Advocacy Interactive Forum: Advance Your Interior Design Career

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Get the Best Sleep Ever! Luxury Products for a Relaxing Bedroom

Quality sleep plays a vital role in our overall health and wellness. Sleep allows us to recharge our mind and body, leaving us refreshed and alert to start a new day! Sleep helps to repair our heart and blood vessels and sleep deficiency is linked in an increased risk of heart disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and stroke.

Improve your overall health, wellness, and quality of sleep this year with these luxurious sleep products that will make for the most relaxing sleep ever!

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1. Hästens Down Slipper Boots

These are one of my favorites and an absolute must have! Hästens Down Slipper Boots keep your feet warm during the cold Chicago winter nights. The material is so soft and breathable, it’s like wearing clouds!

$160.000

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2. Slip Silk Pillowcases

3) Slip Silk Pillowcases help with wrinkles, bedhead, and sleep crease. Made with the highest grade of long fiber mulberry silk for softness and durability and no toxic dyes. We love the pink marble color way!

$89.00 Each/ Queen Size

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3. Morgan Lane Sleep Lids Cashmere Mask Set

This Sleepy Lids Cashmere Mask Set is the perfect splurge to treat your self! Incredibly soft with an elastic bad for a comfortable and relaxed fit. Block out the light and sleep peaceful all night!

$198.00

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4. Vitruvi Stone Diffuser

Designed to promote peace and relaxation, the Vitruvi Stone Diffuser in color Sea is one of our favorites to add ambiance to the bedroom! Add in a few drops of lavender essential oil create a serene oasis to melt away.

$119.00

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5. Proper Sleep + Calm Tea

Proper Sleep + Calm Tea is for anyone struggling with falling asleep, staying asleep, or wants to reduce stress. It’s the perfect natural supplement to add to your wellness routine to support a restful mind and body.

$39.99

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6. Hatch Restore Smart Light and Sleep Sounds

The Restore Smart Light and Sleep Sounds from Hatch can create a personalized routine to help you fall asleep, stay asleep, and wake up completely refreshed! Create a mood from a variety of soothing sounds and lights. Gently wake up to a custom sunrise alarm that supports healthy cortisol levels.

$129.95

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7. Vispring Mattress

Invest in yourself by getting the best quality sleep every night on a Vispring Mattress. The perfect amount of softness and support. Melt away in this amazing mattress. Our favorite is the Vispring Lasalle.

Vispring LaSalle: $7,562.00 - $13,862

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8. The Pillow Bar at Chicago Luxury Beds

Indulge in the perfect night sleep with a pillow made especially for you at Chicago Luxury Beds at The Pillow Bar. Their trained pillow makers will craft you a pillow for your unique sleep style, size and age.

$275 for One Queen Pillow

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9. Sferra Millesimo Bedding

The Sferra Millesimo Collection is a lusciously soft, woven, polished sateen. Featuring an Italian lace inset, with a classic motif, this is luxury bedding at its finest.

$1,695 Queen Duvet Cover

$850 Flat Sheet

$695 Fitted Sheet

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10. Luxome Weighted Blanket

This 30lb extra large weighted blanket from Luxome is engineered to help you relax and sleep better. Comes with a 100% Percale Cotton inner weighted blanket and removable cover that are both 100% machine washable.

$240

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Need help designing your dream bedroom? Schedule a design consultation today!

WE NEED YOUR HELP: Support the Interior Design Profession by Creating a Witness Slip Now

The Illinois Registered Interior Designers Act is set to expire on January 1, 2022. If our Act is not extended by the legislature this year, it will be eliminated. HB 1738, currently in the legislature, will extend our Act to 2032.

We need your support to ensure our Act is not eliminated. Supporting the profession is easy, and only takes a few seconds.

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Here’s how you can help:

No later than close of business on Tuesday (3/16), please do the following:

1. Click this link: https://www.ilga.gov/house/committees/hearing.asp?hearingid=17993&CommitteeID=2672

2. Click the light grey box at the top - “Create Witness Slip”

3. Scroll down to “HB1738 Nicholas K. Smith REGISTERED INTERIOR DESIGNERS”

4. Click the graphic that looks like a pencil and paper to the far right of “REGISTERED INTERIOR DESIGNERS”

5. Fill out ALL information boxes

   1. For “Firm/Business Or Agency” you can put “Self” or your firm, business, or agency.

   2. For representation, you can put your firm, business, or agency or “Self”

   3. Position: select “PROPONENT”

   4. Testimony: select “Record of Appearance Only”

6. Agree to terms and complete reCAPTCHA

7. Click “Create Slip”

8. Make sure you receive a success message.

9. SHARE THIS LINK WITH ANYONE WITH AN ILLINOIS ADDRESS. We need as many proponent record of appearance only slips as possible.

