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Dream about this great color trend:

Wow. How do you ever leave this room?

Emerging color trends are one of the most vibrant aspects of interior design.

Warm up your house and make it the cozy place you love to come home to.

Interiors Magazine has featured Charleston Forge in it’s magazine. We’ve been working with Charleston Forge to place their hand-crafted furniture in our customer’s homes for more years than we’d care to mention. And BY DESIGN always been proud to use their products. Every piece is hand-forged and custom finished. Each piece is created specially for our [...]

When Sally set out to find new furniture for her condo in Urbandale, she wasn’t expecting to find any interesting options due to her smaller living space. She quickly realized that would not be the case when she stopped into BY DESIGN for the first time. Jessica helped her create a design that was practical [...]

Combining the best of Scandinavian, Italian and other great European design styles in an interior design style perfect for today’s homes.

Custom dining furniture comes in a huge array of styles and sizes. See more here.

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 [...]

The case for choosing us

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.

Protect that beautiful room you’ve worked so hard to create.

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 [...]

GREAT VALUE WITH NO COMPROMISES

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Milford sofa group is showcasing the hugely popular Organic Modern design style.

INTRODUCING… We’re excited to show you the new collection of sofas and sectionals we’ve brought into our Modern Luxury room at BY DESIGN. We now have the Carmet sectional on our floor. And this single sectional represents a myriad of design possibilities for you. Because each style has three sofa configurations, a loveseat, two chair [...]

A completely new concept in furniture BY DESIGN’S new Comfort Innovations room is dedicated to innovative, functional – and beautiful – furniture. The newest products in that room are the Comfort Air chairs. Comfort Air is a complete re-envisioning of what a chair is and how it should do its job. Now give us a [...]

I’m currently in the process of redesigning our living room and thought I’d share my ideas with you…I’d love any feedback you have to give! The look I’m going for is Organic Modern…(learn more about organic modern design here) with a touch of glam. We’re adding new wood floors to the room along with a [...]