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In addition to protecting new items, we are also known for our expertise in hard-to-clean fabrics and fibers. We specialized in silk, wool, rayon, as well as fine area rugs and wall-to-wall carpet cleaning. Call us with your questions related to protecting, cleaning or to help with your client’s specific needs.
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"I knew i wanted to be a designer when I stopped to realize how much my environment impacts me every single day and that I could use my gifts to usher this into other people’s homes."
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 Winner: Ginger Curtis, Urbanology Designs, Texas
This kitchen in the historic Fairmont district of Fort Worth was a chance to do something special. A small kitchen called for color and bold design moves, starting with hunter green cabinets. The design concept evolved to capture this 1925 charm of the home, including bentwood dining chairs, a perfectly petite french range, brass cabinetry latches and an antique rug.
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This new construction project started with leveling the clients’ home and the home of their former neighbors to build a new contemporary ranch home that would take advantage of beautiful lakeside view.
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Helping your clients turn their new homes into havens of happiness can sometimes feel like an impossible puzzle — especially when you get down to the finishing touches. As all other facets fall into place, a space can yearn for that one perfect decorative touch to tie it all together.
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Business of Home
Interior designers are artists: What they create for their clients is a unique expression of their vision, tailored to a specific space. Designed rooms manifest the art of living. It’s a shame, then, that designs are often denied true authorship. Like any piece of art — or any creative product — an interior designer’s work should be protected as intellectual property, ideas that belong solely to them and are non-transferrable. This has been a fundamentally challenging notion to put into practice, but recent trends in client relations, social media sharing, and knockoff design markets make a strong case that something needs to be done.
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HouseBeautiful
The best creative endeavors usually come from breaking rules, rather than adhering to them. This was the subject of a conversation earlier this month in Los Angeles, where House Beautiful editorial director Jo Saltz sat down with design legends Suzanne Kasler, Thomas O'Brien, and Mary McDonald for a talk tellingly titled "Rules are Meant to be Broken."
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Harper's Bazaar
Interiors experts, art collectors and homeware designers explain how to update your living spaces this summer.
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Interior Design
Generally speaking, A&D often fear that bringing the dealer in early will result in non-competitive pricing (perhaps due to the need to reconsider new pricing models). Additionally, past (negative) experiences with “misbehaving” sales reps leave some designers hesitant. How can we help eliminate this tension and improve the overall experience with the furniture piece of the process?
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The DePaulia
Adding plants into any design space adds more than just style – they add health benefits to life. Studies show that indoor plants improve concentration and productivity by 15 percent. NASA has also done research that reveals houseplants can remove up to 87 percent of air toxins in just 24 hours.
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Business of Home
We live in a world where if you want something, you can rent it, often at the click of a button: a house, a car, a dress, a movie. So why not furniture?
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The Wall Street Journal
New York interior design firm Cullman & Kravis Associates, which has been in business for 35 years, recently added a new strategy to its set of aesthetic tactics. “It’s the idea of your mother in a new dress,” explained founder Ellie Cullman. “We’ve been subtly tweaking the interiors for many of our original clients to make their environments younger and sexier without throwing everything out.”
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