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Atlanta Luxury Interior Designer, VPI Design by Dina Varner, Offers Home Preparation Tips for Entertaining Guests

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Top Atlanta Luxury Interior Designer, VPI Design, provides insightful suggestions for ways to easily stage your home to make it welcoming and comfortable for guests this holiday season.

ATLANTA, GA / ACCESSWIRE / November 5, 2020 / As the holiday season approaches, entertaining guests can be overwhelming so it is important to make a space that the guests will enjoy. Whether you are hosting friends around your kitchen island or having a formal dinner or cocktail party, we have some entertaining tips that can help you.

We suggest you find furniture that can be used in many settings. For instance, make use of occasional chairs that can be moved in different spaces or use a bench or settee at your dining table so you can seat more people. Another idea is

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Sea Island Interior Designer, VPI Design, Offers Home Preparation Tips for Entertaining Guests

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Top Sea Island Luxury Interior Designer, VPI Design by Dina Varner, provides insightful suggestions for ways to easily stage your home to make it welcoming and comfortable for guests this holiday season.

SEA ISLAND, GA / ACCESSWIRE / November 6, 2020 / As the holiday season approaches, entertaining guests can be overwhelming so it is important to make a space that the guests will enjoy. Whether you are hosting friends around your kitchen island or having a formal dinner or cocktail party, we have some entertaining tips that can help you.

We suggest you find furniture that can be used in many settings. For instance, make use of occasional chairs that can be moved in different spaces or use a bench or settee at your dining table so you can seat

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College of DuPage interior design students earn top awards from American Society of Interior Designers-Illinois Chapter

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Three College of DuPage interior design students earned three of four 2020 Student Design Excellence Awards presented by the Illinois Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers.

Chosen from nearly 200 student submissions, Emma New won first place and Wendali Clouser won second place in the commercial design category.

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        

 

Kate Scheck won first place in the residential design category. Pictured above is Scheck’s award-winning residential design.

A panel of independent, distinguished interior design professionals from other ASID Chapters throughout the U.S. reviewed the entries based on design creativity, function, solutions appropriate to the design challenges, scale and proportion, color and composition, lighting, materials and patterns.

Scheck’s educational journey at COD started in 2005. Her first place win is an extremely personal accomplishment after overcoming numerous obstacles, she said.

“I have slowly made my way through the Interior Design program at COD taking one class a semester because of my

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DesignerInc Technology Platform and Marketplace For The Interior Design Trade Launches Gilded Circle Event Series With Chad Stark of STARK

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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ —

The Gilded Circle community of designers and manufacturers have already begun to take advantage of the DesignerInc technology suite to supercharge productivity in our increasingly tech-centered industry.

Our Fall Communication Weeks brought our Gilded Circle designers invites to interviews, showroom tours and production tours with vendor partners Hellman-Chang, Currey & Co, Theodore Alexander, The Rug Company and others.

To bring us into the holidays on a high note, DesignerInc cordially invites all Gilded Circle trade-members to join hostess Céline Derreumaux for an hour with Chad Stark on Monday, November 16th at 2pm Eastern time.

Stark has built its decades-old legacy on quality, innovation, and design, creating custom rugs and carpets for homes all over the world. Third-generation owners and cousins Chad Stark and Ashley Stark Kenner continue to preserve the company’s mission of creating beautiful spaces—and with the

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Sarah Flint’s New Shoe Collection Is for You

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Photo credit: Courtesy of Sarah Flint
Photo credit: Courtesy of Sarah Flint

From ELLE Decor

When she was conceiving her fall/winter 2020 collection, shoe designer Sarah Flint looked to some unexpected places for inspiration—the interiors of English country estates, pillow trim, and even her childhood dollhouse inform her new limited-edition creations for her namesake brand. This collection of shoes and scarves, complete with elements of furniture upholstery, is the perfect synthesis of home and fashion; you’ll no doubt want to wear these pieces all season long. ELLE Decor recently caught up with Flint—whose celebrity fans include Meghan Markle—to ask her about these new designs.

ELLE Decor: When did you first fall in love with home decor and interior design?

Sarah Flint: I’ve loved decor my whole life. Some of my favorite childhood memories are of accompanying my parents on tours of grand estates and gardens in Europe. My mother always had a decorating project she was

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54 secrets interior designers don’t want you to know

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Foolproof design ideas for a fabulous home


It’s said there’s a world of difference between a room designed by a professional interior designer and one done by a home decorator. From balancing colour schemes to hanging artwork, planning lighting and even positioning curtains, designers have a box of tricks that can turn an average scheme into a fabulous space. We’ve rounded up some of the trade’s best-kept secrets to take your own décor to the next level. Click or scroll through and shh – just keep it quiet…



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Plan thoroughfares

One of the most common design mistakes that non-designers make – especially in open-plan spaces – is cramming too much furniture into an area without leaving enough room for people to walk around comfortably. The most frequently-used thoroughfares in your home

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