Article: Discerning Design
The July issue of NEW YORK HOUSE Magazine is now available… featuring an article with Angelo Surmelis on going green.
Read More....Interview: Designer Angelo Surmelis’s Favorite Decor Tips
On Friday, interior designer and television host Angelo Surmelis will be sharing his tips on sustainable living at Dwell on Design in Los Angeles. We got a chance to speak with him yesterday. Here’s how he keeps his home fresh and exciting:
Join Angelo at Dwell on Design
Angelo Surmelis and Susan Inglis of the Sustainable Furnishings Council will be speaking at DWELL ON DESIGN Friday, June 25th at 3:00PM. You will find them at the Sustainability Stage… and the discussion will be “A Chat About What’s EcoFriendly.”
Be a part of the West Coast’s Largest Design Event… at the Los Angeles Convention Center (downtown Los Angeles).
FREE:friday Winner Announced!
Congratulations to Ashley Martinus of Lacey Washington!
She won the new angelo:HOME Gramercy Park bedding collection in the first-ever FREE:friday giveaway from the angelo:HOME social media groups!
Reality TV changed the reality of buying a house
Reality TV changed the reality of buying a house
By Alan J. Heavens
Inquirer Real Estate Writer
...Design-TV host Angelo Surmelis, whose credits include HGTV’s 24 Hour Design and TLC’s Clean Sweep, believes the recession shifted the focus of many programs away from the “flipping houses to get rich” strategies that more than a few viewers got caught up in…
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Woman’s Day: 10 Commandments of Furniture Arranging
Get expert advice on the best way to position your furnishings
By Brynn Mannino Posted May 07, 2010 from WomansDay.com
When it comes to arranging furniture, there’s definitely more than one way to do things, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make mistakes. Home decorating is a recognized art, requiring careful calculation of both the space’s needs and the host’s tastes. While experts agree the surest way to a flawless room is trial and error, there are a few rules to keep in mind as you design your setup. So read on to find out what three home design pros say are the tricks of their trade.
Read More....Enter To Win
Enter today for a chance to win new bedding from the angelo:HOME collection!
Mother’s warm letter leads to new living room
Saturday, March 27, 2010
By Kevin Kirkland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Between Crystal Kerr and her 15-year-old dog, Merlin, it’s hard to say who’s happier that she won a $5,000 living room makeover by designer Angelo Surmelis.
She got a hip new living room with the latest furniture and Merlin got a new dog bed.
“I was really, really surprised,” said Ms. Kerr, 28. “I never thought my actual living room would look like that—so adult, like one of those magazines.”
Read More....Woman’s Day Magazine: Home Makeover Cheat Sheet
Home Makeover Cheat Sheet
Find low-cost, big-impact updates for every room in your house
By Brynn Mannino Posted March 25, 2010 from WomansDay.com
Low-Cost Updates
Low on funds but have big dreams about revamping your decor? Luckily, there are some small changes that can completely reinvent the look and feel of a space! Tried and true: Playing with each room’s largest surface (think floors, walls, etc.) will make the most difference. Here, easy room-by-room decorating tips from experts, plus product recommendations, for a total home makeover.
Read More....VALUABLE ADVICE: Design for all - Angelo Surmelis shares his style with everyday decorators
By HALI BERNSTEIN SAYLOR
HOME EDITOR
Angelo Surmelis is a world-class designer. But he’s also a practical man.
That’s one of the reasons Surmelis said he chose to have his home line available in stores such as Kohl’s and Costco. He wanted it to be affordable and attainable.
Read More....Celebrity Designer Transforms Coraopolis Woman’s Living Room
PITTSBURGH—From Hollywood, Calif. to Coraopolis, Pa., celebrity designer Angelo Surmelis was just in town to transform the living room of one lucky young homeowner.
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CREATE YOUR DAY - part two!
Share Our Strength was a HUGE success because of your incredible support!
THANK YOU so much.
