Episode 181 – C.Next Design Conference With Cosentino in Los Cabos
We gained immense inspiration from the speakers and panelists, including Hearst editors, brand founders, and other designers at Cosento's C.Next Design Conference. The speakers emphasized the importance of courage in design, highlighted sustainability efforts from leading brands, offered tips on effective pitching, and stressed the value of industry events and engagement. In this episode, we share the highlights of what we learned and how we were inspired by the speakers and designers we met at this amazing event!
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Episode 175 – The Aspire Event In Atlanta - What It Is And What We Learned
EPISODE 175: THE ASPIRE EVENT IN ATLANTA - WHAT IT IS AND WHAT WE LEARNED
In this episode, we share inspiration and insights from our experience attending the Aspire Summit in Atlanta, a two-day event for entrepreneurs aimed at inspiring growth financially, professionally, and personally. We are always looking for ways to grow, and thought an event NOT focused on interior design, but rather on small business success, would be a breath of fresh air.
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EP 109 - High Point Market Trends for Spring 2021
In this episode, we talk about our recent trip to the High Point Furniture Market we attended June 5-8. This event is the largest home furnishings industry trade show in the world, with over 10 million square feet and 2000 exhibitors. Combined, the two of us attended almost 50 markets! We break down the most popular trends, designs, and furniture featured at High Point Furniture Market and touch on our experience with fellow designers and share our predictions for how the October market will look. If you’re interested in how trends have progressed over the years, tune in to episodes 15, 51, 58, 64, and 68, where we fill you in on trends over the last four years. Our feet still hurt, but we are ready to share with you all that we experienced on THIS trip!
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Episode 101: 2021 Kitchen and Bath Trends from KBIS Virtual
The Kitchen and Bath Industry Show (KBIS) is North America’s largest trade show dedicated to all aspects of kitchen and bath design. It’s how we see the latest products and innovations, as well as hearing from industry leaders. Since we could not attend, we reached out to our design colleagues to fill us in on trends and new introductions. Today we are lucky to have several industry friends who spoke to us to share their finds and new introductions from the show. Based on the technical problems this year's virtual event had, many of the items they are sharing were from Signature Kitchen Suites and Kohler, with a few others mixed in.
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Episode 96: 2020 In Review
Let's put 2020 in our rearview mirror, shall we? Before we do, we thought we'd take some time to review the blessings, the fantastic projects, the podcasts, and the people we met along the way!
The most exciting thing that happened in 2020 was our rebranding - a labor of love to revamp our entire website and service offerings. Come March, we started to realize that all of our exciting international travel and industry events would be canceled. Luckily, we got loads of new work in January and March that kept us happy and busy working from home. We were also fortunate to complete the one room challenge on our podcast studio in May. Tune in as we review more 2020 highlights and speak about the importance of giving back during the 2020 holidays.
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Episode 93: Holiday Gift Guide and Charity Ideas
As the holiday season is upon us, Kelly and I are putting together gift ideas for our families, friends and our amazing team at Kandrac & Kole. We are also researching ways we can do something charitable to those in need. We’ve been very blessed this year and it is in our hearts to give back. We’ve given many interesting and thoughtful gifts through the years and will share those as well as some new ones for everyone on your list!
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Episode 92: Highpoint 2020 Trends
We were two of the brave few who attended the Highpoint Furniture Market this Fall. Because of this, we had many peers as well as industry fans watching our every move anxious for all the news about trends. In case you missed many of our social media postings, we wanted to bring you the trends right here on the podcast.
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Episode 68: High Point Market October 2019 Design Trends
We weren’t able to make it to the October High Point Furniture Market show because we had just returned from our adventures at the Roundtop Antiques Fair and had to get down to business. Good thing we have lots of talented and knowledgeable designer buddies who would fill us in on the latest and greatest trends. We asked them to call in and give us their top finds so that we could share them with you.
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Episode 62: Designer Experience Asheville
We recently attended our 2nd immersion event with Designers Today Magazine and PBM Events – this time in…
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Episode 58: Our Pro Tips for Visiting High Point Market
We owe much of our success as Designers to the fact that we make a commitment every year…
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Episode 51: Highpoint Furniture Spring Market 2019 Trends
We are so excited to be back from High Point, North Carolina where we spent 3 days at the International…
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Episode 40: High Point Fall Market Trends 2018
Unfortunately Kelly and I were unable to attend the market in High Point this fall. In several years…
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Episode 32: HGTV’s Faces of Design
I’d be surprised to meet someone not familiar with HGTV in some way. HGTV has become quite…
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Episode 28: Coaching, Conferences and Classes
We are big advocates for staying ahead of the design curve as it relates to product, our skills…
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Episode 15: High Point Furniture Market – Spring 2018
1. Intro – What is the furniture market? A. The largest home furnishings trade show in the world
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