ARTICLES &
Featured Projects
IN BOOKS, MAGAZINES, TELEVISION & NEWSPAPERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
Pippin Home Designs, known for designing Award-Winning Homes with a View, has been featured locally, regionally, and nationally on covers of magazines, live on T.V., podcasts, and in news articles.
Home designs and achievements have been featured in Charlotte Home, Charlotte Observer, House & Home, Lake NormanCurrents, Design Build, Natural Home and the Charlotte Business Journal.
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ARTICLES & PROJECTS
2024 FEATURED
- QC Exclusive & The Best of the Lake Gala on Simplifying Life Through Technology Podcast by SoundVision
- Jenny Pippin: Pippin Home Designs on Simplifying Life Through Technology Podcast by SoundVision
- Paradigm Changers with Jenny Pippin on Builder Nuggets
- Designing Fully Supportive Homes with Pippin Home Designs on The Best of LKN podcast
- Jenny Pippin Founder and Lead Designer of Pippin Home Designs on Podcast Business News Network
ARTICLES & PROJECTS
2023 FEATURED
- How to Amplify Your Life with Inspired Home Design with Jenny Pippin on the Organized and Energized Podcast
- Front Cover of Lake Norman Currents Magazine featuring Pippin Home Designs’ Award-Winning lake home Chef’s Delight
- Winner: 2022 Best in Show: Pippin Home Designs feature in Lake Norman Currents Magazine, Pages 29-31
- Maximizing Views featuring Award-Winning lake home Elation in QC Exclusive Magazine, Page 80
ARTICLES & PROJECTS
2022 FEATURED
- Life With a View: Pippin Home Designs creates forever homes, from the coast to the mountains and everywhere in between featured in QC Exclusive MagazineTravel Issue, Pages 67-68
- Kudos: Charlotte area Jennifer Pippin Receives American Residential Design Awards featured in Natural Awakenings Charlott
- Best Project Design/Waterfront $750K-$999K featured in Lake Norman Currents Magazine, Page 52
- Best Project Design/Waterfront Home $1M and up featured in Lake Norman Currents Magazine, Page 52
- Best Project Design/New Home $2M and up featured in Lake Norman Currents Magazine, Page 59
- Best Project Design/Existing Home $276K-$500K featured in Lake Norman Currents Magazine, Page 59
- Best Project Design/Existing Home $501K and up featured in Lake Norman Currents Magazine, Page 59
ARTICLES & PROJECTS
2021 FEATURED
- Trump International Realty features Brawley Flats Luxury Barndominiums team project with designer Jenny Pippin, builder Willis Spivey, and interior designer Michelle McKoy.
- “Home Discovery Process Key to Designing Award Winning Home” features Pippin’s award-winning home on Lake Norman in the January issue of Currents Magazine on pages 38-49.
ARTICLES & PROJECTS
2020 FEATURED
- Pippin named among “Charlotte’s Top Architects” by Impressive Interior Design! Acknowledged as one of the few firms to focus on ecological architectural design.
- ARDA Renovation – Unbuilt Award winner “Zen Transformation” featured on page 104 of AIBD Magazine Special 2020 Summer Awards issue.
- ARDA Custom Home – Unbuilt Award winner “The Nantucket” featured on page 55 of AIBD Magazine Special 2020 Summer Awards issue.
- ARDA Custom Home – Built Award winners “Rustic Modern” and “The Showstopper,” an Industrial Modern inspired design featured on pages 48-49 in AIBD Magazine Special 2020 Summer Awards Issue.
- “The Treehouse: A Vertical Craftsman-Style Home” features a Pippin client’s home in the Spring Issue, Page 56 of the AIBD Quarterly Magazine.
- High Performance Home Project is featured Case Study in American Institute of Building Design’s AIBD Magazine Spring Issue, Page 36. CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO TOUR
- Best of Lake $1M+ Custom Home – Lake Norman Currents January 2020 issue – project featured on page 36 and Jennifer Pippin shares award-winning design features in Ask the Expert section on Page 49.
- “An Interview with Jennifer Pippin, FAIBD” featured in AIBD’s December 7th issue of Monday Minute weekly newsletter featuring Pippin’s radio interview on WSIC.
- “A Healthy Home Inside & Out” Limitless Learning article by Jenny Pippin in October issue of Limitless Magazine.
