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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.

 

 

 

 

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Friday
Jul012011

Working with Your Feng Shui Client

 

When you're trained as a feng shui practitioner, you're literally turned loose to interact with clients and impact their home or office environments in a meaningful and life-changing way. Good feng shui consulting, as seen in the following video, is about listening to your clients needs. You're flexible to each situation, each space, and each client. You'll use your bagua to study a space and make your recommendations, but it's far from "one size fits all" because where your client would like you to go is where you should put your focus. You'll get some good technique pointers from this video of Beverly Hills based Ariel Joseph Towne, otherwise known as The Feng Shui Guy. 

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Tuesday
May312011

Blogger's Home Critiqued by Feng Shui Consultant

Anyone who seriously practices feng shui as an interior design discipline should take a look at our featured video (see below) and take a little humor break. Outrageous - and frankly silly - Singapore blogger Wendy Cheng produces a flippant Internet video series called Xiaxue's Guide to Life, and in the following episode, she bravely shows her messy apartment to a feng shui expert. The practitioner is a pretty good sport about the entire thing. While many of us would have advised Wendy to dynamite her apartment rather than attempt to tidy it up, the practitioner gives a restrained and sensible set of recommendations - even after Wendy/XiaXue sticks her foot in her mouth and

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