Fix Her Up: Remodeling The Person and The Home with Maida Korte

Text me your thoughts or questions on this episode!To hear the full episode and see the video, subscribe here.In this guest episode, I sit down with Chicago-area interior designer and author Maida Korte to talk about what happens when a “tight ship” personality runs headlong into a house that refuses to be controlled.Maida’s new memoir, Gutted: How an Old House Remodeled Me, set out to be a book about renovating a hundred-year-old house in Woodstock, Illinois. What it became, she told me, was a book about giving up the need for things to be finished and correct on her own schedule — and what that release made possible in her marriage and with her four daughters.Subscribe to hear the full conversation: the sentence a stranger said about her house that made her burst into tears, the moment her husband asked if they would ever “saunter,” and what she’d tell her daughters differently if she could do it again. Subscribe to the show to access future episodes! Going forward, we'll continue to publish 1 free episode per month.  If you'd like to have access to the other 3-4 episodes each month, please click on the subscription link, above. Take the quiz: What's Your Style DNA?