KCB Boiler Room Podcast

Architect David Supple, founder and CEO of New England Design & Construction, is working on a book about how architects are trained, and we had him on to say more about this. “The issue with the traditional ‘design-bid-build’ model is that architects aren’t trained on how to build or what things cost,” David explains in his conversation with Kevin and Corey. Historically, “architects came from...

Rhode Island native and architect David Andreozzi of Andreozzi Architecture didn’t even return to collect his clothes—he had them mailed to him—after an hour-long conversation with the Dean of the Division of Architecture & Design at RISD during a Christmas break back home. He sought out this conversation after realizing his penchant for design. This is a great example story explaining David’s...

Architect Chandon Georgian, Principal and Founder of 111Works, is ambitious. With a little money saved up and a couch to surf on, she moved from California to Boston. Freshly graduated from UC Berkeley, she hoped that a different home address would help her land a job as an architect. Her mother also moved across country to pursue an education in interior design when Chandon was in elementary scho...

Michael Oh is an aerospace engineer who created what eventually became TSP Smart Home Integration when he was still living on campus at MIT. He was also our first podcast guest! This past May Michael presented at the Luxury Home Design Summit, striking a chord with the audience, as it was among the most popular presentations of the three-day affair. Titled, “Designing for the Longevity Economy: Th...

Architect Jim Cappuccino, partner at Hutker Architects, gave a lecture titled, “A Career Shaped by Place,” as part of the Cummings Schools of Architecture Events Series at his alma mater, Roger Williams University. We invited him into the Boiler Room to talk about this lecture. Jim discovered the inevitability of his career trajectory, while putting together that presentation. What became apparent...

Interior Designer Laura Keeler Pierce (pronounced “purse”) lived in fourteen different houses before she graduated high school. Each move had an impact on what music was available to her—a move to Connecticut marked her introduction to the radio station Z100 and living in Montreal led to her discovery of her favorite band, Stars. A hyperfixation on her surroundings was also a “leveling up” she exp...

The launch of a new line of custom furniture is what prompted a visit to the Boiler Room for interior designer Christine Tuttle. But Christine has had an entire career in the art world long before interior design. From running a gallery on Nantucket at the age of 21 to a different type of launch, the famed Four Corners Gallery in Tiverton, Rhode Island, to art appraising, Christine’s origin story...

On June 11th, we hosted a panel discussion titled, “Giving Back,” where we invited leaders in Boston’s build-design community to share their stunning stories on what they are doing to make the world a better place. It was so inspirational that we wanted to make it available for streaming. Julie Arcari, of Landry & Arcari Rugs and Carpeting, Patty Watson, of Taste Design Inc. in Middletown, RI,...

“Big box design” bothers Cecilia Casagrande and was at the top of her mind when she sat down with us in the Boiler Room to let us get to know her better. Hotels in London and holidays in the English countryside, backpacking in Europe and Africa, growing up on Long Island and Brooklyn and that one time she partied with Depeche Mode—Cecilia has had a wild, storied life. She’s a sorta fearless, ambit...

Designer Cory Gans approached us back in 2025 with an idea for a panel discussion that involved a focus on the service industry. It was an amazing night of discussion. We recently had him back into the Boiler but this time to talk about himself! Quickly, we learned that Cory’s father was very much like Kevin, a furniture maker, carpenter, and general contractor with a family of kids—and this is th...

We’ve been lucky to work with Manny Makkas of Makkas Workroom on numerous projects. He’s a supporter of and familiar face at our Boiler Room events, as well. We were excited to have Manny in to hear more of his origin story and got a full-on odyssey. His story is THE Greek American immigration story. Incredible lows, highs, love, music, and a very strong family and community that explains so much...

Last year we were lucky to have Steve Payne of Payne|Buchier Builders on a panel discussion titled “Preservation Vs. Performance,” and we wanted to bring him back to the Boiler Room to revisit two moments—which we played recordings of on the boombox.  We also wanted to hear his origin story–which is amazing! In his youth, Steve hitchhiked across the country doing all sorts of jobs in pursuit of ac...

Editor in Chief of New England Home magazine, Jenna Talbott, stopped by the Boiler Room for a conversation and to sign our copies of It’s Lonely in the Modern World: The Essential Guide to Form, Function and Ennui , a book she co-authored with writer Molly Jane Quinn. Published in 2011, their book expanded on their now infamous Tumblr, Unhappy Hipsters, that struck such a nerve that within hours o...

