Category: BOLD Designers

BOLD Summit Attendee, Lane McNab of Lane McNab Interiors

Lane began her adult life as a singer, graduating with advanced degrees in vocal performance and then spending several years as a highly-acclaimed soprano in leading roles throughout the Bay Area. After taking time off from singing to manage the demands of a growing family, Lane began to focus entirely on her other passion: designing interiors.

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Lane apprenticed on numerous projects with a local design and construction firm as a designer and assistant project manager before founding her own firm in 2012. Custom and semi-custom pieces are a feature of many of Lane’s designs and she works with local artisans to create one-of-a-kind pieces for clients throughout the Bay Area.

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Lane McNab Interiors has developed a tried and true system for design implementation with an emphasis on a stress-free, detailed execution and client experience. A deep devotion to the transformative power of beauty in people’s lives, once through music and now through design connects Lane’s passions.

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BOLD Summit Attendee, Christopher Reebals of Christopher Architecture

After graduating Auburn University’s School of Architecture, Chris worked for a small commercial firm in Montgomery, AL. Chris took a hiatus from architecture for several years in the late 90’s and worked with people in a different capacity; directing ministries at a church and working with inner city communities developing affordable housing models.

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For the past ten years Chris has been working with Christopher Architects. Having designed spaces to meet the needs of both corporate and residential clients Chris’ heart and passion is creating space which inspires both the occupant and the observer. Chris’ award winning designs have been featured in regional and national publications.

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He has a portfolio of residential and commercial projects from the panhandle of Florida up the East-Coast and as far west as San Diego, CA

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BOLD Summit Attendee, Lisa Davenport of Lisa Davenport Designs

Lisa Davenport, of Lisa Davenport Designs, entered the world of interior design in a less-than-conventional way. Upon completing a degree in Commercial Design, Lisa was in search of a career she could be passionate about.

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Some time later, Lisa returned to Paier College of Art and studied interior design, refining her signature hand-rendering technique. Since then, Lisa has worked with clients in the interior design industry for over twenty years, and still continues to find the magic in her job every day.

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Although she may have an easygoing personality, Lisa’s biggest pet peeve is lack of attention to detail. Un-fluffed pillows quake with fear when she enters a room. A crooked picture frame will stop her in her tracks.

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Lisa finds that the best part of working with clients is the relationships she builds with them. Getting to know her clients on a personal level helps Lisa cater to their style so that their home feels like an extension of themselves. When you talk, Lisa listens.

BOLD Summit Attendee, Corinne Brown of The Brown Design Group

Corinne Brown is known for creating warm, inviting and personal homes. Clients describe her as uniquely intuitive and a quick study. As the owner and Principal Designer of The Brown Design Group, Corinne has found a way to combine her passion for design with a mountain lifestyle.

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She now works from The Big Red Building, a spectacular design studio which she designed and built to house the largest sample library within a hundred mile radius. Her keen eye, experience and ability to derive inspiration from the mountain lifestyle provides a special sense for what is important to her exclusive clientele.

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Corinne and her team at The Brown Design Group have created an impressive portfolio of work, including outstanding mountain vacation home interior design, but she is most proud of the relationships that have been built with their clients, which continue through the years. “I think that we connect because we can provide designs that make them feel most comfortable and happy in real life. I find inspiration in their very personal desire to create a home”.

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BOLD Summit Attendee, Nar Bustamante of Nar Fine Carpentry

Nar Bustamante established himself with his wife of 20 years and two children in the Sacramento area in 1999. Born in Mexico City and raised in the Bay Area, Nar began working on homes during his summers at age 14. By age 24, Nar had founded his first construction company in Santa Fe, New Mexico building many new luxury green alternative homes.

 

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Homes crafted with adobe, straw bale, pumice crete, radiant heat, passive solar and many more alternative methods and materials. Through the years, Nar built a passion for quality craftsmanship and innovative design, bringing to the Sacramento area a new sense of style and design for the home connoisseur.

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Nar has worked on kitchens and baths, full-home remodels, commercial spaces and showrooms, and multi-unit dwellings. As a nationally awarded designer, Nar is passionate about Sacramento, the people and the opportunity to serve you!

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BOLD Summit Attendee, Lisa Staprans of Staprans Designs

Lisa Staprans has over twenty–five years of interior design experience, having worked on high profile award winning residential and commercial projects around the country. Based in bucolic Portola Valley, California, Lisa gains inspiration from the beauty of nature that surrounds her as well as the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of Silicon Valley.


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Lisa honors the “soul of design” through all of her projects. She believes that artistically driven and emotionally connective interiors have the ability to transform ones entire state of being.

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She embraces an ethos of social and fair trade responsibility, seeking out craftspeople and manufacturers who share the same philosophy. Her travels throughout the world have led to collaborations with indigenous artisans that can be seen not only in Lisa’s interiors but also in the beautiful things created and procured from her travels available for sale on One King’s Lane and Chairish.

