How to find the perfect interior designer or decorator for your dream home makeover  Yahoo Life

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22 Brooklyn Interior Designers to Know From the AD PRO Directory  Architectural Digest

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We Asked Interior Designers To Share Their Favorite Fall Decor Picks, Starting At $10  Southern Living

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Wendy Glaister is named a finalist for HGTVs Design of the Year  EIN News

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The House That Saved the 2024 Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas  PaperCity Magazine

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6 Things Interior Designers Say They Would Never Buy  Southern Living

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30 New Design Books That Are Worth Adding to Your Cart ASAP  Veranda

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At the Kips Bay Decorator Show House Palm Beach, AD100 designer Sara Story brought to life the Shangri-La lounge, an oasis of cacti and sculptural furniture that paid homage to Mexican architect Luis Barragns penchant for texture and color blocking. In the midst was this cabinet by Reynold Rodriguez from the Charles Burnand Gallery, which sat in an undulating niche. It created such a unique focal point, almost like a wink, she says. Rodriguezs curio, crafted from sculpted and molded plaster, sat on a base of hurricane-felled mahogany, and Story loved how it offered a strong juxtaposition to the rooms patterns and vivid hues. The curves of the cabinet echoed those in the sofa andPercival Lafer chairs, she explains. It was important to me to have all of these contrasting elements but keep a sense of balance.

A rounded wall in Lark + Palms guest suite at the San Francisco Decorator Showcase afforded the Sausalito-based AD PRO Directory studio the opportunity to brighten the corner with a striking oak desk and bookshelves. Considering it was a petite bedroom, founding principals Ansley Majit and Stephanie Waskins knew that the wall needed to make a statement as bold as the one behind the adjacent twin beds.

We wanted to create the feeling of a classic writing table with a contemporary spin, which is why we decided to float the pieces rather than add bracketing or legs. Wrapping them around the wall was a given, but we spent a lot of time poring over the details of the drawer placement and the steps of the beading detail, says Majit. Custom-designed by Lark + Palm, fabricated by Di Build, and adorned with Nest Studio hardware, the desk and shelves were bolstered by a bespoke chair that nodded to the screen-like headboard and angles on the bed wall. The corner served as a reflection of the whole room, adds Majit, a combination of masculine and feminine, contemporary and traditional.

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Snapchat Plus subscribers are getting a new feature that allows you to design your own virtual house to show off on the Snap Map. You can view your house at any time by visiting the map, as can anyone you share your location with.

Your customization options range from drabby shacks to extravagant multistory abodes and castles. It essentially lets you show off your location with a more inviting curb appeal than the lifeless gray cuboid structures that typically populate the map. Theres not much other utility there right now except to give Snapchat Plus members a little something extra to justify yet another social media subscription in their monthly budget.

But maybe its a segue to something more? Im imagining an AR experience a la Pokmon Go, except its more Animal Crossing and you can play interior decorator and invite your friends in for a quick furniture flex or a Snap viewing party. (Perhaps its best Im not in charge of these decisions.) At the very least, its a more fun tell of your social opulence than a blue checkmark.

Premium Snapchatters will also soon see their pets accompany their Bitmoji while typing in chats, as well as the ability to post bite-sized Snaps that expire in fractions of a second (as quick as .10 seconds). All users will get a mirror that lets you view yourself using your phones selfie camera while customizing a Bitmoji. There are also new AI lenses incoming, including one that reimagines you as a five-year-old which actually might be useful for someone who doesnt have toddler pictures of themselves for whatever unfortunate reason.

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When you admire a particularly great at-home gallery wall you know, the kind with a bunch of framed pieces hung together just so on Instagram, you rarely think about the level of care it took to install each piece. Unless youve done a gallery wall yourself, that is, and remember the number of holes and uneven patches that live secretly behind your own art.

Take it from me: Gallery-wall hanging is not easy to pull off. I used to hang pictures by hammering a nail into the wall and hoping for the best. Picture-hanging hardware? Why bother! A hammer and any sort of nail, and I was good to go. But when it came to precision, this posed a problem. Nails hammered into the wall at an angle are never at the exact same angle (unless you use picture-hanging hardware), so pictures often end up looking slightly askew and dont sit flush against the wall. The whole thing looks a bit homemade, and not in a good way.

That was many years ago, before I worked as an interior decorator and understood why the age-old measure twice, cut once philosophy can be applied to almost everything. And, most importantly, it was before I knew about the Takker.

A DIY tool that solves all the above issues, the Takker first came to my attention around 2009 when my mother in Ireland produced one from the cupboard to hang a picture. It had made an appearance on Dragons Den (the Shark Tank of Ireland) and soon found its way into Woodies DIY (the Home Depot of Ireland). The idea behind it was to invent a super-simple way to hang pictures and mirrors up to 22 pounds on drywall, wood, plaster, and aerated concrete block. To date, theres a Takker in 10 percent of homes on the Emerald Isle.

Heres how it works: You mark the spot, load some of the included Takks into the rear of the device, and give a satisfying punch to the large round red button, which pushes a Takk firmly and securely into the wall at an ecstatically perfect 90-degree angle. No risk of accidentally hammering your thumb, no loud repetitive banging sounds, no problem. The red button has a fun game-show feeling, as well.

I have always hung things directly on the Takk, but the Takker kit now comes with brass picture hooks, razor hooks, and large plastic hooks that work in tandem with the Takks. Ive hung pretty much all my art under 22 pounds using the Takker. Ive hung art at 11 p.m. without risk of disturbing the neighbors, and Ive used it to hang the aforementioned precise grid gallery wall-art installation, which went fairly well, despite the most uneven walls imaginable.

The Takks themselves resemble pushpins (but smaller), and when you remove one from the wall, it leaves a 1-mm. hole thats so tiny you can hardly see it, even when youre standing right there. As someone who perennially prefers white walls, I can attest to the fact that these holes are practically unnoticeable, even with 20/20 vision. (Ive used the Takker to hang Christmas decorations, leaving barely visible holes when it was time to take them down.) Although the Takks are hypersecure, they actually slide out very easily via an in-built removal slot in the device, so they can be reused. In lazier times, Ive used a hammer hook to get them out, which leaves a scuff mark on the wall. Will I ever learn? Dont be like me, your lazy friend; use the Takker slot. Its there for a reason.

Just note: The Takker works amazing on drywall and wood, but it doesnt work on exposed brick or exposed concrete block. That said, following the success of the original, the company invented a second version called the Hardwall Takker that can handle brick and even ceramic tile. Amazing! Maybe Ill test it out. Stay tuned.

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