- “Home Is Where Passions Live” Limitless Learning article by Jenny Pippin in September issue of Limitless Magazine.
- “Pippin Honored with Four American Residential Designer Awards” Award-winning projects featured on pages 48, 49, 55 and 104 in the AIBD Magazine Special ARDA Issue.
- “Where All Are Welcome” Pippin pet-inspired design tips and Stearns photos featured in Lake Norman Currents July Issue on pages 50-55.
- Pippin is guest on Ms. FitOne Lifestyles Podcast talking about having a healthy home and asking the question, could your home be making you sick?
- “Delight Sizing – An Inspiring Perspective” Limitless Learning article by Jenny Pippin in May 2020 issue of Limitless magazine.
- “Creating a Home without Limits” Limitless Learning article by Jenny Pippin in April 2020 issue of Limitless magazine.
- Leadership through Inspiration expert panelist at Alair Homes Leadership Summit February 10-12, 2020.
- “Ask the Expert” article by Jenny Pippin in January 2020 issue of Lake Norman Currents magazine on award-winning features of home designed by Pippin which won 2019 Best of the Lake.
ARTICLES & PROJECTS
2013 FEATURED
- Lake Norman CURRENTS magazine Cover and 7-page feature article
on the award-winning ‘Outdoor Living’ project
ARTICLES & PROJECTS
2012 FEATURED
- Lake Norman Magazine features lake home renovation project
ARTICLES & PROJECTS
2011 FEATURED
- Natural Home magazine, July / August issue, feature of Pippin-Stearns Green Home
ARTICLES & PROJECTS
2008 FEATURED
- Cover and feature story in House Trends September 2008 issue, “Let There Be Light
- Feature article in The Lake Magazine Summer 2008 issue, “Green Building – New Guidelines means all Systems Go”
- NAHB Productions Group filmed a Green Consumer How-To video at Pippin’s nationally acclaimed Green Home and Studio, called “Connecting The Dots”.
- Team Ecoist, the Project Live Green Team, has Green educational video produced for the “Hugh Downs National Environmental Report”, to be featured on PBS stations.
- “Innovative Homes” cover and feature story in Smart HomeOwner magazine January 2008 issue.
- Feature article in Charlotte Business Journal, March 28, 2008 issue on “Energy Costs, upkeep put pressure on size of homes.”
- Pippin featured in Todays’ Charlotte Woman magazine, April issue on “Tour an Earth Friendly Home.”
ARTICLES & AWARDS
2007 FEATURED
- Pippin featured in Spring Issue of AIBD’s Design Line magazine in an article “A Green Philosophy.”
- Featured in Premier Issue of North Carolina Signature magazine, Spring issue, in “Building a Future.”
- Featured in Lincoln Times News June 6 issue, ‘Going Green the way to go with house remodeling.”
- Featured in Lincoln Times News June 13 issue, “Whoever said, “It isn’t easy being green.”
- Featured in Lincoln Times News June 20 issue, “Even if lacking resources, homeowners can go Green.”
- Cover and feature story in Lake Norman Woman magazine, July issue, “Living the Green Life.”
- Pippin Home Designs June 1 featured in Residential Design and Build magazine for “Lakefront Challenge”
- Pippin recognized in the Lake Norman Times for heading the Architectural Review Board for Joy’s Serenity Point subdivision.
- Urban Home magazine features Pippin Home Designs in Fall issue on “Design that comes Naturally”
- Special feature in the Charlotte Business Journal’s “Live Green” publication in October.
- Pippin participates in the NC Sustainable Energy Associations’ annual Green and Solar Home Tour, with Green Home and Studio, under construction, open to the public in October.
- Pippin featured in Natural Awakenings magazine in October issue on “Green Building, Trend Emerging in Charlotte”
- Pippin’s Home and Studio featured in Charlotte Observer in Dec. 15 edition in “Leap into Green”
- WCNC TV features a local Green home, the Nemechek residence, in an interview with Jenny Pippin, live on site February, ‘Interest In Green Homes is Growing’.
- WSOC TV features a local Green home, the Nemechek residence, in an interview with Jenny Pippin, live on site February, ‘Interest In Green Homes is Growing’.
- ‘Dream Homes Carolinas’ coffee table book, features Pippin Home Designs, Fall 2007.
ARTICLES & PROJECTS
2006 FEATURED
- Pippin featured in House Plan Marketing Association Newsletter for the award-winning design, The Hartwell.
