Many of you know I spend part of my days teaching in the graduate department at the New York School of Interior Design. Well, some exciting news – yesterday after a year of hard work, NYSID introduced it’s online learning program. The online program for now is just a taste of what is involved in [...]
Last Thursday top NYC Interior Designers showcased their vignettes of donated, high-end designer goods all for sale at 50% off retail prices for Housing Works’ Design on a Dime. Together we raised 1.1 million dollars to support the thousands of New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS in New York City. These record-breaking funds will furnish the [...]
Big changes here at NYC Interior Design Firm Nirmada – we have a new name and are soon to have a new address. Nirmada Interior Architectural Design is now….KATI CURTIS DESIGN. Our new branding was designed by the incredibly talented Cooper House, and it couldn’t be more perfect. Personally, I am having a hard time [...]
Kati Curtis To Display ‘Daring’ Design At Design On A Dime Benefit We are thrilled to announce that Kati Curtis of Nirmada Interior Architectural Design has been chosen to design a vignette at Housing Works 9th Annual Design On A Dime Benefit. The 2013 benefit will take place on April 25, 2013 at the Metropolitan [...]
We’re starting out the new year with a fantastic LEED GOLD penthouse project in a new construction residential building in the Flatiron District. One would think a new construction project would be fairly straight forward and simple – but it’s actually not. Developers design these buildings so they can make fast money, and don’t always [...]
2012 has been the best year yet for the nyc interior designers at NIAD! 2013 is shaping up to be even better. But if I’ve learned anything in 20 YEARS of being an interior designer, its that it’s always good to look back, but not to stare! We always want to be innovative and find [...]
You apply the prepasted paper to your wall and when you want to take it down you simply grab the corners at the top of the strip and pull it down. The wall does not need to be repainted or anything. They also have wallpaper with different textures that is designed to be painted on. That way you can paint any color you want and when you move you just take down the wallpaper.
Emerald Green: Pantone Color of the Year 2013! Each year Pantone, the purveyors of color for the design industry, forecasts a color that will mark the year. 2013’s pick? The Pantone Color of the Year 2013 is Emerald green. (17-5641) I couldn’t agree more! Not only is this color rich and lively, it exudes luxury. It is [...]
Yesterday I traveled out to embroidery’s Mecca – Penn and Fletcher in Long Island City, NYC. Being an interior designer, of course I’m always on the hunt for new and unique items that our client’s can’t get any where else and that none of their friends will have. Penn and Fletcher is the go-to for [...]
This NYC interior designer joined her best girlfriends who run the non-profit Friends of Fresh and Green Academy for the Give Good Market, which showcased 100′s of women owned businesses hawking sustainably made gifts, all for a great cause. Today I wanted to share with you some of my favorite goods for the home, along [...]
