Style Matters Podcast
1) Updating Your Kitchen The Slow Style Way, Featuring Barbara Ballinger and Margaret Crane
Looking back, my kitchen has gone through many lives. It started with painted cabinets and bamboo floors on a tight budget, then evolved through a moody green phase during COVID before finally landing...Show More
2) Listener Spotlight: Global Style with Maria Resto
In this episode, I talked with Maria Resto, a longtime listener whose Chicago home reflects her love of travel, vintage finds, and evolving style. She shared how over 25 years she’s layered antiques, ...Show More
3) Creating Soulful, Whole-Home Color Palettes with Francesca Wezel
This episode with Francesca Wezel is for all you design enthusiasts. Francesca is a colorist who creates stunning, one-of-a-kind colors. She shares the inspiration behind her colorful palettes, includ...Show More
4) Splurge vs. Save: The Pick 2 Principle
This week, I’m answering a listener question from Meg about how to balance style with function, especially when it comes to storage. She wants a home that looks good but also works for real life. I wa...Show More
5) Every Wallpaper Worry Is Solved with Elizabeth Rees of Chasing Paper
In this episode of the Slow Style Home podcast, I talk with Elizabeth Rees, founder of Chasing Paper. We cover what makes her peel-and-stick wallpaper different, why it’s not just for renters, and how...Show More
6) Plan, Connect, and Keep People Out Of Your Kitchen: Mastering the Art of Entertaining with Joseph Marini
In this episode, I talk with Joseph Marini, author of Mastering the Art of Entertaining. We cover what it really means to host, beyond the perfect table setting. Joseph shares why entertaining is abou...Show More
7) Fix My Room: Not Quite A Hallway, Not Quite A Room
In this edition of the Fix My Room series, I spoke with Kayla, who lives on beautiful Vancouver Island in a post-and-beam home full of character and full of wide open spaces. Her main question was wha...Show More
8) Creating Palettes and Composing Rooms Through a Slow Style Lens with Jewel Marlowe
In this episode, I welcome back designer Jewel Marlowe, whose work is bold, layered, and always intentional. We dig into how she builds palettes using color, pattern, and materials—and why contrast ma...Show More
9) What We're Sold and What We Actually Want: How Trends Are Eroding Our Concept of Home with Annetta Grant
This week, I’m joined by Professor Annetta Grant, whose research examines why so many of us feel uneasy in our own homes — even after we’ve renovated them. We dive into her concept of dysplacement (ye...Show More
10) What You Don’t Know About Design Books (And Why I’m Crowdsourcing My Book Tour)
In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on what it really takes to market a design book—especially when you’re doing most of it yourself. This episode is all about doing things with intention, w...Show More