HGTV's Showhouse Showdown

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HGTV’s showhouse showdown

SUNDAY March 18, 2012

Local episode on Saturday The mid-Michigan edition of HGTV’s “Showhouse Showdown” airs at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 24, on HGTV. The show, which pits two professional interior designers against each other in nearly identical homes, features two Cobblestone-built houses located in Larkin Township. For the show, designers are given identical decorating budgets and the chance to create a winning interior design. About 700 people showed up to see the decorated houses in August, setting a “Showhouse Showdown” attendance record, HGTV producers said. The show was ﬁlmed at that time and

Designer Corey Damen Jenkins wanted to create something warm and cozy for Michiganians who must endure cold winters. This is the living room at 3339 E. Shady Ridge Drive.

many local residents were interviewed. People who attended were asked to vote for the home they liked best, and the winner will be announced during the show. A public viewing party is at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 24, during the 51st Annual Home & Lifestyle Show at Saginaw Valley State University’s Ryder Center in Saginaw. The viewing will take place on the main show ﬂoor at the Ryder Center. Admission to the Home & Lifestyle show is $5 per person, with 18 and younger admitted free. There is free parking. The show will be rebroadcast at 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 30. Information, http://cobblestone.me/news/hgtv-showhouse-showdown, a page dedicated exclusively to news about the local episode. Join the conversation at http://www.facebook.com/cobblestonehomes

Designer Michelle Mio created this fully upholstered master bed and love seat for the house at 3479 E. Shady Ridge Drive.The homeowner absolutely loves the love seat at the end of the bed.

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And what about the ornate wooden chair with crocodile skin in the seat and back? “I just felt like it,” Jenkins said. “Sometimes you see things and they just speak to you.” The crocodile was unexpected, not the paisley print or stripe that some would have chosen, he said. “The croc kind of gave it a whimsical, off-the-beat impact or feel.”

Showdown houses get rave reviews from new owners So, which house will be the winner of the Showhouse Showdown? BY CHERYL WADE For the Daily News

From the intricate interior wall paint to the antique-looking “crocodile chairs,” Karla and Scott McFarland love their new Midland house. Designers of the M c Fa r l a n d s ’ h o m e , and a second Midland house owned by Kara Gordon, went head to head in HGTV’s “Showh o u s e S h o w d o w n .” One designer created an old-world feel with the McFarlands’ house, while a second designer called her new style house, now owned by Gordon, “Bohemian.” Local residents chose the winning designer and house during an open house Aug. 20, and the winner will be announced on the Showdown when the local episode airs at 2:30 p.m. March 24. I n H G T V ’s w o r d s, this will be a showdown between “old-world style” and “fun ﬂoating furniture.” Cobblestone Homes of Freeland, owned by Mark and Melis s a Wa h l , b u i l t t h e two identical houses in Larkin Township. Each was decorated in a completely different way but with the same budget, Melissa Wahl said. She and Mark had thought the completely furnished homes might serve as models for prospective customers to tour, but both homes sold soon after the August ﬁlming.

The McFarland home

Scott said he and Karla had met with M a r k Wa h l t o s t a r t designing a house the couple would have built. Wahl mentioned his company had built the two Showdown houses that now were for sale. The couple didn’t like the contemporary house because, with two children and a dog, it was too close to the road. “It wasn’t our style,” S c o t t a d d e d . ” We walked in the door (of

the other house) and it just felt like it was exactly what we were looking for. In terms of the size and in terms of the ﬁnish, it was warm and inviting.” Karla said the couple had looked at 10 houses before finding this one. “It was a huge deal not to have to worry about recreating what the designer had,” she said. The master bedroom has a chandelier that Karla called “really b e a u t i f u l ,” a n d s h e loves the multilayered, intricate paint technique on the wall. Interior designer Corey Damen Jenkins, whose company is DWV Interiors LLC in Bloomington Hills, said he wanted to create something warm and cozy for Michiganians who must endure cold winters. DWV bills itself as a trend-setting design ﬁrm specializing in creating traditional, modern, French country and transitional interiors. What makes the company stand out is its ability to help home buyers save money by designing the ho m e virtually under their eyes. Jenkins said he wanted to combine elegance and a cozy nature in a traditional design. And what about the ornate wooden chair with crocodile skin in the seat and back? “I just felt like it,” Jenkins said. “Sometimes you see things and they just speak to you.” The crocodile was unex pected, not the paisley print or stripe that some would have chosen, he said. “The croc kind of gave it a whimsical, off-the-beat impact or feel.” Besides the crocodile chair, Jenkins noted the pleated bed that he added to give the feel of a hotel. He aimed at furnishings that were classic, so no one could tell for certain when the decor was put together. He chose reds, golds and greens that are the colors of

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The house at 3479 E. Shady Ridge Drive in Larkin Township.

