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Type the hashtag #interiordesign into your Instagram search box and you'll get over 14 million posts in return. But who are these design-obsessed homebodies? Where are they? And how can you make Instagram pics of your space more popular? This, and much more, is revealed in a new report by online home store Wayfair, which analyzed 75,000 #interiordesign posts from the U.S. and Canada. Some of the findings will surprise you; the rest are just plain fun for stats fanatics.
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Join ASID and keynote speaker Jeremy Neuner for the Agile Workplace Conference, September 13-14 in Washington, D.C. Discover why innovation in the workplace is critical to advancing how work is done and how people, places, processes, and technology can be woven together to create a high-functioning and innovative organization. ASID will present Journey to Health & Wellness: Sustainable Design Practices, an exploration of the newly designed ASID headquarters with its visionary client, designer, and researcher, who will speak about creating healthy workplaces through design, research, office protocols, and workplace culture. Receive a 25 percent discount by using promo code awcASID to register.
The Sydney Morning Herald
There are lots of reasons people don't hire interior designers, but chief among them is perceived price. "There's a common perception of professional interior design as being something that's totally out of reach on the average income," says Emily Carding, co-founder of a new startup, Designbx.
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ELLEDecor
It's no secret that certain colors make a tried-and-true design statement: Black-and-white rooms never go out of style, red rooms command attention, and green spaces are practically guaranteed to help you put your feet up and relax. But according to a report from Zillow Digs, there are four paint colors that make real estate pros nervous – and for good reason. When the real estate site evaluated more than 50,000 photos of recently sold homes, it found that houses with rooms painted certain colors fetched less than their estimated prices.
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InteriorDesign.net
The Olympic Games have ended and the media attention has shifted, leaving behind the eternal essence of Brazil: vibrant people, beautiful beaches and, maybe less well known, a great sense of design. Below are 14 of the most exciting Brazilian product designers to keep your eye on.
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Grosfillex, a U.S. manufacturer, designs and builds a complete line of distinct, durable commercial furniture to meet or exceed industry standards – indoors and outdoors! Focused on new materials and technologies, Grosfillex is proud to introduce a new contemporary interior furniture line with slim HPL tables and stack chairs in youthful colors and trendy designs. The Grosfillex product line offers professionals and designers performance, durability, functionality, style, and comfort at an affordable price. MORE
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Kitchen & Bath Design News
Sherwin-Williams has selected Poised Taupe (SW 6039) as the 2017 Color of the Year. The color indicates an overall desire for neutrals that bring warm and cool tones together, creating versatility. “Poised Taupe celebrates everything people love about cool gray as a neutral, and also brings in the warmth of brown, taking a color to an entirely new level. Not cool or warm, nor gray or brown, Poised Taupe is a weathered, woodsy neutral bringing a sense of coziness and harmony that people are seeking,” said Sue Wadden, director of color marketing for Sherwin-Williams.
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Design Management Company
One piece of advice I always give to designers who want help with marketing and growing their business is to identify their “ideal client” and focus their efforts there. No matter how good a designer you are, you can’t be all things to all people. We all have our strengths and our weaknesses, our preferences and our passions. Decide what you like to do and are really good at, and go after that customer.
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Be our guest this fall at BDNY, the hospitality industry's fastest growing sourcing event. For two high-energy days each November, it's the creative nexus of hospitality design - a trade fair and conference with boutique DNA and a focus on innovation, culminating with the prestigious Gold Key Awards Gala.
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By Michael J. Berens
 Slow but steady is the current prognosis for the housing industry. Housing starts are up for the first seven months of the year, but month-to-month gains have remained flat for the past four months. Meanwhile, requests for single-family permits have declined, which could mean fewer new starts in the months ahead. Nonetheless, builders and housing experts expect the industry will continue to experience modest growth in the second half of the year.
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Gail Doby
There is a wonderful quote I found that states: “Be decisive. Right or wrong, make a decision. The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who couldn’t make a decision” (author unknown). How quickly do you make decisions? Too often we see designers who get so frustrated with clients who can’t make decisions (a quick decision-maker might be something to add to your "ideal client" profile!), and yet those same designers may not have stopped to realize that they are not quick decision-makers for their own business. They may be plagued by what we often refer to as "analysis paralysis" – or overanalyzing and overresearching the situation.
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Our work is based on the vast amount of knowledge we have acquired researching, restoring and replicating some of the world's finest antique furniture, consisting primarily of traditional European designs. MORE
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Design Management Company
Fashion, décor, and TV programming all change with the season. So should your marketing. I’m not suggesting that you should cater to every trend promoted in every home and lifestyle magazine or website (although it’s always good to know who’s influencing your clients’ ideas about design). It’s not your design that needs adjusting. It’s how you promote your services that could use a refresh.
