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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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Fiber-Seal will be at this year’s High Point Spring Market and we hope you’ll stop by. Look for us at the Suites At Market Square, Suite T723.
Please join us from 2-4pm on Sunday, April 7, for Bubbles & Bundtinis and be sure to register for the iPad-Pro drawing!
Check out our blog…The Thread
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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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Business Coach Nancy Ganzekaufer is spilling all of her tips for business success! Have you thought about hiring a business coach but just haven't yet? Now is your chance to ask anything and everything related to your interior design business! This event will be open to the first 25 registered participants only. Join IDS and Norwalk Furniture for this exciting live business coaching event. Don't wait - register now!
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Sunday, April 7th – 3:00-4:00 pm – Suites at Market Square Seminar Room (SAMS T-1014)
Join Shane Jones from Sherwin-Williams as she goes into the details of flooring systems of kitchens, coatings on pool decks, how using the right coating can improve health and lower energy costs and much more. Hospitality will be served. Co-sponsored by Sherwin-Williams, Interior Design Society and IMC-DesignOnHPMkt (0.1 CEU).
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!
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.
By Fred Berns
 If it hasn't happened yet, it probably will: a prospect seeks your advice on furnishings, then goes online to buy them. If there's one thing interior design professionals hate, it's sharing their insights and ideas with people who end up taking their business elsewhere. But, as you think about that, think about this: What if those people are doing you a favor by "shopping" you? What if they're teaching you a very valuable lesson and giving you some frank feedback? What "shoppers" are telling you is that you're not selling them.
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House Beautiful
Baseball has the Yankees and the Red Sox; boxing had Ali and Frazier; interior design has Martinique and Brazilliance. If you're a designer, design enthusiast, or even just a pattern fanatic, chances are you have STRONG feelings about which of these — oft imitated, translated, and plain knocked-off — patterns is the world's premier tropical print.
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Architectural Digest
The Martha Stewart brand has revealed a new streamlined, categorical approach to organizing the vast array of Martha products. All items will now land within four lifestyle verticals inspired by the domestic mogul's four homes, providing an easily identifiable aesthetic marker and "personality" to an otherwise massive stable of decor items. Each lifestyle is intended to reflect the way Martha lives at each property, and runs the gamut in terms of product, from entertaining to decorating to fashion.
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By Michael J. Berens
 Having spent a lifetime demanding and indulging their independence, members of the baby boom generation are showing no signs of letting up as they prepare for their next life-stage. Now in their early 70s, leading-edge boomers are looking ahead to how they want to spend their later years. One thing most of them don't want is to wind up like their parents or grandparents in an isolated senior care facility. They are pressing builders and developers to give them more options to remain connected to their communities.
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City A.M.
The more-is-more, maximalist approach to home interiors is everywhere at the moment, but it’s not for everyone. Do you crave a little calm? Are you not the type to pimp your place in a rainbow of colors? Perhaps you like balance. You like blond woods, clean lines and sculptural shapes. You’re partial to some ‘hygge’ in winter, but you’re not sure what to try this spring? Then embrace Swedish ‘lagom’ – everything in balance.
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Bravo
When you’re decorating a space, it’s all about layering neutrals and prints and textures and heights. Part of that process involves statement pieces. Maybe it’s a bright green rug, maybe it’s a wild wallpaper — or if you’re one of the Real Housewives, then it’s a literal statement in the form of a neon sign. A décor trend that’s taking been gaining steam over the past few years thanks to Instagram, neon signs are no longer only for commercial use.
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Commercial Property Executive
Generational differences make a major impact on how commercial real estate caters to the growing workforce. Gone are the days of cubicles and crowded meeting spaces. Millennials brought about change with their needs for open-air environments that promote a cohesive and group working environment, as well as their approach to more minimalist spaces taking over a smaller footprint.
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