conversation that's happening there around how you know how do we make sure that we're doing

the right thing because trends are one thing but we you always have to be able to translate design

and style into actionable usable things and we can't go too far off.

Welcome to the special edition of the Fine Home Building podcast sponsored by Pella.

The Fine Home Building Podcast is a regular discussion of building or modeling and design topics

aimed at anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science of working on houses.

This is senior editor Patrick McComb. Today I'm joined by producer Jeff Rose, Jen Tutkin, and Nicole Willett of Pella Windows and Doors.

Please email us your questions to FHB podcast at taunton.com.

You can find previous podcasts and check out the show notes at find homebuilding.com slash podcast. Wow, it is a pleasure to have you on the show.

Thanks very much for being on. I'm going to ask you both. Yeah, sure. I'm going to ask you both what

you do at Pella first,

and then we can talk about how many windows and doors Pella makes in a year, because honestly,

I am very interested to learn. Nicole, do you want to go first? What do you do there at Pella?

Absolutely. So my name is Nicole Willits, and I am the product manager for our entry to our hardware categories.

I also co-lead our trends team.

I've been with Pella for about going on four years now.

I've been with the trends team and the product group this whole time and I do come with

the background in commercial interiors as well as design.

What does trends team do? What does the trends team do? Oh, that's that's a needy question to throw like right at the beginning of the

topic. I mean, our trends team is many things and I'm sure we can go into the depth of how we

how we get to what we do, but we are basically a cross-functional group that takes an interest in all kinds of different topics

from the highest, you know, humanity-level topics to what is a pretty finish on cell phones these days.

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