As a matter of fact, it was so awesome that QUAKER is willing to donate an additional $25,000…
Read More....Hopeful by design: SCN interviews Angelo Surmelis
Designer and television celebrity Angelo Surmelis is scheduled to be the keynote speaker for the Sevierville Chamber of Commerce Membership Breakfast on February 23 at the Sevierville Events Center. SevierCountyNews.com spoke with Surmelis by telephone in anticipation of that event and to ask about the new pieces in his furniture line Angelo:Home.
Read More....angelo:HOME Launches at KOHL’S
The angelo:HOME line of sofas, loveseats, chairs and ottomans launches today at Kohls.com.
Create Your Day
It couldn’t get any easier or tastier to Create Your Day AND help end childhood hunger.
Check out the video on the next page and make your own Quaker Creation and write to me on my :BLOG to tell me about your own delicious Quaker creation you came up with!
Read More....angelo:HOME goes Green at Las Vegas Market
LAS VEGAS—The Las Vegas Market will continue emphasizing sustainability with new green initiatives at the next show, which runs Feb. 1-5 at the World Market Center.
Read More....HGTV’s angelo:HOME Holiday Gift Giveaway!
Click “Read More” below to watch a video of Angelo Surmelis talking about the new HGTV.com contest where you can win a chair from the new angelo:HOME furniture line!
Read More....Angelo makes his favorite brownie from “Baked”
Select “Read More” below to watch a how-to video from Angelo - watch as he shows you how to make his all-time favorite brownie from “Baked.”
Read More....425 Magazine article on Angelo Surmelis
Angelo Surmelis is featured in the current issue of 425 Magazine.
425 Design
Q&A with HGTV Designer Angelo Surmelis
by Robin Daly and Christain Ursino
The Design Stories Interview
Angelo Surmelis was interviewed by Design Stories.
Watch Angelo on NBC’s TODAY SHOW (Natalie Morales Office Makeover)
Click below to watch Angelo on NBC’s Today Show today… this time Angelo does a makeover for co-host Natalie Morales!
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Angelo on Good Day Xtra in Atlanta
Angelo Surmelis appeared on the top rated Atlanta morning show Good Day Xtra this morning to talk about making over your space on a budget.
Angelo Surmelis to promote eco-friendly furnishings
SFC to launch first consumer campaign
HIGH POINT—- The Sustainable Furnishings Council is set to announce its first consumer marketing campaign, featuring noted interior and product designers who will help increase awareness of eco-friendly home furnishings. The group is holding a press conference at 9:30 a.m. Monday in the International Home Furnishings Center’s 11th floor Green Wing, Ballroom B, to discuss the program and conduct a roundtable discussion with some of the designers.
The campaign centers on a new SFC DesigninGreen Leadership Team of designers who are committed to promoting sustainable practices. SFC officials said the effort will be the nonprofit industry coalition’s first big, concentrated effort to reach consumers since it was created in 2006.
Read More....Angelo in Family Circle Magazine
Angelo is featured in the November issue of Family Circle Magazine. He makes over a home office for a FC reader and an angelo:HOME chair is featured.
Debut Bedroom Collection from angelo:HOME and MODUS on Display at High Point Furniture Market
Modus Furniture International will showcase Designer Angelo Surmelis’ first bedroom collection for his angelo:HOME brand at the High Point Furniture Market October 17 - 22, 2009.
Holiday Tips and angelo:HOME in Country Accents Magazine
Angelo is featured in the winter issue of Country Accents Magazine with decorating tips for the holidays!
Redbook Magazine Features angelo:HOME Ottomans
Redbook Magazine’s October issue features angelo:HOME’s nesting ottomans in their HomeLife section.
New York Post: angelo:HOME Grant Chair Featured
The New York Post featured the upcoming angelo:HOME Grant Chair in black and white damask today. The chair will be available mid-October.
Watch Video of Angelo on the Today Show
Click below to watch Angelo on NBC’s Today Show today… a viewer received a $500 budget makeover for their family room!
