While in L.A. Brad also will hit a few parties for such friends as the marvelous British blogger and brand ambassador Ronda Carman, whose blog we love to follow.  (It’s one of the best, hence the name All The Best blog.)

Ronda Carman, photo from Decorati Access

He’s also looking forward to the always-fun party thrown by Traditional Home and its online magazine TradHomeMag, which this year celebrates the 20 Young Designers for 2012.

It’s clear that people who love design are crazy about blogs, because interior design blogs are among the most popular blogs on the Internet.  One of the highlights of the conference will be a panel discussion called “Blogging With the Stars,” which features designers who could be called the rock stars of the blogging world.  Of course Ronda Carman will be on the panel. Joining her will be Cassandra LaValle of Coco+Kelley and Tobi Fairley of Tobi’s Blog.  And the moderator will be Kyle Hoepner, Editor-in-Chief of New England Home magazine.  Talk about heavyweights in the industry!  It should be fascinating, and Brad will fill us in on what he learned when he gets back.

And kicking off the conference will be designer Martyn Lawrence-Bullard.

Maybe you’ve seen him on Million Dollar Decorators, on Bravo TV.  Martyn’s on the far right in the photo above, with his fellow Million Dollar Designers.  He’s witty, charming, and he really knows design. Who knows what he’ll tell the audience about his celebrity clients?

Coming up in the next few months we’ll be attending a number of industry events, including the 2nd Annual BlogFest 2012 sponsored by Kravet in New York, the International Contempoary Furnture Fair in New York (ICFF), and the International Home Furnishings Market in High Point, NC.

It is truly hard to believe that four years have come and gone at Bravado Home & Design.  As we look back at these last few years, we can see we’ve grown on many levels. Stefan Krupelak and Brad Clifford, co-owners of Bravado Home & Design, have learned what each other’s strengths are, and have grown to be great business partners.  But most importantly, they’re now best friends.

They are both happy to have Macall Williams and Anne Wisti as part of the team.  Macall and Anne both hold degrees in Interior Design. That training is an important part of running Bravado Home & Design as a respected interior design enterprise.

We are determined more than ever to strengthen our presence on all fronts from social media to quarterly showroom promotions, from building content on our new website, to continuing to strive to create strong long-term relationship with our vendors, clients, customers and trade clients.

What lies ahead for Bravado?  Well, we plan to go back and photograph previous projects that we never got around to photographing, so we can share them here on the blog.  We hope to make the blog a destination online for people who love design as much as we do.

And there’s the possibility we may choose to stop being “shopkeepers,” so we can focus all our energy on residential design, among other projects.  It takes a huge amount of work to maintain and run a showroom.  But it would be hard to let go of it, because of the many wonderful opportunities and relationships the shop has brought to us.  The exact “whats,” “whens” and “whys” of the future aren’t certain now, but we hope you’ll join us on our journey, through this blog.   Maybe you’re an aspiring designer yourself, and you want to learn about the world of residential design.  Maybe you’re thinking of starting a small business and hoping it will grow, as ours has.  Maybe you just love design and want a peek behind the scenes at the everyday life of a designer.  Or maybe you’re our mothers, trying to figure out how we spend all our time.  No matter who you are, we welcome you to our blog, and look forward to getting to know you as well as we know some of the customers and clients we’ve been lucky enough to meet in the first four years of our journey.  We all share a love of design. That makes us friends already.

Over the last year Brad has attended such events as the Design Bloggers Conference in Los Angeles, and another Kravet-sponsored event called BlogFest in NYC.  His goal initially was to have Bravado Home & Design‘s new website up long before now, but if you know Brad, you know he likes to try to learn it all, and do it all, himself. (He’s now learning it might be a good idea to delegate some of this.)

