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The woman who helped usher the interior design industry into full flower in the United States was prolific in putting out ideas that will help freshen up today's interior design business. Look at our latest Designer Monthly, Interior Design: Look Forward by Looking Back to Dorothy Draper.

Did you ever have a problem designing small spaces?  Take a look at how top interior designers solved this common problem in our latest Designer Monthly, How to Design Small Spaces at the Kips Bay Decorator Show House.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday
Mar032009

Before The Cure, and After

We all love before and afters, and usually they're just a matter of a designer taking a room that needs some changes and putting in new furniture, new cabinets, using a new color on the walls.In the case of Tobi Fairley's recent project, it's more than that. She was part of the design of a newly-constructed house, the Susan G. Komen Build for the Cure Idea House in Arkansas. Each house is designed, built and then decorated with donated supplies and services, and then each is open for tours. Proceeds go to the Susan G. Komen foundation, which is dedicated to research and education about breast cancer.Here's a shot of one of the rooms as construction was being completed:

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Monday
Mar022009

We Love A Contest

The presidential toss-up is long behind us. The Kentucky Derby is but a far-off dream. Meantime, we have designer Patricia Gray's "Winning Wing Chairs" contest. On her blog, she just took a poll on the best of ten chairs.The only trouble is, which one is the absolutely most fabulous, as opposed to just kind of run-of-the-mill terrific?

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Thursday
Feb262009

HGTV Agrees With Sheffield!

This just in: HGTV's Summer Baltzer, host of "Design On A Dime," is interviewed on boston.com, and what, of all things, does she say? Gray is the new black (or, I guess since black was never, you know, black in interior design, it's the new something else, like raspberry)

Anyway, she's saying that gray is the new trend in design color. And guess what? That is exactly what Designer Monthly, the online magazine from the Sheffield School of Interior Design, says.You can read the full Designer Monthly article here:http://www.sheffield.edu/htmlsrc/color0209.html

And the full interview with Baltzer here:

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/fashion/articles/2009/02/26/makeover_maven/

Wednesday
Feb252009

I Want One!—The Real McCoy

This week, we're featuring these great kitchen chairs, sent in by Stylehound's own Wedding Belle. Seems she was able to score these two vintage Shaw-Walkers.

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Friday
Feb202009

I Want One!—Flexible Love!

This is too good to keep to ourselves. If you have a space problem and need instant furniture that you can then fold up and put away, check this out. http://flexiblelove.com/ Flexible love chair

Or, you can see a whole article on this at

http://www.sheffield.edu/htmlsrc/greendesign0209.html