Mark D. Sikes
Southern Home (SH): Your decorating is often described as all-American, which seems appropriate, given that you were born in Texas and later lived in Nashville, Atlanta, and the Midwest. Now that you call Los Angeles home, what about the South has impacted your style?
Every place you live informs something in your life, right? In the South it was definitely about tradition and a sense of formality, gentility, and refinement, whether it be in decor, entertaining, or gardens. My time in the Midwest, where my grandparents and all my aunts lived, became where I really understood what a home feels like—comfortable and relaxed, easy. Now,
