Category: Design

Design Interior of modern beige armchair, small wooden modern table, planter with green bushes, and contemporary tall glass chandelier, in a hall with decorated wood cladding wall, and white marble floor
Grey is Gone in '24

A new year always comes with reports of new trends in everything, be it fashion, food…or lobby and common area design in residential communities. Furnishings and design, like clothes, are the subject of style and vogue that morph and change…

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Design Man cutting wallpaper. Maintenance repair works renovation in the flat. Restoration indoors.
Maintaining Your Hallways

Your building’s lobby and hallways are the first things residents, guests, and potential buyers see - and as the old saying goes, first impressions matter. In a multifamily residential setting, be it co-op, condo, HOA, or rental, cleanlines…

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2023 Expo Functional Design for Common Spaces

Like people, buildings come in all shapes and sizes. They can range from single-story garden apartments to multi-story high-rise complexes larger than many small towns. What they have in common is some amount of community space, known as co…

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Design Meeting area in a modern creative coworking office space with couch, sofa, bar stools, leaner tables, carpet. No people, modern building interior. Photographed in Auckland, New Zealand, NZ.
2023 Expo Pandemic Design

It’s become a mantra (or maybe a cliche): The Pandemic Changed Everything. The way we work, the way we play—the way we live. While the health crisis may be waning, it’s likely that many of these changes will be permanent. The pandemic has a…

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Design Large hall hallway in classic style with wooden walls and columns with arches and white tiles on the floor
Lobby Renovations

To the untrained eye, renovating a lobby might appear to be a relatively straightforward project. It’s not a huge amount of space, there’s usually no plumbing to contend with, and it serves a fairly narrow purpose: to provide passage from t…

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Design Color Commentary
2023 Spring Color Commentary

Color affects human behavior—for better, or worse. Research indicates that practical and aesthetic applications of color in both public and private spaces can manipulate the mood and perception of the people using those spaces. A board plan…

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Design Concret ramp way with stainless steel handrail with disabled sign for support wheelchair disabled people.
2022 Spring Universal Design & the ADA

The idea that ‘form follows function’ is one of the basic concepts underlying nearly every design discipline—but function for whom? For many people living with disabilities, it often seems that ‘function’ covers a very narrow range of abili…

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2022 Spring Using Color in Your Common Areas

Design is what makes the difference between a space looking like a seductive boudoir… or the interior of a cardboard box. Neither may be appropriate for a co-op or condo lobby, but somewhere in between lies the comforting, welcoming common …

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Design Bloom Times
Bloom Times

“It looks like a photo from a magazine!” is the exclamation many a manager, broker, potential buyer and board president have made upon stepping into an otherwise generic lobby and seeing a new, eye-popping floral arrangement brightening up …

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Design What's Out Front on Lobby Design
What's Out Front on Lobby Design

With 2020 finally behind us, co-op shareholders and condominium owners are looking forward - and their boards are seeking to make improvements and changes that reflect both the crises of the past year and issues put on hold as the pandemic …

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