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LAS VEGAS MARKET: Modus, Surmelis team up for bedroom line
Ray Allegrezza—Furniture Today, September 16, 2009
LAS VEGAS � Modus Furniture International is introducing a line of bedroom furniture here from popular HGTV designer Angelo Surmelis.
Surmelis, the host of the makeover show “Rate My Space,” was in the Modus space in World Market Center B-662 to get a look at the finished products in Marlow, the line of bedroom furniture he designed for the company.
angelo:HOME PARTNERS WITH MODUS FURNITURE INTERNATIONAL ON BEDROOM COLLECTIONS
Designer Angelo Surmelis and Modus Furniture International, jointly announced today that they have signed a multi-year deal, where Surmelis will design multiple bedroom collections to be manufactured, marketed and sold by MODUS under the angelo:HOME banner.
“We spend so much time in our bedrooms, and quite often I hear from my clients that it’s one of the last rooms they think about when putting their home together,� remarked Angelo.
Read More....Breaking News! Angelo Live on NBC’s TODAY SHOW September 18th!
Angelo Surmelis will be live in-studio with co-host Natalie Morales on NBC’s TODAY SHOW September 18th in the 9AM hour to reveal the budget makeover he did for a lucky TODAY SHOW viewer.
Journal Newspapers: Design Files
We are always on the lookout for things that are well designed and available at a good price. Recently we had the opportunity to speak directly with Angelo Surmelis, a celebrity interior designer who is launching a new line of furniture that is both affordable and stylish. In other words, work that is right up our alley!
Read More....Pasadena Star-News: Classic Hollywood set designs inspire collection of furniture
Celebrity designer Angelo Surmelis recently unveiled his debut furniture collection, and it has classic Hollywood all over it.
Harlow. Grant. Crawford.
These Silver Screen legends are just a few of the different models of The Modern Classics by angelo: Home collection of chairs, loveseats and sofas, whose clean, modern lines and fresh palette of colors and patterns have been selling out at Overstock.com since it launched in early August.
And there’s more on the way.
Read More....Los Angeles Daily News: Classic Hollywood with Angelo Surmelis
Celebrity designer Angelo Surmelis recently unveiled his debut furniture collection, and it has classic Hollywood all over it.
Harlow. Grant. Crawford.
These Silver Screen legends are just a few of the different models of The Modern Classics by angelo: Home collection of chairs, loveseats and sofas, whose clean, modern lines and fresh palette of colors and patterns have been selling out at Overstock.com since it launched in early August.
And there’s more on the way.
Read More....angelo:HOME joins CSN Stores for a Giveaway! “Living Room Search and Rescue!”
Today, the No.3 U.S. online retailer of home furnishings and housewares is launching “CSN Stores’ Living Room Search and Rescue,” a coast-to-coast contest seeking recession-weary living rooms most in need of resuscitation.
With the help of Celebrity TV Designer Angelo Surmelis, CSN’s Room Rescue Crew will bring one flat-lining living room back to life through a $5,000 Grand Prize Rescue Package, and will offer other desirable prizes to runners-up.
Read More....Minneapolis Star Tribune: Front door: A weekly look at adding beauty and utility to your spaces
Overstock.com - This online retailer discounts brand-name merchandise, and has added the “Modern Classics” by angelo: Home to its inventory. (That cumbersome name might put you off, but the moderate price point, $249 to $649, most likely won’t.) The initial 18 pieces, including sofas, ottomans, upholstered chairs and loveseats, are the work of Los Angeles designer Angelo Surmelis. The set of ottomans, shown, are 18, 23 and 28 inches in diameter and are covered with a woven poly/linen chenille; the set costs $290.
Read More....AOL: HGTV’s Angelo Surmelis Launches Budget Furniture Line
Angelo Surmelis is a character after my own heart: a driven multi-tasker whose passion is evident from the moment he speaks. Not only did he host Rate My Space on HGTV, a popular show inspired by HGTV’s online community, but he also participates in HGTV specials like Showdown, writes his own blog, Tweets on Twitter, and somehow managed to fit in an interview with me. Oh yeah, and he’s launching his first furniture line called angelo:HOME.
