Slow Style Home: Decorating Personal, Meaningful Interiors

Zandra Zuraw
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  • Home & Garden
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You want a home that’s uniquely you. One that reflects your passions, values and lifestyle. And you want to create one on your own, without having to hire a designer, breaking the bank, or hurting the planet. The challenge is that there are too many voices telling you what trend to jump on, what rules you must follow, and what “beautiful” looks like. Plus, you don’t want to scrap everything you own and start all over. It’s hard to know how to wrap your arms around this big, important concept called “home!” On this podcast, you’ll learn from the experts exactly why some rooms work (and others don’t), how to master a mix of styles and preferences when you have a bunch of them jumbled together, and inspiration for being brave and taking the creation of your dream home into your own hands.   Want me to stop in your hometown on the book tour? Leave me a message with your thoughts on where I should hold an event (a bookshop, gallery, antiques store, garden, historic home, etc ), and your contact info.  https://www.speakpipe.com/SlowStyleHome

  1. 10h ago

    More Than a Houseplant: Bringing Nature Home with Lori Weitzner

    Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! In this Designers at Home episode, I visit a New York City loft where nature isn’t something added to the design. It’s what the design is made of. When we talk about bringing nature indoors, the conversation usually stops at houseplants. But there are so many other ways in: walls made from banana fiber and handmade paper, upholstery layered in natural fibers, patterns drawn from leaves and honeycombs, and cane chairs that are allowed to wear with time. Nature is one of the five design elements I talk about in my book that are found in every Slow Styled Home, and this loft is full of it. Subscribe to see and hear the full video home tour with pattern designer Lori Weitzner, room by room and story by story. Explore Lori’s fabrics, wallcoverings, her book Ode to Color, and her free color quiz at https://www.loriweitzner.com/ Support the show and subcribe here: https://slowstylehome.supercast.com! You'll have access to ALL full length audio and video episodes each week!  Use code: style10 to take an additional 10% off your purchase at Aura House. Elegant diffusers. Clean, pure scents.  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, above.  Take the quiz: What's Your Style DNA? Aura House + Slow Style Home: Elegant diffusers, clean scents, non-toxic.

  2. Oct 26

    3 Approaches to Shopping Vintage Shows with Amy Abrams

    Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! Just before the first Material Matters opened in New York, I sat down with its founder, Amy Abrams, who also runs Artists & Fleas and Manhattan Vintage, to talk about building a home show for the “home curious.” She tells the story of the round Crate & Barrel table that showed up two weeks after her wedding and has since become vintage itself, and we compare notes on what we each hope to find at a show. At the end, I share three approaches to shopping a vintage show that came out of our conversation: something specific, something general, and serendipity. Material Matters returns November 7–8 in NYC’s Flatiron District. https://materialmatters.world/ Support the show and subcribe here: https://slowstylehome.supercast.com! You'll have access to ALL full length audio and video episodes each week!  Use code: style10 to take an additional 10% off your purchase at Aura House. Elegant diffusers. Clean, pure scents.  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, above.  Take the quiz: What's Your Style DNA? Aura House + Slow Style Home: Elegant diffusers, clean scents, non-toxic.

  3. Oct 19

    Limit the Pieces, Not the Styles: Disciplined Maximalism with Philip Mitchell

    Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode! If your taste runs in more than one direction, this conversation is a good place to start. Canadian designer Philip Mitchell, author of Collected Interiors: Rooms That Tell a Story, loves too many things to settle on one style, and his rooms mix centuries and cultures without apology. What makes it work isn't limiting the styles. It's being picky about how many pieces are out at once, and giving each one enough breathing room that you notice the contrast between them. I call it disciplined maximalism. We take it apart using one entryway from his book, along with his trick for clients who can't say what they love: ask them what they don't. Photos are on the show notes page at SlowStyleHome.com. Support the show and subcribe here: https://slowstylehome.supercast.com! You'll have access to ALL full length audio and video episodes each week!  Use code: style10 to take an additional 10% off your purchase at Aura House. Elegant diffusers. Clean, pure scents.  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, above.  Take the quiz: What's Your Style DNA? Aura House + Slow Style Home: Elegant diffusers, clean scents, non-toxic.

  4. Sep 28

    A Great Mix Is a Good Conversation — with Nadia Watts

    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 difference isn't matching. It's that every piece is in conversation with something else in the room: a color, a finish, or a material picked up and answered somewhere nearby. Subscribe to see and hear the full portfolio review: a wall built for a painting, a powder room with one sconce on purpose, a hand-painted French chandelier that matches nothing in its room, and Nadia's family story as a descendant of Louis Comfort Tiffany. Support the show and subcribe here: https://slowstylehome.supercast.com! You'll have access to ALL full length audio and video episodes each week!  Use code: style10 to take an additional 10% off your purchase at Aura House. Elegant diffusers. Clean, pure scents.  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, above.  Take the quiz: What's Your Style DNA? Aura House + Slow Style Home: Elegant diffusers, clean scents, non-toxic.