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Thank you for Supporting the Interior Design Profession!

- Sarah Schwuchow, ASID, NCIDQ

Registered Interior Designer in Illinois

10 Ways to Style Your Home with Vases

Accessorizing is the final layer when it comes to adding personality to your home. Even the most well designed spaces can look empty without the finishing touches added. One of our favorite ways to dial up the design is with vases. There are so many different styles, colors, materials, and textures to vases that when added, can easily elevate your home! Whether they are made of glass, porcelain, ceramic, wood, or even metal, vases can be just the thing to take your space to the next level!

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Here are 10 Ways to Style Your Home with Vases:

1) Make a statement in the foyer! Use an interesting, eye catching piece that will WOW your guests when they first walk in!

2) Decorate your living room coffee table! Remember the rule of 3’s when it comes making an arrangement. A decorative vase with flowers pairs well with a stack of books and a decorative tray.

3) Create a garden oasis in your living room! Go over the top with a big decorative vase and robust arrangement of flowers on the table.

4) The fire place mantel is calling! Use an assortment of two, three, four, our even five matching transparent vases with flowers to add airiness and natural elements to your mantel.

5) The kitchen island is a great place to bring in freshly picked flowers from the garden and add some style to the space.

6) Add visual height to a bedroom console by adding a tall sculptural vase, added flowers are optional!

7) Pick a vase with unique personality to use as a conversation starter when new guests come to visit!

8) Decorative vases are great for adding tactile and visual texture to a space, which creates a dynamic room design

9) Vases are perfect for bookshelves that need to be styled. A glass vase makes a great counterpoint and adds interest to wall full of books.

10) The dining room table is the perfect place for long stemmed vases. These vases leave a clear opening for your guests to talk across the table, while adding height to the space.

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Need some inspiration?

Here are 8 gorgeous vases we are crushing on right now!

These Accordion Vases are made of ceramic with a matte gunmetal glaze.

this gilded i-scream vase is made of high-fired porcelain with real gold accents.

This Donna Macalda Head Vase by Stefania Boemi is made entirely by hand and painted in a dark burgundy matte monochrome tint. The eyes are glazed to stand out.

The Escalier bud vases are composed of crystal blocks sitting on top of each other.

Two layers of blown glasss skillfully joined into a single orb. this vase references ITALIAN design of the early 1970’s

The gemma vase in CHAMPAGNE crustal, takes on the look of a DIAMOND with it’s sharp corners and facets.

This large vintage floor vase is from the 1950’s by bay keramik..

This Blue Bird Ceramic Vase by , is one-of-a-kind, and made using a combination of lathe and hand modeling.

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Need help accessorizing your home? Schedule a design consultation today!

Renew Your Illinois Interior Design License - Expires August 31st!

Registered Interior Designers in Illinois (RID): You must renew your active license before it expires on August 31, 2019. The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) is moving away from sending paper based renewal notifications and will only be sending electronic notifications.

Make sure your renewal notice email does not get lost in your inbox! Search for an email from FPR.Notice@illinois.gov with the subject line as “Interior Designer Renewal Notice”. This email contains your license number and pin number that you will need to renew your license.

To check if your license is active, click the link below, select INTERIOR DESIGN and enter your name.

https://ilesonline.idfpr.illinois.gov/DFPR/Lookup/LicenseLookup.aspx

All Interior Design licenses will expire on August 31, 2019 if not renewed! Once renewed, licenses are good for two years and always expire on odd years.

If you have any questions or concerns about the renewal process, contact the Department at 1 (800) 560-6420 or send a message here.

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8 Steps to Renew Your License Today

1. Visit the IDFPR website http://www.idfpr.com/Renewals/defaultSSL.asp

2. Select the BLUE box “Professions Currently in Renewal”

3. Click “Interior Designer”

4. Click the GREEN box “Credit Card - Internet Renewal”

5. Scroll down and click “Continue”

6. You will need to enter your License Number and Pin Number. You can find this in the email that was sent to you from FPR.Notice@illinois.gov with the subject “Interior Designer Renewal Notice”. If you can’t find your pin number, you can enter your social security number or date of birth.

7. Submit your payment. The Interior Design Renewal fee is $60.00, plus applicable processing fees, and is good for 2 years. Payments are non-refundable.

8. You will receive a confirmation email once your payment has been submitted. It generally takes 2 business days for the renewal processing. Once updated, print and save a copy of your renewed license, as the IDFPR is no longer mailing paper licenses.