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Sustainable Minimalists

The Fast Furniture Trap

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Leisure, Parenting, Kids & Family, Home & Garden

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Did you know? Ikea beds, Wayfair desks, and other fast furniture items are designed to last about five years. Fast furniture is mass-produced and relatively inexpensive; it's easy, then, to obtain and abandon. And fast decor? Low price points essentially render disposable those trendy but cheap pillows, artwork, and trinkets. There's a better way, and it always starts with slowing down. Slow Style is Zandra Zuraw's framework for creating homes that nurture without breaking the bank, and today she shows us how to create havens that inspire and welcome without anything fast or cheap. Here’s a preview: [4:30] Why bother surrounding ourselves with beauty (and other big-picture musings) [7:00] Mass production, economies of sale, and the environmental implications of fast decor [17:00] Developing your eye for design means paying attention!  [25:00] How to find the fine line between keeping stuff you hate versus hopping on the hamster wheel of buying [30:00] Ethical furnishings companies DO exist! Here's where to find them once and for all   Resources mentioned: The Slow Style Home podcast The Sustainable Furnishings Council Roger + Chris furniture  Ridwell   This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) Facebook community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube @sustainableminimalists Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com.

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Hello and welcome. My name is Stephanie. sustainable.

1:07.0

Hello and welcome. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 433 of sustainable minimalists.

1:10.0

This is a show about intentional and eco-friendly minimalist living.

1:15.0

And on today's show, we are nailing down once and for all the qualities of a slow home.

1:21.7

There are three of them. and in our world in which we can go to

1:25.4

target head to way fair find the cheapest couch, the cheapest bedside's table,

1:31.8

the trendiest kitchen stools. My guest today argues let's

1:37.0

slow down the process of styling and decorating our homes because we've seen what fast fashion has done to the fashion

1:45.5

industry. It's happening right before our eyes. Fast furniture, fast decor is changing. The furniture industry, the decor industry in

1:55.4

immeasurable ways and so today we are all once and for all slowing down our

2:01.4

homes here to help me nail down the three principles of slow homes is

2:07.2

Zandra Zara. Zara is the host of the Slow Style Home podcast. She is also the creator, the brains behind the slow style framework.

2:18.0

Zandra I'm so thrilled to have you on the show and I just found out before we hit

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