Anthony Carrino (TV personality)
| Anthony Carrino | |
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| Born |
October 26, 1978 New Jersey, United States |
| Education | Babson College Business School |
| Occupation | Television presenter, reality TV show host, home makeover expert, photographer |
| Years active | 2011–present |
| Known for | Kitchen Cousins (HGTV) |
Anthony Carrino (born October 26, 1978) is an American TV personality, real estate developer, home makeover expert and photographer. He is one half of the TV duo often referred to as the kitchen cousins with his real-life cousin, John Colaneri.
Carrino grew up in New Jersey where he attended Don Bosco Preparatory High School, in 2001 he graduated from Babson College Business School with a Bachelor of Science degree. While at college, Carrino founded his own web development company, which eventually boasted a roster of over 30 Boston-based clients. Discovering his creative side while attending college, and leaning on his early teenage years working in construction - Carrino and his father Alfonso, co-founded Brunelleschi Construction in Feb of 2004 and built a successful Development, General Contracting and Design firm with a focus on restoring old, architecturally significant structures within the urban core of Jersey City and Hoboken.
Early in 2011, Carrino and his cousin John Colaneri, who also worked for Brunelleschi, were discovered by HGTV and were asked to shoot a new home makeover television series for them. The show would be titled Kitchen Cousins, with Carrino and Colaneri managing and designing new kitchens for people who appeared on the show.
Every week, the cousins would go to a different home and redevelop the kitchen in the home, once the work had been completed it would be unveiled to the owners. The show initially aired for its first season in October 2011, but soon a second season was in the pipeline.
After completing their last project together in late 2014 Carrino, his dad Alfonso and Colaneri decided to close Brunelleschi Construction to focus on their personal projects. After the first two seasons of his Kitchen Cousins show, it was expanded from working just with kitchens to remodeling entire homes and retitled Cousins on Call, with one example where they remodeled a 5,000-square-foot penthouse duplex in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. In a Huffington Post interview, it was said that the aesthetics of the building were transformed in just five days.
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