Read More....Overstock sells out of their first angelo:HOME piece, the HARLOW chair in Mango Floral!
You can put your name on the e-mail list for the new shipment coming soon here:
Harlow in Mango Floral
OVERSTOCK.COM PARTNERS WITH CELEBRITY TELEVISION DESIGNER ANGELO SURMELIS
“Modern Classics by angelo:HOME” will Make its Debut August 3, 2009!
Overstock.com announced today that it will launch celebrity designer Angelo Surmelis’ new affordable, high-concept furniture line “Modern Classics” by angelo:HOME on August 10, 2009. The initial launch will consist of eighteen (18) pieces, including: upholstered chairs, love seats, sofas and ottomans, with prices range from $249 - $699.
“Growing up in a family that had great style, but little money, I quickly discovered that personal style is less about what you spend and more about how you spend it,” remarked Angelo Surmelis.
Read More....MEET THE DESIGNER: ANGELO SURMELIS
Designer of the Times
By Robert Sharoff
Angelo Surmelis, the host of HGTV’s popular “Rate My Space” reality show, is very much a 21st Century designer. He blogs, he tweets, he’s on MySpace and Facebook. He’s also an advocate of that movement of the moment, sustainable design.
All of this - plus a personal style that is less about snarky remarks and more about constructive solutions - has established him as one of the more engaging figures in the makeover show universe.
ENTER TO WIN A MAKEOVER BY ANGELO SURMELIS ON NBC’S TODAY SHOW
You could be the lucky winner of a room makeover with interior designer Angelo Surmelis.
Angelo Surmelis of HGTV’s “Rate My Space” could be giving a room in your house a design intervention. All you need to do is tell us why you deserve a room makeover by Angelo. Read the contest rules below and share your story.
Read More....Angelo Surmelis and Tom Erdman interview
SevierCountyNews.com
By SCN
Designer Angelo Surmelis, host of HGTV’s ‘Rate My Space’ show has always wanted to create the type of furniture he wanted to own. The kind of furniture where a person did not make any kind of compromises in style and quality because they had little money. Surmelis, along with business partner Tom Erdman (General Manager for furniture company Handy Living) have brought that dream to reality.
SevierCountyNews.com caught up with both Surmelis and Erdman by telephone this week to chat about design, flat-pack production, and the synchronicity that brought it all together. (SCN feature window photo is Angelo Surmelis seated on the cherry red Spencer sofa, which will be $699 at Overstock.com.)
Read More....Angelo launching upholstery at online retailers
LOS ANGELES - Designer and HGTV host Angelo Surmelis will launch his first upholstery collection Aug. 10 through a number of Internet stores.
Called Modern Classics, the line will be ready-to-assemble and will be retailed by Overstock.com, Sears.com, Costo.com and CSN Stores, a Top 3 online retailer of home and office goods. Additional retail outlets will be added this fall.
Recession, Housing Downturn Slow Furniture Sales
by Jessica Jones
NPR Morning Edition, May 5, 2009
This year marks the 100th anniversary of North Carolina’s High Point furniture market, where more than 80,000 retailers and designers buy furniture in the fall and the spring. But it’s a tough time for the industry. Many furniture makers and retailers have suffered big losses as the economy has slowed.
Jessica Jones reports for North Carolina Public Radio.
Read More....TV DESIGNER ANGELO SURMELIS PARTNERS WITH HANDY LIVING ON NEW FURNITURE LINE FOR angelo:HOME
“Modern Classics by angelo:HOME” is Set to Launch Summer 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Melrose Park, IL & Los Angeles, CA - February 9, 2009 - Handy Living announced today that it has inked a multi-year partnership with celebrity designer Angelo Surmelis to create an affordable high-concept furniture line. The new Modern Classics line by angelo:HOME is set to launch this summer.
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