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Archadeck of Austin Featured in HGTV!
Now that the show has aired, Design Guide can finally say how proud they are of one of its partners: Archadeck of Austin! Last year, Archadeck was offered a chance to be featured in a HGTV special and jumped at the opportunity. Archadeck was featured for their work on a complete backyard remodel in the Circle C area in south Austin. The complete remodel added a 1,000-square-foot deck with seating, eating area, fire pit, shade structure, children’s play area, hot tub and grilling equipment. It was an incredibly impressive remodel and we could not be any prouder than to share the wonderful news with you all!
Forja Designs is a manufacturer and distributor of artistic wood and wrought iron products like doors, gates, garages, balconies, etc. They have a wide selection of magnificent products at your selection custom made for your Home. At Forja Designs they value every customer and welcome the opportunity to work with them. Since the beginning they acknowledge the importance of working together with builders, designers, architects, and homeowners to meet or exceed their specific needs.
Lambert's Wins Coveted John Staub Award for Landscape Architecture
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Design Guide Partner Lambert’s has been elevating the industry standard for close to a century. With its 90th anniversary in 2009, Lambert’s is the oldest design/build landscape architectural firm in Dallas and are the winners of the prestigious Landscape Architecture John Staub Award. The Texas Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America’s John Staub Award is one of the highest honors that demonstrate design excellence.
DG Gals Capture the Fun of Springboard to Design 2011
One of the best perks of being a DG Gal are the Design events we are invited to attend, and honored to help promote! We are privileged to be the media sponsor for many of the best design events around town, and we are always excited to participate in helping recognize the work done by Texas designers. Hosted by NEST Modern and co-sponsored by Design Guide, The Gallery Stores of Whit Hanks, David Alan Rugs, California Closets, Imago Dei, Exteriors Designer Showroom, Ferguson Showrooms, and Kravet, the Austin Community ASID held Springboard To Design for Austin & San Antonio Designers on May 18th. A full day of continuing education, prizes and fun, the design community came together to learn from one another. We were there with our cameras capturing the images that show a group of great designers who know how to have a good time!
Our Favorite Design Blogs
The wealth of online resources has changed the face of our design community. It was not that long ago that our daily exposure to design trends was based on our regional resources, so our design community was just that… regional. Exposure to national and international design trends was limited to a select group of uber successful designers, while the rest of the community anxiously waited each month to turn the pages of national publications such as Architectural Digest. Now that so much valuable information is readily available online, our design community has no borders. Now in combination with print, homeowners and design professionals alike can get up to the minute ideas, inspiration and sources through leading daily design blogs. For example, The Design Guide receives emails and requests from as far away as Dubai and Greece in search of resources, and we communicate via Facebook and twitter with Designers everywhere. We love to share the latest ideas, inspiration images and sources available in Texas, and in turn we have a list of blogs we are following that keep us informed from around the globe. Here are just a few of the blogs and online resources that our team loves to follow. Let us know your favorites.
Hardscape- An Essential Element of the Garden by Paul Fields, President of Lambert Landscape Company
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Our first thought when hearing the word “garden” is to think of lush lawn, trees, flowering shrubs, perennials and annual color accents; these elements, of course, make up the more natural or “softscape” components of a garden. A garden certainly isn’t a “garden” without plants. However, the primary importance to the structure and symmetry of a garden is provided by the hardscape elements, i.e., walks, walls, terraces, pools, fountains, decks, fences and arbors.
The Peace of Mind and Ease of an Automatic Driveway Gate by Lonestar Overhead Doors & Gates
A custom driveway gate extends your home security to your property boundaries and in a time when people are increasingly worried about their security, adding a gate at driveway entrances has become a popular improvement. Having a secure fence and locked gate can be a great comfort, particularly if the house lies in a heavily trafficked neighborhood. In addition to its security benefits, adding a gate also contains animals, marks property lines and can make an aesthetic improvement to the home.
Secrets of Interior Design Revealed: Trends To Be By JEIDesign
Before a trend will permeate interior design publications, showhomes, blogs and luncheon gossip, it will usually begin as a well-kept secret in a specialized niche of the industry. For those of us who are keen to keep tabs on these emerging obscurities turned magazine covers, this article offers a glimpse of insider info. We don't want to ruin any surprises for you, so if you prefer to wait for these trends to appear on your coffee table in a few months, please do not keep reading. However, if you enjoy a trailer of what's to come in interior design, then read on. Consider this your spoiler guide for 2012.
The "Money Shot"
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Photography by Image By Design 2
Rogers-Ford Architecture & Interior Design
Today's homeowners are actively researching to find Interior Designers and showrooms that can provide them with design expertise as well as efficient and professional service. To find those resources, homeowners are searching the web and flipping through the pages of design publications. The myriad of images all begin to look the same until that one image pops out and strikes a cord. At the Design Guide we like to call this image the “money shot.” It is that single image that stops the buyer from continuing to flip pages and causes them to rethink the possibilities for their own space. As a publisher we see thousands of images a year, and the common thread among all the “money shots” is that they have been professionally photographed.
It's All In The Details
Covetable- For the Well-Dressed Home
Imagine a fabulous interior… a home, restaurant or hotel you’ve experienced recently that was so profound, it caused you to stop abruptly and soak in the ambiance, leaving you speechless from the energy and detail of its design. Amazing interiors are like that, in the way that they can evoke emotion, render you to pause in the moment and take sharp notice of your surroundings. Beautiful design does not, however, just magically appear. Walls don’t paint themselves, art doesn’t hang itself and furnishings don’t materialize on their own. The creation of a breathtaking space that’s both visually stimulating and functional takes just the right amount discerning taste, expert guidance and a knack for translating the mind’s vision of the perfect interior into a reality. Enter: The Interior Designer.
