Ep. 12 with editor Betsy Riley

Published: March 28, 2017, 7 a.m.

**Disclaimer: We had some technical difficulty with one of our mics. It refused to cooperate! We hope you'll enjoy the show anyway.**\n\nBeing the design-aholics we are, we couldn\u2019t turn down an opportunity to interview the Editor-in-Chief of Atlanta Magazine\u2019s HOME, Betsy Riley. We have Betsy to thank for reviving the title in 2015. Each issue brings some of the most gorgeous and inspiring spaces in Atlanta, so we were thrilled to pick her brain about what makes a house magazine-worthy and how she decorates in her own home.\nWHAT YOU\u2019LL HEAR IN THIS EPISODE:\n\nKaren\u2019s bathroom-related entertaining disaster\xa0Karen tested our Brian Patrick Flynn\u2019s drapery training trickTaryn talks about her entertaining pet peeve \u2014 everyone gravitating to the kitchenTaryn\u2019s shade swap with a big lighting lesson \u2014 take your lamp base to the store!Why some beautiful homes just aren\u2019t right for a magazineHow she picks which homes to feature and what types of spaces don\u2019t make it to the magazineWhat her biggest decorating challenge isWhy you have to be able to let things goBetsy\u2019s tips for making your spaces look good in photographsWe talk about Betsy\u2019s black and white issue