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The art of living couldn’t be in better hands: Katie Brown is in the house, and she's here to help.

Forget the "domestic diva" business. What you’ve got in Katie is a friend, a "home style expert" who simply helps you do you better. Imagine this stylish, very cool wife and mom with a great smile who lives next door and seems to have the right answer to your every question – a sensible, user-friendly answer that solves your problem neatly, imaginatively and economically. All with the disarming ease of someone who really has been there and done that.

Everyday life at home is a joyous adventure for Katie, whether she's planning and cooking a dinner party, working in her garden, redecorating a room on a typical budget, or meeting the day-in, day-out needs of a young family. Her appealing and imaginative approach to the home arts has been a breath of fresh air for a new generation of homemakers, and starting this Spring viewers have access to the third season of Katie's TV series, KATIE BROWN WORKSHOP, on public television.

People Magazine has hailed Katie as "TV's meat-and-potatoes Martha Stewart," and USA Today calls her "the doyenne of domesticity for Generation X." Design, cooking, gardening, entertaining, managing a household, raising a family: Katie does it all, like nobody else. Her meteoric rise has included successful shows for the Lifetime, A&E, and Style networks, regular appearances on Oprah, Good Morning America, and Live with Regis and Kelly, and four books – Katie Brown Entertains, Katie Brown Decorates, Katie Brown's Weekends, Katie Brown's Outdoor Entertaining, and Katie Brown Celebrates on the way from Little, Brown Press. The New York Times syndicates her weekly home arts column, reaching millions of readers across the country. To top it off, Katie’s new outdoor product line was recently released from The Companion Group. In less than a decade, she has become one of America’s most beloved authorities on the home arts.

Katie knows of which she speaks. She comes from America's heartland, born in Petoskey, Michigan, the second of Paul and Meg Brown's four children. In her loving, close-knit and sprawling family – 32 cousins, 14 aunts and uncles – domestic life demanded a practical, economical and no-nonsense set of skills, and she learned them well. But traditional values and an enduring joy in day-to-day life also shaped Katie’s upbringing, and they continue to inspire her.

Armed with a degree in art history from Cornell University, Katie moved to New York to study acting, then to Los Angeles to seek a career. Through it all, the home she made for herself was the center of her life. Between guest shots on network TV and in commercials, she put her skills to work, producing luncheons and dinner parties for her friends. So successful was this side endeavor that it transformed her career: in 1994, she left acting and opened a one-of-a-kind restaurant and store in Los Angeles called GOAT. Its success was immediate and so complete that TV came calling again, this time in the form of lifestyle programming inspired by her charismatic triumph with GOAT. In less than a decade, she has become one of America’s most beloved authorities on the home arts.

Katie Brown makes it fun and friendly. The art of living is not a faraway fantasy: you don’t have to have an uptown decorating budget, a state-of-the-art kitchen, or a half-acre for a garden. In Katie Brown’s world, the art of the home is in the heart of the home.