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Now introducing: The IDS List
Designed for the consumer eye, this interactive platform will connect IDS designer members with potential clients. The IDS List will feature the work of our members nationwide, and will educate visitors on why and how to hire an interior designer. Most importantly, it will host a searchable directory to pair those searching for interior design services with IDS designer members. This exciting new program will be included with every IDS membership!
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Mydoma Studio is bringing your Virtual High Point Market!
This is THE event for the design industry, and this year, for a lot of us, it's going to look a little different. More than just a virtual High Point, Mydoma's Backstage at High Point Market will bring you showroom tours, private conversations with industry insiders, and insight you just can't find anywhere else. Head over to mydomastudio.com/hpmkt now to get your own backstage pass.
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Call for Interior Designer Responses to Sustainable Design Survey
Dear SFC Design Community,
Did you know that over 90% of furniture consumers would prefer that their furniture purchases be environmentally safe? Designers are at the interface between consumers and manufacturers, placing them in a unique position to educate and inform clients and pass those preferences on to manufacturers.
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October Member Spotlight: Shannon Christensen
When did you realize that you wanted to become an interior designer?
I knew I either wanted to be a fashion designer or interior designer. However, as a child, I enjoyed making 3D paper models of rooms and even drew an elaborate plan of a candy factory. Growing up with a mom who had a fine art degree and ran her own wallpaper and interiors business, I was made aware of how impactful color, texture and space could be. As I progressed through school, it became very clear to me that interior design would be an excellent fit. My dorm room was my first tight-budget design challenge! Good design is possible on any budget.
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Shayla Copas announces launch of marketing and public relations agency
Shayla Copas, national award-winning interior
designer and entertaining author of Four Season of Entertaining, announces the launch of an
additional brand to her growing line up. The Hive Marketing and Public Relations is a boutique
marketing and public relations firm specializing in the branding and promotion of companies and
individuals in the creative industries and non-profit sectors.
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Trusting the process
They say that sometimes the best things in life are unplanned, and that was certainly true when Nashville-based interior designer Lori Paranjape and her design team designed a 9,000-square-foot, Tudor-style showhouse. Her overall concept — a fresh take on traditional style — served as the foundation of the home's design, but the execution, Paranjape says, was the perfect example of "how organic it is to do an installation of a large-scale project. Things come together onsite in a way you can't anticipate."
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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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How interior designers are helping businesses during the pandemic
Hour Detroit
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to push businesses to reimagine their workspaces into more hygienic, socially distant environments, interior design professionals are busy helping metro Detroit companies transform offices, community areas and more for a new age of working.
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Home furnishings manufacturers rethink the meaning of luxury
Furniture, Lighting & Decor
In today's more casual environment, where jeans often replace suits, and consumers, particularly younger generations, are looking for a less formal and more comfortable vibe in their homes, what constitutes luxury has taken on new meaning. "The world has gotten a whole lot more casual," says Eric Graham, President of furniture supplier Jonathan Charles. "When it comes to luxury today, it comes down to the details."
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Why vinyl ceiling panels hit the right note for this recording studio
Interiors + Sources
The 20-year-old mineral fiber ceiling panels at OC Recording Company weren't just old — they were falling apart and filling the air with dust and fibers. Asaf Fulks, the artist, producer, engineer and educator who owns the Santa Ana, California-based studio, was fed up.
"My main concern was air quality in my studio," Fulks explains. "It felt really stuffy, and it was always dusty and flaky from the ceiling. It worked pretty well for sound, but the air quality and the look were something else"
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Why colorful, chaotic home decor might actually bring you peace
Architectural Digest
Sara Tardiff writes: I have a memory from when I was young, and I asked my mom what her favorite color was. "Green," she said, "because I like trees and being outside." It hadn't occurred to my baby brain that there had to be any specific reason for something to be your favorite. I suppose it's not so different when you're an adult — you learn that there is almost always a why, even if you can't quite make sense of it in the moment.
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3 interior-designer-approved tips that make a new apartment feel like home
Popsugar
Getting the keys to your new apartment feels like a fresh start — especially after a cross-country move. When Aviel Kanter, POPSUGAR's associate director of branded content, moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles a few months ago, she knew that the first step to making California feel like home would be decorating her one-bedroom apartment.
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Get an intimate look inside Hollywood's A-list interiors
Architectural Digest
Famed interior designer Stephen Shadley certainly had a circuitous route to his ultimate career. He has always been interested in art and design, and his early jobs included painting sets at 20th Century Fox and working with the traveling show Disney on Parade. His first decorating job was actually a restaurant: the buzzy hangout Camelback and Central in New York.
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6 easy DIY mirror hacks to give a fresh look to your home decor
Pinkvilla
A mirror is a great addition for home decor. It can be used in several ways to spruce up your rooms and give a new look to them. Mirrors not only help to enhance your home decoration, but they also create an illusion to make your home look bigger and spacious.
Decorating your abode with mirrors doesn't have to be expensive. You can do it with some easy hacks as well. So, here are the unique DIY ideas to use mirrors for home decor.
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From plush throws to patio heaters, 20 essentials for a cozy home and backyard
Today
Though summer has drawn to a close and the days are getting colder, with the cool weather comes more opportunities for cozy nights spent in the comfort of your home with loved ones. That said, there are plenty of ways to turn both your living room and your backyard into cozy spaces that you'll want to spend fall nights in.
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