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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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Pet peeves drive master bathroom renovation decisions, Houzz study finds
Furniture, Lighting & Decor
An old or outdated space is by far the leading pet peeve for homeowners prior to a master bathroom renovation, according to the 2020 U.S. Houzz Bathroom Trends Study. The survey of nearly 1,600 U.S. homeowners using Houzz, who are in the midst of, are planning or recently completed a master bathroom renovation, found that nearly 9 in 10 renovating homeowners change the style of their master bathrooms as one way to bring it up to date, with modern leading the way, followed by transitional and contemporary.
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Accessible custom furniture and decor is the next big interior design trend
Forbes
2020 has been a year of collective realization about the importance of our living spaces and interior design. Not only are we all spending more time at home, but most of us are renovating, redesigning and refreshing our spaces to fit the new normal. Because the pandemic has limited our choices in many ways, the appeal of custom, made-to-order furniture and decor has increased significantly.
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Improving senior care by mimicking natural light cycles with LED technology
By Michael J. Berens
Numerous studies have identified the need for better lighting conditions in senior care facilities. Residents often have too little exposure to natural light during the day and are subjected to leaks from artificial lighting during the night. This can lead to a range of health problems, from erratic sleep patterns to impaired cognition to listlessness and depression. Recent developments in LED technology may provide a solution by creating interior lighting conditions that change throughout the day and night, mimicking the natural light cycle to which the body is attuned.
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Cottagecore home decor finds to bring the farm inside
HuffPost
When it comes to home decor trends, what's old is new (yet) again.
Many of us have been searching for vintage furniture rather than buying brand-new. Art deco-style furniture has returned from the 1920s to 2020, and the matte black look is back because of the rise of industrial and minimalist styles.
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6 decorating ideas for a 'boo-it-yourself' Halloween
Today
Halloween is just over a week away, but if you haven't gotten around to decorating just yet, don't worry! You can still make your home festive enough for the holiday without lights, inflatable lawn decorations and other pricey decorations that you'll end up putting away in just a few short weeks.
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Vibrant decor inside custom-built Charlestown home brings fall entertaining to life
Courier Journal
Melissa and Rick Morehouse custom-built their Charlestown, Indiana, abode in 2005, and though they would love to build another, they can't imagine leaving it behind.
"We lovingly call our house 'Morehouse Manor,'" Melissa laughed, explaining that after custom creating every bit of the place together and creating lasting relationships with their neighbors, the home simply holds too much sentimental value.
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How 6 interior designers make their apartments feel like home (without spending a ton)
Refinery29
Carli Whitwell and Nadia Ebrahim write: When my parents downsized a few years ago, my mom gave me a gorgeous gold mirror that used to belong to my grandma, looked like it was taken from Marie Antoinette's bedroom and would be perfect on the wall outside my powder room.
It's still sitting in my closet.
That's the thing about decorating — it's incredibly easy to put off.
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