How Diane Paparo Started Her Interior Design Business

We love to pass on success stories, and designer Diane Paparo from Diane Paparo Associates sat down with me recently to help share her experiences with our Sheffield students and Sheffield Says readers. Diane's known in the industry for marrying luxury, quality, beautiful detail, and thoughtful functionality in her designs. And with Diane, "design" means interior design and product design. 

The key to my personal style is a clean, sensible use of space. Scale and proportion, flow, sight lines, acoustical requirements, and light sources play a primary role in my design schemes.

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Take Your Pics!

For those of us who are just not natural shutterbugs getting started with taking pictures can be a bit intimidating.  If you are a jewelry designer, or really any kind or maker, you are likely creating new work all the time.  Being able to take the pictures yourself to document work makes a huge difference both in efficiency and cost.  Often, a natural response to this situation is to arm oneself with an expensive camera.  Well, the best answer may surprise you...

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