That said, he did learn a lot at the conferences he attended from such great interior designer/bloggers as Tobi Fairley of  Tobi Fairley Interior Design, who writes Tobi’s Blog, British blogger Ronda Carman, who writes the blog All The Best — A Passport to Stylish Living, and a few others. He can not thank them enough for sharing their learning curves and saving others the headaches of making wrong decisions. It can be informational overload learning HTML code and other skills as simple as tagging your website pages.

This is not Brad’s first time speaking and he hopes that he can contribute to others what he has learned, so they won’t take a year — as he did — to get a blog and website up.

He did have other responsibilities, but still. We’re glad he learned and conquered with some help from other design bloggers he now considers wonderful friends.

Bravado Home & Design loves Kravet fabric and makes it a priority to select fabric from them for projects. Kravet does a wonderful job supporting the interior design trade.

Brad intends to have the remaining interior furnishings completed by the end of 2012.

Thank you Bob & Tammy!

Photo: Adam Friedberg Photography

Photo: Adam Friedberg Photography

Photo: Adam Friedberg Photography

Photo: Adam Friedberg Photography

Photo: Adam Friedberg Photography

Photo: Adam Friedberg Photography

Any color combinations and sizes available.

Steelworks Five

Steelworks Five-A

Graffiti “Chai”

Red Field

We love Lonny Magazine and our wonderful friend Michele Adams co-founder of the first online magazine. We are so happy to hear the new issue will be out March 10th, and after that Lonny will begin to publish monthly beginning in May!

Subscribing is free and we think you will love it. Congrats to Michele and the amazing team. Thank you for sharing wonderful content!  All the best!

Our clients choose to let us influence their living environments, and we are appreciative of that. We are a special group and have formed our own sort of family. On a daily basis clients walk in our showroom and comment that they would love to live here. That is the ultimate compliment to us. We strive to offer a very welcoming feeling, both with the physical layout of the store and with our team. It is important to us that our clients feel as “at home” as possible while in Bravado Home & Design. We feel blessed to work with such an amazing collection of clients, artists and vendors. We sincerely appreciate every person that comes through our doors.

Master Bedroom: View of  the EcoSmart Fire 1200DB. Project: John Ross Penthouse

All custom cabinetry, silk carpeting, drapery, art installation and design thru Bravado Home & Design

Lead Designer: Stefan Krupelak

Other View of  the EcoSmart Fire 1200DB. Project: John Ross Penthouse

All custom cabinetry and design thru Bravado Home & Design

Lead Designer: Stefan Krupelak

Since 2008 we have enjoyed bringing warmth into our clients homes with www.EcoSmartFire.com .

EcoSmart Fire is much more than a flicker of an ingenious idea. It’s a compelling reality. EcoSmart Fireplaces are environmentally friendly vent free open fireplaces that produce a wonderfully warm dancing flame.

From hand crafted freestanding pieces of “fire” furniture, to grates for traditional fireplace conversion, through to firebox inserts for built-in custom designs and burner kits for bespoke settings – EcoSmart Fire offers a complete collection of versatile and award winning fireplace solutions that make having an open flame incredibly easy – whatever the setting – at the same time as being good for the environment.

Our showroom currently has the following showcased on the showroom floor for demonstration .

Model: Vision

http://www.ecosmartfire.com/bioethanol-fireplace-products/designer-fireplaces/available-models/vision

Model: Renovator Range 1200BD

http://www.ecosmartfire.com/bioethanol-fireplace-products/fireplace-inserts/available-models/page-1200db

Model: Bulb

http://www.ecosmartfire.com/bioethanol-fireplace-products/outdoor-fireplaces/available-models/bulb

Model: Cyl

http://www.ecosmartfire.com/bioethanol-fireplace-products/outdoor-fireplaces/available-models/cyl

Model: Sticks

http://www.ecosmartfire.com/bioethanol-fireplace-products/outdoor-fireplaces/available-models/cyl

For more information please feel free to call us at (503) 224-0555 or visit EcoSmartFire.com

Like a quote?  Email us the Sku Number from the Vanguard site along with your email address and contact information to: Info@Bravadohome.com

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