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Mike Robertson is the Managing Partner / Co-Founder of Fuse Specialty Appliances.  Mike's experience with Best Buy lead him to become familiar with the industry and got his start in selling kitchen appliances and continued to get inspired from there. After many different paths, including his executive role at Monark Appliances, in the appliance industry, Mike ended up launching Fuse Specialty Appliances with two other well experienced partners.

Fuse was founded on a passion of the customer experience, with beautifully appointed showrooms and knowledgeable operators. Fuse has grown to become the southeast's largest independently owned premium appliance provider and one of the country's largest suppliers of its kind.

LISTEN to LEARN when you should start looking for appliances in the remodeling process. START EARLY. Sometime before breaking ground on your new home, looking for appliances is actually suggested.

Learn how to avoid nightmare stories when buying appliances. Make sure the trades align as there are different factors that go into the proper installation of your cabinets and how the appliances will ultimately be affected based on where the spec measurements configure with your plumbing, electrical, gas and other factors. Make sure the designer, architect and all trades are working cohesively to assure no surprises arise later in the project. For example, check that your electrical lines are run in the proper locations based on the exact appliances that you are purchasing. The better you plan through the remodel, the better the appliance installation will go. Work with an appliance dealer who will consult and review your plans to make sure these challenges are avoided based on the specs.

WHAT'S TRENDING? Microwave Drawers and Steam Ovens are the two most popular items in kitchen appliances that Mike has seen grown in popularity. Smart kitchen technology has come a long way,  and is evident when looking at the evolution of the kitchen cooktops.

What's to Come: What is next in the 5 to 10 years in kitchen appliances? Where is there room to advance? Hear Mike's take on Gas vs. Induction and the evolution of where it could go.

Mentioned Brands:
The Galley Workstation
Zip Water
Sub-Zero Refrigerators

Youtube Content with Fuse Specialty Appliances + Mike Robertson:
What is the HydroTap by Zip Water?
Plum Wine Dispenser: Quick Tip
Home Show's TOP 5 Kitchen Appliances (Take a look inside the Miami Showroom)

Visit Fuse Specialty showrooms and check out their NEW Showroom in Boca Raton!
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Meet Mari Juliette, Broker/Owner of Mari Juliette Real Estate. Mari is a South Florida native who utilizes her motivation and positive attitude to find her clients the best home or condo to suit their needs and desires.  Whether you are looking to list or are trying to find your next Airbnb investment, Mari uses her local knowledge to educate you on how to maximize your profits.

Mari specializes in residential to commercial developments to multi-family properties across a wide range of demographics and location. She thrives in the ability to find what fits best to the clients desired path and how to blend a sustainable lifestyle in contrast.

Listen Now to gain invaluable insights into the world of real estate investments. In this podcast, Mari covers topics such as the benefits of Airbnb investing, the importance of developing a portfolio strategy, and how to best manage rental properties.

Mari also provides tips for finding the right properties to invest in, as well as tips for protecting yourself from potential risks. Today’s market can be challenging. Earn the top dollar for your home and make the process much easier. Investing in Airbnbs can be a great way to expand your income opportunities.

Discover Mari's secrets for making her clients millions of dollars through real estate investing. Airbnb is the future of investment and a terrific way to diversify your real estate portfolio. Earn passive money!

Are you afraid of investing? HINT you DO NOT have to be a multi-millionaire. Follow these tips given from Mari to help  get comfortable with where to start investing.

Whether you’re a beginner or more experienced investor, this episode provides a wealth of knowledge that can help you make the most of your investments.

Let us know what you think of Episode 24 of the Home Design Podcast.

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The Home Design Podcast is where we aim to educate, inspire, and connect South Florida with the industry authorities within their trade.

The Home Design and Remodeling Show is recognized to be the largest Home Show in Florida and most trusted platform for homeowners, interior designers, architects, builders, realtors, and all industry trendsetters by experiencing our website, Home Design Magazine, Shop The Pros online resource, Home Show Media's video content, and one of our EXPOS at one of three locations including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Palm Beach.

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Meet Mariel Basurco, Designer Account Executive at Sherwin-Williams. Mariel provides color tools and product specifications to South Florida residential designers and architects. She is a true brand ambassador focused on promoting brand awareness by cultivating relationships with the Interior Design Industry and interior design schools through educational events and making paint more approachable to the design market.

Do you know what the primary purpose of paint is? It obviously beautifies a space but there is another important piece of the REAL purpose of paint!

Where do color trends come from? Discover the trends of today and going into 2023 as we fully embrace color to personalize our spaces. Those warm tones, those blush tones, and using them in ways that we have never really done before.

Sherwin-Williams has led the way in the paint and coating manufacturing industry. They've essentially completed all the challenging work and made it simpler for the rest of the industry. Sherwin-Williams  delivers the best in paint and coatings products to the world. They have a rich history of exploring different since 1866 with Henry Sherwin and Edward Williams.

Blue hues are to be a predicted popular color in the next year. We mentioned Bunglehouse Blue (SW 0048) that was used in Ann Ueno's Designer Vignette at the September 2022 Fort Lauderdale Home Show.