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The house at 3339 E. Shady Ridge Drive in Larkin Township.

the earth and that have been around forever. The arched brick hood in the kitchen brings in the flavor of Italy’s Tuscan region, he said. In the kitchen, there are

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sage green and cognaccolored cabinets mixed together in the scheme. That gives the furnishings a “collected-overtime look,” he said. “When you walk

inside, you just don’t know how long it’s been there,” he said.

The Gordon home

Gordon, who chose the

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The Daily News House Hunting team, Kevin Prior and Lori Qualls, both employees of the Daily News, toured the Cobblestone houses that will be featured on HGTV’s Showhouse Showdown, which will be broadcast at 2:30 p.m. March 24. Here are their impressions.

3479 E. Shady Ridge Drive modern farmhouse The dining room/kitchen Kevin says: The room shimmers with the three hammered aluminum light ﬁxtures and hand-painted mural wall treatment. The combination of warm and cool colors mixed together really makes the room inviting. The chrome pulls on the backs of the chairs are a nice touch. The kitchen is absolutely stunning with the white granite extending down the sides of the island to the floor and on the counters. The farmhouse style sink combined Kevin with the contemporary appliances makes the Prior room modern and eclectic. Lori says: The kitchen and dining room, like the rest of the house, are bathed in tones of grays, whites and touches of silver that work well together. The hand-painted scene of a barren winter landscape on the dining room walls is subtle yet stunning. I love the trio of hammered-metal pendant lights and the fabric chairs studded with nailheads in the dining room. This look mimics the metal-topped table and leather/nailhead chairs in the eat-in area of the kitchen.

Lori Qualls

The living room

Kevin says: The living room is light and bright with contemporary furniture combined again with eclectic accessories. I love the combination of contemporary artwork mixed with flea market finds. The room focuses around the fireplace and offers several seating options .

The kitchen is light and fresh with white cabinets and a custom-built granite island.

Photos for the Daily News by Kevin Prior

Lori says: The tiled fireplace, floor to ceiling, is gorgeous and I love the flashes of silver on the mantel. On either side of the fireplace are upright wrought iron floor lamps with drum shades, which complement the cream-colored furniture and oversized tufted stool. The designers’ own artwork, which looms large on one side of the room, works well.

The master bedroom

Kevin says: The master looks like an upscale hotel suite. The full wall of draperies behind the bed is striking and combined with the small sofa at the end of the bed and ottoman gives you both a sleeping area and a sitting area. The massive upholstered headboard with the sunburst mirror makes a dramatic focal point. The drum ceiling light ﬁxture is a nice added surprise to the room. Lori says: I learned I love the look of drum shades on pendant lights and the one hanging over the bed/loveseat area is big and gorgeous. This room is full of icy browns, blues, grays and creams. A wall of cream drapery backs the bed’s almost-ceilingtall brown padded headboard, which is adorned with a really cool mirror. I love the look of the cozy loveseat at the foot of the bed and its companion, a round footstool.

The dining room welcomes visitors with a hand-painted mural.

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The great room is an eye catcher and ready for entertaining around the tiled ﬁreplace and custom furniture pieces.

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3339 E. Shady Ridge Drive traditional brick The dining room/kitchen

Kevin says: The warm chocolately tones of the room just make you want to settle into the dining room. The large table and chairs seem right at home in this room, and the side server offers additional serving areas for formal dinners. The kitchen continues the chocolate theme with the cabinetry combining sage green into the palette and all tied together with a massive butcher block topped island. The brick venthood surround and pot filler Kevin faucet behind the range make this a cook’s Prior delight. Lori says: Subtly, the designer played off the sage green grids of the house’s windows with splashes of the same color in some cabinetry in the kitchen. The arched brick area, fitted with pot filler faucet over the cooktop, blends in beautifully with greens, browns of the kitchen. The dining room’s fleur de lis-inspired wallpaper has shades Lori of browns, reds and greens, and the table is Qualls surrounded by ornate tall-back fabric chairs on three sides and a leather loveseat on the fourth. The dining room’s molding and trim are a lucious chocolate milk color.