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Return to Things That Are Meaningful and Bathe Inside of Them

Hi there!

I am so incredibly inspired by what we have in store for you this year.  Congratulations to all of you who have made the decision to push yourself beyond the scarcity of time mentality.  You are ready for the mind shift!  We are indeed going to shake things up. Yes, I will bombard you with a TON of information and too many details to retain all at once, but I will give you the video recordings of the presentations, so don’t worry.  I am also giving you a lot of collaboration time this year.  Round table discussions on both days and topic dinners.  I am intentionally structuring the content to shake you out of your comfort zone and cause a shift in your thinking.  This is the way you catalyze growth and create lasting change. You are ready for the up-level!  Your homework: I want you to start visualizing what your ideal life and business situation looks like.  I want you to be crystal clear about what your intention is. What are you actively creating? What does your life include; what does it look like?  What experiences do you have?  I am going to be opening the BOLD Summit with this question and I want you to have that visual in your mind, ready and as clear as day.

For those of you who haven’t decided, make your choice soon.  Decide what you stand for. What are you willing to do to get what you want? Who is your master; growth and abundance or scarcity and fear.  Those who invest in themselves will be nourished and will thrive faster and stronger than the rest.  Be inspired!  Let this wave of growth be the one that pushes you through the threshold!

Let’s return to things that are meaningful. Align with your gift and your potential.  You were born to do this!

Featured BOLD Designer Liz Carroll

Our featured BOLD designers are all fabulous interior designers who are attending the Business of Luxury Design Summit this June, in Palm Springs. Liz Carroll of Liz Carroll Interiors is North Carolina has mastered the crisp, airy, coastal aesthetic with her clean, sophisticated designs.

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A life-long love of design pulled Liz Carroll out of the world of corporate banking and to her calling, creating gorgeous interiors. Many of my personal favorites of Liz’s projects feature fun nautical undertones. She expertly combines chic with playful, and the results are spectacular!

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Liz’s eagerness to stay up on the latest and greatest in the industry has her constantly using her own home as a testing ground to ensure her client projects are a great success. Being a mom and wife plays an important role in helping Liz create interiors that are both durable and chic.

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It is her affinity to mixing periods and styles that helps Liz to create a signature look that is fresh and current but rooted in timeless tradition. The result… function married to style with a lot of longevity and a dash of fun.

Photos courtesy of LizCarrollInteriors.com

YOU ARE MEANT FOR GREAT THINGS

This week I have been reminded over and over again how important it is for us to keep on striving for what we want. Stretching toward our growth edge.  Before you can blast through that barrier, before you overcome the challenge and step up your game, you MUST know your “WHY”.  Why do you reach so hard. Why do you want it?

Know that you can. In fact, if you feel this drive and your inner knowing tells you there is something more for you, don’t you dare stop! You know there is greatness in you. I see the greatness in you. Learn what you need to learn, make the connections you need to make, put the pieces together. Create your life fervently! Stretch, bloom, reach, run!

What were you put on this earth to do?  What are you built for? What screams on the inside trying to burst free?  What is your GIFT!?  You have a gift and it is so important! It is your great honor and responsibility, should you choose to accept the challenge, to do whatever it TAKES to manifest your greatest desires.  Your passion is your calling in this world. Do NOT take this lightly!

I see you as so precious. I’m not sure you understand. I don’t know if you see what I see.  You literally are a link in the chain of the transformation our world is waking up to.  Your role as a designer is pivotal to creating a beautiful and amazing future our grandchildren will enjoy. YOU change the world; one soul at a time, one space, one family, one community at a time.  The extent that you can use your gift, is the extent to which you become more of who you are.  This is how you bloom! Using your gift is how you bloom. Creating a thriving design firm is how you bloom. Creating masterpieces on a regular basis is HOW you open up to the world and radiate your light! You can do this. You were born to do this.

I have been given a gift as well. A purpose in this world that runs through my very being. It is my burden and my bliss. It is always my great honor.

My gift is to nourish you… so that YOU can change to world.

That is MY “Why”.

Let’s DO this.

Julia A. Molloy

 

Featured BOLD Designer Kerrie Kelly of Kerrie Kelly Design Lab

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I’m loving the recent popularization of this beautiful soft gray color in interior design. It feels both fresh and soothing; such a lovely and versatile neutral that works in any room of a house! This project titled “Gorgeous in Gray” by Kerrie Kelly of Kerrie Kelly Design Lab in Sacramento, California caught my eye and truly epitomizes the versatility of this color. As Kerrie has so masterfully demonstrated, soft gray is also an ideal choice for the exterior of a home. These images make me want to go home and paint something gray. Well done, Kerrie!

Images courtesy of Kerriekelly.com