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Call for Interior Designer Responses to Sustainable Design Survey
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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Submit a blog post!
 Something exciting is happening! We're calling all IDS designers to submit their blog posts — multiple submissions accepted! From paint colors to kitchen designs to work from home solutions ... we want it all! Be a part of something really special — we promise it'll be worth it. Click below to enter.
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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!
Register here
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October Member Spotlight: Shannon Christensen
When did you realize that you wanted to become an interior designer?
I knew I either wanted to be a fashion designer or interior designer. However, as a child, I enjoyed making 3D paper models of rooms and even drew an elaborate plan of a candy factory. Growing up with a mom who had a fine art degree and ran her own wallpaper and interiors business, I was made aware of how impactful color, texture and space could be. As I progressed through school, it became very clear to me that interior design would be an excellent fit. My dorm room was my first tight-budget design challenge! Good design is possible on any budget.
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Shayla Copas announces launch of marketing and public relations agency
Shayla Copas, national award-winning interior
designer and entertaining author of Four Season of Entertaining, announces the launch of an
additional brand to her growing line up. The Hive Marketing and Public Relations is a boutique
marketing and public relations firm specializing in the branding and promotion of companies and
individuals in the creative industries and non-profit sectors.
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IDS Member Nicole Yee featured in Homes and Gardens for Tudor Home Design
The home belongs to Danielle and Phil Hayes and their three daughters, Cecily, Meara and Remi. Danielle and Phil were drawn to the Trestle Glen neighborhood of Oakland for its strong sense of community, tree-lined streets, idyllic climate and proximity to the city.
Trestle Glen was the first master-planned housing development in the U.S., featuring small lots and tree-lined streets designed by the Olmsted brothers, sons of Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted.
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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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Why planning for generic collaboration no longer works
Interior Design
Across the interiors industry, workplace planners are trying to make sense of pandemic-related shifts. While there are multiple surveys designed to gauge the impact on the industry, their intent is to provide data trends. No single survey can define the future of design. The responsibility lies with designers and strategists to determine how to interpret the data and adequately plan for the future. Needless to say, there's no consensus on how to do so.
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5 ways the pandemic has influenced interior design trends in 2020
Forbes
The pandemic has changed life as we know it in every way, but especially how we live in our homes. In a short period, the home has become a place to work, exercise, relax and even attend school. This has been the single biggest influence on design trends this year.
While many people have moved or are beginning to renovate, most of us are simply doing the best with what we have.
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MULTIBRIEFS EXCLUSIVE
Shrinking inventories rein in booming home sales
By Michael J. Berens
 Home sales in August eased back to a more normal pace after hitting record-setting levels in June and July. So far, the market has recovered quickly from the spring slump caused by the onset of the coronavirus pandemic and is now well ahead of last year's gains.
High demand, however, has significantly cut into the short supply of homes for sale, producing a drag on the market that is likely to linger throughout the remainder of the year.
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Commercial interior design is in for a bumpy ride
Business of Home
The interior design industry has not historically been obsessed with — or even interested in — data. It's a phenomenon all too familiar to Amanda Schneider, the founder of ThinkLab, a market research agency that seeks to bring a quantitative approach to a highly qualitative industry.
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7 tips for improving your mood by adjusting your living space
Lancaster Online
Your home should be your happy place, but it could be killing your mood instead.
Do you feel content, safe and relaxed in your home? Do you sleep well in your bedroom? Do you love spending time in your kitchen? Do you have a favorite room to unwind after a long day? If the answer is no, the problem could be as simple as your home design.
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The 1 way to make your home feel put together, according to an interior designer
Cosmopolitan
If it were up to us, we'd spend ALL of our money on interior stuff. Bedside tables, wall art, silk bedding ... we want it all! Sadly, though, we have to pay for stuff like, y'know, food, clothes and rent.
This is why we're keen to get all the expert advice about the small ways to make your home feel expensive and grown up, without having to spend a bomb.
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