Posts in Interior Design
EP 116 - Color Marketing Trends with Sue Wadden
EP 116 - Color Marketing Trends with Sue Wadden

As the Director of Color Marketing at Sherwin-Williams, Sue reflects on her early beginnings choosing bridge colors, to now creating some of her favorite colors included in the 2022 color palette, titled MODE. We also discuss the 2022 Color of the Year!

MODE is a collection of 40 trend colors, with each color hand-selected to welcome a truly wondrous transition.

Described as the ‘queen’ of Sherwin-Williams, Sue Wadden delves into the difficulties during COVID and how color schemes are cyclic throughout the decades.

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EP 107 - Guest Yash Ranga, Jaipur Rugs
EP 107 - Guest Yash Ranga, Jaipur Rugs

In this week’s episode, we are joined by Yash Ranga, a Conscious Luxury Evangelist and Stakeholder Engagement Partner for Jaipur Rugs. We were honored to hear Yash speak recently at the Design Influencers Conferences and were blown away by everything we learned about rugs and especially the compassionate and uplifting initiatives Jaipur Rugs is taking on within the rug industry. At Jaipur Rugs, Yash provides a strategic vision of both skill and social development, engaging multiple and diverse stakeholders, curating an effective partnerships platform maximizing impact at scale. Jaipur Rugs is known worldwide for its inclusive value chain linking grassroots artisans with global markets.

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Interior Design, Business WisdomKandrac and KoleComment
EP 106 - Guest Lauren Clement
EP 106 - Guest Lauren Clement

The Spring High Point Market is almost upon us, and we are organizing our famous must-see list of manufacturers, speakers, and functions to attend in June. We thought it would be a perfect time to share with you our guest today, Lauren Clement, an award-winning, Charlotte-based Interior Designer who has a lot going on with the Market this year. Tune in as Lauren reveals the details behind the LN Shop; plus, she tells us the ins and outs of her business and talks about her collaborations with Benjamin Moore Paints, Charleston Forge and more.

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EP 105 - Our Favorite Catalog and Online Items
EP 105 - Our Favorite Catalog and Online Items

We've been in business for 16 years and are fortunate to have acquired many wholesale furniture accounts, as well as having an arsenal of talented artisans that we purchase for both our residential and commercial projects. Although, there have been times that we turned to online sources or catalogs for specific items when our wholesale sources are out of stock or when a client has a specific or unique request. Today, we will be talking about our favorite catalogs and online stores with products you couldn't get anywhere else.

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Favorite Catalog, Interior DesignKandrac and KoleComment
EP 103 - Should You Renovate or Move?
EP 103 - Should You Renovate or Move?

Stay at home orders have left Kandrac and Kole swamped with an incredible amount of work this year designing remodels and new construction. We all know that many homeowners now place a high value on making their homes more beautiful and functional. However, for some homeowners, selling can be a much better option – tune into this episode to figure out which one is right for you.

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Interior Design, RenovationKandrac and KoleComment
Episode 91: Guest Donna Krueger of dk Gallery
Episode 91: Guest Donna Krueger of dk Gallery

Kelly and I are big proponents of original art and know how it can elevate a space and create a truly unique and custom design. We recorded podcast (Episode #53) entitled “Why Buy Original Art” a couple of years ago. We talk about the importance of art in design as well as how we were originally intimidated by art galleries and how meeting our guest, Donna Krueger, turned out to be a wonderful experience and a whole new education into the world of art.

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Interior Design, InterviewsJoann KandracComment
Episode 89 - 12 Easy Updates You Can Make to Your Home
Episode 89 - 12 Easy Updates You Can Make to Your Home

For those of you not in tune to what is happening in the interior design world, get ready. Everyone in our industry is busier than ever before and having trouble keeping up with the demand. Contractors can only take on so much work and it’s getting to the point that most people will have to wait until Spring to have a renovation done. It’s not surprising with the recent pandemic and people being in their homes more than ever. The chair that was uncomfortable is being replaced, the dated paint colors are being updated. The money they were going to use for a luxury vacation is being used for some long overdue home projects.

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Interior DesignJoann KandracComment
Episode 83 - The One Room Challenge Spring 2020 - Renovating Our Podcast Studio - Part 2
Episode 83 - The One Room Challenge Spring 2020 - Renovating Our Podcast Studio - Part 2

This episode of part II of a two-part series about the One Room Challenge and the complete transformation of our Podcast Studio. We encourage you to go back and listen to Episode 82 but in quick summary, The One Room Challenge is a virtual design event in it’s 17th season where 20 chosen influencers around the country are asked to transform a space with the help of ORC Sponsors. As chosen designers, we are then responsible for blogging about the transformation over the course of 8 weeks. So by the time you listen to this podcast episode, the final reveal will be on our blog!

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Business Wisdom, Interior Design, TrendsJoann KandracComment
Episode 82 - The One Room Challenge Spring 2020 - Renovating Our Podcast Studio - Part 1
Episode 82 - The One Room Challenge Spring 2020 - Renovating Our Podcast Studio - Part 1

We were honored to be asked to participate in the One Room Challenge. Twenty design influencers were selected from around the U.S. to take the challenge of transforming a room and documenting the process and sharing their sources and professional advice over eight weekly posts. The One Room Challenge™ is currently in its seventeenth season, a highly anticipated bi-annual event held every April and October.

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Business Wisdom, Interior Design, TrendsJoann KandracComment