HGTV's Faces of Design
1. INTRO I'd be surprised to meet someone not familiar with HGTV in some way. HGTV has become quite a force in our American culture kicking off the DIY phenomenon, the urban farmhouse movement with C...
5 Sep 201826min
Your Questions Answered: Design or Non-Design Related
INTRO – We put it out there. Ask us ANY (appropriate) design or non-design related questions: Here's what you asked: Tonya Hicks: What is the craziest (wildest) thing either of you have done to celeb...
29 Aug 201823min
Our Latest New Build Project
1. INTRO We just returned from spending three days at our exciting new construction project on Kiawah Island, South Carolina which is 45 minutes from Charleston. We first met with the architect a yea...
22 Aug 201828min
Why Is Branding So Important To Your Business
INTRO We are in the midst of coaching sessions and a lot of our discussions are centered around the importance of branding. Branding is a way of identifying your business. It is how your customers rec...
15 Aug 201827min
Coaching, Conferences and Classes
1. INTRO We are big advocates for staying ahead of the design curve as it relates to product, our skills as designers and our business acumen as entrepreneurs. To do this, we invest quite a bit of mo...
8 Aug 201829min
Our Favorite Home Décor Catalog Finds
When we design for our clients and commercial projects we source about 85% of products that we purchase wholesale. For the other 15% we are going to share with you a few of the catalogs we purchase fr...
1 Aug 201827min
The Power of Organization
1. INTRO Today I'm running solo so I have a guest speaker I'm very excited about. Carrie Peeples is the Chief Organizing officer of NeatSmart. I am a self confessed Type A, OCD person who totally get...
25 Jul 201827min
How to Get Published
We've worked hard to have our design projects published nationally and regionally many times over. To us, it's a stamp of approval from the highest level of our peers – the editors of the magazines we...
18 Jul 201825min
