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ME Speak Design's Home on Apartment Therapy

 https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/house-tour-a-charming-vivid-georgia-house-245895 Location:
 North High Shoals, GA Size: 1700 sq ft Years Lived In: 3 Rent or own: Own Our Style: We are very ecl...

ME Speak Design is a 2017 Garden & Gun Magazine Made in the South Award Finalist

For the last 4 years, when the annual call for artists to enter the Made in the South Awards by Garden & Gun magazine is announced we have entered.  Each year with the hope that we will be one ...

A Colorful Home Full of Love

Recently we were asked by Design Sponge our tips on adding warmth to a room.  We love the question so much because it's truly what our home embodies to us.  We are big fans of color, textures, patt...

Enjoying Matcha Tea in Georgia

Like many here in the South we enjoy our coffee, in fact it's a daily ritual.  We don't mind sharing that we load our Moka in the evenings with Chock-full-o'Nuts (1000 Faces in Athens, GA if it's a...

Handmade Metal Bowls and their Process

Lately we've been in the shop experimenting with textures, patinas, forms and processes.  We are starting to see how, when worked in such a way, metal can take on the tactile appearance of clay.  ...

Hugh's Pickled Shrimp

We've lived in and around Athens, GA for something along the line of 20 years.  During that time Hugh Acheson has been a constant culinary figure, even before we could afford to eat in his restaura...

ME Speak Smoked Jalapeño Hot Sauce

  You know, it's funny when you look back through the life of a design you start to notice patterns.  For us, a design usually starts heavy, visually speaking, then is transformed through multiple...

Our Inspiration

Growing up, art was everywhere in our home, in the attic, basement, closets, everywhere.  My brother Patrick and I were taught at an early age to appreciate nature and artistic expression.  Now cal...

Living with the Andon Table Lamp

We built the first Andon Table Lamp prototype, part of our Oleole Collection, in early 2013.  Since that time it has lived with us in two different houses and survived a monumental move out into th...

Shut it Down and Start Over

There are moments in a marriage where you both have an instinctual feeling but it takes one of you to simply say it out loud.  For us, it was the day we woke up and Lori said "let's shut it down an...