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ASID
Join ASID and Sherwin-Williams for the next Partner Spotlight webinar on September 7 at 1 p.m. EDT. Donna D’Alterio and Karen Galvin, designer marketing managers with Sherwin-Williams, will present a look at “Specifying Coatings in Your Designs.” Attendees will learn about innovative coating technologies that offer unique functional benefits for clients and about the resources Sherwin-Williams makes available to assist in specifying coatings. Partner Spotlight provides a 30-minute monthly forum for designers to engage with manufacturers and experts on new trends, product launches, and more. The webinar series does not provide CEUs, but allows members to learn about new and differentiated products and tools to support specification. Register today.
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Proud Green Building
Green office spaces can boost health and productivity, and business owners are looking for ways to become eco-friendlier. Whether one works from a home office or owns a small business or a large corporation, there are ways to reduce the environmental footprint of the business. This decreases costs associated with energy consumption, which lowers the cost of business and creates a healthier workspace environment.
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According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, an environmental and social research organization, wind energy is the fastest-growing source of alternative electricity in the world. Large wind farms have been used for city power, but not as much for residential areas. That’s because it takes enormous wind turbines that can be as tall as a five-story building, and almost as wide, to generate enough electricity to make the investment worth it.
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The RubyLUX platform empowers luxury product dealers with the most effective and diverse 21st century sales tools available. Dealers are able to tailor RubyLUX services to their individual needs, participating in catalogs, online auctions, and themed sales designed to complement and grow their existing brick-and-mortar.
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inhabitat
The CEO of a major home improvement business called Glasshouse, Shannon Bloemker, remodeled a mid-century house that achieved the first LEED Platinum certification in Piedmont, California. Pouring 15 years of experience with home renovation into the project, Bloemker used her own house as a testing ground for sustainable design.
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Laurel At Sunset brings you the newest in a laser measuring tool for interior designers. Measure, manage and share. Pre-order yours now and download the free app. Find out more and see how it works. Visit LaurelAtSunset.com
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Lazzoni manufactures using Italian leather, Turkish linens, and German hardware.
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The Washington Post
Mudrooms are the ugly ducklings of the home. Purely functional, the dirt and sloppiness are so integrated and expected in this room that “mud” is a part of its very name. While the romance of a grand, sweeping foyer is undeniable, equally undeniable is the reality of boots, snow gear, and trudging children with backpacks, eventually necessitating an offset area or “secondary” (we all know it’s really the primary) entrance. For so long, mudrooms were hidden behind closed doors, full of dirt, disorganization and shame; but the ugly duckling has grown up, and this swan is ready to dazzle with everything it can do.
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Remodeling
August brings hot temperatures, quick summer getaways, and lazy days by the pool. It also brings doctor’s appointments, class schedules, and trips to the office supply store as parents and their children prepare for the new school year. Whether students are already nestled back behind their desks or still jumping into the pool for last-minute summer fun, each one will be guaranteed to be given homework at some point during the school year. This means that students will not only need a place to complete their algebra equations and write an essay about Napoleon, but they will also need a place to store their backpacks, lunchbags, and school supplies.
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Healthcare Design Magazine
If you stand in the hallway of a hospital unit, what do you hear?
On any given day, most facilities’ floors are filled with an array of noises caused by paging, code alerts, medical equipment, footsteps, and conversations. Yet there’s an increased awareness that such sounds, if left unchecked, can be harmful to the health of patients, staff, and healthcare organizations.
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Fast.Co Design
Heading back to school is a familiar fall ritual for most kids, one that's filled with excitement for the year ahead and lament for the end of summer vacation. But at the newly rebuilt Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, it'll also be imbued with the emotional weight of the shooting on December 14, 2012, that killed 20 children and eight adults in one of the worst acts of violence in U.S. history.
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Fast Co.Design
In the 1960s and '70s, the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi gave pagers to study subjects ranging from motorcycle gang members to sheepherders. When the pagers buzzed, the participants' job was to record their happiness levels. These studies ushered in the modern era of happiness research (and gave birth to an idea you’ve probably heard about—the times when productive hours float by like minutes in "flow").
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InteriorDesign.net
The concept was chosen for its “incisive interest in the connections between landscape, culture, and architecture as observed through the frame of a singular architectural and landscape typology,” the Australian Institute of Architects explained when it announced the winning proposal for the nation’s pavilion at “La Biennale di Venezia.” All true. But you wouldn’t guess from that dryly academic description that the Venice installation is also playful, seductive, and wet.
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