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20 questions with Margot Austin

Check out how Style at Home senior design editor Margot Austin prefers to spend her Sundays and what design store she could spend hours browsing.

13 What do you think is the easiest way to update a room?
Edit.

14 Best coffee table book
Balenciaga by Marie-Anderee Jouve (Les Editions du Regard, 1988). A stunning chronicle of the work of the fashion industry’s most extraordinarily talented designers.

15 What’s your fave way to spend a lazy Sunday?
Daybed + blanket + Diet Coke + books, mags and laptop + French bulldog curled up and snoring.

16 Do you like to be the entertainer or be entertained?
Entertained.

17 What do you think is the best renovation you can do to your home?

The kitchen. When it’s right, you can live with anything else that’s not quite right in your home. When it’s wrong, nothing in your home – or life – is quite on target.

18 What is your fave space that you’ve designed?
My kitchen. I’m quite fickle, so its remarkable that I still like it 3 years later (though I am considering painting the floor!).

19 What’s the biggest design faux pas?
Inertia – having no design at all.

20 Marilyn, Audrey or Jackie?

Audrey, natch!

margot-austin-parkerrd.jpgMargot's knack for decorating and her love of fabric is evident is this living space she designed -- the bench is a secondhand piece that she got reupholstered in a llght paisley printed textile.

 

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