The living room

Kevin says: The combination of new furniture, antiques and custom pieces all work together to create an absolutely stunning room. The warm chocolate tones and textures of the different furniture pieces draw your eye from one area to another. The custom wall treatment throughout is luxury at its ﬁnest.

Photos for the Daily News by Kevin Prior

The kitchen combines rich chocolate cabinets with sage green cabinetry brought together by a butcher block countertop.

Lori says: The oversized chairs and the oversized art work really make this room regal, especially with the textured butterscotch walls and dark furniture, both new and documented antique. Two bench seats flank the floor-to-ceiling fireplace and add a cozy feel to the room. The interior windows, like the dining room and master bedroom, are fitted with solid wood shutters. The room is grounded with tufted chocolate fabric wall boards and a large tufted orange stool.

The master bedroom

Kevin says: Custom everything! The walls in the master are a custom wall treatment complete with ﬂeur-de-lis patterns and rhinestone accents. The full-size crystal chandelier seems right at home suspended from the tray ceilings, and the custom upholstered headboard and footboard of the bed really give the room an over-the-top feel. That, and the massive mirror leaning against the one wall. Lori says: Again, a custom wall treatment, this time with raised appliques scattered on the wall, painted over with brown and accented with “diamonds.” The bed is incredible with its tailored fabric foot board and bedskirt. The crystal chandelier is gorgeous, and you have to see the ﬂoor-to-ceiling freestanding mirror to believe it.

The large table and chairs seem right at home in this room, and the side server offers additional serving areas for formal dinners.

The bed is incredible with its tailored fabric foot board and bedskirt.The crystal chandelier is gorgeous.

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In deﬁning her “Bohemian” feel, Mio said the house should look well-traveled, just like its likely buyers who probably have traveled the globe. So she pulled in a mixture of antiques she found and pieces her company made. One such created piece is the high, fully upholstered master bed with a headboard of neutral-colored mohair and side rails in a neutral linen.

The Jenkins-designed bed is incredible with its tailored fabric foot board and bedskirt. The homeowners love the chandelier.

Three hammered aluminum light ﬁxtures hang over the dining room table in the Miodesigned room.

‘Showhouse Showdown’ local episode on HGTV Saturday CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2

she flew here to see the two houses. Like the McFarlands, Gordon loved the home that became hers – its clean, modern look with its three metallic-looking fixtures hanging over the dining room table and a marble fireplace in the family room. “There’s a love seat at the foot of the bed,” she said. “It’s just sort of a nice retreat idea. I don’t know how often I’ll actually use it but it’s really beautiful. It’s luxurious.” The color scheme is a mixture of metallic and colors that relate well: white, beige, gold, silver and bronze, Gordon noted. The only thing she didn’t like was a decoration that looked like a s k u l l w i t h h o r n s, hanging in the front hall. She took it down. “It was just weird,” she said. Everything else was great, she said. “It was all ready to go and I was absolutely in love with it, exactly the way it was,” she said. D e s i gner Michelle Mio said she created the interior to reflect what she’d been told about the target market: young professionals from all over the world, “people pulled in from Dow.” “They’re well educated, they’re really intelligent people and they have young families,” she said. Mio’s company is Rariden, Schumacher & Mio of Birmingham, M i ch . She liked the open floor plan and, because she imagined the buyers might have children, she chose soft carpet for the family room to make it homey and to reduce wear and tear on children’s

Designer Mio chose light tones for the kitchen cabinets to provide contrast to cold Michigan winters.

knees when they play there. She chose lighter tones for the kitchen cabinets to provide contrast to cold Michigan winters. In defining her “Bohemian” feel, Mio said the house should look well-traveled, just like its likely buyers who probably have traveled the globe. So she pulled in a mixture of antiques she found and pieces her company made. One such created piece is the high, fully upholstered master bed with a headboard of neutral-colored mohair and side rails in a neutral linen. In the custom kitchen island, two sides and a top made of marble provide almost a cuff around the kitchen c a b i n e t r y, s h e s a i d . Custom upholstered chairs covered with faux leather and a stainless topped table also are in the kitchen. Scott McFarland said having his house on a nationally syndicated TV show is cool and exciting “I get questions about it all the time (from) people at work I see: ‘How’s your house? When’s it going to be on TV?’” he said. Gordon said she plans to have a party

centered around the TV show.

