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b'This is the last day of our Nashville Week! Our guest this episode has many layers. Ray Booth is a designer, architect, bestselling author of Evocative Interiors, partner at McALPINE Design and this year launches his inaugural furniture collection with Hickory Chair and his first accessory and lighting collection with Arteriors. We talk to him about the design of his multiple homes including a home that rose from the ashes; Travelers Ridge. We ask him about decorating the mundane spaces, his love of light and drapery, and how to know when we have overfilled a room.\\nWhat You\\u2019ll Hear on This Episode:\\n\\nHow Ray got his start with McALPINE and his journey from Alabama to NYC and back again.\\n\\nThe backstory on Ray\\u2019s grand hilltop home, Travelers Ridge, in Nashville. He literally built the home from the ground up on the land of charred ruins.\\n\\nRay shares how he makes use of the outdoor space using terraces and how he makes a 5200 sq ft home feel intimate using layers, texture, proportion, and scale.\\n\\nRay likes to think of a home as a story using pauses and punctuation and uses things like screens, scrims, and curtains in the home to accomplish that.\\n\\nRay likes to use lightweight and thin drapery in order to \\u201cactivate\\u201d the windows in a room.\\n\\nRay created \\u201cworking pantries\\u201d, complete with a sink, as landing place for dishes and other things so the kitchen can remain the gathering place without having the messy stuff front and center.\\n\\nRound rugs get a bad wrap, but Ray thinks if you do them in a solid color it becomes a fun, graphic way to define a space.\\n\\nIn terms of embracing or ignoring the style of a home, it\\u2019s important to listen and hear what the client is asking for.\\n\\nYou want your design to have staying power, so we have to acknowledge where we are both location wise and architecturally. The design of Ray\\u2019s homes are heavily influenced by this.\\n\\nRay hopes that people will seek more authenticity from their homes due to spending so much time in them during the pandemic. Our homes are such an extension of our inner selves.\\n\\nRay considers light to be \\u201cmagic elixir\\u201d and designs and builds to allow light into the home.\\n\\n\\nMentioned In This Episode:\\nRay Booth Design\\nRay Booth Design on Instagram\\n\\u201cEvocative Interiors\\u201d \\u2013 On Amazon\\nTravelers Ridge\\n\\nDecorating Dilemma \\nHi Amelia,\\nGreat to hear from you again! Here\\u2019s what Ray has to say.\\nLet\\u2019s start with the drapery. A lighter drapery is going to allow the light to come in. If you have to have the blackout option, I would look to a Roman shade instead of the heavy velvet. I would encourage you to not put the patterned fabric on the lampshades. Lamps are for light, so I like the crispness and the brightness of a white shade rather than a gathered fabric shade. If you are going to use that accent fabric, think of doing almost a king-sized pillow with it rather than chopping it into smaller pieces. Color wise, I think your walls are really the opportunity to bring some color into the room. This will contrast with the white lampshades and lighter drapery.\\nKeep decorating and sending us your questions, Amelia!'