Slow Style Home: Decorating Personal, Meaningful Interiors

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! This week we're talking with the design duo behind Jersey Ice Cream Company , Tara Mangini and Percy Bright.   They offer "full service" home design, and they mean that very literally.  Tara and Percy specialize in moving into a home for several months, actually living there to understand its particular quirks and to give themselve...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Today we're airing another episode of "On the LYC."  You've probably figured this out but, LYC stands for Little Yellow Couch, and it symbolizes everything we're about: making time to have meaningful conversations with friends while sitting comfortably in a beautiful space.  Or at least on an aesthetically pleasing piece...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Our guest today is interiors expert, Anna Smith, founder of the blog and interior design firm,   Annabode and Company .  Anna lives in Colorado and really enjoys working face to face with clients in her community.  But she also does e-design for people across the country.  We particularly love seeing her own home as she and her husband renovate a...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Hannah Bullivant is our lovely guest today!  She is a stylist for dozens of brands and loves her work.  But a couple of personal upheavals led her to completely change her lifestyle and the aesthetic of her home and surroundings.  On her blog, she chronicles her transformation and the home that has resulted from celebrating every day delights tha...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Today we're talking with Emily Henson .  By day, she's a professional stylist making brands look their absolute best.  But the other side to Emily is the blogger who feels that only showing perfectly styled vignettes, rooms and whole houses is unproductive and unhealthy for our self esteem.   She's the author of three books.  Moder...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Today we're airing another episode of "On the LYC."  You've probably figured this out but, LYC stands for Little Yellow Couch, and it symbolizes everything we're about: making time to have meaningful conversations with friends while sitting comfortably in a beautiful space.  Or at least on an aesthetically pleasing piece...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Jennifer Harrison of Flea Market Fab joins us for a special bonus excerpt about our shared love for Mr. Abe Lincoln. 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 subscription link...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Today we're interviewing our first stylist who is creating a beautiful home...  on wheels!  Katie Nathey of Mountain Modern Life blogs about living in a 280 sq ft RV camper with her handy-man husband, Eric.  Katie's style, actually her whole lifestyle, is focused on nature, and in particular, the inspiration she gets from spending time...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Our guest this week is the wildly entertaining and talented Emily Murray of The Pink House . Her mission is to translate her sparkling life as a no- strings- attached London girl into a home that is now filled with a husband and two children.  But rather than write a blog about the ups and downs of being a mom, she decided to figure out how to cr...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Today we are excited to bring to you our chat with Jana Roach, co-founder of the enchanting Vintage Whites Market , an antiques market with over 150 vendors in 4 different states.  Jana shares with us the humble beginnings of the market in a garage as well as great stories behind the inspiring event the market has become.  She also shares her per...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Today we're airing another episode of "On the LYC."  You've probably figured this out but, LYC stands for Little Yellow Couch, and it symbolizes everything we're about: making time to have meaningful conversations with friends while sitting comfortably in a beautiful space.  Or at least on an aesthetically pleasing piece...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Max Humphrey is an interior designer based in Portland, Oregon with an unfussy style and commitment to creating interesting spaces that reflect the people that live, work, and play in them. He's been featured in national and international design magazines and recent work has included residential home designs in Oregon and down the West Coast...

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Today we're talking with Megan Pflug , a Brooklyn based interior designer who is committed to hands-on decorating that includes DIY, as well as layering a home with a mix of vintage finds and newly purchased products.  Her projects are some of our favorites in terms of fearlessness and creativity.  You absolutely must check out her photos on...

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...