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Now introducing: The IDS List
Designed for the consumer eye, this interactive platform will connect IDS designer members with potential clients. The IDS List will feature the work of our members nationwide, and will educate visitors on why and how to hire an interior designer. Most importantly, it will host a searchable directory to pair those searching for interior design services with IDS designer members. This exciting new program will be included with every IDS membership!
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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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Designer Nicole Arnold featured on the cover of Dallas Style and Design Magazine
When a family was ready to move from their old world-designed home to a new, custom-built home situated in Frisco, they selected Nicole Arnold, president and principal designer of Nicole Arnold Interiors, to help guide them into transitional bliss. They desired to leave the visual weight of decorative scrolls, iron and heavy furnishings, and evolve into interiors that were clean-lined, light and bright.
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Trusting the process
They say that sometimes the best things in life are unplanned, and that was certainly true when Nashville-based interior designer Lori Paranjape and her design team designed a 9,000-square-foot, Tudor-style showhouse. Her overall concept — a fresh take on traditional style — served as the foundation of the home's design, but the execution, Paranjape says, was the perfect example of "how organic it is to do an installation of a large-scale project. Things come together onsite in a way you can't anticipate."
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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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Expressing interior design trends through furniture
ArchDaily
Architecture sets the scene and provides the framework, but interior design and furniture can have a strong influence on the vibe and mood of a space. As trends in interior design evolve over time, it's often expressed in the furniture chosen to fill the room. Interior furniture speaks volumes about our priorities and personalities, as well as the atmosphere we want to convey.
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Leading women in design discuss changing roles, mentors and the urgency of this moment
Interiors + Sources
Since March, IIDA has been sitting down (virtually) with women in the design industry who are reshaping our world and impacting change. During a time when our communities are faced with great challenges —an ongoing pandemic, shifting economies and racial injustice — the significance of design and the need for strong leaders is paramount.
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Better days ahead for remodelers
By Michael J. Berens
The homebound nature of American life since March has produced a boom in the home improvement industry, especially in product sales. For remodelers and designers, however, it has been a mixed blessing. While demand for professional services has rebounded in recent months from the historic lows in early spring, it has been dampened by the large number of homeowners choosing to undertake home improvement projects themselves. That trend is expected to change in the months ahead as homeowners shift their attention from smaller, simpler repairs to more substantial renovations requiring more expertise.
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Has COVID permanently changed the way you work?
Business of Home
The pandemic has significantly altered how we're living and working right now, but how much of that change is here to stay? We asked eight designers how (and if) COVID will permanently change the way they work.
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Look inside this eclectic English countryside escape
Architectural Digest
When you're tired of London, you're tired of life," says Luke Edward Hall, the British artist, interior decorator, newspaper columnist and designer of unisex jerkins, echoing another creative multihyphenate, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Georgian man of letters. Still, Hall's partner, creative consultant and designer Duncan Campbell, chimes in and says, "There comes a point where you want a different pace, to be closer to nature, to have a different kind of socializing."
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Go big and go home: How to do maximalism right
The Washington Post
The clean-lined, subdued-color aesthetic of minimalism has dominated the design scene in recent years, and although that contemporary look is still widely popular, maximalism — its rebellious, loud counterpart — is stealing some of the limelight. "Minimalism is always less is more, whereas maximalism is more is more," said Beth Diana Smith, a New Jersey-based interior designer.
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Midcentury modern style sees resurgence
Greenwich Time
In fashion, art and architecture, all that is old eventually becomes new again. Now appears to be the age when midcentury modern style — though it never really was out of vogue — is seeing renewed popularity. The buyer base for midcentury architecture may be broadening, and the demand for authentic period furnishings fetches top-dollar at auction and vintage specialty shops.
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Understatement is the new luxury
The New York Times
For years, developers of New York condominiums engaged in an unofficial battle to slather the most exotic materials, revered architects and designers, blue-chip art installations, and exclusive club-like amenities over their projects.
At 53 West 53, a tower designed by the architect Jean Nouvel, Thierry W. Despont crafted kitchens with backlit Statuary marble and bathrooms awash in honey-hued Peruvian travertine, Verona limestone, and polished-nickel lollipop-shaped mirrors.
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