Over the years photographer Greg Premru has shot many of our finished projects. Having him in the Boiler Room for a conversation allowed us to get to know not just Greg’s origin story as a photographer but the story of architectural photoshoots during the time of film, where it could easily take over thirty minutes of prep work to line up one shot. Being a quick adapter to digital cameras, Greg no...

We’ve known Trevor Fulmer before he launched his rug line, but we got to know him better at his launch event in 2024. It felt like a family reunion, meeting his parents and entourage of relatives who were all so proud of him.  Two years later, we finally were able to get Trevor into the Boiler Room to ask him about his origins in interior design and his boombox story—it’s an amazing one that  invo...

One of Boston’s most outspoken advocates for the region’s historic buildings, Matthew Dickey has been a familiar face for years. His Instagram, @streetscapecurator, is a testament to storytelling-as-a-public service done right. And it’s so much fun. His visit to the Boiler Room for a longer conversation led to Matthew’s own story of his upbringing just off of Route 66 near St. Louis and how the “A...

After attending the November 2025 B/A/D Talk, we were curious about its origin story. So we invited Paul Reidt (President) and Karla Monkevich (CEO) of Kochman Reidt + Haigh Cabinetmakers to join us in the Boiler Room to tell us more about this long-form discussion series, including the power of drawing, storytelling, travel, bliss—there was so much! B/A/D Talks (Building, Architecture and Design)...

Iris Marcus, expert finisher and leader in the industry, stopped by the Boiler Room to talk shop and music. We’ve been fortunate to have worked with Iris over the years on numerous projects, with most recently, a preservation job salvaging painted treads original to a Beacon Hill brownstone, what we call the FLATS. The clients wanted stained wood matching their floors. We brought Iris in for woodg...

Clients Sarah and Josh Muncey were once new clients, starting ten years ago and since then have been ongoing clients as part of our estate care. Their home is featured on our website as the PARAGON.  Sarah and Josh shared what it’s like being a KCB client, stretching all the way from before they bought the house, to the long middle of a complete renovation of an amazing historic home, to the sweet...

Julie Murphy, expert seamstress and owner of Designer Draperies of Boston, sat on a panel with Kevin last May at the Luxury Home Design Summit titled, “Unfiltered Insights: What Works (and What Doesn’t) in B2B Outreach for High-End Design,” along with Taste Design’s Patti Watson and Dustin Hayes as moderator. We had Julie into the Boiler Room to revisit the panel and to hear her origin story that...

In our second installment of “AKA” or “Ask Kevin Anything,” Kevin fields three questions sent in by you!  For this episode, Kevin talks about how social media posts have had an impact on what is considered “quality” work in carpentry. This led to a “hot take” involving priming. Technology and AI was the subject of the next question, and this had to do with the construction schedule.  Lastly, there...

We're re-releasing an episode in which good friend and partner on numerous projects architect J. B. Clancy cited making his first mixtape as part of why he became an architect. OMD's album, "Architecture and Morality" also played an important role. Building science, beautiful design, and historic preservation also come up, as well as that moment where J.B. Clancy realized that...

We’ve started a new series, “AKA” or “Ask Kevin Anything.” And wow, did our listeners deliver! From Kevin’s most difficult issue concerning running a business and then the mantra Kevin uses during dark times to how Kevin goes about creating goals for the future, to a technical question involving external wall material, we had a nice range of subject matter for this first episode, along with many m...

While I haven’t been able to work with Interior Designer Georgia Zikas yet, she’s been a familiar face for years. At this past Luxury Home Design Summit, we bonded over a presentation involving what Summit presenter Seth Cohen calls “Applied Positivity.” Georgia approached us with coming on the pod to discuss this in more detail, especially with how Cohen employs “hope” as a design construct. We a...

On October 29th, we hosted the New England Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art in a Boiler Room panel discussion titled, “Preservation vs. Performance: Renovation in the Modern Era.”  Builders Stephen Payne of Payne | Bouchier and Nick Schiffer of NS Builders, along with Kevin as moderator, took part in a conversation that was so timely, with just the right amount of techn...