Twice a year, the design world descends on a small North Carolina city that quietly shapes how American homes will look for the next decade. The High Point Market is where new collections debut, color palettes shift, and the next generation of fabrics, finishes, and silhouettes get their first public look. Every year, our team is there walking the showrooms and thinking about how each idea translates into the homes we design and furnish.

In the video above, Katherine, Kelsey, and Tiffany walk you through the 2026 High Point Market and share what stood out most. Below, we'll introduce the team behind the trip and explain how their perspective shapes the work they do with our clients.

Meet the Team

Katherine is our Design Manager at Homes by Dickerson. She works directly with clients from the earliest stages of designing a custom home, helping translate how a family lives into the architecture, finishes, and details that will define their home for years to come.

Kelsey and Tiffany lead HBD Interiors, our sister company focused on furnishing homes. HBD Interiors works with any homeowner, not just clients building with Homes by Dickerson. From a single room refresh to a whole-home furniture plan, they help clients visualize spaces, source pieces, and purchase furniture that fits their style and how they actually live.

Sending all three to the High Point Market means clients get the benefit of one cohesive design perspective whether they're building with us, furnishing with us, or both.

Why the High Point Market Matters

By the time a style hits mainstream awareness, our designers have often been working it into client homes for six to twelve months already. That head start matters for a custom home that needs to feel current the day you move in and still feel relevant ten years later. It matters just as much when Kelsey and Tiffany are helping a client choose furniture that will live with them for the next decade.

Walking the showrooms in person is also different from scrolling photos online. Our team can study how pieces are styled together, see how colors read in different lighting, and feel the difference between a fabric that looks great in an image and one that will actually hold up in a family home. Those small distinctions are hard to learn any other way.

What Our Team Brings Home

The real value of the High Point Market isn't a shopping list. It's a point of view. Our designers don't walk the showrooms looking for things to copy. They're studying how pieces work together, which color stories are gaining momentum, and which "trends" are actually long-arc shifts in how people want to live.

A few themes ran through nearly every showroom this year. Smoky and milky glass lighting is replacing the clear glass pendants of the last decade. Layered patterns and textures are back in a big way. Designers are confidently mixing antiques with new pieces. Warm umber and earth-tone color drenching is everywhere. Furniture silhouettes are getting softer, with more curves and arches. And natural stone is moving beyond the kitchen into desks, side tables, and coffee tables.

You'll hear Katherine, Kelsey, and Tiffany talk through each of these in the video, and we'll dig into them in more detail in upcoming posts.

How This Translates to Your Home

For clients building with Homes by Dickerson, Katherine brings this perspective into the earliest design conversations. What our team sees at the High Point Market often affects how we draw a home in the first place: the lighting plan for your great room, the millwork around your fireplace, the built-ins flanking your study, the ceiling treatments in your primary suite.

For clients working with HBD Interiors, Kelsey and Tiffany use what they saw to guide furniture selections in homes. Whether you're furnishing a brand-new build or refreshing a home you've lived in for years, their goal is the same: a space that feels collected, personal, and built to last.

This is one of the meaningful differences in working with a team that thinks holistically. Architecture, finishes, and furnishings are all part of one conversation, not three separate ones.

Conclusion

The 2026 High Point Market reinforced what our team has been hearing from clients all year. People want homes that feel warm, layered, and personal. Watching Katherine, Kelsey, and Tiffany walk the showrooms together is a small window into how that perspective makes it back to the families we work with every day.

Building a custom home? Talk to us about getting started. Furnishing a space? Reach out to Kelsey and Tiffany at HBD Interiors to bring your rooms to life.