Interior Design

The Modern Luxury Interior Design Style is the unabashed embrace of luxury living in today’s contemporary style. It uses elegant fabrics and beautiful finishes. Large scale and simple lines reinforce this feeling of elegance. Comfort is never sacrificed. Worn finishes may be used, but when they are, they still denote beauty and luxury – not [...]

Pantone, paint companies and many designers have flooded us with 2022 Color of the Year predictions. However — over half of the Color of the Year selections for 2022 are green! You may or may not consider yourself a green person. But we’d like to show you what all the buzz is about. Maybe you’ll [...]

Design impact you can make in weeks rather than months These days a “quick holiday room refresh” may sound like a pipe dream. You’ve heard the stories: supply chain problems, long order times, yadayadayada. But don’t fear, design lover… there are things that you can get done. There are changes that you can make before [...]

The sofa is usually the largest and most important piece in a living room. It is an important investment and deserves your best effort. We’d like to offer these eight living room sofa ideas to get you thinking beyond the basics. Scale your sofa for your room But what does that mean exactly? It isn’t [...]

Custom order furniture is what we do at BY DESIGN. We love custom furniture for our clients for so many reasons (read six reasons to choose custom furniture here). We’ve selected sources for our furniture who are among the fastest in the industry. Unfortunately, production is slow across the board right now. Nevertheless, we know [...]

Modern Eclectic Interior Design Style. Often called transitional, it’s every look from Mid-Century Modern to Urban Hip. Think contemporary but soft. It is a beautiful blend that works well in many homes and weathers the time test for year. Here is a gallery of some products that work well with the Modern Eclectic design style. [...]

Modern Eclectic design style is the name for a blend of modern and traditional styles that borrows from the best of each.

A stunning area rug is a great starting point for your room design. Here are a few new design introductions that we love. Inspiration!

The design cues and forms that we’ve loved in traditional design have combined with a modern sensibility. New Classics interior design style has emerged from this evolution. This style brings a wonderful array of detail and a sense of warmth. New Classics is traditional, yet so modern in how it lives in our homes. Fabrics [...]

Our Reinvented Recliner collection completely remakes the idea of a recliner. These new, stylish recliners are a client and designer favorite

A gallery of great new products perfect for your “Organic Modern” interior design style rooms. Stylish, trend-forward and comfortable.

COMFORT SLEEPER – the best sleeper on the planet. Here are ten other reasons you should consider this amazing furniture for your home.

Products are the furniture and accent pieces we use to make your home functional and beautiful. What is more, great products are the tools we use to express your design style. So if the Modern Luxury interior design style is the perfect look to build your design with… here are some great products to consider: [...]

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If you like beautifully styled modern sofas, sectionals and chairs, you’ll love EASE. First let’s talk style. Here are a few examples of the EASE collections great styles. (We’d love to show you more!) Here is the Tess sofa. Flowing lines are emphasized by tight back and bench seat. Sculpted flair arms and steel legs [...]

New Bedroom Introductions Here are some great Four Hands products in bedroom designs. Four Hands excels at the Modern Casual or Organic Modern design style so popular today. We love these looks! https://youtu.be/d8BuTas-AA4 Featured here: Dalton Headboard is coolly modern, featuring natural top-grain leather paneling features whipstitch detailing for a touch of texture, wrapping gunmetal-finished [...]

Four Hands has introduced stunning new living room pieces. The ideas will be reflected in many design-forward rooms in the coming year. Take a look! https://youtu.be/HI__FsWs1Pc Featured here: The Bingham Coffee Table: An organic-spirited statement piece. A drum-style coffee table of distressed iron rests within a sculptural cradle base of rustic, character-rich oak with beautiful [...]

Exciting new dining room introductions from market.

The Emerson Table group is a great design that works in many design styles.

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A Sleeper that REALLY Doesn’t Look like a Sleeper One of the reasons we love the Comfort Sleepers is that they are wonderfully designed additions to your home. Each design is something we are proud to put in our client’s room. However, if you’d like a sleeper that will startle most visitors when you casually [...]

One of the most important things we offer you is our selection of vendors. They are quite literally our partners. Here are some of our Premium Furniture Manufacturers. Norwalk Furniture Norwalk Furniture has been our lead custom upholstery supplier since the beginning. They allow us to offer our clients hundreds of pieces of well designed, [...]

Our thoughts on the trade-offs of choosing leather furniture You love leather furniture:  leather sofas, leather sectionals and chairs, leather recliners.  Heck, you love leather ottomans!  And you’re right to love them.  Leather is a superb choice for your furniture in Des Moines and Iowa.  Here are the issues and our take on them: Cost [...]