I like it very much. I also like her. :)

Great video, thanks, Gizmo! I’ve seen her lovely home many times in magazines and such, but never this in-depth. Very enjoyable to watch.

She and the store are well-known and well-loved within the design industry around here. I can relate to her style and design philosophy more than most I see on Homeworthy.

D did a feature on her this year:

https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-home/2023/january-february/coco-and-dash-teddie-garrigan-apartment-tour/

The store … I can only dream:

https://cocoanddash.com

ETA: I’ve been wanting to do trim on the Olives, like she did:

But more this sort of pattern and style — I don’t care for the trim she used above. It looks tacked on. (Har har.)

And this Ralph Lauren fabric on one of her chairs! I’ve been wanting it on a pillow, but it’s pricey. I like how subtle it is:

Maximalist with discipline and a certain restraint.

This came up in my YT feed but I've been a bit turned off to HW so didn't open it. So glad you shared this--I really connect with her style and her sentiment. Love the line "I just absorbed it". It definitely feels European/Southern--styles I do emulate.

Teeda, I really like this quote (from the D Magazine article), especially the last line:

“I don’t consider myself a full maximalist, but I’m not a hoarder—I don’t like clutter,” Teddie says. “Everything in this apartment has some meaning, down to the tiniest detail. It has a patina to me, and it carries energy from other people and memories and places.”

Love that, Jilly.

What a nice home. I like the warmth with which she talks about her husband and father. A few observations:

1. Often decorators start with a pretty fabulous home, which is cheating in a way. This home was a characterless empty box from all I can see. That's skill

2. OMG there are those tiger pillows again. MY DH will kill me if I buy any more pillows but I want them soooo bad Homeworthy

3. I love matelasss, but I have not seen it on furniture before. Kind of an upgrade to my off white cotton duck babies that I have all over. I am filing this idea away.

4. Re having family photos to look thru - KSWL, didn't you have them on a carousel in your old basement?

5. I want to hang art on bookcases. I don't really have either. This is probably not happening

6. Those lampshades, swoon

7. Forget antelope, bring on the cheetah

8.I want my portrait take by the person who took this of her

I liked a lot of it, too. There are the monkeys again. I need more monkeys. I have one tiny brass monkey figurine that has been with me forever and still makes me smile.

The basket of photos…I have loose photos in a tray on the coffee table in our tv room/den, who knew that was a thing? But now I need to upgrade to a pretty scalloped basket.

I am still wondering where to actually put my feet on that coffee table, though.

Jilly, I have a pic of this chair saved, too! I love it. I thought of The Olives when she talked about her green velvet sofa!

A friend has this monkey chandelier. I hate and love it.

I find

Often decorators start with a pretty fabulous home, which is cheating in a way. This home was a characterless empty box from all I can see. That's skill

This is an interesting thing. Some houses are so beautiful that they look beautiful completely empty. Houses of the era that I lived in before this one, 1840ish and before, are frequently so nicely proportioned and detailed that they don't need things in them to make them better. (And unfortunately, they can start to look worse with things in them)

On the other hand, a characterless white box, if it is the right shape, is not all that hard to work with either. You can do something in a plain white box if it is a nice rectangle with a well placed window.

The worst is a lot of new construction with indefinably shaped "spaces" that bleed into each other, rather than rooms (a house can be open plan but still have rooms with big openings, and not just be a blob of a space) and then lots of architectural details added, for interest.

I don't think she would be able to carry this off in the typical Toll Brothers McMansionish type house because she would be starting out with a lot of ill-proportioned spaces and gee gaws added on that would be hard to camouflage or would be too bossy to decorate around like this.

She clearly has beautful taste, but it is too full (of uniquivocally lovely things) for me. The bedroom is perfect though

I am drawn to the coziness the very low ceiling provide. Sometimes very high ceilings leave a room feeling void of warmth maybe.