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Home Decor » Top 25 Interior Design & Furniture Blogs. We scoured the web looking for the best interior design and furniture blogs, and below is what we found.

Home Decor » Top 25 Interior Design & Furniture Blogs

From large multi-writer blogs like Moco Loco to more personal fare like Gaile Guevara, the below 25 blogs (plus 5 honorable mentions) are the cream of the design crop. 1. Design Sponge This style website is the cream of the crop – using a gentle and creative presentation, Design Sponge serves up multiple posts every day about home design, new and innovative products and tips on home living in a modern world. You will discover gems within every post, whether they discuss mini trends like ombre and glass lamps or give a detailed “before and after” description (complete with beautiful photos) of room and furniture redecoration. 2. For a frequently updated online magazine dedicated to everything modern, give Moco Loco a visit. 3. With the tagline “Saving the world, one room at a time,” Apartment Therapy makes it very clear that it has big dreams for its readers. Store design.

Store Design and Layout - Different Floor Plans and Layouts. Opening a retail store is no joke and requires meticulous planning and detailed knowledge.

Store Design and Layout - Different Floor Plans and Layouts

Location Make sure your store is in a prime location and is easily accessible to the end-users. Do not open a store at a secluded place. Floor Plan The retailer must plan out each and everything well, the location of the shelves or racks to display the merchandise, the position of the mannequins or the cash counter and so on. Straight Floor PlanThe straight floor plan makes optimum use of the walls, and utilizes the space in the most judicious manner. Has this retailer achieved perfection? Retail is a hard business and it is difficult to get a few things, even one thing, exactly right.

Has this retailer achieved perfection?

So when a retailer nails everything at once it's a brilliant achievement. American home furnishings retailer Williams-Sonoma has done exactly that in its store that opened Thursday morning on a pedestrian mall in Bondi Junction in Sydney. The store, which is the company's first outside of North America save a lone franchised unit in Kuwait, houses Williams-Sonoma’s four flagship brands side by side under one roof. The four brands are all strongly differentiated.

West Elm is a contemporary home furnishings brand for the design-conscious but budget-constrained aspirational shopper. Home, Luxury Furniture & Home Decor. We now offer international shipping through global provider, Borderfree.

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As you shop, you will see prices in your selected currency. You can change where you would like to ship your items in the top right corner of our website. To learn more about international shipping, please visit our International Orders page. Some items are not eligible for international shipping. Please look for eligibility notifications on our product pages, or view our guidelines to see which items are ineligible. All international orders must have a ship-to destination outside of the United States. Free Shipping promotions cannot be applied to International Orders. You can view your complete order total, including shipping fees, custom tariffs and taxes, during checkout. Layout Basics. When you start contemplating making changes to your store there are some store layout basics that you should consider.

Layout Basics

I like to start by doing enough research to know what’s working well with the current layout and what isn’t. How are people moving through the store? What are elements about your current design that you should try to save or replicate in another section of your store in the new layout? Here are some store layout basics that you should consider: There has been research, much of it by Paco Underhill and his company Envirosell, completed that gives us some very basics principles that we should adhere to. For example there should be an area inside the front door that is void of product display. Another phenomenon Underhill has observed is what he has named the “invariant right”. 6 Tips for Creating an Optimal Retail Store Layout. Store Layout & Design. Store Layout and Design Mgt. 7 Layout Secrets of the Big Retail Chains. Ever walked into a big chain store and walked out with way more than you had planned to purchase?

7 Layout Secrets of the Big Retail Chains

Big retailers certainly seem to know how to design their stores and create tempting displays to keep us shopping. RETAILOMANIA: Everything you always wanted to know about range presentation, but were to a afraid to ask. Range presentation is a crucial tool of visual communication and often a missing piece in the communication strategy.

RETAILOMANIA: Everything you always wanted to know about range presentation, but were to a afraid to ask.

The visual experience and interaction with the product is the brand come true in a very practical way. Range presentation can be used to solve the following tasks: 1. Create interest, engage and inspire the visitors2. RETAILOMANIA: Everything you ever wanted to know about making the perfect store layout, but where to afraid to ask.

The layout of any store is critical to obtain profitability.

RETAILOMANIA: Everything you ever wanted to know about making the perfect store layout, but where to afraid to ask

The main goal of layout planning is to handle customer flow, goods flow and to create as many hot spots as possible in order to control the focus of the customer around the store. A good layout ensures that the customer gets in contact with as much of the range as possible during the visit, in order to make certain that any craving could be satisfied. The fact that the customer actually get an overview of the entire offer and stays as long as possible in the store is crucial in order to obtain a high turnover from each customer.

It seems logic to presume that if we show as much as possible, something will fit the need or lust of any visitor. You can only by what you see. (Black = Customer flow, Red = Hot spots, Blue = Decompression zone) Craft Fair / Store Front Display. Innova Design Projects: Onitsuka Tiger - Retail Interior Design - Franchise Branding - Speciality Shop Fitout Design and Construction Specialists. Craft Show Display Ideas. Craft Shows/Retail Spaces - Displays and Ideas. 7 Low-Cost Design Ideas for Small Retail Spaces. Neutral-colored furniture with accent pillows and accessories doesn't overwhelm shoppers. An end table creates a divider between displays at Cocobolo Interiors in Armonk, N.Y. Credit: Tom Anckner When Julie Owen bought Cocobolo Interiors in 2008, she set about adding more contemporary items to the Armonk, N.Y., shop.

But with only 3,000 square feet, she struggled to figure out where to put her expanding line of furniture, lighting fixtures and accessories. Her solution: create sections within the shop and arrange the furniture the way customers might imagine it at home, using low bookcases and folding screens as dividers. As Owen discovered, making the most of a small retail shop means being strategic about how you design the space and organize your merchandise. 1.

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