Ty's Turn
My favorite hotels in the world
On the road again means staying in a hotel again! Between work and vacation, I stay in dozens of different hotels every year. It sometimes feels like I spend my life in hotels. So, I thought I’d share three of my favorites. Drumroll, please.
My top three are the 21C Museum Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky because [...]
10-second tip: Tell a story with your design
As I have said before, good design tells a story and I always encourage people to have something in their home decor and design that reflect what’s important to them. In this bedroom from an Extreme Makeover episode, I made the headboard, lamps and ladder out of branches indigenous to Arizona. It was a way [...]
The world is your canvas
Canvas prints are really cool. I’ve used them in my design work and they also make great gifts. Canvas on Demand are my go-to guys for canvas prints and I’m doing some promotional stuff with them because I think they’re the best at what they do. You can expect friendly customer service and a quality [...]
See “Sons of the Fallen” on May 18
Conrad Rickets is a good friend and the executive producer of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. He’s got an amazing new project I wanted to write about called Sons of the Fallen: A Live Tribute to Our Military Heroes. This is a show that’s gonna be broadcast exclusively to 500 movie theaters on Tuesday, May 18 [...]
Not a whole lot a shakin’ going on
I’m glad folks liked the pictures from my trip to Big Sur. Several of you asked if I felt the earthquake that happened that week and well, yeah! It was strange. Not so much shaking, but a weird rolling feeling. No damage here and all is good. BTW, it’s crazy how so many dogs start barking. [...]
Big time in Big Sur
I had a chance to cruise around Big Sur last week and enjoy the beautiful, awesome views along the central California coast. I’m told the name Big Sur comes from the Spanish “el sur grande,” meaning “the big south.” Here are some photos from my trip including a really lucky one (photo #4) where I [...]
Time to kick this demolition off!
Jeremy Williams is the head football coach at Greenville (Ga.) High School. In 2005, Jeremy saw a doctor after having some trouble moving his hand. Eventually, Jeremy was diagnosed with ALS, a fatal, progressive disease that affects the nerves in the brain and spinal cord.
While Coach Williams has trouble walking and will soon be confined to [...]
Not perfect…not even close. But that’s ok!
When I was a kid growing up in Atlanta, the only way my mom could could get me to sit still and focus on anything was when she gave me a sketchpad or some kind of art project to work on. Otherwise, I was wreaking havoc, unscrewing the legs of the piano, drawing a picture [...]
