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Interior Design News On 05/01/2008

April 30, 2008 – 9:30 pm

  • NJ’s Borgata building outdoor smoking lounges

    Smoking casino patrons visiting the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa this fall will still be able to light up, but not inside.

    The casino is planning to comply with a new law banning smoking on the casino floor by constructing covered outdoor smoking areas, which won’t be completely enclosed, in the hopes of keeping loyal customers who smoke.

    The Borgata will also do a massive renovation of its 2,000 hotel rooms this fall at a cost of “tens of millions of dollars,” president Larry Mullin told The Associated Press Wednesday.

    “It will be very nice looking,” Mullin said of the lounges, adding that they will cost several million dollars to build. “We also think it will be very popular with our employees.” The outdoor smoking areas won’t require a ventilation system like an indoor smoking lounge would, and will be heated in the winter months to keep smokers comfortable, Mullin said.

    Smoking will still be permitted in some hotel rooms.

    tags: borgata, outdoors, smoking, hotel, casino, spa

  • Home Interiors files for bankruptcy protection

    Home Interiors & Gifts Inc., which sells decorating accessories through home parties, has filed for bankruptcy protection and says it will restructure under a turnaround expert.

    The company said it filed Tuesday for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Dallas but is remaining in business.

    The company said it expects to continue paying employees and 100,000 sales consultants with court approval. It hired a chief restructuring officer, Richard Lindenmuth.

    Its largest unsecured creditors include UPS Inc., owed $2 million, and FedEx Corp. and hotel operator Gaylord Entertainment Co., each owed $1.4 million.

    Parties related to Highland Capital Management LP own a majority of the company’s stock and more than 75 percent of its secured debt, according to court filings.

    tags: home interiors, home, interiors, decor, bankruptcy

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Interior Design News On 04/30/2008

April 29, 2008 – 9:30 pm

  • Interior Design Showcase in Historic Home

    A formidable two-story brick house stands in Georgetown; its exterior gives no hints as to what awaits inside. Once a school for boys in the 1840s, the historic home located at 3014 P St. NW was completely renovated and given over to 15 area interior designers to create the 2008 DC Design House, benefiting the Children’s National Medical Center. The interior is a showcase of sophisticated design, style and luxury; perfect for the neighborhood.

    Purchased by Skip and Debbie Singleton in 2007, the couple wanted to restore the home keeping the historic facade, but updating and completely gutting the interior to design a new modern floor plan. Interior designers from the D.C. area then set about decorating and designing the feel and layout of each room of the house, turning it into a showcase of modern interior design. The result is modern luxury that pays homage to its historic roots. Because of its past life as a boys school, the Singletons felt that a benefit for the Children’s National Medical Center would be appropriate for the show house, with admission to the house being donated to the Center.

    tags: historic, home, design, house

  • How To Create The Perfect Interior Design For Your Home

    Whether you’re building a new home or renovating your present home, you’ll be giving a lot of consideration and thought to the type of style you want for the space and what the final design will look like. There are many different styles available today, with one appealing to you more than the other.

    You may choose to use the services of an interior decorator or choose to do it yourself. Either way there are specific items in your home that will require the most details to get the renovating or design perfect. What are they? Let’s go through them right now.

    1. Interior doors

    Doors are a large part of your home. Although the architectural design of your home many seem like the most important detail, your interior doors will greatly influence the style of your home. Whatever style you decide you want to go with for your home, make sure the interior doors fit that style. For instance, if your home were designed in an elegant or classical decor, you would want elegant doors with character such as you’d see in French doors. You would not get the same elegant feel with plain doors without this detailing.

    tags: syndication, interior, doors

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Interior Design News On 04/18/2008

April 17, 2008 – 9:30 pm

  • Victoria Dominates 2008 Interior Design Awards

    Leading Victorian designers, Scott Walker and Robert Backhouse from Hassell, were announced the winners of the coveted Best of State Award for Residential Interior Design during the prestigious 2008 Interior Design Awards gala presentation held on Friday 11th April, 2008 at the Hilton Hotel Sydney. Victoria dominated the Residential Interior Design award category, with Walker and Backhouse also receiving top industry accolades as winners of the national Residential Interior Design award for the same project – the ‘Ross Street Residence’. In addition, all highly commended projects for the Residential Interior Design Category were by Victorian practices – an unprecedented outcome in the programme’s 5 year history.

    ‘Ross Street Residence’, designed by Hassell, was praised by the Interior Design Awards Jury as being, “A finely crafted, elegant interior that blurs at the edges where it connects with its enclosing architecture and meets its external surroundings. The wonderful sculptural nature of the internal spaces is extended and enlivened by an abundance of natural light. The absence of conventional domestic spatial paradigms and the considered use of materials and finishes complete the composition, ensuring that this family home will bring enjoyment to all who visit and dwell within it, a sentiment that has been wholeheartedly confirmed by the client.”

    tags: interior design, victorian, design, award, residential, decor

  • Edmunds.com’s Santa Monica Office Space Wins Interior Design Award

    The Southern California Chapter of the International Interior Design Association has announced that the winner of a Calibre 2008 Design award is Studios Architecture for its design of Edmunds.com’s headquarters in Santa Monica, California.

    Edmunds.com, the premier online resource for automotive information, contracted Studios Architecture for the design of an employee-friendly and productivity-enhancing work space for its 400 employees. Both a photo gallery and a video tour of the office space are available on Edmunds.com’s Web site.

    “We invested in this process to create a more effective working environment, and we selected an architect who shared that vision,” said Avi Steinlauf, President and Chief Operating Officer of Edmunds.com.

    “Edmunds realized – way ahead of the current curve – that business and architectural design should mix and that the result is a powerful creative factor in how a business can succeed and stay ahead of the competition,” noted Chris Mitchell, a Managing Principal at Studios Architecture.

    Interior Design magazine highlighted the office in its January 2007 issue, sharing that during the design process, Mitchell “played a quick word-association game: What are cars about? Sunset Boulevard, motion, being hip…This is L.A., baby.”

    tags: interior design, edmunds.com, edmunds, interiors, design, award

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