
Located in both Houston and Galveston, our team members are here to help you find your style and meet your furnishing needs.
Houston Team | Galveston Team | Behind The Scenes
Lynne Averett
Principal
lynne@frogathome.com
Lynne Averett is a San Francisco Bay Area native and has always been involved with the Arts. She graduated from The University of California, Davis (where she met her husband, John who is often in the stores).
Moving to Houston in 1987, she has been active at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston for twenty years.
A Senior Docent, Lynne gives weekly tours on all areas of art (Impressionism, European, Contemporary, African, Asian, and Pre-Columbian) coming from around the world including the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, the Pushkin Museum in Russia, the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Her experience, training and research in art guide her approach to home design.
Lynne travels extensively to France, Spain, Israel, Egypt, Russia, Italy, Great Britain, and Peru, sharing those experiences with customers through the stores.
Angela Wilhelm
Showroom Manager
angela@frogathome.com
From the Northeast to the Midwest out to the Pacific Northwest and finally to Texas, Angela and her family have set roots in Houston for the past seven years.
Angela brings with her, to the Frog at Home, almost 20 years of furniture accessory and window treatment experience! Most of Angela's years have been ownership of furniture stores from Pennsylvania to Washington state. And most recently, has had a very successful experience with an established Houston based window treatment facility.
"Making sure the customer has a fun, exciting and rewarding experience from the time they walk through our doors to the time they are enjoying their purchase in their home is my top priority."
Anita Hiser
Lead Sales Associate
anita@frogathome.com
Anita has been in customer service, sales and management for the last 18 years. She and her husband have raised 3 beautiful children. Anita enjoys connecting with customers and looks forward to helping with their home decor and window needs.
Linda Bertetti
Sales Associate
linda@frogathome.com
Linda was raised in San Antonio and has made Houston her home for many years. For almost a decade, she sold home accessories and giftware at the Carlton House where she helped customers select the perfect gift.
Linda is devoted to creating stylish looks in home furnishings and window treatments for her clients.
Her interests include travel, gardening and collecting antiques.
Margaret Corral ("Margie")
Sales Associate
margie@frogathome.com
Margie has specialized in window covering for over 25 years working with Hunter Douglas and other products. Margie focuses on the specification, measurement, construction, installation, and repair of window fashions. She enjoys helping clients and is absolutely committed to quality control.
Marlys Parker
Window Treatment and Drapery Designer
marlys@frogathome.com
Marlys has been a designer of window treatments , including drapery, for twenty years. She successfully styles drapery and window fashions that reflect the preferences of her many customers. She also provides design ideas including furniture, lighting, and accessories.
Her success in taking a customer from a concept to the installed reality has built her reputation, and many of her clients are referred to her by satisfied customers!
Seamus Kraham
Showroom Manager
seamus@frogathome.com
Seamus has made his career in retail management and interior design. He is passionate in his quest to provide outstanding customer service, striving to insure that each and every customer always feels at home. Relentless in his pursuit to provide clients with the very best available in furniture, window treatments, and accessories, he aspires to help each one enhance the spaces in which they live and work. He is personally committed to the idea that good design should provide a seamless transition from inside to outside. This commitment compels him to work on keeping abreast of the latest in design styles and trends for both home and garden.
Paula Pollock
Lead Sales Associate
paula@frogathome.com
Paula is originally from the east coast, and has a background in retail sales, management, and the arts. While living in Galveston for 16 years she enjoyed her own business as an artist. For the past nine years she has been in retail sales and management in the Bay area.
Paula looks forward to assisting our customers add to, recreate or start from new decorating their homes, finding just the right furniture, home decor and window treatments for their beach homes or Houston homes.
Theresa McGowen
Designer
theresa@frogathome.com
Theresa brings a broad knowledge of interior design (15+ years). Her experience ranges from modest homes to big-scale overhaul projects. She graduated from The Art Institute of Houston and is a member of the American Society of Interior Designers. In addition, she is CAPS (Certified Aging in Place Specialist).
Theresa will lead you through the entire design process with the highest level of service.
Celene Caluya
Sales Associate
celene@frogathome.com
Having done retail for over a decade, Celene is armed with extensive customer service experience. She looks forward to assisting our customers in choosing the right home furnishings and window treatments to beautify their homes.
Celene is an honor graduate of The University of New Orleans and a respected member of our Frog team.
Missy Dusenbury
Sales Associate
missy@frogathome.com
In the Clear Lake/Bay Area for over 30 years, Missy has been in marketing and sales management for 10 years. She and her husband have raised two sons. An artist, she is a graduate of the University of Houston/Clear Lake with degree in Fine Arts.
Anthony Gamboa
Warehouseman
Anthony is responsible for the care and maintenance of the of the Galveston property and
the delivery van, help with the set up and staging of both Showrooms, receiving deliveries at the Galveston Warehouse,
handling transfers of product between the Showrooms, and make deliveries to customers for both Showrooms. Anthony and his family are residents of Galveston. He has worked in the hospitality, apartment industries and the building trades.
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John Averett
Financial Manager
john@frogathome.com
Who is always behind the scenes and is the foundation of our store? My husband John Averett is our Financial Manager and Man of All Talents. John comes from a business background. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. In fact, we met at college! John grew up living all over the world as the son of an Air Force officer. He started school in London and attended high school in Frankfurt, Germany and Washington, DC. However, like me, his roots are in the San Francisco Bay area where he was born. When he is not taking care of the Frog, John likes to travel, read, and play with our pets. He is also the photographer behind many of our pictures on the web!
Terrilyn J Holmes ("TJ")
Business Manager
tj@frogathome.com
TJ comes from the window treatment industry - the last 10 years with J & L Distributors in Sugarland as Operations and Retail Manager for both commercial and retail operations including a Hunter Douglas Gallery Store - after time spent in both education and the financial industry in management and computer systems positions.
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Andy is the Idea Man and Doer behind this web site and the coming E Store for The Frog At Home. He lives with his lovely wife, Kathy, and talented daughters and son in the California wine country and has been a friend and colleague for many years!
Chris Petersen constructed and maintains our web site; if you run into any errors during your visit to our site, please let him know. He and Lynne enjoy working together to create an engaging online experience for www.frogathome.com visitors.
Eve is our commercial artist. Her talent (and that of husband Ron) is behind our signs, store tags, stationary, web---well, just about everything. She and Lynne have been friends since they were nine years old!
Whitney helps in many ways! She may be the voice answering the phone or the person placing an order for you. She is Lynne's right hand and keeps everything running smoothly. She is a great Mom and a Brownie leader for her little Girl Scout
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