Ryane DeFalco

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Location
East Brunswick, New Jersey
School
Caldwell University
Expertise
Flooring maintenance and installation, Tile and stone categories, Kitchen and bath renovation
  • Ryane has met with multiple experts from TLC's hit show "Trading Spaces" at trade shows to speak about proper design practices including the importance of lighting and how to pick the right color paint for each room
  • She has visited several flooring manufacturing plants along The Flooring Belt in Georgia and Tennessee as she became more involved in covering home improvement topics to learn how flooring products are made and brought to market.
  • Her favorite kind of installations to research include textured art deco tiles on floor and wall surfaces.

Experience

Ryane has worked as a professional writer for over a decade. She interned on the HGTV competition series "Beach Flip," which starred Nicole Curtis and David Bromstad, giving her a unique perspective on interior design and renovation. In her role, Ryane assisted on set during final reshoots and worked with post-production editors to fully showcase each interior transformation. She served as an Editorial Intern for "Floor Covering Weekly," an interior design publication owned by Hearst Business Magazine. There, she frequently wrote about the latest advancements in the tile, stone, and countertop categories, including the identification of trending designs and finding solutions that make installation faster and more accessible. This expanded her knowledge of tools such as grout, mortar, and adhesives, and how essential they are to each renovation project. She grew to take on the role of Web Editor as well, managing social media and live reporting from industry trade shows in addition to writing stories so readers could follow along during breaking announcements about new innovations.

Education

Ryane has a bachelor's degree in communications and media studies from Caldwell University, where she also minored in English (writing).

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