Creativity Has an Address.

Astrology divides a birth chart into twelve houses, each governing a different part of life. Money, relationships, career. The fifth is the house of creativity: art, play, self-expression, everything made rather than inherited.

I’ve been called a wizard more than once, and told what I do feels like magic. When it came time to name the studio, I leaned in. Not as a gimmick, but because intuition has always been half of how I work.

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Kashia Spalding

Creative Director & Founder

Hi, I’m Kashia (pronounced kaye-shah). When you hire FifthHouse, you work with the senior creative leading your project. I’m your day-to-day contact and the person responsible for the work from brief to delivery.

I spent over a decade inside companies like HCA Healthcare, Amedisys, and Ticketmaster, doing work that carried stakeholder scrutiny, legal review, HIPAA compliance, and budget consequences if it missed. That’s where I learned what it takes to produce good creative, and how fast it gets compromised when no creative is in the room early enough.

That’s what I built FifthHouse to fix.

My Mexican-Filipino heritage and the years I spent living in Japan and Mexico shaped how I see the world. What communicates clearly to one audience can miss another completely. In practice that means the work doesn’t get designed for one demographic when the audience is another.

People who know me will tell you I’m shorter than you’d expect. Five foot two, decisive, and refreshingly candid. Honestly, I’m just an art kid from the west coast with a deep love for color, spicy food, and live comedy. The team keeps showing up, so I guess that works.

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She asks good questions, listens, and makes the work feel collaborative throughout. Kashia did an excellent job synthesizing our background materials and her own research into creative work that was as smart as it was beautiful. I’d work with her again.

Gaye Geiger HumphreyExecutive Director, Hawaiʻi Arts Alliance

The Studio

FifthHouse is a studio. Not a solo operator, and not a traditional agency.

We lead every project directly, from strategy through final delivery. When a project needs development or additional design, Bernard and Cody are the first calls. When it needs copywriting, photography, video, or animation, we pull from a vetted network of specialists.

One point of contact, all the way through. No managing multiple vendors. No handoffs to people you’ve never met. No surprises on quality. Just the right people in the right seats when the work requires it.

Not creativity for its own sake. Creativity that solves a problem and looks good doing it. Good creative isn’t a nice to have, it’s a business advantage, and FifthHouse exists to put it within reach of companies ready to take their brand seriously.

The People

Bernard Johnson

Development Partner

Bernard is the person you want in the room when the conversation gets technical and everyone else starts nodding along hoping nobody calls on them. He asks the questions worth asking, says the thing that needs saying, and will sit with your most unhinged idea long enough to work out whether it has legs. He is also responsible for at least one of Kashia’s tattoos. A tattoo pop-up at a meadery. No regrets.

He is a full-stack web developer and digital strategist with more than a decade building fast, accessible, scalable platforms across healthcare, media, technology, and government. His toolkit runs from WordPress and Drupal to modern DevOps workflows that keep projects stable.

At FifthHouse, Bernard handles the build so the design does not get lost in translation. His background spans environments where getting it wrong was not an option, and he brings a calm to complex builds that makes the whole thing feel less like a gamble. Good judgment, fast trust, zero drama.

Cody Everett

Design and Production Partner

Cody is the one who catches the thing everyone else walked right past. He does it without making a big deal about it, which is honestly the most impressive part.

He is a creative designer and production specialist who builds visual systems for brands and digital platforms. His background spans healthcare and agency work, and he handles execution across brand identity systems, presentation materials, digital templates, and component libraries, in print and digital.

At FifthHouse, Cody is the first call when a project needs additional design support. He handles execution, he knows the standards, and he does not need hand-holding to get there. Every asset that leaves FifthHouse is production-ready before it reaches the client, largely because of how thorough he is. If it slipped past everyone else, Cody already caught it. Probably twice.

When he is not designing, he is gaming. Board games, video games, RPGs. The man has two closets dedicated to the hobby, and he takes play exactly as seriously as he takes work.

What We Value

Intuition and Intellect

The best work uses both. Part strategy, part instinct, with a dash of magic. None of it optional.

Design as Language

Every visual decision communicates something. We make sure it is saying the right thing.

Find What Lasts

Trends are easy to chase and expensive to maintain. We build work that performs past the moment it launches.

Culture Informs Craft

A global perspective shapes how we see. It adds dimension, nuance, and originality to everything we make.

How Engagements Work

Two models. Project-based work for a defined scope such as brand identity, web design, or campaign creative, and a monthly retainer for organizations that need ongoing creative without an in-house team. Senior-led and QA-controlled either way.

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Common Questions

Who Is Kashia Spalding?

Kashia Spalding is the Creative Director and Founder of FifthHouse, a creative studio in Nashville, Tennessee. She spent over a decade as an in-house designer at companies like HCA Healthcare, Ticketmaster, and Amedisys before starting the studio, on work that carried stakeholder scrutiny, legal review, and HIPAA compliance. She leads every FifthHouse engagement and is the client's day-to-day contact from brief to delivery.

What Does FifthHouse Specialize In?

Brand identity, website design and development, graphic design, illustration and custom lettering, event branding, and motion and video. Most projects use two or three of those together. FifthHouse also runs monthly retainers for teams that need consistent creative without a full-time hire.

Where Is FifthHouse Based?

Nashville, Tennessee. We are remote-first and work with clients anywhere in the United States and beyond. 🛸

Can I Hire FifthHouse for a Single Project?

Yes. Most clients start with a defined project such as a brand identity or a website. A monthly retainer is available for teams that need ongoing creative, and some move to one after their first project.

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