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Design Outlook: Continued Warming

We don't do interior design forecasting or trend picking. We spend our time taking care of the current needs of our interior design customer base.

We don't pretend to know what's coming up, but we are right on the money with what's happening.

A few months back we covered here a new interest in warmer colors in rugs.

Breaking In Your New Hand-knotted Rug

Rug First

Addison/Dicus & Bailey founder, Gary Dicus, gave a great discourse on picking hand-knotted area rugs. We are in the business of selling rugs, but we don't consider it a sales pitch,

It's just damn good advice.

 

Better Interior Shots with Your Cell Phone

How many times do you as a designer pull out your cell phone and snap a picture?

Maybe you just finished a room and you need for the shot to show your work in the best possible light.

Here are a few tips that can optimize cell phone photography without bogging you down in photography arcana.

These tips are suggested by Edward Chittenden, a photographer who specializes in interior work and who also (full disclosure) is my son.

New Anatolians

A new shipment of Anatolian rugs is here!

Anatolians are simply rugs from Turkey. The word comes from Greek and means, "the East." 

Oushaks also come from Turkey and are technically "Anatolians." But because of their distinctive style, Oushaks are usually referred to as Oushaks.

As with earlier shipments these rugs are between 40 and 70 years old, making them vintage. Rugs older than 100 are dubbed "antiques."

Warming Up

Interiors tend to get freshened every 10-15 years.

During that period, things change. What was appropriate for a younger family no longer serves. People may want to simplify. They may just be tired of the old look and long for something new.  

Change was front and center at the New York Rug show, the first we have attended since the Covid19 outbreak. Presented by Cover magazine September 25-27 as "A new boutique show featuring leading high-end rug brands," the show reflects a warming trend.

Why Are My Rug and Other Deliveries So Slow?

Most modern interior furnishings spends their early days in a giant box called a shipping container.

Shipping professionals call it a Box.

It's estimated that there are between 20 and 25 million Boxes in the world.

Bob Ford

Bob Ford Sr. an absolute master of carpet installation, passed away on August 6. He was 83.

He was born in 1937. He had a large family with six brothers and four sisters. The family was very poor. The Ford’s home at the time had no running water.

This poverty increased his distaste for waste, but in no way decreased his good nature. 

How Designers Buy Rugs We feel fortunate and grateful that our business continues to thrive in this high tech age. We think that it's because we provide a special service tailored to the interior design community that they can't get from other rug merchants. 

New Condo: Modern Please

The Tampa/Orlando condo markets are booming.

According to Zillow, 651 condos were listed for sale in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties at the beginning of June.

Orlando (Orange County) listings were 520.

With Florida's explosive growth, it's almost certain that virtually all of these will be in the hands of new owners within a year. Many of these new owners will engage interior designers to beautify and organize their new homes.

We are seeing that the design trend is and will be modern.