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Eight Social Media Tactics to Get More Interior Design Clients “We worked hard to produce interesting and attractive content on our blog. We promoted it by posting it on Facebook and sharing it on Twitter. Of course we have made modifications to this basic plan over the years, but that was the starting scheme and it worked pretty well.”

Oushak Before and After When our neighbors at Market Place Interiors did a photo shoot using a beautiful Oushak from the Addison/Dicus showroom, we could not resist doing a before and after.

Cowhide - From the Ranch House to the Penthouse I can't help but marvel at the extraordinary craftsmanship and creativity I'm seeing in cowhide rugs.

Vintage Anatolian Rugs Traveling to Turkey on and off for the last 12 years, I have been lucky enough to develop reliable sources for vintage and antique rugs.

Five Habits of Successful Interior Designers In over 30 years of serving the interior design community exclusively with our carpeting business, we've picked up a few consistent practices or "musts" from successful designers. The most oft repeated axiom is probably that the overwhelming majority of a designer's business comes from referrals. So it pays to invest time and energy into the relationships that you've already formed.

Miles of Great Wood Flooring Check out some samples of Addison Dicus Aria wood flooring.

A Thoroughly Modern Traditional Rug At the Domotex show, a Turkish-American designer from New York won the prize for the Best Modern Rug Design. His name is Erbil Tezcan. He is a fascinating character as well as a fabulous designer.

Tahiti Ivory Teal Sari Rug Indian saris are the colorful dress/wraps that make India a never-ending festival of color. Recently rug makers have taken the same silk as that is used to make saris and spun it into a yarn to weave rugs. The results are always surprising.

The World's Oldest Rug The Pazyryk Carpet is the world's oldest pile rug. It was found in a burial mound in the Pazyryk Valley in Siberia. Experts agree that it was most likely not made there, rather Persia or Armenia. They have dated it to some time in the 4th or 5th Century BCE.

Pink Surprise Rugs continually surprise me. I bought this one in the later part of last year on a trip to India. It's maker copied a design that he liked from the textile museum in Jaipur and gave it a modern touch by adding an "erased" component.