Bio: Barbara Barton is a Marketing and Sales Rep. for Roth Distributing, the leader in 14 states offering Sub-Zero, Wolf, Asko, Sharp, Abbaka and Independent Hoods. As a certified kitchen designer, Barbara has a unique understanding of the impact of appliances in design and the functional aspects affecting any consumer. Having been in the kitchen industry for over 30 years, specifically appliances for over 12 years, she is an accomplished speaker and collaborates with architects, kitchen designers, interior designers, and consumers alike.

Description: What is a healthy kitchen? What products to look for and questions to ask in order to have a healthy kitchen will be covered as well as showing a Case Study, Dissecting a Healthy Kitchen - "Walk through" the Kitchen of a private residence, describing sustainable products and applications used in the following areas to create a healthy kitchen environment:

• Finishes and Materials - Tile, Stone, and Cabinetry
• Appliances
• Lighting
• What worked/ what didn't

Bio: Angie Pache is an interior designer at Associates III Interior Design in Denver, Colorado. Associates III is dedicated to bringing environmental practices to the forefront of the Interior Design industry, as a Project Designer with Associates III Angie has been involved in the following to achieve this goal.

Speaker at EnvironDesign6, 2002 From the Ground Up: How to Become a Green Firm; Collaborated with ASID in publishing Turning Green - A Guide to Becoming a Green Design Firm; Awarded the ASID first place, 2004 for Sustainable Design/ Green Design for Residential Interiors
She has an Associates Degree in Interior Design from The Art Institute of Colorado

Description: Are you thinking of writing a cookbook, or have you always wondered about the secret life of a restaurant critic? Meet the experts at a panel discussion that will cover various aspects of food writing, from writing guidebooks and cookbooks, to being a restaurant critic, to writing about food for periodicals.

Bio: I'll admit, I was born with a wooden spoon in my mouth," says author Eliza Cross Castaneda, a food and lifestyle writer whose many articles have appeared in Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles, Mountain Living, Colorado Expression, Colorado Homes and Lifestyles, ColoradoBiz and Log & Timber Style magazines. Her book, Food Lovers' Guide to Colorado was published by the Globe Pequot Press in 2003. Eliza is an active member of The International Food Wine and Travel Writers' Association and Slow Foods International.

In addition to moonlighting as a caterer, Eliza has taught cooking classes in a variety of subjects at the Colorado Free University. She's appeared on more than 50 live television and radio programs and served as a culinary judge for the Cherry Creek Arts Festival and the Colorado Homeless Coalition Iron Chef competition. Eliza lives in Greenwood Village, Colorado with her family.

The Lady, The Chef, and The Courtesan

"A woman must be a lady in the living room, a chef in the kitchen,
and a courtesan in the bedroom."

This is the time-honored saying from which Marisol's first novel, The Lady, The Chef, and The Courtesan, derives its title. The author learned the saying from her grandmother when she was growing up in her native Venezuela.

The book begins with the story of Pilar Castillo, a young woman from Venezuela who now lives and works in Chicago and who returns to Caracas to attend the funeral of her beloved grandmother, Gabriela Grenales. A surprise awaits Pilar after the funeral: her grandmother's secret diaries.

Gabriela has left Pilar the diaries that recount her tumultuous secret life, along with the secrets of how to be the perfect wife, woman and lover.

After reading the books Pilar is forced to confront her own life and to make a decision she's been dreading to make: Should she stay in the United States and continue her relationship with Patrick Russo, her American heartthrob boyfriend? Or, should she go back home (as it is expected of her) and marry Rafael Uslar Mancera, a successful lawyer of her same station to whom she was once engaged? This is her plight.

The Lady, The Chef, and The Courtesan juxtaposes the roles that traditionally have been ascribed to women while telling a riveting tale about the forces of tradition and what it really means to be a woman. The book is set in both exotic Venezuela and familiar USA and its beautiful prose is spiced with secret recipes from Marisol's grandmother.

Description: How the design of the kitchen and the choice of products and materials affect human behavior.

Bio: It all started in Australia! That is where Bev Adams, CMKBD started her design career renovating historical cottages in the mountains of Western Australia. Originally a trained as an Interior Designer, she returned to the United States after 20 years of residency downunder, and currently resides in Colorado.

She claims that the kitchens she designed in Australia 25 years ago were the worst kitchens she has ever done. From those beginnings, Bev has come a long way and is now recognized by NKBA as a Certified Master Kitchen & Bath designer, CMKBD, a certification demonstrating advanced knowledge and expertise in the design of complete residential kitchens & bathrooms.

