Slow Style Home: Take Your Time, Use What You Have, and Translate Your Vision into a Home You Love

Slow Style Home podcaster Zuraw debuts with a user-friendly guide to ditching the “anonymous chain store behemoth[s]” when it comes to interior decorating. She cautions readers against limiting their taste to strict categories such as “boho” and “farmhouse,” which in her view stymie creativity and make for “flash-in-the-pan” trends. To counter that way of thinking, Zuraw outlines her “slow style” approach, which draws on the 1970s slow food movement and the early 2000s slow fashion movement to counter mass production, help readers accumulate meaningful items over time, and consider the environmental impact of their purchases. She provides guidance on antique shopping (newbies should opt for a small shop rather than a huge fair), touts DIY projects and handmade objects, and takes a particularly impassioned stance on collecting art, noting that it doesn’t have to be pricey to be meaningful. Her decorating tips are whimsical—she suggests choosing a room’s colors by picking a bird’s feathers as inspiration—and readers new to design will benefit from the fun exercises, as when Zuraw lays out a step-by-step guide to creating a vignette with items one already owns. Conscious consumers ready to redecorate should check this out. (June)