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Retail Star spotlight: GCD Home Furnishings & Decor

By Alethea Nale 1 month ago

GCD Home Furnishings & Decor, Savannah, Ga.

Home Accents Today’s Retail Stars list recognizes independent brick-and-mortar retailers of home accents – including furniture stores, home accessories boutique stores and interior design showrooms – that merchandise creatively, have a positive presence in their local communities and stand out from the competition.

View the complete list here.

To nominate a retailer for our 2021 list, email Thomas Lester at [email protected]

GCD Home Furnishings & Décor

Savannah, Ga.

1 store

Estimated 2019 total sales: Less than $1 million

gcdhome.com

Home accent specialist, founded in 2016. Attends Atlanta Market and High Point Market to

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Nature inspired decals for your home wall decor

By Alethea Nale 1 month ago

Who doesn’t like to decorate the walls of their home? But the idea seems too hassling and many give up on their wishes as not everyone can get themselves expensive paintings, lightings, and other decorative fixtures. So how do you fill-up the emptiness of the walls in your house?

Beautiful nature inspired wall decals, which are also known as wall stickers, can be used as a great alternative as decor options. These decals with nature’s essence will light up your home space and add freshness to your space.

We’ve listed some great decal options to choose from so you can

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Decorating Kitchens With Green Countertops | Home Guides

By Alethea Nale 2 months ago

Consider your preferred color scheme and design style before decorating a kitchen with green countertops. Green is a relaxing, soothing color that’s found in a wide variety of kitchen color palettes. Some green hues work better with particular decorating styles than others. For example, dark greens work well in traditional or Old World styles, and bold, bright greens enhance contemporary design.

Earthy

Green countertops open the door for decorating your kitchen in a natural, earthy style. Shades of green, brown, white and beige make up the soothing color palette of an earth-inspired design. Paint walls with a nontoxic paint in

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$1,350,000 home is ideal balance of lush rural life and contemporary design

By Alethea Nale 2 months ago

Verdant pastures meet slick contemporary designs with this home located near Iowa City.

Verdant pastures meet slick contemporary designs on this six-acre $1,350,000 home selling in eastern Iowa at 5108 280th Street NE, Iowa City. Oasis is the word to describe this property. Working from home will become your new favorite choice.

Verdant pastures meet slick contemporary designs on this six-acre $1,350,000 home selling in eastern Iowa at 5108 280th Street NE, Iowa City. Oasis is the word to describe this property. Working from home will become your new favorite choice.

Verdant pastures meet slick

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Give your spaces the feel of luxury and modern designs with Befarha – a home furnishing line – brand post

By Alethea Nale 2 months ago

From an artistic direction of designing to the manufacturing of the best in Home Decor: a blend of global style has been brought to an Indian production with BeFarha Homes. A modern home furnishings line that is unique in their choice of colour, make, and utility while giving life to spaces that are both sophisticated and delicate extensions of the client’s interests.

With an aesthetic and creative outlook from design to production, the goal of BeFarha is to create homes with hints of style along with warm and welcoming spaces. Designing products with the perfect colours, patterns and styles, this

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Interior Decorating | Home Guides

By Alethea Nale 2 months ago

When decorating your home, it is always important to remember that each room deserves unique considerations. Get tips on interior decorating with help from an interior and life designer in this free video series.

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How to Decorate a Living Room Like a Cottage

Decorating a living room like a cottage is a great way to give a space a warmer, cozier look. Decorate a living room like a cottage with help from an interior and life designer in this free video clip. Hi, I’m Carol Ruth Weber of Weber Life Design and we’re here at Safavieh Home Furnishings …

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Online home decor retailer Ballard Designs to open Houston store

By Alethea Nale 2 months ago

Ballard Designs, a catalog and online retailer of furniture and home decor, will open a store in the Houston market in River Oaks Shopping Center.

The Atlanta-based omnichannel retailer will take over the 10,000-square-foot space previously occupied by Gap Stores in February, the company announced.

