A discussion of area rugs including how they are made, how they are cleaned, maintained, and how they hold their value in the marketplace.
A detailed discussion of lighting from how to select it, what uses it has, how LED has changed the market and opened up design possibilities, and help with important questions about color temperature and it uses.
A discussion of what materials go into the making of tile types, their uses in the world and how those selections get made from a true tile expert.
A history of brick with a discussion of it’s uses and the differences from region to region as well as an understanding of brick trends, how it is manufactured, and sold.
A discussion with a principal and sales expert at Alexander Marchant in Austin, TX about how they help designer and home owners make hardware selection and an overview of their business with how it sees its role in the field of custom home design.
A discussion of the ins and outs of materials that make up a home construction project: from foundation to roofing with Brad Whitman, Co-Founder of LBR Custom Homes.
A discussion of what the options are in the vast world of appliances and plumbing with April Cordova, Showroom Consultant at Ferguson Enterprises in Austin, Texas.
A discussion of the importance of considering the actual materials that go into the making of a home from brick to paint to the materials that make up our furniture.
In the final episode of Season 4, we talk about some of our favorite periods in design history from Art Nouveau to Palladian rules and the role of Romance in design.
Katie shares her background and her love of vintage furniture with how she has turned that into a business helping designers solve their furniture needs.
In our second interview with Brad Whitman we get a chance to discuss what he sees and his role in the approach to solving client’s needs along side the design team and the homeowner.
Dianne and Amity learn about the more scientific and technical side of design and how research contributes to design in this fascinating interview with an academic in the field. Debra Harris is an Interior Designer, holds a PhD in Architecture, Researcher and Owner of RAD, and Associate Professor at Baylor University
In this interview we learn something about how a very important supplier of beautiful fabric and wallcovering approaches helping supply designers with their much needed goods and how they act as supporters too of the artists that they represent.
Dianne and Amity spend time discussing the ins and outs of the important trades of painting and wallpaper hanging. The importance of what these trades do is uncovered, highlighted and celebrated!
We wanted to learn and understand what it is that a gallery owner does in working with designers so we interviewed Kevin Ivester of Ivester Contemporary in Austin, TX about what he sees is his role in bringing artists, designers and home owners together.
In this interview we talk with a furniture maker who shares her experience of problem solving for clients through furniture design and construction. The love of creating a heritage piece for a family is something she shares with us all.
In this show we interview an interior designer who has a background in fashion to discover how fashion and interior design are different, how they are the same, and why that is something interesting to think and talk about.
Dianne and Amity discuss the social effects of design from their personal research and their experiences in the field of home design.
Amity and Dianne discuss their own findings about how spaces affect their inhabitants and reference research to help us all think and consider how our homes change one’s thinking and feeling.
This opener show is an introduction to the season where we investigate how people from different disciplines and backgrounds or trades approach problem solving in the field of residential home design. As we all know different ways of thinking and looking at design problems are helpful when they come together for strong design outcomes.