Roger is a partner in LCA Associates, a consulting firm with a national practice specializing in the documentation and restoration of historic structures. For 25 years he was a professor in the graduate level Historic Preservation Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Roger is widely considered one of America’s leading authorities on paint for historic buildings. His many books include Century of Color: Exterior Decoration for American Buildings, 1820-1920 and Victorian Exterior Decoration: How to Paint Your Nineteenth-Century American House Historically.
Roger also edited the popular book Paint in America: The Colors of Historic Buildings for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. His research into historic color use is the basis for historic color commercial paint lines by both the Sherwin-Williams and Benjamin Moore companies. As a consultant Roger has developed painting guidelines for towns and cities and assisted hundreds of building owners throughout the United States and Canada. He can be reached at www.winklerandmoss.com. He can be contacted through the LCA website at www.winklerandmoss.com.
Born the first of twin girls in Rome, Georgia, Jodi had construction in her blood from the beginning when her father brought the family construction business with him to the South from California. She has been doing home improvement ever since she was old enough to follow her dad around offering to hold the flashlight or getting the tools out of the toolbox.
In 1997 HGTV selected Jodi to co-host the series Fix It Up! Other HGTV credits include covering the National Hardware Show 1997-2005, Home Watch, Great Fall Fix Up, Blitz Build 2000, and Christmas Across America. Jodi has hosted “Southern Home by Design,” “The Man Made Movie,” and “The Tile Doctor” series. These videos, available online and in select home improvement stores nationwide, teach just about every facet of tiling for your home.
Jodi co-authored a home improvement book with Steve Schultz that tackles basic and intermediate projects encountered by homeowners. In 2008, she joined Today Homeowner with Danny Lipford where she still hosts the “Best New Products” segment. She can be contacted through her website at jodimarks.com.
Stacy Morris, APlus Insulation
Stacy Morris has worked with A Plus, Inc. for over 17 years in the Home Energy Efficiency field. With extensive knowledge in Home Performance, Insulation and Air Sealing, she helps homeowners achieve higher comfort levels and lower utilities. Certifications include BPI Builder Analyst, Duct Envelope Testing Verifier and Home Performance with Energy Star.
Michelle Cary, M. Cary and Daughters Plumbing Company
Michelle Cary, a licensed journeyman plumber, went on her first plumbing service call when she was 8 year old. In her teen years she spent summers working on her father’s service truck to earn money for Gloria Vanderbilt blue jeans. She became hooked on the family business and represents one of the two daughters in M. Cary and Daughter and has now been in the plumbing business for 34 years.
Michelle Bray, Bray Electrical
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Bill Clark, AIA Stevens & Wilkinson Inc.
Bill received his masters of architecture from Georgia Tech in 1979. He is a principal with Stevens &Wilkinson Inc., Atlanta, and a LEED-accredited professional. He serves as managing principal on a wide variety of projects in the private, commercial and institutional sectors with historic rehabilitation and preservation as one area of focus. Bill has been renovating his personal houses for more than 30 years and still learns something after every project.
Duncan Cottrell
Duncan Cottrell learned home repair in the Homeowners College Of Necessity at several campuses in Decatur. He received an education in custom cabinet and furniture making, social sciences, and chemistry. His post-graduate studies have focused on Home Intrusion Prevention, with a specialty in Doorway Reinforcing to Prevent Kick-Ins. Duncan advises homeowners about door, window, and deadbolt security and installs five lines of steel door jamb reinforcing hardware to prevent break-ins.
Sandy Crowe, Crowe Development Corporation
Sandy is a master craftsman with almost 40 years of experience in construction and custom home building. His specialty is the restoration of historic windows and doors. He has worked on some of the most significant homes in the Atlanta area, including the Edward Peters Mansion (c.1886), the Lemuel P. Grant Mansion (c. 1856), the Adair Mansion, home of Arthur Blank (c.1910), and the Donaldson House (pre-Civil War). Sandy has also done many window restoration projects for historic-home owners throughout Decatur and metropolitan Atlanta.
Pam Dooley, owner, Plants Creative Landscapes
Pam began Plants Creative Landscapes as a part-time income source when she returned to the University of Georgia to obtain her horticulture degree. Having spent 13 years in various management positions within the planting community, and educated by one of the best horticulture staffs in the country, she decided it was time to start her own company. Six years later, Plants Creative Landscapes is a full-service landscape design-build firm with a maintenance division, and has been featured on “Flip this House” and “HGTV’s Curb Appeal.”
Melissa Forgey, executive director, DeKalb History Center
Melissa became the executive director of the center in 2007. Prior to that, she was the executive director at Thomasville Landmarks in South Georgia for 10 years. In the early 1990s, she was employed as assistant curator at the Jekyll Island Museum. Melissa received her masters in heritage preservation from Georgia State University and a bachelor of arts in history from Emory University. She returned to DeKalb County to be near family and friends, and is delighted to be fully back into the field of public history.
