Interior Design with Kandrac and Kole

We have some interesting topics to dive into today and invited Veronika Miller-Eagleson as a person “in the know”. She is the CEO of Modenus Media, a comprehensive online resource for design professionals and design enthusiasts, whether its client to designer, manufacturer to consumer, or blogger to fellow blogger, Modenus works daily to grow and enrich our design community. She is also Founder of Designhounds, a network of over 500 design influencers.

We are many weeks into the COVID-19 Quarantine at the time we are recording this so we thought we should have a light-hearted show today. We hope you don’t mind if we use this opportunity to have a little more fun than usual this week! We thought we’d share some funny stories about us as individuals, our company and our projects. This episode of Inside Design with Kandrac & Kole Interior Designs is sponsored by one of our go-to lighting manufacturers - Currey & Co.

We met Linda Holt at “Design Camp” in Atlanta in 2013. She was new in the design business and now has a beautiful portfolio of work and an extremely well written and interesting blog. Besides being a talented interior designer, she has now created an interesting new offering – assisting people on how to improve their cell phone photography with some impressive and easy tools.

WOW these are unprecedented times we are in right now with CO-VID 19 ruling our world. We thought that since the vast majority of people around the world are sequestered in their homes now would be the perfect time for us to lend a helping hand – virtually that is.  If you are looking around your home and feeling the need to improve your surroundings, we’ve got lots of tips for you today.

This Episode is Sponsored by Helser Brothers Hardware. Helser brothers are a fully custom manufacturer of drapery hardware. It is run by Brothers Jay and Mark. Jay was an expert independent drapery installer and designs new products that are install friendly and engineered for strength and Mark, a talented metal worker with a mind of an engineer, has been regarded as a mechanical genius by all who know him. They can customize anything and any order over $100 is shipped free. Visit helserbrothers.com.

Today we are excited to sit down and chat with long-time friend and CEO of the infamous lighting brand Currey & Co. Brownlee Currey. Currey & Company is a wholesale manufacturer of not only lighting but furniture and accent pieces as well. Their innovative furnishings can be found around the world in residential, contract and hospitality spaces. Celebrating their 32nd year in business, we’ve got lots to chat about with Brownlee. This podcast is sponsored by the one and only https://curreyandcompany.com.

We are happy to introduce our guests this morning Peter and Holly Ranney.  They are the founders of “Sunshine on a Ranney Day” which is a non-profit organization that renovates homes for children with special needs here in Atlanta.  Through partnerships and donors, they provide, at no cost, wheelchair accessible bathrooms, dream bedrooms and in-home therapy rooms.

Shelly Rosenberg has been a luxury interior designer in Dallas for 20 years. As a mother of 3 children with learning differences and special needs, she has dedicated her profession to creating and designing adaptive spaces towards what she calls the “differently abled”. We met Shelly several years ago at an interior design industry design event. She has joined us on several trips to Guatemala helping us build homes and support orphanages there.

We get a lot of resumes from wanna be interns as well as inquiries from kind people saying they’d love to work for us. To be honest, they don’t teach these kids in school the real-world stuff. I guess that’s what internships are for. Since people are always curious about what we are busy doing, we thought we’d share what we are up to as 2020 unfolds. You might not believe it…

We are excited to have Jay Helser as our guest today. We were very honored that Helser Brothers was our very first “podcast sponsor”. It’s so nice to do business with nice people who not only have a lot of pride in their company but do so many things right!

If you missed our VERY engaging and worthwhile Episode 67 podcast you might want to rewind before listening today. We had so much fun spending time with brand strategist and world-wide speaker Phil Phalen that we quickly invited him back for Round 2.

We are thrilled that Sue Wadden, the Director of Color Marketing for Sherwin Williams, agreed to join us again, this time to discuss the Colormix 2020.

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.

We are very excited to have Phil Pallen as our guest today.   A social media expert, keynote speaker as well as a smart, funny and well-traveled guy who is the guru of “branding”.   We met Phil about 3 years ago while at a Designer Mastermind with Kelli Ellis in Las Vegas.  His mantra – “A personal brand isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity” and believes you need to use social media to promote your brand.   We engaged in a “brand audit” with Phil and that is the reason our podcast exists t

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