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We're going virtual!
We guarantee this won't be your typical virtual event. With special celebrity appearances, this event is sure to be entertaining. It's all happening on Oct. 8, 2020, at 7:00 p.m. EST. Help us celebrate our Designer of the Year winners and a DECADE OF DESIGN!
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A letter from the Sustainable Furnishings Council
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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September Member Spotlight: Charlie Bolivar
When did you realize that you wanted to become an interior designer?
When I was about 17 years old, I realized that I wanted to be an interior designer. I started working at the D&D building in NYC at the age of 17 for a company named Decorators Walk. I started in their Sample Department, providing wallpaper samples and fabric samples to decorators and their design clients. I subsequently moved on to assisting designers in decorating the show room and staging furniture to create complete rooms to showcase potential designs. Eventually, I took over the responsibility for that role, and it really fueled my passion for interior design!
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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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The fundamentals of light layering
According to top residential lighting expert Randall Whitehead, "There is no single light fixture that gives you everything you need to illuminate a room properly." In the home and commercial spaces, proper light layering — ambient, task and accent lighting — helps you bring a room to life with design flexibility and functionality.
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Home decor: 15 ways to decorate the area above the bed
Architectural Digest
The bed is the focal point of a room, so naturally, we should want to make the area above the bed stand out. The space above the headboard is the perfect place to showcase everything — from art to vintage objects and fabrics. Personalize your sleeping quarters with stylish above-bed decor, including displays of bold photography, eclectic finds from flea markets, and quirky yet sophisticated accents.
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10 interior design trends that could boost your house value by thousands
House Beautiful
The interior design trends that could help to boost the value of your property by thousands has been revealed in a new study — and the much-loved Scandinavian style has taken the winning spot.
While Scandi style unsurprisingly came out on top (it was also named the top interior trend for 2020), other trends in the top 10 include farmhouse, rustic, vintage and bohemian.
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How this Ohio designer relaunched her business after a 5-year break
Business of Home
The 50 States Project is a yearlong series of candid conversations with interior designers, state by state, about how they've built their businesses. Today, we're chatting with Dublin, Ohio–based Julie Paulino, founder of Julie Paulino Design, about finding clients and community through local cultural events, how she found her confidence as a designer, and the role of her blog as a portfolio builder and early digital design destination.
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COVID-19 migration study shows where people are flocking to, fleeing from
By Terri Williams
 The pandemic has caused many people to shelter in place. However, people are also looking for new places in which to hunker down. A new COVID-19 migration report by HireAHelper sheds light on not only where people are moving from and to, but also why. The report is based on moves that took place between January 2020 and June 2020. Among cities, San Francisco and New York had 80% more people moving out than moving in.
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The one easy home upgrade interior designers recommend for fall
Best Life
The leaves are changing, the temperature's getting cooler and once again — for better or for worse — pumpkin spice has permeated everything. That can only mean one thing: fall is right around the corner. For those looking to upgrade their home decor for the season, there are the obvious additions pulled out every year: a pumpkin here, a bowl of pinecones there. However, for anyone who wants a more understated way to transform their space, there's one genius piece of fall home decor interior design experts can't live without.
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Why planning for workforce, not workplace, is the wave of the future
Interior Design
In a recent Metropolis-hosted Think Tank event, Yana Ronin, founder and chief strategist at Fortyseven LLC, suggested that COVID-19 will bring a new tagline for consideration. Just like 9/11 promoted the "If you see something, say something" messaging, the coronavirus pandemic has made society acutely aware of the holes in our sanitation processes, thus driving a motto aligned with health and safety considerations.
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Interior design for home quarantining
Las Vegas Review-Journal
The coronavirus pandemic has affected many aspects of life, and interior designers are taking note. In the webinar "Where Will 2021 Take Interior Design?" Rhonda Peterson of Rhonda Peterson and Associates in Atlanta said 2021 is heading into some different areas. "Because so many of my clients are quarantined in their homes, they have become more thoughtful about their space and what will work for them," she said.
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