Ballard Designs joins other design and furniture stores in Weingarten Realty Investors’ renovated River Oaks center as it continues its brick-and-mortar expansion. The Houston store will be the chain’s 16th since first opening stores 2007.

“We’ve been serving Houston designers and homeowners for 35 years through our catalog, so we already have a large following

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Bringing it Home at AmericasMart’s Fall Design Week

By Alethea Nale 2 months ago

If there is a bright side to this year, it may just be that it has brought families closer together, both figuratively and literally. And as we spend day after day within our homes and yards, well-designed spaces have never been more important. Consumers are willing to invest in home improvement and furnishings to make life a little more comfortable. Fall Design Week at AmericasMart is your chance to restock inventory and source for upcoming design projects to help give your clients and customers the homes they are longing for.

Fall Design Week is a three-day in-person buying event in

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The art of home decorating

By Alethea Nale 2 months ago

The art of home decorating

Casa de Memoria, the Lhuillier-managed auction house, offers the perfect opportunity to spruce up your living space with Tercero, its upcoming online auction this Sept. 26 at 2 p.m. The auction will feature over 200 European and Filipino art pieces.

Lhuillier-Albani, together with interior decorator Ram Bucoy and consultant Monchet Olives, hosted an online press preview via Zoom to give a sneak peek at Tercero. They offered advice on decorating living spaces, especially now when many of us are stuck at home.

Casa de Memoria general manager Camille Lhuillier-Albani said, “Art has been used

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Custom home design fits to perfection

By Alethea Nale 2 months ago

New home builders’ production homes — the various models on display in show home parades in new communities — feature designs with a variable amount of flexibility of being changed by home buyers.

a kitchen filled with lots of furniture: The chef's kitchen in a Silverhorn estate home by McKinley Masters.

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The chef’s kitchen in a Silverhorn estate home by McKinley Masters.

Set plans add a scale of economy  to the homes, plus builders can build and deliver the homes to new owners more quickly, just two of the difference between production homes and custom-built homes.

“There are many differences between buying a custom-designed and a production model home, the main difference being

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Historic home gets modern updates | News, Sports, Jobs

By Alethea Nale 2 months ago

This French chateau-style home started out as a Victorian home but has transformed itself once again with modern amenities and inspired interior design. LORENA BENIQUEZ/West Branch Life

With so many architectural jewels on Williamsport’s Grampian Boulevard, it is tough competition to standout — but one French chateau does just that. Located at 235 Grampian Blvd., the historic home recently got an update with new technology and daring design.

“It has a modern floor plan that preserves the historical features,” said Fish Real Estate Agent Denise Reis, who is familiar with the home.

Built in 1898, the home has a storied

Interior

Spruce Up Your Home for Zoom Calls with These Interior Design Tips

By Alethea Nale 2 months ago

By now, your bosses and colleagues have probably seen more of your abode than you would’ve ever expected to show them.

With many of us working from home these days, meetings held over video conferencing apps the likes of Zoom and Microsoft Teams have become the new normal. Inevitably, this means letting colleagues into our residences — albeit virtually — and having them catch glimpses of it via our backdrop. Depending on where your workspace is located, this view could range from a boring blank wall to windows or cluttered bookshelves.

Your makeshift office may not be the most glamorous,

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Modern home with history (Sponsored)

By Alethea Nale 2 months ago

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Modern home with history (Sponsored)

The perforated black steel staircase allows light to flow throughout the home, and is a nod to its industrial past while serving as a bold statement intertwined throughout each floor.

Modern home with history (Sponsored)

The ten foot ceilings make an impactful statement throughout the home, providing depth and volume rarely seen.

Modern home with history (Sponsored)

The kitchen is designed to completely disappear into the background, while also serving as an anchor to the expansive entertaining level.

