Meet Grace and Corbett Lunsford
Corbett Lunsford is an Atlanta-based home performance guru, blower door expert, former BPI superproctor and RESNET Quality Assurance Designee, the author of the book Home Performance Diagnostics, and an advocate for homeowners and contractors everywhere.
Meet Grace and Corbett Lunsford, co-creators and hosts of the TV series Home Diagnosis
Hi. I'm Corbett Lunsford, and sometimes I'm an idiot. I wasn't always a home performance expert- I used to play piano for ballerinas. For a living. So in 2008, I started this career with Grace and we learned a few things very quickly: construction is unbelievably messy, most pros are over-rushed and under-paid, and homeowners end up suffering in small ways, for their entire lives in a house. None of this has to be so- we can opt out of the whole thing with performance testing.
OUR GOAL: to package building performance so it can easily be understood and used by professionals and consumers alike, for better buildings worldwide. We need to quit kidding ourselves that homeowners are aiming for efficiency or sustainability, and start aiming at what all homeowners aim for: living in a better home, and getting a better life.
In 2009, I started teaching pros through my Building Performance Workshop (where each student happily admits to being an idiot at the beginning of every class), and I've hosted over 500 YouTube videos and 80 interviews for the Building Performance Podcast. Without anybody to tell me I couldn't, I wrote the book Home Performance Diagnostics: the Guide to Advanced Testing, and developed the APT Reports software tool.
In 2016 Grace and I designed and built the world's highest performance tiny house on wheels, the #TinyLab, and toured the US before settling down in Atlanta, Georgia. Along the way, we created the first TV series about home performance, Home Diagnosis, which airs on public TV across the U.S.
Enough about me. I want to talk about you. Let's help you figure out what your building needs, and how exactly to measure it, so we know it works the way you want it to.
~Corbett
PS- In my former career, I was a recording artist and improvising musician; I've released 7 albums and one feature film soundtrack under the name Mysteriam.
Grace Lunsford is the powerhouse behind BPW’s videos and the Home Diagnosis TV series. She started the 'Home Performance' YouTube channel, and has produced over 500 videos to date, gaining 4 million views and 23k subscribers. Grace is the creator, co-host, and Executive Producer of 'Home Diagnosis', the first-ever TV series about measured home performance, which has aired on over 60% of the PBS stations across the U.S. Her short films and feature film, The Other One, have won awards at film festivals, and as a Hewlett-Packard sponsored artist, she presented workshops on her work methods at both Sundance and Cannes.
She founded the media firm Sterling Rock Productions because the media she wanted to see was not being made. She has served on the Boards of Directors of the Screen Actors Guild Midwest and the Illinois Production Alliance (which lobbies for tax incentives in the film industry), where she spearheaded an initiative to bring the production of major motion pictures and television shows to Chicago. She also founded the 501c3 Chicago Acting in Film Meetup, a professional support group of over 150 screen actors.
Grace's career in film and television and voiceover continues in Atlanta, GA, where she's represented by Stewart Talent.