Battle on the Beach: Team Taniya
For Season 4 of Battle on the Beach, Build It Forward host and designer Taniya Nayak mentored designers Samantha and Sean Kilgore from Richmond, Michigan. The duo has been together for a decade and are proud parents to a five-month-old son Leighton. The Kilgores owe all of their renovation experience to the 19th-century farmhouse they spent three years transforming into their own home. “So we’re not really flippers,” Sean noted, “but we have a lot of knowledge. I actually graduated with a bachelor’s degree in architecture and Sam, I mean — she’s a designer.” (“I have a degree in graphic design,” Sam laughed.) These underdogs counterbalanced their lack of experience with a lot of heart — and eagerness to soak up Taniya’s professional know-how.