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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.

From Celebrating Everything To Succulent Décor – Blog Round Up

September 16, 2017 By Nancy McNulty Leave a Comment

As the cobbler’s children have no shoes, Forest Home Media creates hundreds of blogs for clients and the Southeastern consortium of creatives, The Southern C, and now it’s past time for a Forest Home Media blog wrap up!

Celebrate Everything With Darcy Miller

After spending time with founding editor of Martha Stewart Living Weddings, author and new fun friend Darcy Miller at the Southern C Summit and her Nashville book tour, I treated myself to her incredible book, “Celebrate Everything! Fun Ideas To Bring Your Parties To Life.”

My first thought was to find out what Martha thinks about the book. In her kind forward she shares, “I suggest you use this book for inspiration first, then as instruction….Darcy’s sources are generously shared.” When you are being inspired to take your parties to the next level, how absolutely awesome to have this how-to. Martha was spot on, #obviously.

When I’m bored, I plan parties in my head and Darcy has me spinning with ideas to try. This book could be a little overwhelming if you don’t approach it with the spirit conveyed early by the author. Even if you don’t D-I-Y it, Do-It-Together (D-I-T)! So let’s dig in to just a few of my favorite things. Click here to read more on The Southern C!

Meet RealSimple.com Lifestyle Editor Sarah Yang

As a young girl growing up in sunny Pasadena, California, RealSimple.com Lifestyle Editor Sarah Yang’s middle school aspirations included being a NYC journalist. (Love that focus and determination!) Regular meetings with Sarah is just one of the perks of being a home lifestyle publicist for me. She’s part of an impressive and inspiring field of young, professional women having a huge impact on shelter magazines especially their digital and social media operations. Find out more on what inspires her in this fun Q&A for The Southern C.

Video Marketing

Recently, I had the pleasure of helping new Trading Places designer John Gidding with his first Facebook Live! On this blog for The Southern C, I share “Video Marketing For Your Business: 3 Platforms and How to Use Them.”

Domino Book Review

After working with Domino magazine on a Facebook Live for our March 2017 House for Hope Designer Show House, I also did a book review of“Domino: Your Guide to a Stylish Home” by Domino Editorial Director Jessica Romm Perez and Shanni Silver, Domino’s director of digital content, which was SO helpful during a spring bathroom renovation. Click here for more on the 272-page, beautiful, hardcover book that is so much more than a stylish addition to your coffee table.

Succulent Decor Tips And Upcoming Parade of Homes!

From aesthetic beauty to health benefits, weaving succulents into your home décor can be achieved through several helpful tips from Nashville-based plant and floral rock star designer Tim Riffle, Tim Riffle Environments. Click here for the Southern C blog on “Designer Tim Riffle’s Tips for Using Succulents in Home Décor.” And, I’m super excited Forest Home Media will be working with Tim once again on the English Country home of builder Castle Homes for the October Nashville Parade of Homes. Click here for more info on the event.

Our Charming Hometown – Franklin, Tennessee

Finally, take a trip to my hometown, Franklin, Tennessee, and a few of my favorite coffee shops, restaurants and places to stay and to shop! Click here for more on The Southern C of my tour of “The Charm Of Historic Franklin, Tennessee.”

New Products, New Companies, Dash Of HGTV Curb Appeal Dreaminess

September 1, 2017 By Nancy McNulty Leave a Comment

Connect Social via @NashvilleHomesShow or with event hashtag #NashHomeShow

Nashville’s largest and longest-running home event, the Nashville Home Show, opens September 8-10 at the downtown Nashville Music City Center with over 300 home building and remodeling experts, sessions with HGTV Curb Appeal and outdoor living expert John Gidding as well as great DIY projects at the three-day event.

John-Gidding-Nashville-Home-Show — Curb appeal is one of the biggest factors in selling a home. HGTV Curb Appeal expert John Gidding gives the 411 on how to do this during several sessions at the Nashville Home Show, September 8-10.

Nashville’s Comprehensive Home Improvement Event

Homeowners will be able to find the most comprehensive home improvement event in the city where they can shop and compare under one roof according to event producer Eric Udler.

“For 34 years, this event has provided home owners inspiration, expert advice and the opportunity to shop, compare and save from hundreds of home improvement experts. We’ve added a HGTV design expert, interior designers converting sheds into inspiring spaces and popular food blogger demos,” Udler said. “This is the can’t miss home event of the season, and, during the show, we are giving away a GE appliance upgrade of your dreams valued at $5,000 from Electronic Express.”

Avoid long times and buy tickets online at NashvilleHomeShow.com where you will also find nearby discount parking.

