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Submit a blog post!
Something exciting is happening! We're calling all IDS designers to submit their blog posts — multiple submissions accepted! From paint colors to kitchen designs to work from home solutions ... we want it all! Be a part of something really special — we promise it'll be worth it. Click below to enter.
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We're going virtual!

We guarantee this won't be your typical virtual event. With special celebrity appearances, this event is sure to be entertaining. It's all happening on Oct. 8, 2020, at 7:00 p.m. EST. Help us celebrate our Designer of the Year winners and a DECADE OF DESIGN!
Register here
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September Member Spotlight: Charlie Bolivar
When did you realize that you wanted to become an interior designer?
When I was about 17 years old, I realized that I wanted to be an interior designer. I started working at the D&D building in NYC at the age of 17 for a company named Decorators Walk. I started in their Sample Department, providing wallpaper samples and fabric samples to decorators and their design clients. I subsequently moved on to assisting designers in decorating the show room and staging furniture to create complete rooms to showcase potential designs. Eventually, I took over the responsibility for that role, and it really fueled my passion for interior design!
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IDS Member Nicole Yee featured in Homes and Gardens for Tudor Home Design
The home belongs to Danielle and Phil Hayes and their three daughters, Cecily, Meara and Remi. Danielle and Phil were drawn to the Trestle Glen neighborhood of Oakland for its strong sense of community, tree-lined streets, idyllic climate and proximity to the city.
Trestle Glen was the first master-planned housing development in the U.S., featuring small lots and tree-lined streets designed by the Olmsted brothers, sons of Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted.
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POLYWOOD announces outdoor textile collection collaboration with designer and author Shayla Copas
POLYWOOD, designer and manufacturer of American-made sustainable outdoor furnishings, announces its collaboration with designer and author Shayla Copas in the Shayla Copas Fabric Collection by POLYWOOD®. The artistry and aesthetic of this well-recognized designer will be reflected in 17 original textile designs. The collection launches this fall to specialty retailers and will be available to the design trade and online in Spring 2021.
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2018-2019 Designer of the Year: Laundry and craft rooms
By putting the entire run of length to use, a long counter now serves for laundry prep and folding, while ample storage above, below, and all around offer storage tricks to multi-tasking parents. A tall cabinet now encloses cleaning supplies, where mops, brooms and all the odds and ends now find a home. Baker Design Group knocked this laundry room out of the park!
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2018-2019 Designer of the Year: Individual Impact
Winner: Barbara Owens, Owens Interiors at Home, Texas
The Child Advocacy Center (CAC) is an agency dedicated to providing hope and healing to children of abuse. The agency collaborates with professionals in investigation, prosecution and treatment of child sexual and physical abuse. Barbara Owen's background in therapy gave her great insight into the use of color for healing and spacial and interactive therapies. Built in the 1960's, this home was donated by one of its benefactors. The remodel was to be done completely on donations and charity. The design concept was to create as pleasant an environment as possible for the children or families being brought in for investigation or therapy.
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The fundamentals of light layering
According to top residential lighting expert Randall Whitehead, "There is no single light fixture that gives you everything you need to illuminate a room properly." In the home and commercial spaces, proper light layering — ambient, task and accent lighting — helps you bring a room to life with design flexibility and functionality.
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Registration opens for Interior Design Society awards gala
Home Accents Today
Registration is now open for the Interior Design Society Designer of the Year Awards Gala. Set to be held virtually at 7 p.m. EST on Oct. 8, the gala is celebrating its 10th anniversary and is open to the public.
"We are extremely excited for this year's awards program" said Jenny Cano, IDS executive director. "The digital platform has presented many new and unique opportunities."
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Spruce up your home for video calls with these interior design tips
Prestige
With many of us working from home these days, meetings held over video conferencing apps the likes of Zoom and Microsoft Teams have become the new normal. Inevitably, this means letting colleagues into our residences — albeit virtually — and having them catch glimpses of it via our backdrop. Depending on where your workspace is located, this view could range from a boring blank wall to windows or cluttered bookshelves.
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Hilary Duff shows off an eye for design with a tour of her Beverly Hills home
DailyMail.com
She's known for her work in front of the camera but admitted a "small addiction" for transforming living spaces.
Hilary Duff walked Architectural Digest through her stunning Beverly Hills home, complete with an outdoor entertaining area and chicken coop.
The 32-year-old actress showed off her penchant for design before revealing her new creative endeavor — children's book author.
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Fall home decor trend: Cozy, with dash of color
Boston Herald
It seems like we went from summer to fall in a snap this year. One minute we were sweating in 90-degree mid-August, and not a week later we were sending our sweaters to the dry cleaner to start mixing them into our wardrobes. While the outerwear debuted recently, we're still getting ready to spend a lot more time inside as we wait winter, and the pandemic, out.
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Instead of couples counseling, try an interior designer
Architectural Digest
Dina Gachman writes: The biggest fight I ever saw my parents have was when my mom threw out my dad's beloved brown leather recliner. It was torn, worn and, well, brown, and she was an interior designer who just couldn't take it anymore. My dad was livid, but my mom knew he would never agree to part with the chair unless she torched it or clandestinely paid someone to haul it away, so she did what she had to do.
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Winter balconies and dried flowers: The biggest interior design trends for 2021
Metro
We've all been spending a lot of time at home this year. Which hasn't been great, but it has given us fresh impetus to make our homes look gorgeous.
From framing images to buying countless houseplants, investing in comfier furniture or warmer lighting, or rearranging your space to accommodate working from home — loads of us have invested loads of time and energy in where we live, and now is the time to look ahead to the new year.
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Edinburgh College of Art's interior design students imagine cultural centres for their city
Dezeen
Edinburgh College of Art students are presenting 10 interiors projects for public and community spaces, from an archive chronicling Scotland's black diaspora to a hybrid day and nightclub.
Created by a mixture of graduate and undergraduate students, the concepts adapt existing and historical buildings in Edinburgh for new uses in a bid to create interiors that are sensitive to their context.
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