Stuart Green, Encore Refinishing
Stuart started his resurfacing business over ten years ago and the services expanded to tile and grout renewal. Since then he has faced and solved almost every grout and caulk problem from cleaning to replacement.
Maryellen Higginbotham, Preservation/Design Consultant
Maryellen began studying Georgia Houses and their interiors in Savannah while working toward Bachelor of Arts degrees in Historic Preservation and Interior Design at Savannah College of Art and Design and upon graduation began her work in preservation and design with Historic Savannah Foundation as the Coordinator of the Isaiah Davenport House. After completing requirements for a Master of Science degree in Interior Design [Preservation Focus] at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Maryellen resumed her study of Georgia historic interiors as a consultant of the decorative finishes for Cobb Landmarks’ Root House Restoration Project. She served as the Curator of the Root House Museum for many years and in her spare time, traveled around Georgia documenting 19th century interior decorative finishes and shared her findings in presentations and publications. Maryellen currently serves as an adjunct professor teaching Historic Interiors at Georgia State University and expanding her documentation of Georgia interior decorative finishes.
Tim Inglis, Certified Building Inspector, SAFEbuilt
Tim worked in the construction regulatory field for over fifteen years, serving as the Planning and Development Director for Pooler and the Chief Building Official for Newnan. Currently through SAFEbuilt, he serves as the Building Official for the Cities of Johns Creek, Chamblee, Stone Mountain and Clarkston. He also served as an Adjunct Professor in the Construction Management Department for Southern Polytechnic State University. Tim holds a Bachelor of Science in Construction and a Master of Public Administration from Georgia Southern University and several certifications through the International Code Congress, the National Association of Homebuilders, and the Building Performance Institute.
Peter Michelson, CEO and owner of Renewal Design-Build
Peter is a fourth-generation contractor whose full-service design-build firm specializes in renovating older homes. Award-winning Renewal is ranked as a Top Five Residential Remodeler by the Atlanta Business Chronicle and has been featured on HGTV, the Discovery Network and in numerous publications. Peter is a Certified Aging-in-Place Specialist (CAPS) and is passionate about adapting homes to last a lifetime.
Phillip Raines, Master Mason
Phillip Raines is a native Atlantan. He was educated at Georgia State in journalism and geology but left school to travel across America. When he returned he apprenticed with a chimney builder in Inman Park and after a couple of years started his own masonry business. Phillip built chimneys in old Atlanta neighborhoods and in 1983 was awarded by the Brick Institute of America for Excellence in Design and Construction. He built the Brick Train in Underground Atlanta and with the brick mural team carved the two adjacent murals. He has written articles on masonry for various trade magazines and 2005 he published a book entitled “Simple Stonescaping”. Through his thirty-five year career as a mason and writer he has been a working sax player in ska, reggae and soul bands. He currently lives in a hundred year old house in Downtown Decatur. He’s a vibrant speaker with an outlandish sense of humor. It will be a really entertaining lecture.
Heather Shuster, project development director, Renewal Design-Build
In her 10 years working in the residential design community, Heather has provided hundreds of kitchen and bathroom consultations. Specializing in spatial planning, efficient layouts, and project development, she is uniquely qualified to share creative solutions with homeowners. Heather’s love and knowledge of homes is evident; she is always ready to discover hidden charms and opportunities to improve your home. Since working with Renewal Design-Build, she has overseen the design of multiple award-winning kitchen and bath projects. Renewal is a member of the National Kitchen and Bath Association.
Joe Thomas, home performance consultant, Renewal System Solutions
Joe Thomas is an old-house owner, a chronic renovator, and a BPI-certified building analyst. He has also completed courses in EarthCraft renovations and is trained in solar system design and installation. As manager and home performance consultant for Renewal System Solutions, Joe specializes in the energy efficiency of older homes. As part of the Home Performance w/ENERGY STAR program, he performs whole house assessments – detecting home energy loss and safety hazards – and then improves these homes to meet today’s high standards of energy efficiency, comfort, and health.
Kenneth H. Thomas Jr., professional historian and genealogist
Kenneth retired in 2006 after 33 years with the Historic Preservation Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. During his tenure there he became an expert on researching historic houses and wrote two pamphlets that remain on the HPD website, www.gashpo.org: Documenting a Structure in Georgia, and Documenting a Structure in Atlanta. He has written the genealogy column in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1977. A graduate of Emory University and a Decatur resident, he serves on the board of the DeKalb History Center, Georgia Genealogical Society, the Wren’s Nest, the Friends of Georgia Archives and History, and is moderator of Georgia Professional Genealogists.