Sherwin-Williams have stayed in front and continued to innovate. Always bringing in new hues, establishing styles, and setting tones.

Learn more about selecting the best paint for your home with Sherwin-Williams by listening to this podcast. Did you know that there is science behind paint? There is just too much to know about paints and the industry so LISTEN NOW!

Let us know what you think of Episode 23 of the Home Design Podcast.

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The Home Design Podcast is where we aim to educate, inspire, and connect South Florida with the industry authorities within their trade.

The Home Design and Remodeling Show is recognized to be the largest Home Show in Florida and most trusted platform for homeowners, interior designers, architects, builders, realtors, and all industry trendsetters by experiencing our website, Home Design Magazine, Shop The Pros online resource, Home Show Media's video content, and one of our EXPOS at one of three locations including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Palm Beach.

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Meet Laura Basili, The Deck Diva, of Brazilian Lumber as she explains the exotic hardwood industry, how to select the best product for your home project, the trends in the hardwood industry, hardwood maintenance, what are certified hardwoods, as well as sustainability efforts towards forestry management and SO MUCH MORE!

Why is Brazilian Exotic Hardwoods the best types of woods to use in your exterior home projects?

Learn more about Ipe, Cumuru, Garapa, Jatoba, Tigerwood, Massaranduba, Santos Mahogany and so many others. Depending on the color or workability that you want, there is an exotic hardwood for you. Cumuru is a current architects favorite here in South Florida due to the color and properties that it has.

Know the difference between the different levels of certified hardwoods and why this is so important.  FSC certified wood is important to know about when selecting product and is seen as economically sustainable, which covers social aspects of forestry and manufacturing of the product.

Why are the Sustainability efforts so important when discussing forestry management? Forestry is healthy for the rainforest and our ecosystem. Brazilian Lumber is only interested in commercially viable trees. What does that mean? Only a forestry engineer is allowed to select the trees that are no longer viable to the forest and have gone through their life cycle. These trees are no longer seed bearing trees, which allows the underbrush to receive light from the sun as the overall canopy is reduced. Without this, farming and mining would go into these forests, which would pollute and negatively impact the environment.  Forestry is controlled and helps the evolution and continuous development of the rainforest.

By doing this, forestry provides jobs, medical facilities, schools, and other aspects of naturally occurring and sustainable product that allows additional growth to occur (both in the forest and socially) that would not have been allowed to take place. The trees in the underbrush  would never have the opportunity to grow.

Learn more about selecting the best hardwood for you, the ease of installing exotic hardwoods, maintenance, and so much more from Brazilian Lumber by listening to this podcast. Did you know that there is a platinum level of hardwood? There is just too much to know about exotic hardwoods and the industry so LISTEN NOW!

Enjoy Episode 22 on the Home Design Podcast.

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The Home Design Podcast is where we aim to educate, inspire, and connect South Florida with the industry authorities within their trade.

The Home Design and Remodeling Show is recognized to be the largest Home Show in Florida and most trusted platform for homeowners, interior designers, architects, builders, realtors, and all industry trendsetters by experiencing our website, Home Design Magazine, Shop The Pros online resource, Home Show Media's video content, and one of our EXPOS at one of three locations including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Palm Beach.

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The Plant Guy is the Rock Star plant expert that is raising the bar and setting trends in the plant world. From real plants, to artificial, to indoor, to outdoor, to artificial floral ceiling designs... We bring you this podcast to learn all about the BEST Plants for your home!

WHO KNEW PLANTS COULD BE SO EXCITING?

Do you have a Green Thumb?
If not, THIS IS FOR YOU!
If yes, THIS IS FOR YOU!

Welcome to the Home Design Podcast! Your host, Adam Kayce, sits down with plant expert and innovator, Matthew Lang, the one, the only, The Plant Guy! Through this episode we learn the tips on how to maintain our house plants with little to no maintenance. There are so many great solutions to make plant care easier than what we have experienced in the past. Matthew discussed some of the tools and types of tools that you can use to make your plant life more manageable. Did you know that there are self watering planter options?

There are so many amazing plant options for your home to increase the overall feel and design style. Matthew is coming out with a proprietary and one of a kind planter where it will have it's own water reservoir and will bring that easily manageable height to your home with living greenery.

We don't stop there so enjoy this episode where you will discover ways to achieve that perfect balance of greenery and life in your home to make you capture that biophilic design feel that we all keep seeing through the evolving home trends.

Enjoy the Home Design Podcast.

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The Home Design Podcast is where we aim to educate, inspire, and connect South Florida with the industry authorities within their trade.

The Home Design and Remodeling Show is recognized to be the largest Home Show in Florida and most trusted platform for homeowners, interior designers, architects, builders, realtors, and all industry trendsetters by experiencing our website, Home Design Magazine, Shop The Pros online resource, Home Show Media's video content, and one of our EXPOS at one of three locations including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Palm Beach.

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Learn the Truth about what is in your water at home with Jamie Zappier of Allini Water.