The Wahls and HGTV

When the production company for HGTV first called, Melissa Wa h l s a i d , s h e a n d mark thought “Yeah, right!” But after they realized this was the real deal and began working on the show, “the production company was just fabulous in laying out their expectations.” “It really was a great fit for us,” she said. Wahl said the company members are pretty pumped about the show. Yes, undertaking a project such as this was a risk. She and Mark needed to get the best informa-

The homeowners like Jenkins’ use of multilayered paint technique on the walls.

tion and ask for more information. But in the end, they said why not? “It takes many people to build a house,” she said. “Our team wa s t o t a l l y d e v o t e d to the project … with tight time lines and a camera in your faced. It was ‘Let’s shoot that again.’” The show means great exposure for Cobblestone, but the

perks go to a wider area, she said. “We’re a local builder. … It’s a national

broadcast and it’s going to really emphasize the Great Lakes Bay Region. And it’s about time this area got some of the credit w h i ch i t ’s d u e,” s h e said. Cobblestone owners Mark and Meliss a Wa h l w e r e “ w o n derful to work with,” Karla said. They were “very responsive” to everything the couple wanted to know or do have done, and made certain the work got done. They’re very caring,” she said. Scott praised the company for its workmanship, material, building style, taste in the home’s layout and t h e “ way t h e y w o r k w i t h y o u t o a ch i e v e whatever you want to achieve.” Wa h l i s k e e p i n g mum about the show’s outcome. “ We d o n ’ t wa n t t o blow any surprises before it’s shown on television,” she said.

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Corey Damen Jenkins

Designer Corey Damen Jenkins sits in one of the ornate chairs with crocodile skin in the living room of he house he decorated.

Corey Damen Jenkins, the lead designer for DWV Interiors in Bloomﬁeld Hills, Mich., uses a number of effective artistic techniques. He possesses an ability that enables him to listen to clients’ expressed desires, interpret them, and then rapidly sketch their dream rooms in acute three-dimensional detail in the comfort of their home. By drawing the space together this client/designer interaction fosters an exciting teamwork atmosphere. It also provides signiﬁcant cost-saving measures, helping people to visualize their project in a fresh and inspiring way. He has the unique talent to rapidly draw his clients’ dream rooms on paper right before their eyes in three-dimensional detail. For example, during the preliminary development stage, a person might say “I don’t like that chair there—could we do a table instead?” and Mr. Jenkins can instantly draw in that idea. This artistic method ensures that you can really visualize your project in a fresh, inspiring way that color boards cannot accomplish alone. Some clients have even asked to have their renderings mounted and framed as a memoir of this exciting experience! He currently is featured in the Michigan Design Center’s directory of recommended designers and also will be a headliner in Judy Frankel’s prestigious ‘Designing With Antiques” series for 2011. Jenkins also travels as a motivational speaker, teaching seminars and mentoring students enrolled with interior design programs at local universities.

Michelle Mio Growing up in California, Michelle’s parents always knew she would work in a field where her creativity would be put to good use. They never knew that passion would take their daughter across the country to Michigan. An accomplished collegiate golfer and student, Michelle had to decide whether golf or interior design would be her life’s path. Hands down, Michelle chose interior design! After graduating from Texas Christian University with a B.S. in interior design and a minor in Japanese, Michelle began working at Elizabeth S. White Designs in Fort Worth, Texas, an established design firm servicing some of the metroplex’s most prestigious clientele. After several years of designing in Texas, the winds of change brought Michelle to Michigan. She updated her winter wardrobe and accepted a senior design position at Joseph A. Keenan & Associates in Birmingham . After spending four years with the firm, Michelle decided to open her own firm — Mio & Co., Inc. Working on multiple residential, corporate and hospitality projects, Michelle enjoyed the entrepreneurial aspect of being “her own boss.” Exactly one year later, designers, business owners and friends, Rosemary Cotter and Jill Schumacher invited Michelle to combine her experience and talent with theirs and Rariden Schumacher Mio & Co. was born. Michelle now feels so fortunate that she works with such a talented, dedicated, and fun-loving group. Michelle can often be found walking her French Bulldogs, Gus and Gertie, through downtown Birmingham.

Designer Michelle Mio sits on the oversized tufted stool in front of the ﬁreplace of the house she designed.

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