*Part I of the seven part series: What Spending a Decade Inside Our Design Firm Taught Our CFO My career was in business, not design. I saw little practical value in design beyond décor at Christmastime. But over the past decade, I had a front-row seat to the work of an unusually gifted designer: the founder of the design firm Thirteen and Crowne. That experience completely changed my assumptions about designers and design. I thought that hiring a designer meant I w

Building and remodeling is such an invasive and time-consuming process. You will have extreme highs and extreme lows, so finding partners that you trust and actually like to interact with is critical. Hiring construction professionals is a long-term relationship that will make you feel like an endless ATM and only when you see tangible evidence of progress, will it make it feel worthwhile. I am not writing today as just a fellow professional that hopes to be hired, but instea