  5. Sep 21

    This Is How You Train Your Eye. No Formula. Just Practice, with Sophie von Oertzen Williamson

    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 28, she didn't have the aesthetic she has today. Not for lack of talent — she just hadn't lived those years yet. Subscribe to see the full portfolio walkthrough, photo by photo, straight from her book — including the pink that took twenty color tests to get right. Support the show and subcribe here: https://slowstylehome.supercast.com! You'll have access to ALL full length audio and video episodes each week!  Use code: style10 to take an additional 10% off your purchase at Aura House. Elegant diffusers. Clean, pure scents.  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, above.  Take the quiz: What's Your Style DNA? Aura House + Slow Style Home: Elegant diffusers, clean scents, non-toxic.

  6. Sep 14

    Why a $195 Throw Blanket Is a Bargain — with Lauren Hidalgo of Awarehouse

    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 actually worth. The $25 throw pillow doesn't feel like a real purchase. But enough of those add up to real money, spent on things with no story and a short life. Subscribe to hear Lauren and me walk through four specific pieces — what they're made of, who made them, and what they actually cost you once you do the math on the alternative. Support the show and subcribe here: https://slowstylehome.supercast.com! You'll have access to ALL full length audio and video episodes each week!  Use code: style10 to take an additional 10% off your purchase at Aura House. Elegant diffusers. Clean, pure scents.  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, above.  Take the quiz: What's Your Style DNA? Aura House + Slow Style Home: Elegant diffusers, clean scents, non-toxic.

  7. Sep 7

    Your Home Has a Volume Control Panel. Aubrey Butcher Knows How to Use It.

    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 which to let shout. And because she and Kale spend their days sourcing stone and tile from around the world, the thing she reaches for to turn the volume back up isn't what you'd expect. Subscribe to see the full tour — the rooms where she goes completely quiet, the ones where she turns it all the way up, and the marble that's doing some of the loudest work in the house. Support the show and subcribe here: https://slowstylehome.supercast.com! You'll have access to ALL full length audio and video episodes each week!  Use code: style10 to take an additional 10% off your purchase at Aura House. Elegant diffusers. Clean, pure scents.  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, above.  Take the quiz: What's Your Style DNA? Aura House + Slow Style Home: Elegant diffusers, clean scents, non-toxic.

  8. Aug 31

    Does Your House Need Hushing? Backwards Decluttering with Myquillyn Smith

    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 proven you actually miss them. Somewhere in the middle of it, I found myself naming something that's been rattling around in my head for years. Myquillyn trusts the gut — how does the room feel — and I love that. But I also love having one very literal, stopwatch-able way to check the gut's math: if it takes you more than ten minutes to get a room back to feeling right, you have too much stuff in it. Not too much by anyone else's count. Too much for you. I'm calling it the Ten-Minute Threshold, and once you start using it, you can't stop measuring every room in your house by it. We also get into her three categories of “soulful objects” — past, present, and future — worth keeping around, and why the goal was never to own less. It's to own only what earns its place. Support the show and subcribe here: https://slowstylehome.supercast.com! You'll have access to ALL full length audio and video episodes each week!  Use code: style10 to take an additional 10% off your purchase at Aura House. Elegant diffusers. Clean, pure scents.  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, above.  Take the quiz: What's Your Style DNA? Aura House + Slow Style Home: Elegant diffusers, clean scents, non-toxic.

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You want a home that’s uniquely you. One that reflects your passions, values and lifestyle. And you want to create one on your own, without having to hire a designer, breaking the bank, or hurting the planet. The challenge is that there are too many voices telling you what trend to jump on, what rules you must follow, and what “beautiful” looks like. Plus, you don’t want to scrap everything you own and start all over. It’s hard to know how to wrap your arms around this big, important concept called “home!” On this podcast, you’ll learn from the experts exactly why some rooms work (and others don’t), how to master a mix of styles and preferences when you have a bunch of them jumbled together, and inspiration for being brave and taking the creation of your dream home into your own hands.   Want me to stop in your hometown on the book tour? Leave me a message with your thoughts on where I should hold an event (a bookshop, gallery, antiques store, garden, historic home, etc ), and your contact info.  https://www.speakpipe.com/SlowStyleHome

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