If you've been thinking of starting a business blog or tweaking an existing one, please read my latest blog post for Williams-Sonoma's Designer Marketplace: 10 Tips for Developing Your Business Blog's Personality. While you're there, you can also check my [...]
If you're putting together a reality show and you call Central Casting and ask for a woman from Texas, you know what you'll get? A blonde Barbie doll who taped her boobs and pasted a bathing suit to her butt [...]
Design Star Season 6 finalist Kevin Grace says he was inspired to pursue interior design after watching it on TV, is into mid-century, "cheap," and repurposing. A dude after my own heart! Let's check out the work of this fashion [...]
Our Design Star Season 6 cast critique continues with finalist Kellie Clements. A designer who hails from Edmond, Oklahoma and works for a local builder? This information brings to mind a traditional model home designer...one who over-swags windows and incorporates [...]
Karl's last name demands a European accent. Won't we be disappointed if he comes on the scene with some WASPy voice?! This Chicago architect tends to work with more traditional clients but identifies on a personal level with more of [...]
The "J" in J Allen obviously stands for "Jane of all trades." J's a seasoned interior designer from Chevy Chase, Maryland who can do everything from design to construction to upholstery. Let's check out her work: Tasteful. [...]
Atlanta art dealer Doug Hines is the next finalist in our cast critique of HGTV's Design Star Season 6. Doug got into interior design when his art buyers needed help with the rest of their interiors. Let's check out his [...]
Brooklynite Cathy Hobbs is the next finalist in our cast critique of HGTV's Design Star, Season 6! Actually, Cathy's already the host of her own television design show--Metro Residential on New York's WPIX--as well as a designer on HGTV Canada's Top 10. [...]
My cast critique for the upcoming season of HGTV's Design Star continues with Brooklyn boy, Bret Ritter. I'm having a Separated at Birth moment. Isn't Bret a dead ringer for former Rachel Zoe sideck Brad Goreski? If they [...]
The debut of this year's season of HGTV's Design Star is less than three weeks away, and normally I would have already checked out the finalists in detail, made my predictions for the season, etc., etc. But with last season's [...]