Just a little more than a year ago today, what we all know and love as Urban Home Market was a store front covered in dust from construction. The dust was cleaned only to be replaced by a mess of boxes that would soon consume the store. With the hard work of the Urban Team and an ever ticking time clock, Urban Home Market began to come to life. After taking a quick moment to snap a staff Christmas photo, the team was up and ready for opening day, December 19th. The first mont

As some of you may have seen, last week, Urban Home traveled up to High Point Market. For those of you who don’t know much about it, High Point is about an hour and a half from Raleigh, North Carolina. It also happens to inhabit thousands of “tourists”, like our team from Urban, twice a year for market, turning the normally quaint small college town into a packed and eventful area. For me, it was my first experience at Market. I was given warning to wear comfortable shoes and

"It's who I am," Lisa simply states when asked how she decided she wanted a career in Interior Design. "It's the same as someone wanting to go to Med School or Law School," she says of her instinct to be a designer. Even as a child Lisa constantly changed her room and magazines piled up while looking for something new. After 20 years of experience in interiors, she still maintains excitement for the next challenge. Following graduation, being a mom was Lisa's top priority, so

Her design career began with a burlap wall. It was the 70's, when rich colors filled wardrobes and living rooms and shag carpets were "all the rage." Emily was 12 and facing the ultimate design task, redecorating her room. "I had just moved into our basement," she mused. Orange ran across one wall and posters of the Partridge Family filled the burlap wall. Even as a tween, Emily designed with purpose in mind. After finishing Design School Emily's life changed. She became a pa

With many years of experience and multiple successful start-ups, owner of Urban Home Market, Kathy McMahon has stayed true to one simple concept, "taking old things and making them new." Kathy graduated with a degree in Interior Design and began in Florida, where she worked and raised her two girls for 20 years. After moving to Birmingham, she opened Past Perfect, a furniture retail space. She owned this business for 5 years, and then decided to change her ever- busy life. "I