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Grace Mitchell, Host of HGTV’s One of a Kind,
Discusses Her Unique Approach to Home Design
By Anthony Elio | Photos courtesy HGTV
If you want to see how dedicated Grace
Mitchell is to interior design, just look at her
current home. After seven years of renovation,
Mitchell is finally happy with her 1919
foursquare. And she definitely should be, as
her family experienced plumbing pipes
exploding, a ceiling collapsing on their car, and
a bathroom literally falling through the
downstairs ceiling. After so much time, energy,
and creativity put into the renovation project,
Mitchell has a unique, defined vision of what
a home should be.
In 2012, Mitchell launched her website “A
Storied Style,” which encapsulates both her
creative design work as well as her personal
philosophy, “Start with your story.” In Mitchell’s
eyes, utilizing personal stories, travel experience,
and distinctive interests to create an abode is
much more important to design than simply
trying to recreate something you’ve viewed
online. This vision can be seen on Mitchell’s
HGTV program One of a Kind, where she
collaborates with homeowners to turn Victorian
homes, lake houses, and historical properties
into reflections of themselves. The creative
designer shares the story of her current home
renovation as well as her personal advice to
design enthusiasts in this exclusive interview.
42 Residential Tech Today | Jan/Feb 2020