it. It's just something about

1:30.4

having a pink sofa that as a girl is a fun thing because you feel like it's your sofa. But for some

1:38.9

reason, my dog, Wrigley, thinks it's his sofa. And so that sofa had to go to the guest room because I didn't like Wrigley lounging on the sofa all the time.

1:52.0

And we replaced the living room with a billiard room, so we had to, you know, re-home our furniture in that room.

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