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This year, for the third joint ART and IDS conference, we are excited to head to a destination bursting in Mid-Century modern architecture and design – Palm Springs!
The collaboration between ART and IDS has proven to be valuable, and allows professionals from every area of the home furnishings industry to learn and connect together. Don’t miss it – register now! 
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With Spring comes new life, flowers blooming, fresh air…muddy feet, grass stains, and Spring cleaning!
Fiber-Seal can clean your clients’ fine fabrics and floorcoverings, then protect them so they will look “Spring Fresh” year-round.
Visit us at The Suites at Market Center April 6-10, Suite T723.
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The Interior Design Society is proud to announce its second annual Designer’s Choice Vendor Award. Created specifically to recognize outstanding vendors in our industry, this award is presented to a company who exemplifies excellence in serving the Interior Design Community. The recipient of this award will be nominated and chosen exclusively by IDS Members. Vendors considered for this award should have high standards regarding: Product Selection & Quality Expertise Professionalism Customer Service Overall support of the design community. The winner of the 2019 Designers Choice Vendor Award will be recognized during our Awards Gala on May 4th in Palm Springs, California.
Click Here to Nominate for the Second Annual Designer's Choice Vendor Award
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| Welcome to Our New National Sponsor – Emerald Level – Durham Furniture
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At the showroom, visitors can meet with a design consultant and browse a curated selection of cabinets, countertops and backsplash tiles. The business also offers 10 pre-selected collections of trendsetting designs by interior designer Kim Bailey.
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Shayla Copas served as the lead event designer
for the Inaugural Ball of Governor Hutchinson in 2015 and was thrilled to hold the same honor
for Governor ASA Hutchinson’s second four-year election term on January 14 - 15, 2019. After
Gov. Hutchinson was sworn in to office, Copas lead the state of Arkansas in a night of festivities
with a lavishly themed winter celebration.
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Judges have been announced for the Interior Design Society’s Designer of the Year Awards. The Designer of the Year Awards recognizes outstanding achievement among IDS members in 30 categories of interior design. 26 out of the 30 categories focus on residential interior design, while the remaining focus on charity work and industry awards. This year’s new category is New Construction. Winners will be recognized at the 2019 ART + IDS Conference in Palm Springs, CA on Saturday, May 4th. The judges come from an array of backgrounds and experiences. The esteemed judges are as follows ...
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Are you one of those people who is trying to do it all, all the time? You're listening to podcasts, and you're doing training, and you're thinking, I need to be on Facebook. I need to be on LinkedIn. I need to be on Pinterest. You're trying to be everywhere all the time and what happens is you tend to get burned out.
You're listening to all these business owners who are doing it all, and it seems like they're doing it all at the same time, and that they did it overnight, and you're trying to do it all as well. Well, I'm here to tell you that sometimes you have to roll things out slowly.
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As we shared in an earlier post, Hooker Furniture recently launched MARQ – Modern. Aspirational. Refined. Quality. – a line of upscale, customizable modern upholstery exclusively for the interior design community.
In addition to upholstery, the collection also includes customizable upholstered beds, premium mattresses and adjustable bed bases, providing both stylish and luxuriously comfortable products to create relaxing environments in your clients’ bedroom spaces.
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 From the time I was a small child, I began pushing things around in my parents’ home. Basically, it was accessories because that was all I could move, but sometimes I’d hear a stern voice say, “Donna! I liked that where it was please.” (ooops ... my first unhappy client!).
But it wasn’t until a few decades later and while on a different career path that my husband Steve looked at something I’d designed and said, “For the millionth time: You should be designing for a living.” He HAD said it million times; but on that one day, it was as if I’d heard it for the first time. SO, I took off at 98 mph to back to school to study design (Temple & Parsons), closed down another business and opened IDH. We’ve been busy ever since and are now in our 12th year.
