Tiffany Brooks Revamps Homes for "50K Three Ways" on HGTV

Brooks39 enthusiasm and straightforward approach are apparent from the start As she tours a house she takes in how people live and listens closely That39s an important quality far too often designers impose their vision on peoplequotThat is what I pride myself onquot Brooks pictured top left told MediaVillage during an exclusive interview quotEverybody asks me 39What is your distinct style39 I don39t have one You have to listen to your clients Listening to your clients results in happy clients which results in repeat business You see so many designers and know that is a suchandsuch39s room I don39t want that I want there to be a definite departure in the styles of the houses I do And I want to reflect the clientsquotAn interior designer based out of Chicago where she has been working for a decade Brooks is a familiar face to HGTV fans She39s been on Design at Your Door Rock the Block and the HGTV Smart Home shows The new program is also streaming on discoveryquotMost of my clients come to me with about 50000 which is a lot of moneyquot she says in the series39 opening At that moment Brooks will endear herself to viewers because she gets it She understands that some contractors and designers deal in mythical math Her approach is based in realityFor those wandering from room to room shaking their heads at their damp233cor not knowing where to start Brooks offers sound advicequotI tell people first explore your lifequot Brooks said quotWhat do you do every day Let39s think about this What do you want your life to look like Explore how you spend your life Do you like to go into your kitchen and prepare the grandest meals for everybody coming in Or do you like to go right upstairs and retreat in your bedroom I tell people to explore how their lives progress through an average weekquotWhile so many businesses suffered through the pandemic home design enjoyed a boon With people forced to stay home many recognized their homes were not quite what they neededquotEdesign has taken off with the pandemicquot Brooks noted quotIn general there are a lot of designers out there offering designer services When you are shopping online you might as well help them virtually I can help people across the country I do design We service clients in Chicago And we have homeowners that are in Boston that want our design services They don39t need to pay to fly us out They can send us the measurements and we get to workquotThe show is precisely as advertised Brooks devises different plans for three parts of the house Often people have a lot of dead space rooms they walk through but don39t use In one house the kids39 toys had taken over Brooks came up with a way for the adults to reclaim the space while the children still had plenty of room to play Among her smart moves is finding furniture that offers storage space For the occasional plan the inches above 50000 Brooks tells people upfront and still offers a couple of proposals within the set amountquotWe typically get discounts and things like thatquot Brooks explained quotThat is their minimum buyin A lot of homeowners will choose to spend a little morequotBrooks brings a sense of fun to rooms such as having a piece of art made to represent sound waves or finding a navy bathroom vanity Nothing is too wacky She39s always had a good eye and could walk in a room and know how to improve it Brooks recalled the first room she revampedquotWhen I was 15 years old my parents divorcedquot Brooks shared quotSo my dad would send me little gifts I asked my father if he could send enough money to zhuzh up my room It was 1995 and my dad sent me 350 It was a complete overhaulquotI wish I had before and after picturesquot she continued quotI had the wood paneling I painted it white back in 3995 We had the ceiling tiling from the 3980s I painted those meticulously I wanted pink floral wallpaper a pink carpet and white walls and white ceilings I already had the bedding I wantedquotAfter attending school for business Brooks was working in highend residential property management When she felt burnt out her boss gave her a new assignment decorating one of the model apartments and Brooks39 new career was born When the owners saw what she had created they loved it and entered it into a contest Brooks made a bet with a coworker that if she won she would venture into design fulltimequotI took a couple of classesquot she said quotMy brother is a highend residential architect It was definitely in me I could not afford to go to design school After that I bought the textbooks and I read them I figured it outquotWhen Brooks won HGTV39s Design Star in 2013 quotThat led me to a path with a relationship with HGTVquot she said quotI was with them for Smart Home and I have been an onair personality for eight years now I like it Being onair is coolquotDelighted by recently being named to Architectural Digest39s 100 List a goal she thought was still years away Brooks considered her future goalsquotI see product lines furniture lines happeningquot she revealed quotI would like to see multiple phases of 50K Three Ways I would love it to be a franchise and hit other cities and other countriesquot50K Three Ways is telecast Mondays at 8 pm on HGTV It is also available on discoveryClick the social buttons above or below to share this content with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this content are exclusively the views of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated writers

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