Let us Edutain you!
Edutainment: the act of learning while being entertained
Through TV appearances, seminar presentations, and published books, Leslie and HDD Studios are here to help you live better in your home in as many ways as we can.
Catch Leslie's Upcoming Seminars!
Thursday | March 16th
Friday | March 17th
Saturday | March 18th
Sunday | March 19th
Taste of Her Own Medicine:
Lessons From a Designer's Home Kitchen Remodel
5:00-5:45pm
The Home Stage
Tap here to download a handout from Taste of Her Own Medicine
The Reveal:
Hilarious, Heartfelt, & Headshaking Stories from a Professional Interior Designer
3:00-3:45pm
The Home Stage
The Reveal:
Hilarious, Heartfelt, & Headshaking Stories from a Professional Interior Designer
12:00-12:45pm
The Home Stage
Taste of Her Own Medicine:
Lessons From a Designer's Home Kitchen Remodel
1:00-1:45pm
The Home Stage
Jim Hart's Meatballs:
a cooking demo woven with heartwarming tales from Food is Love
6:00-6:45pm
The Cooking Stage
Bobber's Stromboli:
a cooking demo with lessons in humility and humor from Food is Love
2:00-2:45pm
The Cooking Stage
Edutainment for Your Bookshelf
Leslie lives and breathes interior design not only in her successful design business, but also through her extensive writing career. She has written two home improvement books full of snark and great content: Remodeling Your House Without Killing Your Spouse in 2014 and It's Not Your Room, It's You in 2016. Leslie's most recent book is a combination kitchen/memoir/cookbook titled Food is Love. Stay tuned for LHD's fourth upcoming book, The Reveal, a collection of stories over an accomplished 20+ year career in interior design.
Follow the links below to purchase a book!
Tune in for Leslie's Weekly Design Series
What is Wallcovering Wednesday?
Wallcovering Wednesday is a weekly Youtube series originally curated by Leslie purely for the purpose of practicing her design skills. After a rep from Sanderson sent gorgeous new samples of their latest wallcovering line, she looked at one and said "this paper is so stunning I could build a whole room out of it." Never letting a good idea go to waste, LHD created the series as a way to hone her craft. Each week, she chooses a wallcovering to feature and builds a scheme for a different room with furnishes & finishes to highlight the paper.
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What is T/NAT?
T/NAT is an acronym for Thing / Not a Thing, a term coined by Leslie about a decade ago as a communication tool for clients. Her first book, Remodeling Your House Without Killing Your Spouse, features a homework section to help clients explain their décor and design style preferences using images from magazines and the internet. Clients are encouraged to curate a collection of styles & rooms that they enjoy and find pleasing to the eye. Next, clients curate a collection that is a NOT a Thing.
You can tune in for a weekly T/NAT post every Tuesday on Leslie's Facebook page and join in on the subjective fun for each query. (The commentary is lively and the responses for each "Bonus Points" post are a GenXer's dream!)
Jim Hart's Meatballs
a cooking demo woven with heartwarming tales from Food is Love
The Reveal:
Hilarious, Heartfelt, & Headshaking Stories from a Professional Interior Designer
Bobber's Stromboli
a cooking demo with lessons in humility and humor from Food is Love
Saturday | March 4th
3:00-3:45pm
The Williams Kitchen Studio Cooking Stage
Saturday | March 4th
5:00-5:45pm
The Home Stage
Sunday | March 5th
12:00-12:45pm
The Home Stage
Sunday | March 5th
2:00-2:45pm
The Williams Kitchen Studio Cooking Stage
What else has LHD been up to in 2023?
The Reveal: Hilarious, Heartfelt & Headshaking Stories from a Professional Interior Designer
Friday
January 20th
4:00pm
This seminar is based on Leslie's upcoming fourth book, "The Reveal" and edutains attendees with six heartwarming, headshaking, and hilarious client stories from her 20+ year interior design career. The tales will offer helpful lessons for successfully navigating home improvement. Attendees will learn everything from realistic budgeting to creating meaningful décor to selecting a trusted home improvement professional.
Friday
January 20th
6:00pm
Saturday
January 21st
12:00pm
Saturday
January 21st
4:00pm
Food is Love: 5 Tips for Designing a Kitchen You Really WANT to Use
This seminar is based on Leslie's recently published cookbook and explores kitchen design from a functional perspective. Attendees will enjoy a comical version of the history of kitchens and learn a new design language, TALC, to help get the HGTV look of a kitchen that really *works* well.