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Nooks and Crannies: Things That Make Up a Home
An architect from California, Berry Berkus, used to say, “humans love arches.” It’s true, we do. But, we love all special places. We love attic rooms with slanted ceilings, we love window seats, bay windows and clever niches. No one ever walked into a rectangular room with a flat ceiling and gushed, “Oh, I LOVE this space!” (unless it had a special feature like a window wall or something). So, remember to ask your architect or building designer to give you some special places, some special touches. Don’t just build a home that flows well and is attractive from the street. Those things are important, but create something that surprises you and makes your home feel distinctive once you get inside or when you encounter the backyard.
After Hours: A Recap of Slocum Street Style 2011
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(McGannon Showrooms with Rebecca of Gremillion & Co. and Kim Lawhorn of Design Guide)
This year the Dallas Design District was ridden with designers, vendors and interior-design enthusiasts strolling the streets of Slocum, mingling and networking with some of the most reverenced and eclectic showrooms in the area.
Innovative Vignettes: Elegance Meets Practicality
A prominent way to innovate a space is to provide a modern-age storage solution to make convenience an even greater luxury. Innovative door lifts, TV lifts, pantry armoirs and several improvements in the aesthetic of customized kitchens and cabinetry is a specialized service that KingWood Fine Cabinetry excel in: garnering them the highest honor at the Austin Home & Garden Show as Best In Show. We are absolutely thrilled, and not surprised, that our stellar partner in Austin won such a coveted award. To proceed its reverenced reputation, KingWood ventured off to San Antonio to spread the news of their high-end craftsmanship to the Alamodome.
Closet Design: Customizing Chaos
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Spacious closets have become a vital space in the bedroom and have even, at times, become a key selling point when investing in a home. Gone are the days where homeowners and potential home buyers are satisfied with a closet that can hold a single rack and a couple of shelving units. Now there are renovations and ways to transform a cluttered closet that barely fits your necessities- into a customized closet with ample room for organization.
7 New Ways To Have Beautiful & Functional Storage
California Closets of the Texas Hill Country is excited to announce that they are launching seven new Ecoresins to their existing line of ten designs. Ecoresins are used as door and drawer panel inserts or as raised panel pieces. For homeowners who are looking to make their California Closets systems visually appealing as well as functional, these designer panels could be the perfect touch.
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.
Camp Barnabas, A Labor of Love by Pam Kelley
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This year I had the wonderful opportunity to work with Camp Barnabas, a nonprofit camp that provides life-changing opportunities for children with special needs. This beautiful and loving organization serves over 1,300 special needs children who travel from all regions of the U.S. each summer. For those of us who had the life-changing experience of summer camp as children and want our own children to share in similar experiences, Camp Barnabas provides just that for children with mental or physical challenges and/or chronic illnesses. A Christian summer camp, Camp Barnabas was established to give children who are faced with incredibly adult challenges year-round the opportunity to experience life as a kid. Each summer children with special needs come to be participants in life rather than observers of a life that they cannot participate in.
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.