Bev has been recognized for outstanding performance in design in many areas and communities. She has won many national awards, and her kitchens have won acclaim in various National publications. Her work has taken her to Hawaii, Nantucket, Tennessee, and San Francisco. She has been honored to participate as a Judge for the Colorado Parade of Homes, and is the Immediate Past President of NKBA (National Kitchen & Bath Association) Rocky Mountain Chapter, where she served for two years.

As President/CEO of Interior Intuitions Inc. located in Cherry Creek, Bev continues to provide solutions in design by combining Kitchen & Bath Psychology with a variety of products used in her residential projects. Bev is the exclusive "Western Dealer," for the Bespoke English line of Watts & Wright cabinetry, and represents, M.L Fowler, Woodmode, Heritage and Corsi Cabinetry. Her book, to be published in 2005 on "Kitchen Psychology," is about people and how products and design affect human behavior.

A leader in our industry, he served as NKBA National President in 1989-1990. Jim earned his accreditation as a Certified Kitchen Designer (CKD) in 1974 and was one of the first 10 Certified Bathroom Designers (CBD). He has earned the NKBA Merit Award every year since its inception. In 2002 Jim was inducted into the Kitchen and Bathroom Industry HALL of FAME for his contributions to the industry as well as being granted status as a Certified Master Kitchen and Bath Designer (CMKBD). In October 2004, Jim received "Remodeling Magazines" FOUNDATION AWARD for Lifetime Achievement in the remodeling industry.

Throughout his career he has been honored in the NKBA Design Competition; CKD Excellence in Design Competition and was a winner in the DuPont Corian Design Contest.

He has served as a consultant to Wilsonart International; Proctor and Gamble and Dow Corning and for 13 years he was the Design Director of the Maytag Kitchen Idea Center.

More recently, Jim has authored two design books and one management book. "KITCHENS: Lifestyle & Design" was his first effort, quickly followed by "BATHrooms" both published by PBC International in New York. Additionally, he has authored a book along with his daughter about marketing your business entitled, "Proven Promotions". Also, Jim has just completed two design CDs. One is entitled, "Designer Bathrooms by Professional Designers" with over 250 pages of ideas, stories and portfolios and the other is "The Best of Kitchens by Professional Designers". This CD is well over 300 pages of information. These are the first two electronic books on bathroom and kitchen design. Currently Jim is working with KASMAR Publications editing their "Kitchen Collection" series of books.

Description: Christine Shaw's topic is "How to Work with Designers" and her part of that will be "Setting Budgets". She will talk about why budgets are important and how to go about setting that budget for the project and outcome the client desires.

Carolyn Deardorff's topic is "Design Adventures" - Where creative design solutions function for the end user regardless of age or ability. We have practiced interior design over twenty years, practiced kitchen design nine years, and contributed as an interior design educator at the college level more than seven years.

Michael Lee Thornton BIO:

Awards
ASID IDA Award 2004
Subzero/Wolf Design Award

Publications
Colorado Homes and Lifestyles
Architecture and Design of the West
Denver Design Trends

Participated in 5 Junior Symphony Guild Showhouses

Art Fast's Description: Art's talk will include:

• How to become a member of NKBA
• Qualifications and requirements to remain a member in good standing
• Why member organizations are qualified to better serve homeowners
• Why consumers should search for the NKBA or other professional logos to perform professional and original work.

ART FAST BIO: Art Fast has served on the Rocky Mountain Chapter Board of the National Kitchen and Bath Association for three years and he is currently serving as Chapter President.

He has owned and managed Kitchen Masters, a kitchen design/build remodel company for six years. Art has been an active member of the NKBA since he aquired the company. He brings construction and business background to his comjpany and to his position on the NKBA Chapter board.

LORI GROSS BIO: Lori Gross is a professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers, and NCIDQ qualified. She has been involved in the profession for over 30 years, in both the residential and commercial sectors. Currently, she provides resources to the trade, through her firm, FreeSpirit Concepts, Inc. Lori is the president of American Society of Interior Designers, Colorado Chapter, 2003-2004. Over the last several years she has worked extensively to promote the values that qualified interior designers bring to projects, including the advantage to owners in teaming qualified interior designers with other design professionals at the projects onset to ensure the best possible end result.

Metallo Cast Sinks and Surfaces
The Fusion of Concrete and Metal

Metallo Cast Sinks and Surfaces is a completely new line for design professionals, offering basins, vessel sinks, and integrated sinks and countertops that beautifully fuse concrete and metal in a visually stunning and long-lasting product.

