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Kandrac & Kole Rewind 2013

January 4, 2014

Written By: kelly

2013 was a blessed year for Kandrac & Kole Interior Designs, Inc.  I looked back thru my iPhoto and realized what a truly adventurous, exciting, scary and happy year it was!

Here’s a re-cap of 2013, a month by month highlight reel of one of our best years yet!

January

We kicked off 2013 with exciting news as we rebranded and introduced our new logo, website and blog. Thanks to Shari Miller with Little Blue Deer Design, the response was amazing!

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February

You can’t succeed if you don’t keep learning so in February we attended Design Camp Atlanta hosted by our talented friends Lori Dennis and Kelli Ellis.  This two day event at the Fox Theatre was packed full of inspiration, learning, networking and catching up with designer friends from around the country. One of the highlights was meeting Barry Dixon who was one of the keynote speakers.

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We also began work on one of our most favorite projects to date – a rebuild/redesign of a historic commercial office space.

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Photography by Emily Followill 

March 

March was busy too as we worked tirelessly for one our favorite charity projects, Room Service Atlanta. This was our second go-round with the United Methodist Children’s Home and this time we were fortunate enough to design a studio apartment for a young adult woman. We were inspired by a set of vintage bathing suit prints from Wendover Art and the rest is navy and emerald history!

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April

In April I was selected as one of nine Style Spotters for High Point Market. Our team traveled to High Point, N.C. and scoured the market for the latest and greatest in design trends. We shared our finds on Pinterest and participated in a fierce competition for the best board. We broke the record for the most re-pins in Stylespotter history!

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You can see the fruits of our labor on Pinterest HERE.

May 

We bit the bullet in May and moved our office of three years from a historic 2nd floor walkup in Acworth to a new, charming house in Kennesaw.  We’ve got plenty of space now with 3 offices, 2 workrooms, 1 conference room, 2 kitchens, 2 bathrooms and a storage room!  Please come visit any time!

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June 

Intern Tracy joined our team in June to spend the summer learning and working. We put her to good use since June was the month that we filmed our first HGTV pilot! We still can’t share many details because the show hasn’t aired yet but we will say that we had a whole lot of fun making over a master bedroom and bathroom in gray and green!

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I headed to Guatemala with my daughter Riley and designer friends Pamela Copeman and Melinda Headrick for my semi-annual trip working with Catalyst Resources International building homes for the poor.

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July

Summertime was in full swing in July and our team was jet setting across the country for their vacations and travels. Along the way I stopped in Memphis for the Brizo Blogger 19 reunion and to tour the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. What an honor to experience first hand the impressive partnership between St. Jude’s and Brizo and to know that one of our favorite vendors is supporting such a worthy cause!

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My friend Rebecca Reynolds with a young patient on our visit to St. Jude’s. Photo courtesy of Brizo and St. Jude’s.

August

The Southern C  conference came to Athens, GA in August so of course we had to attend! We met and mingled with some fun new friends (like this impressive young man named Aidan Hornaday – check out his website) and got some great business advice from a wide range of speakers!

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September 

September was memorable because we were FINALLY published in our first national magazine, Southern Lady.  What a long awaited thrill! Our four page spread included several of our favorite spaces and shared some of our tips for creating “Friendly Spaces.”

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Of course our design work never ends. We had a year of GREAT clients and fun, creative projects like these.

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October

In October it was time to travel to High Point Market again, this time as sponsored bloggers. We were sponsored by two companies, Tomlinson and W. Schilling and got a priviledged behind the scenes look at their product lines.

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October was also the month that we were nominated by lighting company Lamps Plus as one of 25 Best Home Blogs of 2013!

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We installed another project that was a complete rebuild/redesign that we are very proud of!

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Photography by Emily Followill.

November 

In November, we were proud to send our Jr. Designer Lauren to Maine for the first ever Thos. Moser designer apprenticeship program. She spent 3 days at the workshop building her very own chair and learning about this all-american furniture company. Visiting a factory is the #1 way to really appreciate a manufacturer!

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Always on the hunt to learn more, we signed up to attend the first ever U.S. Business of Design seminar hosted by the Canadian superstar business woman/designer extraordinaire  Kimberly Seldon. We took 2 days away from the office to focus on all the things we do right running Kandrac & Kole and to brainstorm on the many ways we can continue to improve our operations.

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Because the adventures of Kelly and Joann never cease, what do we do when the year is almost up and we are exhausted? We say YES to yet another HGTV pilot show! This one was produced by a New York based production company and should air in the next few months (so sorry – mums the word until then).  This time, we designed an entire house and it was a transformation you’ve got to see with your own eyes!

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December

We ended the year wrapping up several special projects, donating our time to Operation Christmas Child, and being published AGAIN – this time in Cobb Life Magazine.