Modern home with history (Sponsored)

The floor to ceiling

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The One Easy Home Upgrade Interior Designers Recommend for Fall

By Alethea Nale 2 months ago

The leaves are changing, the temperature’s getting cooler, and once again—for better or for worse—pumpkin spice has permeated everything. That can only mean one thing: fall is right around the corner. For those looking to upgrade their home décor for the season, there are the obvious additions pulled out every year: a pumpkin here, a bowl of pinecones there. However, for anyone who wants a more understated way to transform their space, there’s one genius piece of fall home decor interior design experts can’t live without.

According to Sara Burack, a real estate agent at Nest Seekers International who

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Lowe’s Reveals Home Decor Selections From Jason Wu, Christian Siriano, and Rebecca Minkoff

By Alethea Nale 2 months ago

Jason Wu’s mood board.

Photo: Courtesy of Lowe’s

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For Lowe’s chief brand and marketing officer Marisa Thalberg, it’s clear that the connection between home decor and fashion isn’t much of stretch. “Our homes are more than just places we live,” she said during a virtual chat last Thursday. “They are a place of self expression.” As the same can easily be said of our clothing choices, this has become one of the guiding principles in the partnership between

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Fall home decor trends: Comforting hues, flexible design

By Alethea Nale 2 months ago

In recent years, brown anything in a living space was considered by some arbiters of decor as drab and outdated. But this fall the hue is back in favor, in part because of the unsettled, anxious state of the world.

“Brown traditionally makes people feel comfortable and safe, and those are feelings that many of us are looking to our homes to provide,” says interior designer Dawn Hamilton of Oakland Park, Florida.

It’s just one of the trends in decor this season, when the pandemic has made home an even more essential space for living, working, studying and more. Also

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Amy Astley, Architectural Digest Editor-In-Chief, Discusses The Pandemic’s Lasting Impact On The Home, Design And The Magazine Industry

By Alethea Nale 2 months ago

Amy Astley, Architectural Digest, Editor-in-chief, Condé Nast — Matteo Mobilio

When publishing giant Condé Nast closed its storied One World Trade Center headquarters on March 11, Amy Astley assumed she’d be back in her 26th-floor office within a matter of weeks. Having served as Architectural Digest’s editor-in-chief since 2016 and the founding editor of Teen Vogue for a decade before that, she had never been away from her post for long, and the prospect of leaving, her return date unknown, felt wholly unnatural. Nonetheless, the health and safety of her team was top priority, so she collected her things, instructed others to do the same, and headed

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10 ways to optimize home office and the biggest mistakes to avoid

By Alethea Nale 3 months ago

Amie T. Keener is a registered interior designer and associate at Gensler.
Many people may have set up their home offices not expecting to be there for the long haul, but it’s becoming increasingly clear we may be home for several more months.
Now you may be scrambling to create a better home office.
But before you do so, pay attention to these possible pitfalls, especially when ordering furniture online.
Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories.

Like many others, I initially thought we would be working from home just a couple of weeks.

I set up a bar height

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Interior design for home quarantining

By Alethea Nale 3 months ago

The coronavirus pandemic has affected many aspects of life, and interior designers are taking note. In the webinar “Where Will 2021 Take Interior Design?” Rhonda Peterson of Rhonda Peterson and Associates in Atlanta said 2021 is heading into some different areas.

Peterson took part in the educational seminar, which was offered during the summer Las Vegas Market. The biannual trade show at the World Market Center bucked 2020 convention and held its Aug. 30-Sept 3 event in person, however, its series of educational seminars were held online.

“Because so many of my clients are quarantined in their homes, they have

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How to Start an Interior Design Brand Right at Home

By Alethea Nale 3 months ago

You can start an interior design brand all on your own, right from your own home. You could want to be a buyer, decorator, or start a lifestyle magazine. Anything that relates to interior design and décor will benefit from you first proving yourself in the most basic of all locations: your home.

If you can transform your home and make it look incredible, then you can have a say as a designer or as a lifestyle journalist. If you can wow people right at home, then the implication is that you can wow