Slow Style Home: Decorating Personal, Meaningful Interiors

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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 don't think gets said enough: handmade isn't a shopping category, like “farmhouse” or “coastal.” It's a relationship — with a maker, with a place you found something, with your own two hands. And once you start seeing it that way, you can't really unsee it.
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Aura House + Slow Style Home: Elegant diffusers, clean scents, non-toxic.

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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 who you already are, but something more outward: a home that carries what you value and offers it, on purpose, to the people who walk through your door. Danielle spent years studying this firsthand, from her teenage mentorship in an antique dealer's shop to her own French in-laws' apartment in Paris.
We discuss how the entryway becomes an embrace, why the French salon is never once arranged around a television, and the story of the asparagus dinner that broke every rule and kept every ritual at the same time.

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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 full length version.  The podcast is on break for two weeks.  Subscribe to hear all of the new full length episodes! 

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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 many ways irrelevant” to how she looks at a painting. The pieces she loves best aren't always the most technically accomplished — they're the ones that catch her somewhere specific: a color balance, a blank face, a detail she can't quite explain. That's the whole method, and it's one anyone can use.
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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 book about renovating a hundred-year-old house in Woodstock, Illinois. What it became, she told me, was a book about giving up the need for things to be finished and correct on her own schedule — and what that release made possible in her marriage and with her four daughters.
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