Slow Style Home: Decorating Personal, Meaningful Interiors

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! In this Think Like A Designer episode, I sit down with Nadia Watts, a Colorado-based interior designer who works all over the country, to look closely at a home filled with salvage-yard finds, family heirlooms, old-world antiques, and contemporary art. It's about why some wildly mixed rooms feel deliberate while others just feel busy. The di...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! In this episode, I sit down with Sophie von Oertzen Williamson, author of The Art of the Clash , to talk about pattern, color, and the mix — and end up talking about how long it actually takes to earn your own eye. Sophie is 42 and has trained her eye across very different worlds: Switzerland, Germany, the UK, Singapore, Ohio, now Connecticut. At...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! In this guest episode, I sit down with Lauren Hidalgo, founder of the online marketplace Awarehouse, to talk about something we rarely stop to add up: what we're actually spending on the small stuff. It's about how we assign value to what we buy — especially handmade objects — and the gap between what something costs and what it's...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! In this Designers at Home episode, I tour the Dallas home of Aubrey Butcher — co-founder, with her husband Kale, of the tile company Riad Tile. Every room has a volume control. Most of us only know how to turn it down — fewer things, blanker walls, quieter colors. Aubrey knows how to work both ends of the dial: which parts of a room to hush, and...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Myquillyn Smith is a lifelong home-lover, three-time guest, and the author of House Hushing — you might know her as The Cozy Minimalist. In this conversation, she walks me through backwards decluttering: her method for clearing a room down to almost nothing, living in it that way for a day or two, and only letting things back in once you've...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! None of the designers I bring on this show share the same aesthetic, and they don't need to. What I'm looking for is the Slow Style philosophy in practice, whether or not they've ever heard the term. I recently toured the home of designer Amy Dutton — a 1920s bungalow on the New Hampshire seacoast that she and her husband gutted an...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! In this guest episode, I sit down with Ali Milam, managing director of Porta Romana, the British lighting and furniture house, to swap some of the best origin stories I've heard in years. If you're the kind of person who loves a historical novel about an artist or architect — the drama around who really painted the portrait, who sat for...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! In this solo episode, I pull a chapter straight out of my book — Handmade — and this time I'm not just talking about it, I'm living it. What started as one paint color turned into curtains, a pleated lampshade, an antique cupboard found on Facebook Marketplace, and a chair I'm already planning to redo. It's about something I d...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! While the podcast is on break, I’m digging into the archives and re-airing my favorites. In this one, I sit down with novelist and New York Times book columnist Danielle Postel-Vinay to talk about what a French home is actually for. It's about home as a vessel for your vision of life — not the self-focused idea of a home that simply mirrors...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! My conversation with Los Angeles designer Kim Gordon is about setting an intention before you design anything at all. Kim asks a house what it wants to be before she draws a single floor plan, and she treats the senses — not the color palette — as the true starting point of a room. This episode comes from our archives and therefore it's the...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! To hear the full episode and see the video, subscribe here . In this guest episode, I sit down with Julia Collins, a London-based art advisor and dealer behind Collins & Green, to talk about how to actually look at a painting — no art history degree required. Julia has a real academic art background, and by her own admission, it's “in ma...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! To hear the full episode and see the video, subscribe here . In this guest episode, I sit down with Chicago-area interior designer and author Maida Korte to talk about what happens when a “tight ship” personality runs headlong into a house that refuses to be controlled. Maida’s new memoir, Gutted: How an Old House Remodeled Me, set out to be a bo...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! To hear the full episode and see the video, subscribe here .  In this Think Like A Designer episode, I sit down with Debbie Mathews, a Nashville-based interior designer and antiques dealer, to look through a curated selection of the rooms she's designed — from a sunroom in Belle Meade to a ranch outside Franklin, Tennessee. Every good client...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! In this solo episode, I'm going deep on one of the five physical elements of every Slow Style home — and arguably the most personal one: Heritage and Culture. It's about heritage as authorship. Not just the objects you've inherited, but the idea that your personal history — however much of it you know, however complicated it is, ho...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! To hear the full episode and see the video, subscribe here .  In this Think Like A Designer episode, I sit down with Liz Williams, an Atlanta-based interior designer known for symmetry, elegance, and an eye for detail, to look through a curated selection of her portfolio — from a grand formal home on the Chattahoochee River to a barn in Madison,...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Want to avoid renovation regrets? I talk with interior designer Danielle Nicholson about the thing that causes more renovation heartbreak than bad tile choices or blown budgets: starting before you’re actually ready. Danielle’s book “Don’t Start Without Me” is built around a single idea: the real work of renovating happens before you even talk to...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! In this Designers at Home episode, I tour the home of Jill Litner Kaplan, a Boston-area interior designer whose approach to decorating stopped me in my tracks — not because it's flashy or maximalist, but because of a single idea I couldn't stop thinking about after I left.  It's about how color palates emerge from storytelling as o...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! What does a 2007 issue of Domino have in common with a room you'd design today? More than you'd think. In this episode, I dig through a stack of old design magazines — Domino, Flea Market Style, House Beautiful, Veranda, and Country Living, spanning 2007 to 2019 — and ask the question I find myself returning to constantly: what still ho...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! This week's episode is a little different — and honestly, a little vulnerable for me. After ten years and more than 400 episodes of Slow Style Home, I'm pulling back the curtain on what it's really taken to create this podcast, and why I've decided to make a significant change. I've always believed that what we choose to...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! I keep thinking about how often we walk into a gallery already convinced we don’t belong there and how quickly that belief starts to shape what we choose. In this week's episode, I sit down with gallery owner Liz Lidgett to talk about her new book “Art Is For Everyone”. Because collecting art isn’t about having the right words or the right b...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! The Slow Style Home podcast is is for you if you're tired of cookie-cutter decor but you don't know how to pull of a mix of styles, you want to know when to save and when to splurge, and if you care about the health of our planet and and getting off of the disposable decor hamster wheel.  On this show, you’ll learn about all of the vari...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! In this episode of the Designers at Home series, I take you inside the home of designer Jo Berryman, a space that, to me, perfectly embodies what it means to honor both history and personal expression. As we move through her home together, I’m struck by how effortlessly she blends old and new, preserving original architectural details while layer...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Are you in the middle of a major life transition and feeling stuck between who you were and who you’re becoming? This episode is for you. Whether you’re navigating a career change, an empty nest, a move, or just a season of life that feels uncertain, your home doesn’t have to sit on pause while you wait for things to settle. In fact, the in-betwe...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! In this episode, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Rachel Ashwell, and what stayed with me most wasn’t just her iconic aesthetic; it was her mindset. We talked about her move back to the English countryside, her need for the rhythm of the seasons, and how she approaches her home as something always evolving, never finished. From embracing “...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Interior designer Vera Blouin joins me to talk about her book, “The Reincarnated Room.” Vera sees the home as something that holds the history of who we’ve been, and through design, we can let go of those old layers and create spaces that support who we’re becoming. We explore how materials, light, and texture shape our emotional experience of a...