Slow Style Home: Decorating Personal, Meaningful Interiors

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! We are so excited to introduce our first guest of season 6! We are talking with none other than Rebecca Atwood , the very popular textile designer and author of " Living With Pattern ."  We love Rebecca's beautiful pillows, linens, wallpapers and fabrics, and in this episode, we get to ask her about her own story, her business phil...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Style Matters podcast is taking a break for the holiday season. We wish all of you a happy and healthy new year. We will return on January 9th with all new episodes. Subscribe to the show to access future episodes! Going forward, we'll continue to publish 1 free episode per month.  If you'd like to have access to the other 3-4 episodes...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Our guests today are Igor Josifovic and Judith DeGraaff, co-creators of the Urban Jungle Bloggers community and authors of the newly released book, Urban Jungle .  In it, they feature people who have homes filled with plants, showing how living greenery is  incorporated into different kinds of decor.  The book is also packed with a lot of practic...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! This week we talk with Hannah Russell, co-founder of Layer , an online, curated marketplace of vintage items, based in London.  The items for sale are bought and sold by professional antiquarians but anyone can apply to be a seller, much like eBay.  Unlike eBay, Layer is set up more like a fantastic thrift store or antiques shop with a charming a...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Welcome to the second installment of On The LYC , a periodic special episode where Zandra and I sit down for a chat about design dilemmas, our current obsessions and some "why not" ideas.  We even answer a listener's design question.  This episode is all about the upcoming holidays, so come hang out with us on the Little Yellow Cou...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! This week we talk with one of our favorite people on Instagram, Lisa Dawson .  Her dramatic style immediately pulled us in but it's her personality that has us hooked!  You'll know what we mean once you start listening!  In this episode, we chat about getting rid of a perfectly good kitchen, developing an aesthetic that doesn't car...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! We are joined this week by the lovely Jeran McConnel of Oleander & Palm , a lifestyle and design blog.  Jeran shares with us about living a simple life in California.  Her website is full of visual and DIY inspiration and her design sense comes from years of living abroad in third world countries.   She lives and exudes that sense of industri...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! We are so happy to have Melinda McCoy on the show today!  We have become friends with Melinda through many, many conversations on Instagram, where we first discovered her elegant and welcoming home. Melinda is passionate about cultivating a timeless style that makes the tasks of daily life feel pleasurable.  And that approach is exactly what she...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! This week's guest is Jennifer Harrison of Flea Market Fab .  We sit with baited breath every day looking at her Instagram feed for new drool worthy photos of her textile layered home.  Jennifer has been honing her flea market fabulous style since she was a kid being dragged to estate sales and antique markets with her mother.  Her home is ex...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! In this episode, we talk with Roger Hazard and Chris Stout-Hazard, founders of the boutique furniture company, Roger + Chris . We first found them on Instagram and were immediately taken with Chris's photography. You can tell right away that furniture is going to be an integral part of the entire experience they want you to have in your home...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! So this is our 51st episode and we're introducing something a little new... Karen and I are going to interview each other today!  We've designed the show around 4 different segments, which we'll tell you about as we go.  We're going to try this out about once a month, mixed in with our regular interviews of guests in the home...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! If you've been at all following home design blogs over the past decade, you'll be familiar with our guests this week, John and Sherry Petersik of Young House Love .  Their blog was one of the first out there to hit the big time, due to a combination of their warm  personalities and their roll-up-your sleeves attitude toward renovation a...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Today we're talking with Natalie Freeman : blogger, farmer and entrepreneur.   She and her husband own a farm in Arkansas that also serves as a community gathering place.  They recently opened up an old-fashioned general store called " Freckeled Hen Farmhouse ," which, like the rest of their lives, is a mix of beloved tradition and...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Our guest today, Joanna Thornhill , has spent many years in the interiors industry, multitasking like crazy.  She stages photo shoots, sources props for styling and does project management and social media planning for all kinds of brands who need her particular eye for design.  And she also fits in private clients looking for help decorating the...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! We are delighted to have Karonlina Barnes as our guest on the show this week.  She is the editor in chief of the UK based online magazine, High In Style , which has reached 10,000 subscribers in its first year.  First we'll hear her personal story.  Undaunted by major health issues and moving to new countries with small children in tow, her...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! We first came across Anne Sage through her book, " Sage Living ".  We were drawn to the subtitle, "Decorate for The Life You Want," because it sounded like she would be talking about the very substantial link we believe in, between your home and the foundation of a happy life.  And we were not disappointed!  This book is full...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Little Yellow Couch is taking the month of August off but listen to what we have coming next season starting in September. Subscribe to the show to access future episodes! Going forward, we'll continue to publish 1 free episode per month.  If you'd like to have access to the other 3-4 episodes each month, please click on the subscriptio...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Today we're being graced with the presence of the Hovey sisters, Hollister and Porter.  Together, they make up the interior decor and staging team behind Hovey Design , they have authored a book called "Heirloom Modern" , with jaw dropping photos and personal stories about style, and they also share a home together in Brooklyn...to...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! This week we are talking to our new friend, the fabulous, Dabito. It's hard to pin down exactly what he does because he's multi-talented, but along with being the professional photographer for Justina Blakeney's best selling book, The New Bohemians, Dabito is a stylist, printmaker, graphic designer and the blogger behind Old Brand...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! We welcome you to snuggle up on the couch this week with your favorite pet and listen in on our chat with unashamed maximalist Kimberly Duran of the blog Swoonworthy .  We fell in love with her "eclectic boho glam" style at first sight.   She has truly discovered the design balance of bold colors and tactile fabrics with luxe finishes w...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! If you've seen the home of Molly Madfis, the blogger behind Almost Makes Perfect , you'll know why she's one of our favorite sources of inspiration.  If you haven't been following her, you soon will, along with pinning her DIYs like crazy after this interview. Pretty much everything she puts out is beautiful and accessible, no...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! One of our favorite designers and tastemakers is Barb Blair, founder of Knack Studios so we are thrilled to be talking with her today.  Barb not only transforms old furniture into new pieces for modern homes, she gets our mantras of "buy what you love" and "every home tells a story."  In her new book, Furniture Makes the Room...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! We are delighted to have Sharon Santoni as our guest today.  She is an Englishwoman who has now spent more of her life in France than in her native country, married to a Frenchman and raising 4 children in Normandy.  She lives in a beautiful old farmhouse where she shares her French lifestyle through her blog My French Country Home .  We found he...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Today we are over the moon giddy to be chatting with textile and product designer Lotta Jansdotter .  We have been inspired by her designs and books for years and are so honored to have her on the show.  After chatting with Lotta, Karen has been on a printmaking frenzy ... carving rubber stamp by hand and printing on fabric and paper until her ha...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Our guest today is Erin Boyle, the blogger behind Reading My Tea Leaves and author of " Simple Matters ".  It's a gorgeously photographed and written book  and its focus is on the joys of living with simple pleasures in a small Brooklyn apartment that Erin shares with her husband and young child.  We cover all kinds of aesthetics o...