Guest Post: Meet the Designers Behind Junk Gypsies
We’d like to welcome sisters and designers Amie and Jolie Sikes – better known to their legions of fans as The Junk Gypsies. Amie and Jolie’s new show will premiere on HGTV on Sunday, November 27, but this Friday night, HGTV fans can get an exclusive sneak peek with an online video premiere of Junk Gypsies over on our HGTV Facebook page.
In advance of Friday’s Facebook premiere, we asked Jolie to join us at Design Happens for a guest post and to share a little bit about what makes the Junk Gypsy design aesthetic so special.
The Design Happens Team
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Hi y’all. My name is Jolie Sikes-Smith, and together with my big sister Amie Sikes we are the women behind The Junk Gypsy Company, a Texas-based interior design studio and retail gallery.
Over the years, Amie and I have developed a design style that’s eclectic, yet also recognizable. We tend to work with a palette of vibrant colors, and we pull together the chic with the shabby, and the down-home with the upscale in a way that our clients tell us is both liveable and inspiring.
Me and Amie
We come by the word “junk” honestly because where many other designers see throwaway items, we see potential. Our rooms combine chippy-peely flea market furniture with elegant chandeliers, and you will also find some hippie Texas flair thrown in for good measure. The Junk Gypsy look is southern fried cowgirl pride (after all, we really are native Texans!) combined with a dash of Moulin Rouge eccentricity, and we always seek to create spaces that really reflect the people who live there.
Over the 12 years that Amie and I have been creating and refining Junk Gypsy style together, we’ve been lucky enough to work with some amazing clients, including country artists Dierks Bentley and Miranda Lambert.
Here are some shots of the design we created for Miranda’s Airstream trailer. She loves it and so do we!
We were also so honored when Miranda asked us to create the look for her recent wedding to Blake Shelton.
We are also so honored to now be part of the HGTV family. As longtime HGTV fans ourselves, both Amie and I are very excited to offer y’all a sneak peak of our new show over on the HGTV Facebook page. We hope you will join us this Friday night for some Junk-Gypsy style inspiration!
~Yee Haw~ We are so proud of our hometown gypsies!! xoxoxo Amie & Jolie & Janie and family
Wow, how super fun! I've followed them online, can't wait to see them on HGTV!! Go vintage!
Hollie=)
I am soooooo excited for you and can't wait for the show! Love your work!
I can't wait to see the show. These are such talented ladies and I am so proud of their success.
Janice Teinert
YEe. hAW! The Junk Gypsy's work is truely, remarkably one-of-a-kind. And, oh so my favorite. We can't wait to welcome them out of the depths of blogosphere. It is FInE TiME the world gets to experience their style. I have been following them for so long! Fun times are ahead. I can't wait! Kudos, girls! Congratulations, HGTV. This is excitin'!
HGTV is so lucky to have the gypsies, it'll raise ratings and give a real meaning to women who are "junkers", no short skirts and a helper who does everything!! These gals are for real! I can't wait to see the preview!!!
Pretty excited to see them in action too. Always like building/desiging "junker kitchens" with randomness. More @ Kitchen Design
I cannot wait. Am so happy to see real junk lovin' designers who have lived the lifestyle on TV to showcase there is something beyond decorating in neutral tones and decluttered spaces.
I am so excited to see some southern ,rustic designers on HGTV.I am from Texas,and by the way it is the largest state with alot of people,I am glad to see our style represented.I use to watch HGTV all the time,but I quit because it is so far from real.I will be watching Junk Gypsies !
Something our country needs now. Down home, loving family, re-valuing cherished possessions, taking haute to an all new direction. Love it – love it – love it! I'll be watching for the next episode.
I love love love Junk Gypsies and I am sick sick sick that I missed the episode this past Sunday!!! I've tried to find the Full Episode on the web and I can't find it. Anyway know if it's possible? CONGRATS JUNK GYPSIES!!!!
I just watched this show over the weekend on HDTV and I loved it!!
I really enjoy many HGTV programs. The new show Love it or list it is a great concept but the ridiculous degree of drama and negativity is too much. A real shame.
I TAPED THE LAST SHOW WITH STEVEN AND MISSED WHAT THEIR DECISION WAS. HE WAS A REAL PAIN.
Awesome finally something I can relate to on HGTV …my style exactly , Texas born & raised it not easy to find this style.. Best of Luck with your show.!
Loved, loved, LOVED! Imagination and fantasy, family, friends and fun, doesn't get much better than that. So looking forward to more shows. I DVR'd the only one (so far) shown on HGTV and can tell you will not be deleting it! Loved the funky ceiling light, the armoire, that comfy red velvet chair, everything. And when they visited Texas Trash? Oh, my! Heaven! Love the way they create beautiful surroundings that invite family and friends to come on in and get comfy, creating a lovely home that welcomes you and you feel comfortable in, wow, gotta love that. A coffee table (branded, no less) that you can put your feet up on? Well, I could go on and on. I'm off to paint, distress and maybe take some shots at a couple of tin buckets, better warn the neighbors first. Keep up the great work ladies, you rock AND inspire!
does anyone know what happen to the SECOND issue of HGTV magazine. i am a subscriber and would LOVE another issue!
Are there going to be more with the "Junk Gypsies"? I loved their ideas and energy! So different from anythhing else on TV. Would be fun to see them do somwthing in Manhattan! Please bring more Gypsy style to TV?
Finally, a show that I'll watch every time. This is my style. Thanks HGTV.
cant wait to see more…..love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thrilled to pieces to have this show to look forward to!!! It is the first show EVER that I have programed to record every show. Something in me woke up when I saw the first show, it feels so good to have that *spark* again.
Thank you HGTV.