Interior Designer/Decorator (Design House, Midtown, Atlanta)

March 17, 2010

Atlanta, GA

Confidential

Design an Apartment for Design Is Magazine

Magazine Cover Article or Gallery of Rooms

Design Is is Americas newest (and best), on-line magazine launching this fall. Each issue will contain articles on interior design, exterior design, and landscape design. We will also encourage our contributing writers to build an ongoing Love It, Hate It list. Each issue will also offer a catalog of our favorite vendors as well as Tips and Tricks.

Design Is will be the countrys premier resource for homeowners and renters who appreciate a modern aesthetic and have limited resources to accomplish a bold, stunning, clean look. We will explore ways to inexpensively re-invent ones interior, exterior, and landscape space. Design Is will describe how decisions were made and examine ways to re-use or re-purpose existing resources. Each issue will be available on-line and will be free to readers. Advertisers will enjoy reaching a national audience with sophisticated design aesthetics.

Design Is magazine is hosting a Design House featuring the renovation of an historic 6000 square foot midtown mansion being restored as four luxury apartments and a carriage house studio that will decorated as a Gallery of Rooms. The Gallery of Rooms will be published throughout our first issues and will be available as a web-based gallery for years to come.

We are looking for hot, fresh talent to design and possibly decorate each of the five units and the main lobby on the property. Each apartment is spacious with high ceilings, large windows, and hardwood floors, We have available:

Unit A, a three bedroom, two bath apartment with a rambling floor plan on the first floor,

Unit B, a two bedroom, two bath apartment on the first floor,

Unit C, a three bedroom, two bath apartment on the second floor with deck

Unit D, a two bedroom, two bath apartment on the second floor with lots of exposed beadboard, siding, and old-house charm.

Unit CH, the large studio/one bedroom, one bath apartment in the carriage house with a deck.

A grand foyer with Victorian details, a beautiful staircase, and a huge volume of space.

In the interest of exploring high-impact, affordable solutions, each unit has a modest budget for:

Lighting

Bath and Kitchen Fixtures

Kitchen Countertops (weve assumed granite or equal)

Kitchen Cabinets We have salvaged an array of cabinets that are available for placement in each unit.

Kitchen Appliances We want high-end features with low-budget costs.

Paint

Hardwood Floor Refinish (First Floor)

Carpet and Tile (Second Floor)

Trim and Finishing Details

It is anticipated that each featured designer will want to make design decisions for all of these features for one unit. If a designer would like to tackle only one or two rooms, this can be arranged as well. Electrical work will determine light-fixture and outlet placement, so timing is critical if you would like input into these decisions.

We would also like each designer to explore ways to stage each apartment for showing and photography. Use your contacts and resources to display your favorite venders merchandise. We are happy to offer for sale any items that your contacts would like to part with. A kick-off party will offer exposure to your work and to your vendors merchandise. Each room will be on display for at least a month for photography, documentation, and show. Once each apartment is rented, the furnishings that have not sold will be returned to your vendor in showroom condition. However, each room will be an advertisement for venders and designers for at least a year. We have made some preliminary contacts with high-end retailers who are open to this idea.

Each designer should document the decision-making process, venders used, and finishes selected. These will be useful in publishing each room. We will want product costs, specifications and retail outlets where readers might acquire your recommended products. We have a graphics team to help represent your conecpts, if needed. The magazine will offer free advertising to any vendor who donates items for display/purchase in any room you design and decorate.

The Design Is Design House has currently been cleared of extraneous walls. Drop ceilings have been removed. The floor plans are now obvious with framing taking place currently. Plumbing, electric and hvac are slated to take place within the next few weeks. If designers want input into locations of these aspects, we will want to meet very soon. A crew for framing, tile, hardwood floor refinishing and painting has been hired and will be paid by Design Is separately from each units interior budget. Interior installations will take place at the direction of each designer. Any permanent decisions (paint, flooring, appliances, lighting, etc.) will need to be approved by property owners. Any temporary features (furniture, artwork, etc.) will be at the discretion of the design team.

Designers will be given full credit and free advertising for any work they do. Professional photographs of your work will be furnished to each designer.

If this opportunity appeals to you, please e-mail Walt Ray at outdoorstudio@comcast.net or call: 404.432.9320.

We look forward to meeting with you at the Design House to see if you are a designer that Design Is will feature in an upcoming issue.