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Designing the Room at the Center of a Home
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- Jul 13, 2026
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Summary
The kitchen is rarely about the kitchen. It is the room a family actually lives in. Nick and Paul sit down with Tyler Swartzmiller and Amy Fix of Haus Studio, the Columbus design-build studio behind the cabinetry in Nick's own kitchen, for a warm, lively conversation about designing the room at the center of a home. They get into the 90/10 rule (design for the ninety percent of life that is just your family, not the ten percent that is entertaining), what a designer is actually doing in the first meeting, storage as programming rather than volume, why appliances are disappearing behind panels, the shift back toward natural stone and the worker-safety story driving it, and why "invest" beats "budget" when a home is the largest asset most people own. Guests: Tyler Swartzmiller, Principal Designer and Founder, and Amy Fix, Senior Designer, of Haus Studio. See their work at hausstudiodesigns.com or @hausstudiocolumbus. More conversations on design, building, and Central Ohio at arcfluence.com/podcast.