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Does having to walk into a room full of people or a showroom make you a bundle of nerves? It doesn’t have to be that way! Join Nancy Ganzekaufer for an interactive workshop to learn strategies to get the most out of your networking!
 Fabric selection is the most favorite part of a designer’s job and the most difficult. Textiles are a complex discipline with staggering choices. I love talking textiles and frankly it’s a much-needed conversation. With the resurgence of the soft side of design, we are selling and specifying more fabrics than ever before - and in a lot of cases doing it poorly. The key to being successful in this arena is building a textile skill set.
So I have put together a full week of webinars to talk about textiles for interiors- exploring trends, fibers, weaves, techniques and fabrications. Hosted by Deb Barrett, Textile Week is about promoting textile education and celebrating the conversation.
We have a jam-packed program featuring different learning formats with a broad range of curated, textile-focused education from a variety of expert voices. All of them are online - live or on demand - and CEU accredited.
Click here for a full calendar of events
IDS members receive a significant discount on upcoming webinars presented by Sustainable Furnishings Council. This course will teach you how to increase professional relevance in a rapidly changing market, providing designers, retailers, manufacturers, and suppliers with knowledge and credentials to become expert in sustainability and to grow profitability. Approved by GBCI for 6 CE Hours and registered with IDCEC for .6 HSW CEUs. More information here.
The Interior Design Society has announced that the exclusive IDS Buyers’ Guide
— the premier resource of relevant products and services for interior design professionals — is now
available at the IDS website at http://www.interiordesignersbuyersguide.com/.
If your company or business has not yet taken advantage of this exceptional opportunity to highlight
your products and services in the Guide, it is not too late! To learn more about advertising your products
or services in this exclusive Guide, please email ids-advertise@svmmedia.com or click here.
Business of Home
As recently as a few years ago, the concept of designers getting projects through their Instagram accounts was seen by many as a novelty — a funny quirk of the new digital age. Now you’d be hard-pressed to find a designer who hasn’t connected in some way with potential clients over the image sharing platform. From leads on new projects to partnerships with brands to direct sales, Instagram has become a very real tool for designers to bring in revenue.
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By Fred Berns
 Looking to build your interior design business? Look no further than your current clients. After all, your current clients are your best ones. They’re the ones who know, trust and value you. They’re the ones most likely to refer you. And they’re the ones as interested in forging lasting partnerships as you are. Perhaps more so. The problem is most design professionals fail to tap into their resources of clients as much as they could, or should.
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Bankless Times
Running an interior design business requires not only creativity, but also project management and organizational skills. If you would like to make the most out of your time and avoid doing the same task again, you will need to utilize modern technology. With hundreds of great design tools available at a touch of a button, you will be able to save ideas on the go, take pictures and measurements, and even sketch up your design while waiting for a client.
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By Michael J. Berens
 Will 2019 be another busy year for remodelers, or will demand begin to taper off? Data from recent industry studies provide somewhat contrasting views, with remodelers expressing confidence about their business prospects and industry economists foreseeing much more modest growth for the year. One point on which they both agree is that market and demographic trends will sustain positive demand for remodeling services for several years to come.
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Cosmopolitan
As we're well into 2019, the trends for the year ahead are starting to reveal themselves.
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Metropolis
While technology has always been a double-edged sword when it comes to sustainability and equity, it also holds the key to ameliorating pressing environmental challenges. A rising generation of materials engineers and designers are engaging these questions with renewed urgency, examining the nexus of nature and technology to develop more sustainable architectural products.
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Broadway World
Bravo Media expands on its home and design programming with new competition series "Best Room Wins," hosted by interior design maven Genevieve Gorder, premiering on Thursday, May 2. Each episode challenges two top interior designers to create luxury looks for less for couples in desperate need of a room make-over.
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The Insider
Home decor has evolved immensely over the past century.
From the muted, monochromatic rooms of the 1930s to the explosion of florals in the 1980s, interior designers have seen a lot of trends come and go.
Take a look at the trends that hit big the decade you were born.
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