Vern Yip is an interior designer, television star host, and interior home product designer for his firm Vern Yip Home. He owns a private interior design firm, Vern Yip Designs, in Atlanta.

He has reconfigured countless homes during four season's on TLC's "Trading Spaces," NBC's "Home Intervention," his own HGTV shows "Deserving Design with Vern Yip" and HGTV's "Urban Oasis," and through his private firm, Vern Yip Designs in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been a beloved judge on eight seasons of HGTV "Design Star" as well on his own special, "Live In Vern's House."

He has a regular column in HGTV magazine and manages his own brand, Vern Yip Home, available at select retailers. He's also appeared on the reboot of TLC's "Trading Spaces." He is a Washington Post columnist.

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