Six Kids, Nine Houses, No Fear. Meet Sixx Design. - Stylehive

What would you do if you had six rugrats under the age of 10? Run to Mexico and never look back? Or inventively rehabilitate crumbling buildings, appoint them with a mix of modern and antique furnishings, live in them with the kiddos, then sell them for big bucks and move on to the next cave-to-castle challenge?

Bob and Cortney Novogratz chose the latter, and have built a powerhouse design business in the process. Plus they're hot, too.

Sixx Design, named after their aforementioned children, started more than a decade ago with a single condemned building in NYC's Chelsea neighborhood. "The trick is to buy something unique, and then figure it out later," Cortney told me as I toured the Novogratz family's current homestead - and design tour de force - in NYC's Nolita. She was talking about a stone fountain she and Bob found in pieces in Nice, France and reassembled in their rear courtyard, but she could easily have been talking about the nine-and-counting quirky building sites she and her husband have turned from shells and derelict dwellings into showpieces.

I sat down with the couple to chat about their life, their tastes, their kids, their plans - and how they seem to keep it all going so effortlessly. Here, in the first of five StylehiveTV features we'll be running this week, the couple explains their "Vintage Nouveauxx" design ethic, and we show you examples of the look from several of their projects.

It's Sixx Design Week! Click back every day this week for more videos, amazing slideshows, and interviews with Bob and Cortney.