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The First Step to Creating Your Style is to Be A Noticer – Mally’s Style Matters Podcast
Oct
The First Step to Creating Your Style is to Be A Noticer
INTRO
I’m delighted to share this episode with you. I’m having a conversation with one of my favorite fabric and wallpaper designers, Mally Skok. And she’s also a really fabulous interior designer. Originally from South Africa and now living in the States, near me, in Boston, as it turns out, Mally has just written a gem of a book. It’s called “Mally’s Little Handbook: A guide to finding your joy through my designer eyes.” Without knowing it was going to happen, what we talked about so closely aligned with my Slow Style approach, I feel like Mally could be the spirit animal of the Slow Style philosophy! Let’s get started and I think you’ll see what I mean.
My takeaways from this episode:
Being a “noticer” of things, which is something Mally talks about a lot, is really about giving yourself the gift of time. It takes just a few extra minutes, or even seconds, to stop in your tracks, go over to a piece of furniture, and really look at the carving in the wood. And then you can be off again. But that tiny moment of noticing…it’s in those moments that you’re becoming attuned to what you love. And that’s how every designer starts out.
If you’re craving a streamlined, minimalist, decluttered home, that’s fine! But don’t forget to keep anything that’s meaningful. The meaningful bits are touchpoints, as Mally says, of who you are where you come from. If you’re feeling chaotic in your life, getting rid of everything isn’t necessarily the answer to chaos. Finding meaning and stripping away everything that doesn’t fulfill you is the answer.
QUOTE:
“Start choosing. That’s the only way to end up with a style that’s your own.”