- Contributor for two articles in the May issue of Lake Norman Magazine. Starting Point for Start-ups and Soaked in Luxury, a bathroom trends article including photography from several custom design homes by Pippin.
- Featured on March episode of Desperate Design television show. This episode featured Jenny’s personal renovation project, incorporating Green Building.
- Featured on January episode of Desperate Design television show.
- Pippin featured in House Plan Marketing Association Newsletter for the award-winning design, The Hartwell.
- Pippin recognized in the Lake Norman Times for heading the Architectural Review Board for Wright’s Emerald Cove subdivision
ARTICLES & PROJECTS
2005 FEATURED
- Featured in Big Ideas Column in the Charlotte Business Journal, December 9th, Print Edition.
- Featured in the Lincoln Times News Business Section
- Jennifer B. Pippin and Pippin Home Designs featured on Two Episodes of Desperate Design television show
- Contributing writer to Fall 2005 Bath Report in National Trade Publication, Kitchen & Bath Design News November issue.
ARTICLES & AWARDS
2004 FEATURED
- Jennifer B. Pippin featured in June Today’s Charlotte Woman for her 2004 Woman Business Owner of the Year award.
- Feature profile of Jennifer B. Pippin appeared in Charlotte edition of Skirt magazine in June for her 2004 Woman Business Owner of the Year award.
- Featured on cover of Lake Norman Time‘s Lake Home section for the renovation of historic Cornelius location to become new offices of Pippin Home Designs, Inc.
- Johnson residence featured in Design Build Business magazine
- Custom-designed residence of Jay and Roseann Zinn featured on cover of Charlotte Home magazine and in Today’s Custom Home magazine.
- Special recognition of Jennifer B. Pippin’s recent awards in Fall issue of Today’s Custom Home magazine.
ARTICLES & AWARDS
2003 FEATURED
- Participated in the 2003 Cystic Fibrosis Guys & Dolls Bachelors & Bachelorettes Auction to raise funds for the charitable cause.
- Debut of consumer guide to home building highlighted in January issue of the national publication, Luxury Home Builder.
ARTICLES & AWARDS
2002 FEATURED
- Featured in Winter Issue of Today’s Custom Home Magazine, “More Than A Pit Stop- Renovation Creates Privacy and Personality”.
- Featured in December issue of Charlotte Business Journal’s Luxury Living magazine. Article highlighted design of the entertainer’s home of Jimmy Johnson, an executive with Hendrick Motorsports, and his wife, Pris.
- Featured in Summer issue of Today’s Custom Home Magazine, “Homes With A View – Plans Capitalize on Spectacular Lots”
- Cover profile, June 14 issue of Charlotte Business Journal
ARTICLES & AWARDS
2001 FEATURED
- Featured in the December issue of the national publication, Kitchen & Bath Design News. Article featured the custom table designed to replicate a booth that race car driver Chad Little and his wife Donna had their first date in.
- Featured in September/October edition of Century 21 House & Home Magazine – New England Style on Lake Norman – Gaynor-Baird Renovation
- Summer 2001 featured in Today’s Custom Home Magazine – “The House That Teamwork Built – Nascar driver’s home offers a more leisurely pace”
- Judge, The Annual Charlotte HBA Parade of Homes
AWARDS & ARTICLES
2000 FEATURED
- Featured article “Design Trends” in Design/Build Magazine including images from projects.
AWARD & ARTICLES
1997 FEATURED
- Featured in Home section of Charlotte Observer – “The Wright Style: Award winning lake house inspired by renowned architect”
ARTICLES & AWARDS
1996 FEATURED
- 1996 Judge, 11th Annual Wilmington/Cape Fear Homebuilders’ Association Parade of Homes
- 1995 Judge, 45th Annual National AIBD/Homestyles Design Competition, Charleston, SC
- 1995 Featured in By Design American Homestyles -Special Ventures coffee table book for the American Institute of Building Design
- 1995 Judge, 9th Annual Wilmington/Cape Fear Homebuilders’ Association Parade of Homes
- 1995 Judge, 8th Annual Wilmington/Cape Fear Homebuilders’ Association Parade of Homes
- 1993 Judge, Mecklenburg County Homebuilders’ Association Remodelers’ Council “Excellence in Remodeling” contest Charlotte, NC
