About Forbes Home

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Our Mission Our Experts Forbes Home Advisory Board Editorial Policies What Do Our Icons Mean? Our Business Our Team Contact Us

Our Mission

Create A Home You Love

Forbes Home is dedicated to helping you turn all your home aspirations into reality. We do this by providing the knowledge, tools and blueprints to set you and your home up for success. Guiding you from the beginning stages to the final touches of each project, our expert advice serves to simplify the process of creating your ideal home so you can move forward in confidence.

This mission is not something we take lightly. We promise to provide you with clear, practical, expert advice that you can trust, so making decisions about your home feels empowering, not stressful.

Our Experts

The Forbes Home editorial team boasts a decade of experience in the home improvement and repair space. We’re passionate about helping you make the big decisions for your home and choose the services and products that are right for you.

We bring rich industry knowledge to Forbes Home’s coverage of home renovation and repair topics. Our priority is ensuring the coverage, reviews and advice we bring you is backed by research, deep expertise and strict methodologies.

Forbes Home Advisory Board

Forbes Home content that features costs and average prices for projects, as well as any how-to’s and other expert advice, is supported by our Forbes Home Advisory Board. This panel of licensed general contractors and plumbers helps to review articles and advises on content at various stages in the editorial process, from ideation to publication. Free of any conflicts of interest, they help us ensure our articles are objective, current and accurate.

What’s more, our editorial team and contributors interview and quote researchers and a variety of other home improvement professionals to inform the Forbes Home content you read each day.

Editorial Policies

The Forbes Home editorial team is independent and objective. Our reviews and “best” rankings are created using strict, published methodologies and are driven solely by the editorial team in concert with industry professionals as needed. Content is informed by in-depth research, independent data gathering, analysis and expert insights.

What Do Our Icons Mean?

Members of our editorial team review and fact check every piece of content thoroughly, ensuring the information is accurate and supported by current primary sources. Only after content is fact checked and edited for high-quality sourcing is it published by Forbes Home, where it receives this “fact-checked” icon.

This type of content is reviewed by a subject-matter expert to ensure it is accurate and up to date, in addition to following the traditional editorial policies of editing and fact checking. Members of our professional network only review content specific to their expertise. Should they suggest improvements to content, our editorial team will edit accordingly prior to publishing, where the page then will receive the reviewer's seal of approval and the “reviewed” icon.

Our Business

Journalistic integrity is the key to our success. To support our reporting work, our business team (a group separate from our editorial team) reviews our content after it’s written and identifies potential advertising opportunities. That team then secures compensation from some of the brands identified in our content. These commissions enable us to provide expertly written, research-backed, data-rich content for free to our readers. To learn more, visit our advertising disclosure page.

Our Team

Editorial
Contributors
Home Advisory Board

Katie Doyle

VP of Content

Katie is an award-winning journalist who has led the editorial teams at Bankrate, HerMoney, Interest, Bargaineering and Bankaholic. She has covered, assigned and edited personal finance and related content at national web publications and newspapers for more than a decade.

Samantha Allen

Managing Editor, Forbes Home and Home Expert

Sami Allen is the managing editor at Forbes Home, with over seven years of experience in the home space and 10 years of editing experience.

Kristin Salaky

Deputy Editor and Home Expert

Kristin is a lead editor at Forbes Home and has nearly a decade of professional experience as a writer and editor. She's previously worked at sites like Talking Points Memo, Insider, Delish, Angi and HomeAdvisor. She has a passion for lifestyle topics and has extensive experience researching and reporting on topics that will help make your house a home.

Ashlyn Brooks

Home Improvement, Moving, Warranty and Security Expert

Ashlyn is one of Forbes Home's in-house writers and a former civil engineer-turned content writer with over six years experience. Until recently, Ashlyn focused on creating content for Forbes Home as a freelance writer. Her areas of expertise range from home improvement, moving services, home warranties and home security. As a homeowner and tireless DIY enthusiast, Ashlyn combines her deep knowledge and practical expertise to provide valuable insights and advice. Her dedication to enhancing homeowners' understanding and skills in managing their properties has been the cornerstone of her writing career.

Allie Ogletree

Home and Solar Expert

With eight years of experience writing about home improvement and four years of experience writing solar, Allie knows the ins and outs of all things home. She has written for several major online websites, including Angi, HomeAdvisor, SaveOnEnergy, Hearst Bay Area and more.

Amanda Mushro

Home Improvement and Design Expert

Amanda is a home improvement and lifestyle writer with over 10 years of experience. In addition to her writing, you can find Amanda hosting national and local TV segments across the county. Her work has been featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Fox and Friends, CNN, Time, Highlights for Children and TLC.

Ana Durrani

Home Expert

Ana has 20+ years of experience covering home improvement and business topics for U.S. and international media. She’s been published in U.S. News & World Report, The American Scholar Magazine, California Lawyer Magazine, Plaintiff Magazine, Military Officer Magazine, Hotels Magazine, PracticeLink Magazine, EB-5 Investors Magazine and more. Internationally, she’s been published in Egypt’s Al-Ahram Weekly, Lebanon’s The Daily Star, Iran’s Tehran Times, Sri Lanka’s Serendib in-flight magazine, France's Arabies Trends Magazine, Bahrain’s Woman This Month magazine and more.

Ashlyn Brooks

Home Improvement, Moving, Warranty and Security Expert

Bailey Benningfield

Bailey is a lifestyle writer from Los Angeles, California. She has a passion for home decor, her cats, and simply hanging out with friends. When she's not writing for Forbes Advisor, Bailey is scrolling through Facebook Marketplace while eating a microwave dinner.

Matt Graber

Local and Long Distance Moving, Packing, Home Staging, Furniture Handling, Sustainable Moving, Reusable Moving Supplies

With 15 years of experience in the moving industry in one of the world's most challenging markets, Matt Graber is an expert on moving services.

Noelle Goins

All general pests, rodents, wood-destroying organisms and specialty pests

Noelle Goins works alongside her husband, Rian Goins, focusing on general pests and wood-destroying organisms. She is a member of Women In Pest Contro

Derek Walczak

Design-build, Architecture, Construction, Carpentry, Home Renovation

Derek Walczak is a licensed general contractor located in Ipswich, MA.

Remi Akinwonmi

Photovoltaic and Solar Electricity, Solar Panels and Energy

Remi, a dedicated advocate for clean energy, specializes in finding innovative ways to help everyone embrace solar and reduce their carbon footprint.

Dawn M. Smith

Moving, Relocation, Car Shipping, Real Estate, Home Improvement

Thanks to military life, Dawn knows all too well the ups and downs of creating a new home after each move.