Featured Designer: Krista Collard
Photography by Sam Lawrence
Krista Collard
Interior designer Krista Collard creates homes that invite you to stay in, slow down, and savor the joy of being exactly where you are.
Cozy, soulful, and endlessly lived-in — her spaces are designed for the feeling we rarely talk about, yet deeply crave:
the luxury of not wanting to leave.
Some spaces impress. Hers embrace
Some interiors ask to be admired.
Krista designs spaces that ask you to stay.
Her home — an open sweep of living room, kitchen, and terrace — is framed in steel and glass.
The architecture allows weather to have a voice.
Light moves across oak floors.
Storm clouds gather and dissolve.
Seasons unfold as slow-moving theatre.
“This is where life happens.”
Krista says this softly, without performance — as if stating a fact of nature.
In her world, design is not about entertaining others.
It is about nurturing the one who walks through the front door at the end of the day.
She has a ritual she defends with devotion:
a small, unassuming moment that redefines what luxury means.
She calls it JOMO — the Joy of Missing Out.
It begins with scent: her enduring signature is Feu de Bois from Diptyque, a fragrance that smells like campfire memory and cool forest air.
She dims every overhead light, relying only on lamps and sconces — soft circles of glow that seem to guide the evening toward stillness.
A throw waits nearby: linen in the spring, cashmere in winter.
Miles Davis plays from a record player, the crackle between tracks becoming part of the atmosphere.
Nothing is rushed.
Nothing demands.
This is not minimalism.
It is intimacy.
Before design, Krista worked in climate advocacy.
She has carried that consciousness into every choice she makes.
“A well-designed home shouldn’t need to be replaced every ten years.”
Sustainability, for her, is not a checklist —
it is an ethic of care.
Vintage furniture that already holds a story.
Fireplaces fueled by clean-burning ethanol.
Locally designed objects instead of trend-driven mass production.
Natural materials that age well, soften over time, and never try to be anything other than themselves.
She avoids perfection on purpose.
She chooses soul instead.
Discover Krista’s sanctuary philosophy — her rituals, her soulful approach to sustainable interiors, and her design of JOMO time — in the upcoming Meaning Living Edition.
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