Just announced - Lunch sponsored by Ferguson Enterprises!!

Home Builders Association of Greater Knoxville has a new member-based education series that will feature 3-person expert panels comprised of HBAGK members. The first workshop is scheduled for 11:30 AM on May 2 and the topic is Building Trends: What Customers Want. Panelists for this first event are Sandy Kozar with Decorating Den Interiors, Claudia Stallings with Coldwell Banker Wallace & Wallace, and Stephen Davis of Stephen Davis Home Designs.

The series will continue on the first Wednesday of each month (except July 4) during lunchtime to accommodate most members’ schedules. There is no fee to attend and lunch will be provided thanks to our series sponsors, Noble Knights Construction Services, Inc. and Ferguson's! Future topics will cover Construction Lending & Financing; Membership Benefits like Discount & Rebate Programs; Advocacy & Codes Updates; Business Marketing & Networking; and Insurance & Workers Compensation.

RSVP with names of ALL guests to help us plan – thanks!

Claudia Stallings is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, College of Communications.  Beginning in 1991, Stallings worked in various marketing roles at the Nashville Business Journal.  In 1995, she became Promotions Manager at WDCN (now NPT), the public television station in Nashville.  While in Nashville, she served as President of the Middle Tennessee Marketing Association.  She and her husband, Mike, moved to Knoxville in 2000 for his job as a music composer for HGTV and Fine Living Network.

In 2004, Stallings became interested in real estate, got her license, and placed it with Coldwell Banker Wallace & Wallace, Realtors.  In 2010, she became principal broker of the Coldwell Banker Wallace & Wallace, REALTORS office in Farragut, and has been the Vice President of Residential Sales for three years.

Stallings is a columnist for the Knoxville News-Sentinel Sunday real estate section, and has written articles promoting real estate and REALTORS for the past 13 years.  She has served in various roles on committees for the Knoxville Area Association of REALTORS’ MLS.  She developed and teaches a 6-hour CE course for new agents.

Sandy Kozar is an award-winning, professionally trained designer.  She has been a Decorating Den Interiors franchise owner for almost a decade.  Sandy always has something cooking.  She has been featured several times on the cover of “Everything Knoxville,” and writes a monthly design article in the magazine.  Sandy has also been published in “The Kitchen Bible” (B. Ballinger), and her designs have been featured on HGTV.  Sandy has also been featured in other media including radio and articles discussing design tips and solutions.  Most recently, she was featured in “Love Your Home,” a newly published book by Carol Donayre-Bugg.

Sandy is involved in her community and has participated in several events within Knoxville, including the renovation of two homes of the founders of the “Love Kitchen,” in conjunction with the HBAGK.  She has also participated in various Knoxville Design Show House & Garden fund raisers by donating her time and talent decorating 1-2 rooms for the event each year.  Sandy has also helped to showcase local builders through the by designing an entire home from the architectural elements to the entire interior design for the HBAGK Parade of Homes.  This year Sandy and the Kozar Design Team will be pairing with The Alzheimer’s Association of Knoxville to help renovate a home as a fundraising event for Alzheimer’s awareness.

Stephen Davis was born in Searcy, Arkansas, where he attended Harding University as an art major. After college, Stephen followed his own love of music and pursued a career in blues and folk in Memphis and Houston.  While evenings were spent performing, by day he worked in lumber and hardware, and as a roofer and carpenter.  That experience in building materials and home construction would later prove invaluable.

In 1981 Davis moved to Northwest Arkansas and worked for two civil engineering firms and a manufacturer of extruded aluminum curtain walls before finding his true calling in home design with Cooper Communities in Bella Vista, Arkansas.

In 1990, Davis moved to the Knoxville area and founded Stephen Davis Home Designs. His work has infiltrated Knoxville’s affluent neighborhoods because of his technical knowledge of construction and his innate creativity in executing detail.