About Nancy McNulty

For over two decades Nancy McNulty's public relations efforts have built and launched an interesting spectrum of projects from premier home tours and new businesses to product lines and signature events. She handled the PR for the Middle TN Home Builder's Parade of Homes for over 10 years, served on the PR team for the Southern Living Idea House and the HGTV Smart Home 2014. She delivers engaging campaigns based on strong content creation that helps to successfully build, brand and grow businesses into industry leaders.

Latest Home Inspiration, Influencer Event – Nashville Home Show

August 12, 2018 By Nancy McNulty Leave a Comment

Tennessee’s largest home event, the 35^thNashville Home Show, heads back to the Music City Center September 21-23 with PBS’ “This Old House” host Kevin O’Connor headlining and featuring over 250 home industry experts, cooking demos with The Bitter Socialite and main stage fun with a magazine pretty panel and City Farmhouse inspiration.

Forest Home Media is coordinating PR and an Influencer Event for the Nashville area’s top home event of the year. Visit the Nashville Home Show media room to download the event news release and high-resolution images.

Influencer Event – PBS This Old House Kevin O’Connor – Ticket Giveaway

On Friday, September 21 at 12:30 p.m., home lifestyle industry media, bloggers and social media influencers are invited to meet PBS’ This Old House host Kevin O’Connor and participate in Facebook and Instagram Live with the charming home renovation expert. Here’s more information on Kevin’s presentation.

A limited number of tickets are also available for giveaways and a special discount code is available. Contact pr@foresthomemedia.com for more information on attending the event or participating in the blog/social media ticket giveaway.

Home Inspiration

For 35 years, this event has provided home owners inspiration, expert advice and the opportunity to shop, compare and save from hundreds of home improvement experts says event producer Eric Udler.

“Visitors will love the popular host of ‘This Old House’ sharing his expert tips on creating a net-zero, energy efficient smart home as well as a sneak peek at the upcoming season. New this year is our Made In America Marketplace for on-site shopping where guests can celebrate American craftsmanship and artistry, a DIY craft building with AR Workshop, and exhibit of the top 10 most innovative and life-changing home technology products of 2018,” Udler said.

On the main stage, guests will find advice from City Farmhouse Designer Kim Leggett as well as tips for creating a magazine pretty home from a panel of experts moderated by Nashville Interiors publisher Hollie Deese.

City Farmhouse Style, Nashville Home Show — Join Kim Leggett at the Main Stage where she will take attendees on a slideshow tour of 12 homes featured in her bestselling book, City Farmhouse Style; describing design ideas that make any home farmhouse style. A highlight of the tour will include tips for spotting new trends and past trends that homeowners and designers should leave behind.

Innovative home technology and products are being highlighted by author Boyce Thompson including inexpensive home products to change your life from clever technology to safety and convenience as well as highlights from the anatomy of a great home for home remodeling and building inspiration.

Cooking Demos

Popular food bloggers will be demonstrating delicious recipes throughout the event including nationally recognized, The Bitter Socialite, Trace Barnett, finalist for Food Network’s “The Next Food Network Star” and “Comeback Kitchen.” The cooking stage will also include a demonstration on wedding cake trends from Dulce Desserts as well as sessions with blogger chefs Callie Blount and Susan Williams and author/chef C. C. Fridlin.

Be sure to check www.NashvilleHomeShow.com for a complete listing of presentation times.

More Information

Tennessee’s largest home event, the 35^th Nashville Home Show, features over 250 home industry experts from remodeling contractors, kitchen, bath and landscape designers to inspiring ideas for outdoor living, pool and spa. Featuring sessions with PBS’ “This Old House’s” Kevin O’Connor, this can’t miss event for homeowners is September 21-23 at the downtown Music City Center. Save and buy tickets online at www.NashvilleHomeShow.com.

Breaking News – Forest Home Media New Staff

August 9, 2018 By Nancy McNulty Leave a Comment

Breaking news at the Forest Home Media headquarters! Starting as a public relations and marketing intern in the summer of 2014, Catherine Royka has returned to the Forest Home Media team as the public relations manager. In this new role, she will assist with various public relations initiatives for clients through blogging, photography, email marketing and social media content creation and management.

Southern Living, Test Kitchen, Forest Home Media, Team, Catherine

Previously, she held the managing editor position at Robertson Media Group for two years where she supervised three premier Middle Tennessee magazines, Your Williamson, Your Sumner and Distinctively Southern Wedding. Some of Catherine’s key responsibilities were managing local photographers, contributors, writing lifestyle features, covering events, photographing editorial and event spreads, crafting social media messages and designing weekly newsletters. A great community voice throughout the Williamson County area, sign-up for their e-newsletter here.

Southern Living, Forest Home Media Team, Nancy, Catherine — Former FHM intern Lindsey Anderson joined Nancy and me with a group of influencers at the newly remodeled Time Inc. Food Studios.

Working for public relations agencies, big and small, has been part of her communication experience. An account services internship at DVL Seigenthaler brought Catherine to Nashville to start her post graduate career in the PR world. As an intern, she assisted high-level management with various PR initiatives for clients in the food and beverage industry, nonprofit sector, government services and consumer products. Some clients she assisted with included Martha White, White Lily, Jack Daniel’s, Centerstone and the Mid South: National Multiple Sclerosis Society, to name a few.

Domino Magazine, Forest Home Media, networking, team — The Forest Home Media team at the swanky Noelle hotel for the Domino Magazine Pop Up Shop.

Catherine is thrilled to expand her knowledge within the public relations and marketing realm at Forest Home Media, working alongside her boss and mentor, Nancy McNulty. The Forest Home Media team also wouldn’t be complete without the incredible talents of Geinger Hill and the stellar summer intern, Emily Griffin.