Every Metallo cast sink and surface is meticulously hand-crafted, -coated, and -polished for the ultimate in quality and uniqueness. The lustrous satin finish and a penetrating sealant allows both the concrete and the metal to age gracefully. The numerous concrete and metal colors and patterns make Metallo Cast Sinks and Surfaces the focal point of any room.

Metallo is the result of a collaboration between Colorado Concrete Concepts and Liquid Metal Coatings, two Colorado-based firms which already have created names for themselves with highly unique and quality products.

Colorado Concrete Concepts specializes in decorative glass-fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC) architectural elements including counters, vanities, fireplace surrounds, tabletops, and tiles. Colorado Concrete Concepts' surfaces are specified by architects and contractors for projects nationwide, including the Denver Zoo and West Virginia's historic Greenbrier Hotel.

Liquid Metal Coatings provides a unique service in the design industry by applying a seamless layer of real metal to virtually any object or material: wood, plastic, ceramic, wallpaper, etc. The durable metal coating is cold applied, then hand-finished, and a patina can be applied to create a subtle, naturally aged look. Liquid Metal Coating's clients are interior designers, home builders, remodelers, and architects.

The founders of these two firms, Scott Hild (Colorado Concrete Concepts) and Wendy Scheck (Liquid Metal Coatings) decided to combine their significant creative abilities - and the artistic possibilities of their respective mediums - in a new product. They researched and brainstormed on how to utilize GFRC and metal coating in a way that would bring out the best in both materials. Metallo, The Fusion of Concrete and Metal, satisfies the founders' ideal as an elegant and lasting product.

Terry D. Guinn's Description: Product - Pyrolave is an enamelled lavastone countertop material imported from France. The lavastone comes from the volcanic lava flows at Volvic, France. The stone is then cut to designer specification, enamelled, and fired at 1800 degrees Farenheit. The product is available in a variety of brilliant colors with the firing process producing a 'faience' - like finish.

BIO: Terry is an interior designer specializing in high-end custom kichen and bath design. he has been a practicing interior designer since graduating from the The Art Institute of Colorado (formerly the Colorado Institute of Art) in March 1982 and has been with Kitchen Distributors, Inc. for three years.

Description: Metallo Cast Sinks and Surfaces is a new line of vessel sinks, basins, and integrated sinks and countertops created by two innovative entrepreneurs, Scott Hild and Wendy Scheck.

Scott Hild BIO: Scott is founder and president of Colorado Concrete Concepts, which specializes in decorative glass-fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC) architectural elements including counters, vanities, fireplace surrounds, tabletops, and tiles. Mr. Hild has a degree from the University of Michigan.

Colorado Concrete Concepts' surfaces are specified by architects and contractors nationwide, on projects ranging in scope from a single table top to interiors for large multi-unit buildings. The Denver Zoo and West Virginia's historic Greenbrier Hotel are among recent notable clients.

Wendy Scheck BIO: Wendy is the founder and president of Liquid Metal Coatings, makes up the other half of the Metallo team. Ms. Scheck has an extensive background in art and metalworking, including owning a business that served the film industry for 12 years, working as an Art Director, Prop Maker, and Stylist. She earned a degree in Visual Communication and completed additional studies in architecture and fine arts. Ms. Scheck is a member of ASID, the National Kitchen and Bath Association, the Council of Professional Remodelers, and the Home Builders Association.

Liquid Metal Coatings provides a unique service in the design industry by applying real metal to virtually any object or material: wood, plastic, ceramic, wallpaper, etc. The durable metal coating is cold applied, then hand-finished, and a patina can be applied to create a subtle, naturally aged look.

Hild and Scheck decided to combine the artistic strengths of their companies to create Metallo Cast Sinks and Surfaces, a completely new line for design professionals. Metallo offers basins, vessel sinks, and integrated sinks and countertops that beautifully fuse concrete and metal in a visually stunning and long-lasting product.

Description: Learn how to enhance the countertops and cabinetry in your kitchen with lighting that is functional yet beautiful. Check out the advantages offered with new technologies in lamping and see the powerful punch you can get with pendants available in a variety of great new materials, shapes and textures.

Bio: Mary Jane Fletcher has been with Northstar Lighting for nine years, working with thousands of designers, architects, builders and homeowners to create beautiful lighting designs. Her projects have ranged from designing 10,000 sq ft homes to effective and economical kitchen remodeling. She has an extensive knowledge of product options allowing her to creatively meet a wide range of client styles and budgets.