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Kristin Drohan is my guest today and we’re talking about Interior Design and Furniture Manufacturing. Kristin is an entrepreneur at heart and has started several companies to date. Her current business, Kristan Drohan Collection, is handcrafted in the USA and headquartered in Georgia.

HERE ARE A FEW HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR CHAT:

  • Discuss the importance of finding your niche and understanding your target market
  • Talk about the impact of social media on business
  • Discuss the challenges of content marketing
  • Talk about the importance of connecting with your clients
  • Discuss her upcoming High Point Market

ABOUT KRISTIN DROHAN

Kristin Drohan, one of America’s most versatile interior designers, offers complete design services and her own furniture line to elite clients throughout the country.

Kristin Drohan is an award winning designer, whose work has appeared on television, in worldwide print, and on-line publications. Her firm works with industry leaders of Fortune 500 companies, financial executives, technology company managers, doctors, corporate attorneys and other leading professionals all over the United States.

Kristin’s furniture line, which features a collection of durable, eco-friendly pieces ranging from sofas and sectionals to beds, tables and chairs, is specified by high end designers across the country and is a top selling line on One Kings Lane.  The furniture is manufactured in Hickory, NC using natural, toxic-free materials.

Kristin offers a full range of interior design services, ranging from space planning and project management to kitchen and bath renovation and selection of fabrics and flooring. She is backed by a team of some of the country’s leading workroom professionals, window fashion specialists, contractors, installers, lighting designers and others.

Her work has been featured on HGTV and showcased nationally and internationally in such outlets as Mix Magazine, Luxe Interiors and Design Magazine, Trends Magazine, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, House Trends Magazine, New England Home, New York Spaces, and Justluxe. She was awarded “Best Of Houzz” Customer Satisfaction and “Best Of Houzz” Design 2014. She was also featured in a Washington, D.C.-area designer show house.

Kristin’s 10 years of sales and management experience with major companies earlier in her career enables her to communicate more effectively with her high level, corporate clientele. She has had the opportunity to reside in a variety of locations around the country, a fact which has exposed her to and educated her about a variety of design styles and trends.  She has built and/or remodeled eight of her own homes.

She regularly studies the latest interior design methods, including software and computer graphic technologies, and she’s completing her certification with the National Kitchen and Bath Association.  She is one of the first 100 interior design professionals to be certified with the Sustainable Furnishing Council, a coalition of suppliers, manufacturers, retailers and other dedicated to promote eco-friendly furnishings.

Kristin studied at the Les Arts Decoratifs in Paris. She is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, OH.

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