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Seminars in the Lighting & Decor Lounge at AmericasMart Atlanta include From Brick-and-Mortar to Click-and-Order — Don't miss these seminars in the Lighting & Decor Lounge. (Photo: AmericasMart Atlanta)

As Seen in the Lighting & Decor Lounge: Winter Market 2018

Last year, Lighting & Decor partnered with AmericasMart Altanta to create the Lighting & Decor Lounge on the fifth floor of Building 1. We celebrated the launch of the new magazine with a…

Lighting & Decor Lounge, AmericasMart Atlanta, Jenny Heinzen-York, James Merida, Bountiful

Graphic of woman teaching a class with visual display — (Photo: mast3r - stock.adobe.com)

9 Steps to Teaching a Successful CEU Course in Your Showroom

In an age of retail strife, building relationships with local interior and lighting designers can open new revenue streams. Looking for an easy way to get on a designer’s radar? Host a continuing…

Interior Design Continuing Education Council

Living room space with blue wall, framed wall art, herringbone flooring and wooden shelving — Wall art and herringbone flooring are on trend. (Photo: Pexels user Huseyn Kamaladdin)

Pinterest Predicts the Top 10 Home Decor Trends of 2018

With the holidays behind us and market season right around the corner, it’s time to get up to speed on the latest trends for 2018. At the close of 2017, Pinterest put together a report on trends to…

The Trend Curve, Pinterest, Michelle Lamb

Cup of coffee representative of coffee shops near AmericasMart Atlanta — Take the coffee, leave the line. These coffee shops near AmericasMart Atlanta will satisfy your caffeine craving. (Photo: torbakhopper via Flickr)

3 Coffee Spots Near AmericasMart that Won't Have a Line

Anyone who's ever spent time at AmericasMart Atlanta knows how vital a cup of coffee in the morning will be. In order to be your best and brightest as you stroll up and down the escalators and…

AmericasMart Atlanta, Jittery Joe's Coffee, Metro Cafe Diner, Caribou Coffee

South Shore Live It Cozy sofa in Velvet Blue — South Shore's Live It Cozy sofa in Velvet Blue

Idea Board: 2018 Color

Deep Down Color speaks to Millennials. On one end of the spectrum, saturated jewel tones pop on home furnishings in the coming seasons. Loloi’s P0565 pillow in shades of sapphire and teal wears…

Loloi, ModShop, Surya, Bungalow 5, South Shore

Designer Share team poses for a photo — The Designer Share team from left to right: model and content curator Nicole Ross, intern Michelle Stephens, CEO and co-founder Sarah Perkins, Community Manager Danielle Metzler and Chairman and co-founder Bill Meyer. (Photo: Roxy Yang)

The Generational Tightrope: Working With Millennials

At 9 a.m. on a Monday morning, two co-founders, a community manager and an intern gather around a wooden table at their Chicago office. Each one has a laptop sitting in front of them, but no one…

Designer Share LLC, Sarah Perkins, Bill Meyer, 60 Minutes, University of Chicago

Bedroom with gray task light from Lucas + McKearn — Task lighting, like this table lamp from Lucas + McKearn, can play a big role in aging-in-place — if that's what we should call it. (Photo: Lucas + McKearn)

Should We Call it Aging-in-Place?

By 2036, one in five people in the U.S. will be over the age of 65, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies. As Baby Boomers begin to exit the workforce and retire, retailers and…

Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, aging-in-place, HomeAdvisor, Aging in Place Starts With Holistic Home Improvement, University of Notre Dame School of Architecture

Social media Lighting & Decor social media fatigue — So many social media accounts, so little time. Don't let social media fatigue bog you down. Check out our helpful tips.

How to Fight Social Media Fatigue

When it comes to social media postings, you have the best intentions for your business. In the New Year, you promise you'll post every day. You swear you'll start taking more photos for Instagram.…

social media, social media marketing, Facebook, Pinterest, SEO

LED shelf lighting undercabinet lighting — This collection of Fiestaware is best illuminated from the front because it is solid. Photo by Randall Whitehead.

Shelf Awareness

Q. What is the best way to light shelving? A. First off, you have to think about how translucent or opaque the objects are that you’re trying to illuminate. Solid items, like chinaware and books,…

Randall Whitehead, The Lighting Doctor, Undercabinet Lighting, Shelf lighting

Røros Tweed Hygge — Bring Hygge into the new year with Røros Tweed and these other companies.

Hygge (Hue-guh) It Out

You know that moment when your home is clean and quiet and you’re wearing your cozy socks and there’s no place in the world you’d rather be? That, my friends, is Hygge, the state of being cozy and…

Arteriors, accent chair, Anna Karlin, table lamp, portable lamp