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It’s been an exciting and slightly crazy year here at Kandrac & Kole and that’s just the way we like it! Thank you for always coming along for the ride. We are excited to show you what’s up our sleeve for 2014!

Kelly 

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Kandrac & Kole Has Moved!

May 7, 2013

Written By: kelly

There comes a time when you know that bigger and better things are on the horizon and for Kandrac and Kole that time is NOW!

We have loved our beautiful office in downtown Acworth for the past three years – a lot of exciting things have happened in that place!  But all of a sudden, the stars aligned and the timing was right and we were blessed with the perfect new spot to call HOME!

So goodbye historic downtown Acworth!

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After a few days of packing (and a lot of help from our friends and family) we were loaded up for re-location! We swear we are VERY organized and are NOT horders but it didn’t look like it!

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 Did I mention all the boxes??

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And moving those horrendous fabric books (hello heating pad meet my back…)

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Our charming new home is located in historical downtown Kennesaw, just miles from our old office! We are thrilled because we have an entire HOUSE that allows us room to grow.  Thank God for our hard working team and tireless husbands!

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Of course we couldn’t just move right in without making it K&K suitable so after a fresh coat of paint, new carpet, all new light fixtures and a lots of reorganization in record time, we can let you peak in the window….

Get ready –  this is where the K&K magic happens!

Our installer Chris Ray helped hang all of our art including a gallery of our work in our new (emerald green of course) conference room! Light fixture by Robert Abbey… looooove!


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Our husbands were super duper team players (as long as we kept the cooler filled with ice and beer).

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Goodbye crappy builder blah light fixtures ….

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Hellloooo Visual Comfort!

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Our new fabric workroom is our favorite creation. It’s much bigger than our old space and has PLENTY of room for a 40″x80″ custom made work station that is on the way!

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 Of course our office wouldn’t be complete without a place for our gang to work! These flush mount light fixtures (thank you Currey @ Co.) were a must-have as were the high gloss workstation tables in our new “loft” area (thank you Ikea).

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We are looking forward to working in our sophisticated new space that matches our fun-loving personalities! Keep a look out for more pictures of our new digs (and look closely in the windows)!

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PS. Don’t worry, our mailing address and phone numbers won’t change, so stay in touch!!!

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Celebrating Kandrac & Kole

October 9, 2012

Written By: joann

I recently discovered Animoto which is a website that produces video slideshows.  All you do is upload photos, add text and pick one of the many songs available.  It looks as though I spent hours on this but really, the technology is the one that uses a sophisticated post-production technique that is used in television and film.

I wanted to document just a few of the days in the life of Kandrac & Kole and to honor our 7 years in business!  We have met so many great people along the way and feel blessed to do what we love!!

I’m new at this so I hope you like it!!


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For the Love of Pink and Green

August 1, 2011

Written By: kelly

Six years ago when Kandrac & Kole Interior Designs, Inc. was born we began to develop our brand. We wanted to create a vibe that reflected our fun loving personalities while still representing ourselves as sophisticated, talented designers. My favorite color has always been pink – a luscious, deep pink. Joann’s favorite color is green – think ryegrass green. So… we stayed true to what we love.

We had a slight worry that we wouldn’t be taken seriously with our brand wrapped in pink and green, but we felt like it was the truest reflection of us as designers. Our office is bathed in pink and green and it is one energetic, happy place!

It comes naturally to us in design like in this little girls room we designed a few years back.

This year when Pantone declared Honeysuckle Pink the color of the year, we snickered just a bit.

I guess if Tory Burch says it’s cool in design, then we were right all along.

Kravet thinks so too.

Lilly Pulitizer shared pink & green with the world decades ago, so we shouldn’t have worried!

We think we done good! We’ll stick with it!

 

 

 

 

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Movin’ On Up – Part IV

August 30, 2010

Written By: kelly

After three back breaking, hot and sweaty, exhilarating load in days, we have finally moved in to our new offices in Historic Downtown Acworth! We are still in the process of beautifying, but have to hit the road for our long awaited 2010 Business of Design Conference in NYC tomorrow. We’ve had so much support and enthusiastic Facebook cheerleaders, we wanted to at least share the progress we made this past week. This is just a portion of the space – look out for “Movin’ On Up Part V” in 2 weeks (we’ve got several goodies in the works)!

Thursday evening, my friend Amy and I (and our friend Pinot all with my dog Lilly) tackled our custom designed Mod Green Pod fabrics and transformed them into art for the conference room….

Friday morning the moving guys were late so Joann and I got a little anxious…….

Looking at this photo makes me want to run away screaming…..

But is this a fabric library to die for or what????

Remember this from our Movin On Up Part I?

Well, now it looks like this:)

We LOVE our custom made galvanized steel desks on repurposed legs made by Kemp Designs.

And my peaceful Buddha from Viva Terra and repurposed chair keeps me very happy:)

Stay Tuned for More!

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