Style Matters

We are so excited to have Ashley Daly and Ashley Palmer on the podcast today!  They are the owners and creative minds behind Retro Den, a shop located in Tulsa, Oklahoma where they buy, sell, and trade vintage home goods and furniture as well some beautifully curated handmade goods and plants.  They are absolute experts at layering vintage and new and have so much inspiration to share.

Over the past few seasons, we've been collecting little bits of wisdom from the stylists and designers we've had on the show and quoting them on Instagram. When looking at these quotes all together, we've noticed several different themes emerge. So for 2017, we're going to base each of our "On The LYC" episodes on a different theme related to creating a home you love. October is all about ART!

We are so excited to bring our chat with designer and blogger, Victoria Smith of SF Girl By Bay. She started her blog in 2006 and Zandra and I have been following her for inspiration since the beginning. We talk about her unique style as well as her new venture, her online shop Super Marche. We also had quite a few laughs including getting to hear the story behind her blog name! Listen in and you will leave with tons of inspiration and might even be asking yourself “What would Victoria do?”

Heather French is one half of the design team behind French & French Interiors, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We talk a lot about how that city has influenced her culturally and visually and how to incorporate your surroundings into your home. She gives us lots of insight about her process working with clients, how design creates atmosphere, how to make a room feel cohesive, how to choose what goes in your home and what stays out.

Popular blogger Nikki Brantmark of My Scandinavian Home is our guest this week. She has won numerous awards for her work and is recognized for bringing Scandinavian style to the world outside Northern Europe. We talk with her about her recent book "The Scandinavian Home," which examines three different kinds of living spaces across the Scandi countries of Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Also check out Nikki's newest book "Lagom: Not Too Little, Not Too Much: The Swedish Art of Living a Balanced, Happy Life".

Desha Peacock has written a new book called "Your Creative Work Space" and we thought this would be a great time to check in with her. We talk about how to get focused, how to eek out a space for yourself when you have no room or no budget, and how the traditional office might not work for our modern times.  We felt an immediate connection to Desha during our first interview with her because she so beautifully articulated why style matters.  So if you haven't already, give that one a listen, too!

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. Over the past few seasons, we've been collecting little bits of wisdom from the stylists and designers we've had on the show. When looking at these quotes all together, we've noticed several different themes emerge. So each month will have a different theme and September is all about EMOTIONAL LIVES!

We talk with Becki Griffin, stylist for major shelter magazines, interior decorator, and the blogger behind Curious Details. Becky is one of the funniest people we’ve had on the show, and you’re going to feel like you’ve made a terrific friend by the end of the interview. She’s also a straight shooter when it comes to what she likes and doesn’t like about home decor trends, bucking up against your fears, and not taking everything so seriously when it comes to making choices.

We have Holly Becker of Decor8 and Blogging Your Way on the podcast this week!  Holly was one of the first interior design bloggers and has lead the way for many of us who are passionate about interiors and about sharing our love of it with others.  First, she digs into why blogging is still relevant and a way for us to get our voices and stories out there.  Then she dives into her most recent book "Decorate for a Party: Stylish and Simple Ideas for Meaningful Gatherings“.

Will and Susan, photography coaches and the bloggers behind House of Brinson, talk about their life changing move from New York City to becoming stewards of an old country mansion in the Hudson River Valley. We get some great design insight into honoring the history of a home while at the same time, adding your own considered style on top of it. They’ve become masters of giving life to the past while living in the present.

Step into a calm and reflective space with our guest, Melia Malmquist of the blog, Contemporary Life, stylist for several brands and her Instagram account was recently voted one of the Top 10 for Interiors by Vogue magazine. She consistently brings her Swedish sensibility to her professional and personal work. We talk with her about creating rituals to change habits, why style for style sake isn’t very meaningful and how, when done with mindfulness, style can be a tool to create a life you want to live

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