Ep. 92: designer Olivia Brock

How to Decorate

Ballard Designs

Arts, Business, Design

4.2 • 785 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Charleston designer Olivia Brock joins the show to talk about her firm Torrance Mitchell Design and her background in historic preservation. We cover it all -- how she fell into interior design, tips on mixing the old and the new, and her go-to paint colors. Olivia never planned on being a designer, but rather a real estate developer that focused on adaptive reuse of historical buildingsHow Olivia started as a paint color consultant The differences between normal housing and the sensitive nature of working with a historical homeOlivia's house in Southern Living which she and her husband totally restoredOur partnership with Olivia on the Traditional Home Southern Style Now Showhouse, and the inspiration behind the guest room How to make old things look fresh and pairing antiques with a modern piecesWhy she sees historical buildings as people that want to tell you their story, and it is up to us to listenWe talk paint -- testing swatches, favorite whites, and moreBrown furniture is making a comeback, baby!Why patience, a great eye for antiques, and love for a home is truly necessary when embarking on a projectHow curtains can really do a lot for a room, and what types Olivia recommends

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome back to the How to Decorate Podcast from Ballard Designs.
0:03.2	We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator,
0:06.5	so we'll be interviewing inter-designer, stylists, and other talents in the design world,
0:10.3	sharing the trials and triumphs of our own homes, and also answering your decorating questions.
0:14.3	I'm Caroline. I run the Ballard Design's blog, How to Decorate.
0:17.4	And I'm Taryn and I'm on the product design team at Ballard. And I'm Karen and I
0:21.1	head of branding at Ballard. We are your hosts. Hey, you.
0:27.5	All right, trials and triumphs. Yay. Oh, good. I want to talk about something. Okay,
0:37.0	you go first then. I have a triumph.
0:38.7	So we had a big Memorial Day sale at our outlet, the Ballard Outlet. I went up to the outlet.
0:44.1	I went like the Friday before Memorial Day and bought some things and I got some really, really, really good stuff, you guys.
0:49.5	But I got the Liddy side table from my living room and it's grass with white glass shelves.
0:55.1	You guys, it's perfect.
0:56.3	So you know how I've fallen out of love with my living room?
0:58.4	Yes.
0:58.8	And I've decided I hate it.
0:59.8	Yes.
1:00.2	Okay.
1:00.5	So this made me almost start loving it again.
1:03.0	I got rid of the table that was in there.
1:04.8	It's sort of like our Olivia table.
1:12.1	So I moved that down to the bar.
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