Contact: Leah Barbour
Photo by: Beth Wynn
STARKVILLE, Miss.--The winning ceiling design for a Kosciusko cabin first imagined by Mississippi State University interior design majors will be featured on the National Geographic channel's next episode of "Cabin Fever."
It will air at 9 p.m. Tuesday [March 31] on NatGeo. The reality show was launched in February.
The Attala County cabin was constructed by Minnesota-based Heim Log Homes for Chris and Susan Strohm of Gallatin, Tennessee. The couple, parents of interior design senior Anna L. Strohm, owned the property for years and planned to build a log cabin there one day.
"Then my dad saw an ad in the newspaper promoting 'Cabin Fever' on National Geographic and, kind of jokingly, my parents applied for it," Anna Strohm said. "They started doing Skype interviews, one thing led to another and (the project) turned into a cabin and an interior design contest here at Mississippi State."
She said her father contacted Beth Miller, interior design program head, to involve MSU in the show. After approvals by College of Architecture, Art and Design Dean Jim West and Provost and Executive Vice President Jerry Gilbert, the students in interior design associate professor Amy Crumpton's class competed to develop the best ceiling design for the cabin.
Anna Strohm's team won, and the group of senior interior design majors visited the cabin when the show's producers filmed the unveiling a few months ago.
The winning concept was initially developed by Blake Marlar of Corinth, the daughter of Frederick and Leslie Marlar. Other winning team members with Marlar and Strohm included Liz Grantham, the daughter of Robert and Terry Grantham of Greenwood; Vanessa L. Holden, the daughter of Robert and Vicki Holden of Biloxi; and Victoria M. Owchar, the daughter of William and Lorna Owchar of Ridgeland.
While the winning design will get the spotlight when "Cabin Fever" airs, the students said they aren't certain whether they'll be featured or not.
Images and information about the "Cabin Fever" episode featuring the MSU interior design students' work is available at http://bit.ly/MSU_ID_cabin-fever.
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