Amy Devers Biography
Amy Devers is a furniture designer, carpenter, television personality, and design blogger from the United States. She is currently the host and design expert on A&E’s Fix This Yard (along with Alan Luxmore), the host of Victory Garden’s edibleFEAST on PBS, and a design and carpentry expert on OWN’s Home Made Simple.
Amy Devers Age
Amy was born on July 2, 1971, in Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States of America. She is 52 years old as of July 2023.
Amy Devers Education
She earned a two-year degree in fashion buying and merchandising from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York before deciding to pursue furniture design. She earned a BA in furniture design from San Diego State University in 1997. Following a stint as a machine shop foreman, Devers enrolled in graduate school at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she earned her MFA in furniture design in 2001.
Amy Devers Husband
Devers is happily married to her husband, Kristian Dunn.
Amy Devers Career
Devers debuted on television in 2003 as a home-improvement expert on the DIY Network show DIY to the Rescue, which she co-hosted with Karl Champley. The series aired for nine seasons and featured Grand Ole Opry specials as well as a post-hurricane Katrina rebuild special in collaboration with Dr. Phil. She hosted the DIY series Freeform Furniture, which featured Devers demonstrating how to build her original modern furniture designs using a variety of materials and techniques. She hosted DIY’s interactive series Blog Cabin in 2007. She debuted as a carpenter on TLC’s Trading Spaces in 2008. Designer People returned for a second season on Ovation in 2009, with Devers as the new host.
Fix This Yard, a landscape makeover series hosted by Alan Luxmore and Devers, premiered on A&E in 2010. She appears frequently as a design and carpentry expert on OWN’s Home Made Simple. Devers hosts Victory Garden’s edibleFEAST, a documentary series on PBS that focuses on local and sustainable food stories. Devers co-hosts the Clever podcast with Design Milk’s Jamie Derringer, in which they interview designers and artists about their lives and work. As part of WantedDesign Manhattan 2019, Clever hosted a live podcast and conversation series. Amy Devers Art/Design is a design and construction studio based in Los Angeles. She assisted Tanya Aguiiga in Natalie Chanin’s chair restoration project.
Devers, as an author, has written advice columns for ReadyMade Magazine and Modern Ink Magazine. She is the co-author of DIY to the Rescue 50 Home Improvement Projects, which was published in 2006 by Lark Books. This book is a collection of projects from the popular DIY TV show, complete with step-by-step instructions and photos. Devers teaches in the Rhode Island School of Design’s Furniture Design department.
Amy Devers Net Worth
Amy has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.