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House Beautiful Show House – Castle Homes

June 2, 2019 By Nancy McNulty Leave a Comment

*Forest Home Media is assisting with Nashville PR and Southeast influencer outreach for the fall House Beautiful “Whole Home Concept House” being built by client Castle Homes in Nashville’s historic Belle Meade neighborhood. To connect on Media/Blogger/Influencer events pr@foresthomemedia.com.

TOP TIER INTERIOR DESIGNERS FROM ACROSS THE U.S. INCLUDING BARCLAY BUTERA, VERN YIP, AMONG OTHERS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE CONCEPT HOUSE DEBUTING IN OCTOBER 2019

(New York, May 16, 2019) – House Beautiful today announced its line-up of interior designers who will contribute to the magazine’s second annual Whole Home Concept House in Nashville, Tennessee. The nearly 6,000 sq. ft. home will be constructed in the English Arts and Crafts style and created in partnership with Castle Homes. Interior designers Amy Berry, Barclay Butera, Joy Huber and Rachel Haag of Castle Homes, Chenault James, Dani Arps, Tavia Forbes and Monet Masters of Forbes+Masters, Kristine Paige of Jackson Paige Interiors, Matthew Quinn and Richard Anuszkiewicz of Design Galleria Kitchen & Bath Studio, Lauren Moore, Evan Millard, and Betsy Trabue of Modern Remains, and Vern Yip will each provide their design expertise to create a home that is beautiful and with the intention to promote happier, healthier, and smarter living. The Whole Home Concept House will debut in Nashville in tandem with the brand’s November 2019 issue, which hits newsstands on October 17, 2019.

“At House Beautiful, we believe your home should work for you – bringing you joy, helping you reconnect with family and recover from external stresses,” said Carisha Swanson, Senior Editor and Market Director. “This house will illustrate these concepts through layout, product, and inspiration, providing actionable ideas that readers and visitors can implement in their own homes. I look forward to seeing this exceptional group of designers bring these ideas to life and transform these spaces into more than just beautiful rooms.”

Each of these designers were chosen because they believe in the power of home and its ability to set the tone for our daily lives. They will contribute to the following:

Amy Berry will take hold of the two children’s rooms, with her sophisticated eye towards creating playful spaces that promote activity and creativity.
Barclay Butera will create an outdoor oasis to help homeowners reconnect with nature and promote enjoyment of the great outdoors.
Castle Homes interior design team will handle the architectural design details along with the five bathrooms and laundry space.
Chenault James, in a nod to her bourbon-based Pappy Van Winkle roots, will design a dining room fit for year- round entertaining.
Dani Arps, the master of designing commercial spaces for startups, will create an office that brings the sensibilities of today’s modern workspaces into the home.
Design Galleria Kitchen and Bath Studio will provide a master bath that doubles as a spa retreat and design a kitchen that can handle meal preps and family dinners along with late night entertaining.
Forbes+Masters are crafting a listening lounge as an ode to Music City. This music room will rival any moody night club and is the perfect place for putting on old LPs or trying your hand playing a vintage guitar.
Kristine Paige Kamenstein will construct a master bedroom that promotes rest and recovery, as well as intimacy and reconnection.
Modern Remains will deliver a top floor media room that acts as a central zone for game and movie nights, plus they are creating a breakfast area off the main kitchen.
Vern Yip takes notes from his book debuting later this summer, “Vacation at Home,” by turning the entry and living area into a space that invites conversation and connection in a thoughtfully designed setting.

 House Beautiful will take their audience inside the home with an exclusive web series launching on HouseBeautiful.com when the issue hits newsstands. Each episode will focus on a single designer and showcase the before, during, and after of their design process, including decision-making, design plans and shopping for the home. The web series will also offer viewers a chance to hear first-hand how designers solve problems, including repurposing rooms that are rarely used, and how to create a private home office to maximize work productivity.  

“The House Beautiful editorial experience is always about beautiful rooms,” said Jennifer Levene Bruno, VP, Group Publishing Director/Chief Revenue Officer. “What makes this project special is that we are producing beautiful rooms with purpose. The concept of this house is to create a magnificent home that contributes to your wellness, your peace of mind, and your sense of place. This is why we are so proud to unveil the designers who are contributing to the 2019 Whole Home Concept House.”  

House Beautiful’s 2019 Whole Home Concept House welcomes returning partners Signature Kitchen Suite, LG, Benjamin Moore, Circa Lighting, Architectural Grille, Rocky Mountain Hardware, and Stressless, along with new partners Caesarstone, Castelle, Grothouse, Kohler, Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, Tempur-Sealy and The Tile Shop.

 Follow along at www.HouseBeautiful.com and on Instagram and Twitter @HouseBeautiful.

House Beautiful’s Whole Home Concept House will be open for tour daily October 18 through November 3 in the historic Belle Meade area of Nashville, Tennessee. The beautiful English Arts & Crafts style home will promote happier, healthier, and smarter living and is being built by Castle Homes in partnership with ten designers from across the United States benefitting the Nashville Symphony. Tickets will be available via CastleHomes.com.

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PRESS CONTACTS:

House Beautiful  Gabriel Ford, Hearst Magazines, Gabrel.Ford@Hearst.com Carrie Carlson, Hearst Magazines, CarrieCarlson@Hearst.com  

Castle Homes  Nancy McNulty, Forest Home Media, nancy@foresthomemedia.com  

ABOUT HOUSE BEAUTIFUL

House Beautiful (www.housebeautiful.com) is the trusted authority on homed design, with an audience of more than 10 million (MPA November 2018). Since 1896, House Beautiful has inspired readers to believe that a beautiful life begins at home. With alluring photography, candid conversations with top designers and original decorating ideas, House Beautiful invites readers to dream and do. Follow @housebeautiful on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter. With 25 titles in the U.S., Hearst is the largest publisher of monthly magazines with a total paid circulation of over 36 million (AAM 1H 2017). Hearst Magazines’ print and digital assets reach nearly 137 million readers and site visitors each month–more than two-thirds of all women and millennial women in the country (source: 2017 comScore Multi-Platform/MRI 09-17/S17). Hearst Digital Media has 143 million followers across social.

ABOUT CASTLE HOMES

Celebrating 25 years of building excellence, Castle Homes first launched the Nashville Symphony Show House in 2015, a Contemporary Folk style home. The team previously earned the coveted 2012 Southern Living Custom Builder of the Year for exceptional home building. As a top Nashville based design-build company, Castle Homes pioneered producing impeccable custom homes with a guaranteed price. Using super attention-to-detail, green building and proven craftsmanship, the talented staff includes construction degreed project managers and an experienced interior design staff who created a stunning spectrum of homes throughout the Middle Tennessee area from low-maintenance farmhouses in Leiper’s Fork to historically inspired English Country style homes. For more information, www.CastleHomes.com.

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.

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!