I Want My HGTV!
I am so sick and tired of cable providers being titty babies, yanking programming without notice. THERE IS NO HGTV ON MY TEEVEE, PEOPLE! There is also a glaring black hole in the guide, where my Food Network used to [...]
Oh No I Di-uh
When I'm working with a client and they say they need help editing or decluttering, the three things I hate hearing are: 1. I can't throw that away because a friend gave it to me. 2. Someone might [...]
Electricity FAIL. Hours Before Design Star Premiere!
FRIDAY, JUNE 11th. SATURDAY, JUNE 12th. Design consultations scheduled at 1:00 and 3:00 pm. Just finished quick lunch between Phoebe's ice skating class and first appointment. 12:29 pm: Breaker trips. Living room dead. 12:30 pm: Flip breaker, power on. 12:32 [...]
The Future’s So Bright, It’s Named Sugarpie
From time to time, I get emails from students asking me to complete a set of survey questions for a class they're taking. I'm usually happy to oblige, because I'm very evangelistic about my chosen career path and all of [...]
Damn You, Novogratzes!
When I saw recent commercials for Bravo's 9 By Design (Tuesdays at 9pm CST), a new reality show about real estate developer-designers Robert and Cortney Novogratz and their seven children, I was indifferent. The couple seemed a bit pretentious and [...]
Review: HGTV’s The Antonio Treatment
If you've been following HGTV's Design Star over the past four seasons, you've seen them pick a standout who's become a total star (David Bromstad, Season 1), a poised professional whose show kind of fizzled out (Kim Myles, Season 2), [...]
Too Cheap For HGTV
A couple of weeks ago, a scout from High Noon Productions, the people who bring you HGTV's Bang For Your Buck, contacted me to see if I had any clients who might be interested in appearing on the show. They [...]
New Fave Blog: Unhappy Hipsters
I have to come clean and admit I don't read a lot of design blogs. I know. I know. Criminal. Problem is, much like the former variety of home decor magazines, most design blogs are full of eye candy I [...]
Next Food Network Star?
We're throwing Phoebe's fifth birthday party in a dozen hours, and she has graciously requested a Christmas-themed party. I say "gracious," because this allowed me buy most of the party supplies 1/2-price during after-Christmas sales and gave me a great [...]
Just Say No To Fugly Furniture
I sometimes think that the more fame and money someone has, the less likely it is that they have good taste. Down here in the South, we call it Cash Without Class. There are many exceptions to this rule...but Michael [...]