How to Decorate

Ballard Designs

We want to teach you how to decorate! We'll help you unleash your inner decorator with interviews from interior designers, sharing the trials and triumphs from our own homes, and answering your burning decorating questions. Brought to you from the Ballard Designs team.

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Jul 25, 2017 · 1 hr 1 min
Ep. 27 with designer Meg Braff
We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator. Each episode, we'll interview talents in the design world, share the trials and triumphs of our own homes, and answer your decorating questions.
Jul 18, 2017 · 1 hr 5 min
Ep. 26 Art 101 with Karen Fleenor
We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator. Each episode, we'll be interviewing interior designers, sharing the stories of our own home, and also answering your decorating questions.
Jul 11, 2017 · 1 hr 26 min
Ep. 25 with designer Maggie Griffin
Interior designer Maggie Griffin from Gainesville, Georgia decorates spaces much like her personality, warm, happy, and with classic Southern charm. We loved touring her house and couldn't resist the opportunity to get her on the podcast. If you aren't ye
Jul 4, 2017 · 1 hr 20 min
Ep. 24 with designer Nancy Braithwaite
We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator. Each week, we interview interior designers and other talents in the design world, share the trials and triumphs of our own homes, and answer your decorating questions.
Jun 27, 2017 · 1 hr 8 min
Ep. 23 with the Madcap Cottage Gents, Part 2
We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator. Each episode, we'll be interviewing interior designers and other talents in the design world, sharing the trials and triumphs of our own homes, and answering your decorating
Jun 20, 2017 · 54 min
Ep. 22 with designer Cindy Meador
We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator. We're interviewing interior designs, sharing the trials and triumphs of our own homes, and answering your decorating questions.
Jun 13, 2017 · 1 hr 34 min
Ep. 21 with "The Professor" Phil Lancaster
We want to teach you how to decorate your home and unleash your inner decorator. We interview interior designers, share the trials and triumphs from our own homes, and answer your decorating questions.
Jun 6, 2017 · 1 hr 25 min
Ep. 20 with designer Lisa Mende
Lisa Mende's room in the Traditional Home Southern Style Now Showhouse stopped us in our tracks, so we knew we had to get her on the podcast. Her spaces are bold, jubilant, and inviting, and we quickly learned that she herself is too. If you've ever...
May 30, 2017 · 1 hr 30 min
Ep. 19 with Margot Shaw of Flower Magazine
On Ballard Designs' weekly How to Decorate podcast, we want to teach your how to decorate your home. We interview interior designers, share stories from our own homes, and answer your decorating questions.
May 23, 2017 · 1 hr 2 min
Ep. 18 with designer Mark D. Sikes
This week we have a very special guest all the way from California, interior designer Mark D. Sikes. Mark is a veritable renaissance man with a furniture line, fabric collection, rug collection, book, fashion line, and of course his interior...
May 16, 2017 · 1 hr 14 min
Ep. 17 with Domino Magazine's Jessica Romm Perez
We recently traveled to High Point, North Carolina for their Spring Market and had the chance to sit down with some of our favorite tastemakers. This week, we're sharing our interview with the Editor in Chief of Domino Magazine, Jessica Romm...
May 9, 2017 · 1 hr 12 min
Ep. 16 Mother's Day Edition
This week, we're bringing you a very special Mother's Day edition. Our guests are our three moms! We gave them a little pop quiz and challenged them on how well they know us and how well we know them. We talk about our childhood bedrooms, how our...
May 2, 2017 · 1 hr 14 min
Ep. 15 with Gen Sohr of Pencil & Paper Co
Our guest this week has seriously enviable style that blends vibrant colors with doses of white and black. We love the way she uses vintage pieces but creates rooms that feel totally fresh and modern. Gen Sohr is one half of the husband and wife team...
Apr 25, 2017 · 1 hr 1 min
Ep. 14 with designer Beth Webb
Interior designer Beth Webb's spaces are comfortable, tailored, and utterly timeless, so you can our imagine our delight when she joined us for this week's episode of the podcast. We talk about her recent challenge of blending her own style with her...
Apr 11, 2017 · 1 hr 14 min
Ep. 13 with Bunny Williams
Hold onto your earbuds because our guest today is none other than our own design partner, author, acclaimed interior designer, and hostess extraordinaire Bunny Williams! We traveled to Bunny's office in New York to record this special episode in...
Mar 28, 2017 · 59 min
Ep. 12 with editor Betsy Riley
**Disclaimer: We had some technical difficulty with one of our mics. It refused to cooperate! We hope you'll enjoy the show anyway.** Being the design-aholics we are, we couldn’t turn down an opportunity to interview the Editor-in-Chief of Atlanta...
Mar 14, 2017 · 1 hr 8 min
Ep. 11 with Suzanne Kasler
Today's guest is not only one of our favorite designers and a hometown hero in the design world, she's also our design partner, Suzanne Kasler. Suzanne's interiors are usually riddled with classic furniture pieces, but she presents them with a modern...
Mar 2, 2017 · 57 min
Bonus Boston Episode #2 with Katie Hutchison
We're opening a new store outside of Boston at Natick Mall, and to celebrate, we wanted to talk to some local design talents. You may remember me mentioning Katie Hutchison's book The New Small House on our episode with Annette Joseph. We ended up...
Mar 1, 2017 · 56 min
Bonus Boston Episode #1 with Erin Gates
We're big fans of interior designer, blogger, and author Erin Gates, so when we headed to our new Boston store at Natick Mall, we knew we had to sit down with this local stylemaker. She joined us for our first live podcast recording in the front...
Feb 28, 2017 · 1 hr 15 min
Ep. 10 with interior designer Melanie Turner
We can't help but be struck by how powerful yet restrained interior designer Melanie Turner's spaces are, and we were even more struck by how down-to-earth and cool she is. In only seven short years after opening her interior design...

How to Decorate

Ep. 27 with designer Meg Braff

Ep. 26 Art 101 with Karen Fleenor

Ep. 25 with designer Maggie Griffin

Ep. 24 with designer Nancy Braithwaite

Ep. 23 with the Madcap Cottage Gents, Part 2

Ep. 22 with designer Cindy Meador

Ep. 21 with "The Professor" Phil Lancaster

Ep. 20 with designer Lisa Mende

Ep. 19 with Margot Shaw of Flower Magazine

Ep. 18 with designer Mark D. Sikes

Ep. 17 with Domino Magazine's Jessica Romm Perez

Ep. 16 Mother's Day Edition

Ep. 15 with Gen Sohr of Pencil & Paper Co

Ep. 14 with designer Beth Webb

Ep. 13 with Bunny Williams

Ep. 12 with editor Betsy Riley

Ep. 11 with Suzanne Kasler

Bonus Boston Episode #2 with Katie Hutchison

Bonus Boston Episode #1 with Erin Gates

Ep. 10 with interior designer Melanie Turner