Meet the Pro: Interior Designer and Television Host Lauren Makk

Lauren Makk is an American Interior designer and TV personality who grew up in the south, fluffing other people’s pillows, painting murals on train cars under cover of darkness, and rolling with her car crew Ill-usion. As a little girl, Julia Sugarbaker on TV’s Designing Women was Lauren’s career role model and now years later, she is also a designer on TV! Being known for creating drastic home transformations on shoe-string budgets Lauren's made her mark on shows like Trading Spaces, FABLife, Home Made Simple, and currently a judge on “Design Star: Next Gen” and the host of HGTV’s “Urban Oasis”. She’s building an empire, leaving a legacy, and dreaming of giving the White House a “Makk-over.”