Meet The Team
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Tom Solomonson
Owner
After spending the first 30 years of his working life in the corporate world, Tom looked for another career that would keep him off the road & closer to his home & community. In 2007 Tom Solomonson purchased R/S Carpet Wholesalers, he renamed the business TS Carpet Wholesalers. The company was flooring only until one day a client asked him to take a look at remodeling his bathroom, with this TS Home Design Center was born. Since then, TS Home Design Center has remodeled and renovated many bathrooms, kitchens, and has also completed full home guts. In 2020 Tom purchased Rite Loom, moved locations, and expanded his team. Tom is not only a licensed C-15 flooring Contractor but also has a B General Contractors license.
Tom has always been very active in the community; he has served as a board member and an Ambassador of the Yorba Linda Chamber of Commerce Network Connection. He was also a Board member of the Placentia Chamber of Commerce where he served as treasurer for 2 years. He served on the Placentia City Planning Commissioner from 2011 to 2016.
Tom will be married for 45 years this August, to his wife Susan, who taught in the PYLUSD for 30 years and is now retired. He has 2 children and 4 grandchildren. In his spare time Tom loves to golf and travel with his wife.
Courtney Solomonson
Chief Operating Officer
Courtney has always been involved in the family business. When Tom first purchased the company, she worked at the reception desk when she was home during the summers from college. After college she worked selling carpet & flooring, invoicing, and started the company’s social media campaign. Once her kids got too mobile and her attempts at chasing them around the showroom became futile, she opted to take time off to be a full-time mom.
Once both kids were in school full time, she jumped full force into the business. Today Courtney handles day-to-day operations as her father, Tom, tries to take a few steps towards retirement. She works closely with the designers to help prepare bids and is out in the field managing the crew’s day-to-day progress on each project. Courtney loves her community and currently serves as a Board Member on the Placentia Chamber of Commerce where TS Home Design Center is currently proud to be a ‘Pillar of the Community” sponsor.
Courtney’s raising her two children here in Placentia, the same City where she grew up. In fact, last year she purchased the house directly across the street from her parents, the house where she was raised. When Courtney isn’t working you can find her caravanning her kids around to different sports and activities, she even coaches her daughter’s soccer team. She also loves to golf and currently competes on Alta Vista Country Club’s Ladies Team Play.
Debbie McMurtry
Manager/Designer
Debbie or DJ as some know her, came to TS Home Design on 2017. She comes from a design background originally in the furniture world. She owned 2 furniture stores for several years and did Interior design in that realm. She came to TS home Design and is now on the remodel side of things where she thrives on helping the client achieve the space they are dreaming of. “I am most excited to see the clients vision come to life and see the joy it brings to them!” “Working at TS, a family-owned business is such a blessing! Working with our clients, they in turn become an extension of our TS family.”
When Debbie is not assisting her clients, she has 2 beautiful daughters, one in Texas and one here in California that she loves spending time with. She loves to travel and see the world; she enjoys cooking and spending time with close friends and family.
Karyn Hadley
Design Specialist
Karyn has spent 30 years working in residential and commercial design. She is a graduate from Woodbury University in Burbank with her bachelor’s degree in interior design. Karyn began her career with Lowe & Associates Interior Design and Construction and then became part owner of Rite-Loom Flooring, Design and Construction where she was able to combine her design skills with practical construction services and put the personal touches into her customer’s projects. And still continues to do so at T/S Home Design Center. Karyn helps create her customer’s wants into reality with personal touches, timeless style and innovative finishes.
Karyn has been very involved in her industry and community. She was President of the Southern California Floor Covering Association, sat on the board of the World Floor Covering Association and was a member of ASID. She has also been President of high school booster clubs for Troy High School when her daughter attended there. She is a current member and board member of the Executive’s Association of Orange County.
Kristen Bean
Designer
After sixteen years living in Portland, OR, Kristen has returned to her hometown in Orange County and joined the TS team in September. Kristen has had the fortune of working in a wide variety of design which gives her the ability to take on a wide range of design projects.
Kristen’s background consists of starting as an Assistant for a high-end designer, being a Design Director for a model home company, staging homes and finally, running her own company where her focus was home renovations. Kristen’s passion and strength is in space planning; “I love finding unused space in a home and bringing it to life”.
When Kristen is not consulting with clients, she loves to volunteer in her community; She has been on the TEDx Portland team for the past ten years and the Children’s Cancer Association volunteer team. She also loves getting out with her silver lab, Grayson on local hiking trails and enjoying home cooked dinner parties with friends and family.
Jennifer Lardizabal
Bookkeeper
She comes with 20+ years of experience and has been with Rite Loom Flooring for 13yrs and has stayed when Rite Loom was purchased by TS Home Design Center in 2020.
She handles almost everything in the business office from data entry, doing bank deposits to helping sales associates and designers in need, fixing our printers or figuring out how to use our copier.
She basically is our organizer in the office and knows where everything is at when people ask and is the person working behind the scenes making things happen in the time of need.
She has established great relationships with the vendor reps, account managers and installers thru out the years in this industry.
Jennifer is rarely out of the office but when she is, she's vacationing with her siblings. Family is everything to her.
Jennifer has two beautiful daughters and three grandkids. Has lived in California all her life.
In her spare time, you can find her riding her Harley with fellow riders doing breakfast in Santa Barbara to lunch in San Diego or at Cook's Corner listening to the bands that play there.
Loves spending time with the grandkids, who doesn't and puts in some time with her mechanic at the shop working on Harley's doing basic service and tire repairs. She's a mechanic at heart.
Jennifer has two other sisters and a brother. They all make it a point to get together about every other year or on big special occasions. Quality family time is key.
Michael Figueroa
Sales
TS Home Design Center acquired Rite-Loom Flooring Company two years ago. Rite-loom a nearly 100-year-old company, like TS Home Design does design and construction with home Remodels. Like TS Home Design they also do select commercial projects. With the companies merging they can offer a much stronger and larger workforce for better concentration for details and near perfection.
TS Home Design was able to add designers to the staff, additional construction team members and several quality salespersons. Michael Figueroa, an experienced salesman of three decades brings with him knowledge and Professionalism in both the residential and commercial flooring avenues. Although being quite adept with residential floors, he currently is focusing on the commercial side. He can assess, assist and execute the plan for new flooring options. Whether it be new construction, renovation, replacement, repair or refinish he can do it all.
He has traveled into Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernadino, San Diego and of course Orange County. Our traveling man lives with his bride of 17 years in Murrieta, CA.
George Lowe
Sales
In 2020 George decided he wanted to slow down a bit but not completely retire, this is when he sold Rite Loom to Tom Solomonson with TS Home Design Center and the two companies became one. He has been in the industry for 43 years.
George holds many certifications; he’s a General Contractor, a C15 Flooring Contractor, a C54 Fabrication Contractor, and a California Certified Interior Designer just to name a few. George is also the owner/operator of Bedrock Fabrication. He knows that many people don’t know where to start when it comes to their projects and his favorite step in the process is meeting with clients in the showroom to help them figure it out.
George loves his community and has been a proud member of the Fullerton Elks club for 46 years now. He’s been involved with the Fullerton Rotary and the Boys and Girls Club of Fullerton for 33 years.
George is happily married with 2 boys and 3 grandsons. When he’s not helping clients with their projects you can find him spending time watching his grandsons play sports or playing poker with the boys.
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