Boosting home values by sprucing up exterior appearances will be taught during free home show sessions with John Gidding, an architect, designer and host of HGTV’s Designed To Sell and Curb Appeal: The Block. Visitors can take his tips and find resources to implement the ideas at the home show.

Outdoor Living New Frontier – The Backyard Designer Shed

The new frontier in outdoor living is the backyard shed which will be showcased in a special shedquarters area of the home show. Tuff Sheds have been transformed into fun spaces by area designers Marcelle Guilbeau, DC 7 Designs, Decorating Den Interiors’ Bohnne Jones and Designs By Tamerah.

Tuff Shed, She-Shed, Nashville Home Show — Nashville area interior designers are creating new backyard spaces from a musician’s retreat to a she-shed at the Nashville Home Show.

New Products, Ideas, Popular Food Bloggers

With Apple & Oak, an East Nashville boutique hosting the main stage, new companies and products also will be highlighted including imported exotic hardwoods for outdoor projects, new innovation in kitchen cabinets, flooring and shower walls, phone operated home locks and virtually unstainable bedding made in the U.S.A.

Apple & Oak's Loretta Lou Mobile Rug Truck, Nashville Home Show — Hosting the Nashville Home Show main stage, Apple & Oak’s mobile rug truck, Loretta Lou, will also be on hand.

Popular Nashville area food bloggers will be demonstrating delicious recipes throughout the event including “That” Susan Williams, The Hungry Waitress, The Local Lady, Luv Cooks, My Paella Travels, Chelsea’s Choices, Lhyme, The Nutrition Adventure, Handmade Healthy and Miranda’s Kitchen Adventures.

Tennessee’s largest home event, the 34^th Nashville Home Show, features over 300 home industry experts from remodeling contractors, kitchen, bath and landscape designers to inspiring ideas for outdoor living, sheds, pool and spa. Featuring curb appeal and outdoor living sessions with HGTV’s John Gidding, this can’t miss event for homeowners is September 8-10 at the downtown Music City Center. Save and buy tickets online at NashvilleHomeShow.com.

Longest-Running, Largest Nashville Home Show PR Project

July 29, 2017 By Nancy McNulty Leave a Comment

Tennessee’s largest and longest-running home show, the Nashville Home Show, heads to the Music City Center in downtown Nashville, September 8-10, and Forest Home Media is honored to serve as PR partner for the premier event. Formerly the Home Decorating and Remodeling Show, the nationally respected All Home Services has purchased and renamed the show. (Full news release below.)

Meet HGTV’s Curb Appeal Expert John Gidding

The latest in inspiring home and garden ideas will be available with over 300 exhibitors providing expert advice at the Nashville Home Show. By invitation only, area media and bloggers are invited for a Meet & Greet with the long-time host of HGTV’s Curb Appeal, John Gidding, a current regular on the Rachel Ray Show among some of his fun projects. He’ll be presenting don’t miss sessions on curb appeal and outdoor living. Tickets for blog and social media giveaways are also available. Email nancy@foresthomemedia.com for info and an invitation.

Nashville area creatives including local designers and food bloggers will also be featured at the three-day event. The schedule will be announced soon so stay tuned via Nashville Home Show’s Facebook!

Nashville Home Show News Release

Longest Running, Largest Nashville Home Show Purchased & Rebranded

HGTV’s John Gidding Headlines Premier Home Event

Media Contact: Nancy McNulty, Forest Home Media

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (July 5, 2017)—Tennessee’s largest home show, the Home Decorating and Remodeling Show in Nashville, has been purchased by All Show Services for an undisclosed amount and rebranded as the Nashville Home Show according to All Show Services President Eric Udler.

Now in its 34^th year, the Nashville Home Show returns September 8-10 at the Music City Center in downtown Nashville with hundreds of exhibitors. Udler also announced HGTV’s John Gidding is headlining the year’s premier home event.

“With years of experience producing shows in Virginia and New Jersey of this caliber, the Nashville Home Show is a wonderful addition to our portfolio of shows. We are taking the incredible foundation established over three decades by the previous owners and packing it with the latest in inspiring home building and remodeling,” Udler said.

Based in Rockville, Maryland, All Show Services has a long history of producing shows including the New Jersey Home Show, which takes place annually in Edison. In addition, it produces Super Pet Expo, which is held in Edison and in Chantilly, VA.

From home kitchen and bath remodeling ideas to choosing flooring, paint colors and windows, the Nashville Home Show takes place September 8-10 at the downtown Nashville Music City Center with an incredible spectrum of ideas making it the home resource for inspiration. For more information on exhibiting or attending, contact NashvilleHomeShow.com.