Thankfully, Emily will continue to be an integral part of the team even when she heads back to Harding University to complete her degree by continuing to assist with video production and PR initiatives providing a strong digital presence for the FHM clients. To keep up with Emily, give her a follow on her Instagram at @PhotoGriffi. And to connect with Catherine via catherine@foresthomemedia.com.

HGTV® Smart Home Influencer Event – The Southern C

June 27, 2018 By Nancy McNulty Leave a Comment

Uber smart with uber gorgeous design describe the HGTV Smart Home 2018 in South Carolina’s beautiful Palmetto Bluff community near Bluffton.

HGTV Smart Home 2018 in Bluffton, SC. (HGTV Smart Home 2018 in Palmetto Bluff, SC. Photos © 2018 Scripps Networks, LLC. Used with permission; all rights reserved.)

Designed by the talented Tiffany Brooks, Forest Home Media helped coordinate an Influencer Event with almost 50 bloggers and social media influencers from four states attending. As a regular contributor for The Southern C, click here for a wrap of up this event including a gorgeous tour.

HGTV Smart Home 2018 Influencer Event (Photo by Teresa Earnest Photography)

We had the pleasure of working with Tiffany on the 2014 HGTV Smart Home built by FHM client, Carbine & Associates, in Nashville, Keep up with Tiffany via her Instgram and Facebook page. She’ll soon be announcing the winner of the 2018 home!

TLC Trading Spaces Viewing Party – Home Lifestyle Bloggers, Influencers

April 6, 2018 By Nancy McNulty Leave a Comment

Forest Home Media is co-hosting a viewing party for TLC’s Trading Spaces reboot this Saturday, April 7 with Nashville Interiors magazine at the beautiful Novel Music Row. If you are a home lifestyle blogger or social media influencer, contact us at pr@foresthomemedia.com to join us Saturday or our Facebook group – the Nashville Influencers.

Novel Music Row, Nashville, TN.jpg — Forest Home Media is co-hosting with Nashville Interiors magazine a viewing party for TLC’s reboot of Trading Spaces.

Trading Spaces originally aired in 2000 and quickly become an epic television show where two sets of neighbors swapped homes and with the help of designers and carpenters designed a room on a budget of $1,000 in two days!

The show is back with the same premise but double the budget says new cast member John Gidding. Gidding was in Nashville as headliner for last September’s Home Show, with PR for the event coordinated by FHM. Gidding shared the good news he would be joining the cast!

You’ll remember Gidding as popular host and designer of HGTV’s Curb Appeal. He’s a design expert who, with his experience in residential, commercial and landscape architecture as well as urban and graphic design, transforms average homes into sculptural showpieces.

Born and raised in Istanbul to a Turkish mother and an American father, Gidding incorporates his multicultural aesthetic into his architectural projects. At the age of 15, he moved to Switzerland for boarding school, where he dedicated himself to a two-year intensive art program, graduating with an International Baccalaureate degree.

John moved to the States to go to Yale earning an undergrad degree and then received his masters in architecture from Harvard.

Be sure you follow along with him on Facebook and Instagram @JohnGidding and we will be live Tweeting via @NashInteriors or @NashNancyPR.

Exclusive HGTV Smart Home Influencer Event

March 8, 2018 By Nancy McNulty Leave a Comment

An exclusive influencer event at the HGTV Smart Home 2018 is coming up on April 18 in Palmetto Bluff in South Carolina. Forest Home Media is connecting home lifestyle bloggers and influencers with home designer Tiffany Brooks for an afternoon of Low Country fare, Southern inspired drinks and a private tour of this gorgeous home.

After working with Tiffany on the HGTV Smart Home 2014 in Nashville, built by FHM client Carbine & Associates, it will be fun to see how her taste has evolved and to see the latest in smart home technology and design. Click here for more information on the home and to sign up for daily reminders to enter for a chance to win!

Tiffany Brooks, interior designer, HGTV Smart Home — Tiffany Brooks – Source: Tiffany Brooks Interiors

Influencer Event History

In 2013, Forest Home Media partnered with Southern Living’s PR team for a media and influencer event at the Southern Living Idea House in Nashville, built by FHM client Castle Homes. The afternoon, with rock star decorator Phoebe Howard and Southern Living favs, former editor Lindsay Bierman and Southern Living garden expert Carmen Johnston, led to establishing a powerful marketing formula for clients. Combining smart bloggers and influencers with talented media writers has proven to be very impactful for home projects throughout the Southeast.

Lindsay Bierman and the PR Team for 2013 Southern Living Idea House Project hosted a blogger, influencer and media event prior to the house opening. Pictured with Bierman are former SL PR Director Jennifer Zawandanski, Zan Martin, president of Martin & Co. representing Fontanel & Nancy McNulty, Forest Home Media, representing the builder, Castle Homes.

Forest Home Media has since helped launch or promote a ton of premier home events including the Nashville Symphony Show House and last year’s Nashville Home Show, returning again this September, as well as the HGTV Urban Oasis House 2017 with designer Brian Patrick Flynn.

HGTV Urban Oasis House 2017, Nancy McNulty, with Forest Home Media, designer Brian Patrick Flynn, and Kristin Alm, Scripps Director of Media Relations — Brian Patrick Flynn, designer of the 2017 HGTV Urban Oasis House, with Nancy McNulty, left, Forest Home Media, and PR colleague, Kristin Alm, Director of Media Relations for Scripps Interactive.

Join Us April 18 At HGTV Smart Home

If you are a lifestyle blogger, influencer or working media and will be in the Hilton Head area on April 18, contact nancy@foresthomemedia.com,for more information. We love connecting our smart home lifestyle community with the latest in what’s cool, new, different and inspiring in the home industry and have several other projects coming up in 2018 including Nashville!