The Receiving Guide Every Designer Needs: How to Protect Every Piece, and Charge For It
The step almost no one teaches you: how to receive, inspect, protect, and charge for every piece.
The Designer's Dossier
Insider sources and key decisions that go into making a home more valuable. From Shand Design.
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20 Products Under $200
Products I would buy right now as an interior designer, that look way more expensive than they are.
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Why texture is the real secret, and how to actually get it right (without regretting it).
The Under $200 Edit
Design that punches above its price. 20 pieces we'd buy immediately, all under $200.
Steal Our Paint Schedule: Why "Off-White" Is Never Just One Decision
The layered system we use to spec paint in every room, plus how to build it yourself if you don't have design software.
Our Electrical Plan Playbook: The One Drawing That Makes or Breaks Your Design
The most overlooked drawing in your build decides how every room feels, and if it's wrong, fixing it costs a fortune. Here's exactly how we build ours, down to our ledger.
Stop Saving Pinterest Boards. Here's How Designers Actually Find Inspiration.
The list of things we look at before we ever build a mood board, and why the furniture is the last thing on it.
How We Went From 1,000 to 70,000 in 7 Months
As an Interior Design Studio, here's the exact system we studied, tested, and ran to grow this fast, and why we treated Instagram like the business it is.
Why Lighting Should Be the First Thing You Plan, Not the Last
How designers build an electrical plan before a single wall goes up, the exact questions to ask (contractor, architect & client), and our favorite sourced lights.
The Most Undervalued Skill in Interior Design: And the Exact Systems We Use to Get It Right
Communication isn't the soft part of running a design firm. It's the whole thing. Here's how we document, organize, and over-communicate on every project.