Through this podcast episode Jamie dives into the reality of water filtration systems that are available to South Florida homeowners and businesses. There are multiple forms of filtration but which system is best for you and the water type in your home. There are so many important factors to selecting the right system but knowing the right questions to ask the professionals will help guide you to the proper system. We will also learn about what makes Allini Water Filters different.

What will happen to your home when your water is not properly filtered?
- High Calcium will cause damage to plumbing (faucets, shower heads, appliances, etc)
- Alkalinity will cause corrosion
- Discolored water (noticeable yellow tint)

What type of water filters are available to homeowners?
- Ion Exchange (water softening system)
- Reverse Osmosis (drinking water system)
- Multi media or Carbon Based Filtration
- Nano Purification (pharmaceutical grade purification system)

Do you know the difference between removal and reduction for when it comes to filtration?
Do you know the PROS and CONS to each type of water filtration system?

What are the good minerals and which are the bad minerals?
- Calcium is not a bad mineral as we do need Calcium in our bodies. (do not remove)
- Small amounts of Zinc and Magnesium should not be completely removed from your water but they should be restructured to remove the negative effects. (leave some)

Get the TOP TIPS that you should know when selecting the right water filtration system for your home.

Learn more about Allini Water Filters.

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Are you ready for INSULATION 101?

When people look at remodeling their home, they tend to only look at the beauty side of things, and leave out the efficiency....insulation!

Insulation helps improve your homes integrity, effects the efficiency of your utilities, as well as your indoor air quality.

Most homes have the basic fiberglass or cellulose, SunPro specializes in spray foam!

Spray Foam v.s. Fiberglass:
- Fiberglass is 1/3 of the cost of Spray Foam
- Spray Foam reduces about 30% of the work load on your a/c unit
- Fiberglass will give about a 10% reduction in the work load on your a/c
- Fiberglass only focuses on conductive heat
- Spray Foam forms a radiant barrier

With windows and doors you're only working with the walls, leaving your roof with the most exposure, which produces more heat. In many cases homeowners believe they have an HVAC problem, when in reality their system is just overworked.

For more INFORMATION on insulation contact Michael and the SunPro team.

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Why are RENDERINGS so important and why hire a construction company that in house interior design specialists?

This podcast will introduce you to Derek Radzikowski of Ross Brothers and what makes them stand out as an Interior Design and Construction specialist in South Florida. Derek brings us through the importance of renderings and what the interior design process should look like when remodeling your home.

Ross Brothers is South Florida’s premier luxury home renovations company, with over 30 years of experience and over 1200 completed projects. At Ross Brothers, you will be involved throughout the entire process, collaborating with their highly skilled, well rounded team.

For more luxury renderings and interior design information check out Ross Brothers online at rossbrothers.com.

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The Home Design and Remodeling Show is recognized to be the largest Home Show in Florida and most trusted platform for homeowners, interior designers, architects, builders, realtors, and all industry trendsetters by experiencing our website, Home Design Magazine, Shop The Pros online resource, Home Show Media's video content, and one of our EXPOS at one of three locations including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Palm Beach.

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Have you ever wondered how luxury interior designers juggle high budgets, expensive furniture, multiple houses, and all of the complicated things that come with having luxury clients? Reginald Dunlap of Reginald Dunlap Interior Design knows everything that you should know when working with these types of clients.

In this podcast, we talked with Reginald Dunlap about his life in the luxury interior design industry. We discuss how he handles his challenging projects, clients, and the ongoing product delays that set projects back. He also goes into how he got his start and all about his mentors that helped him to where he is today. This episode is a CAN'T-MISS, especially if you're in the interior design industry. 

Discover more about Reginald Dunlap on his website here. 

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The Home Design and Remodeling Show is recognized to be the largest Home Show in Florida and most trusted platform for homeowners, interior designers, architects, builders, realtors, and all industry trendsetters by experiencing our website, Home Design Magazine, Shop The Pros online resource, Home Show Media's video content, and one of our EXPOS at one of three locations including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Palm Beach.

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We had the opportunity to sit down with TV personality and interior designer Taniya Nayak to discuss well... A LOT! From her newest show to her podcast and to her latest project here in South Florida, we were inspired and we know you will be too from listening to this podcast. 

Discover how Taniya created a fully functioning vacation condo here in Fort Lauderdale out of a SMALL space. On this podcast, she shares some of her interior design tips and tricks as well as what you can expect to see in the YouTube video and magazine featuring this condo. If you love a good teaser, she also talks a little about the new show she co-hosts called "Build It Forward." 

Check out the Magazine spread on homeshows.net and follow Taniya on Instagram @taniyanayak.

To find the YouTube videos, visit our channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK_I-ZvtX8KQJsuE4muSrRA

The Home Design and Remodeling Show is recognized to be the largest Home Show in Florida and most trusted platform for homeowners, interior designers, architects, builders, realtors, and all industry trendsetters by experiencing our website, Home Design Magazine, Shop The Pros online resource, Home Show Media's video content, and one of our EXPOS at one of three locations including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Palm Beach.