ERIN AND BEN NAPIER OF HGTV'S 'HOME TOWN' TALK THEIR NEW FURNITURE COLLECTION & MORE! скачать в хорошем качестве

ERIN AND BEN NAPIER OF HGTV'S 'HOME TOWN' TALK THEIR NEW FURNITURE COLLECTION & MORE!

HGTV'S 'Home Town', Erin and Ben Napier, discuss their new furniture collection with Vaughan Bassett, how they started their company, what it's like working together as a married couple, and more! INSTAGRAM:   / thehomedotcom   FACEBOOK:   / thehomedotcom   ELLEN GEFEN: @ellengefen Tell us, uh, about the company, how y'all started and how the whole concept of the company started. Um, actually it started with, I had a furniture shop. I was building furniture, really small, doing a few little gift items along the way and we started kind of finding things that we wanted to sell vintage pieces. And we started a website because when I owned a stationery company during the winter months, it slowed down. So we wanted to have a retail side where we would sell the things that he built and vintage pieces that I was finding. And then when the show happened, we couldn't dedicate our time to it anymore. So we partnered with our four best friends. So it's the six of us now. And they like together, we all run this company, but we only sell American made goods. We only make American made pieces. Um, we design and manufacture everything in the US so partner and license and work with American manufacturing companies. Yes, because our show is about small town revitalization and that's what we've dedicated our lives to is revitalizing our small town. And you can't revitalize small town America if there is no industry in small town America. So that's um, that's kind of why we're here. So describe the furniture that you are building and how even at Von Bassett, how that really molds together with what you have. The, the Von Bassett LM co home and had been Napier partnership was, it's a pretty good story. We, I was building furniture and it was a natural fit that once our show started taking off and it was becoming a hit, we got an offer from an overseas manufacturer and our agent really wanted us to take the offer. But one of that company's big selling points was they were one of the first companies to go overseas. And we have, you know, we've staked our flag out that we're going to be for a man, American manufacturing. And so even though it was a really incredible offer, it was really easy for us to say no to that. And I asked our agent to reach out to Von Bassett, and it's a company that I've been a fan of since I was in high school and he lived up here. Yeah, I went to high school near here. And so we would go up in the mountains. And so I kind of kept up with the furniture industry and what had happened there and what the Bassett's had done at Vaughn Bassett. And so when this came up, he basically said that that would never work. The, the Vaughn Bassett Napier partnership wouldn't be a thing. And so we said, you're fired. And I picked up the phone and called them, Googled Vaughn Bassett, Dialed the first number, Sheila, who's at the front desk answered. And she put me through to Doug and Doug had no idea who I was. And, and he, uh, he was really funny because I, you know, I'll wait. I was like, Hey, you been Napier from HGTVs hometown? And he was like, I don't watch HGTV. So that didn't go well, but a year later courted them for a year and a year later he called me on the morning that our daughter was born. He called me. I was in the delivery room. Yes, they had to call him back, but uh, yeah, it's been, it's been an incredible fit. One, because I do, I mean weekend and week out I'll build custom furniture on a nationally successful. Yeah. What Ben does is just like the micro picture of what Von Bassett does. It's 600 bins building these things in Virginia. The way we design the furniture, it's really cool because I take things that we do in our shop and I say, can we do this? And then the Bassett say, well, this is the version that we can do. And then we say, well, can we tweak this? And then weeks a week, there's a lot of back and forth in the design and we come up with something that is visually pleasing but also can be produced on a mass scale by these 600 craft. We've one Virginia. How is it to work as a couple together in a company. We fit together perfectly. We've just never done it any, we've only ever worked together. So we don't actually know how to, not where we stand in the gaps for each other, each other's gaps. And so, um, where I am terrible with numbers and accounting and business and people, he's a people person and I'm a little more shy and, but we're both very creative and that way we're really strong together. Well, and we, we respect each other's lanes. And so if, you know, if something is more in Aaron's wheelhouse, I won't step in unless she asked me to. If something is more in my wheelhouse, she won't step in unless I ask her to, which we do a lot.