March 22nd, 2010 — 5:14pm
Thanks so much to Molly Anderson from Apartment Therapy San Francisco for posting about us! We are so thrilled to have been picked up and shared with your readers. Thanks a million.
If you find yourself needing to be inspired for a big bathroom or kitchen remodel here is one solution. Design in a Bag offers beautiful design samples for the kitchen and bath that are sent to you (in a bag, of course) along with images of what they will look like when they are all put together. Read more at Apartment Therapy .com
Also, we saw some comments made on this post and on another blog post that got us thinking we should talk about some of the points here rather than bore you to death with it on our “about” page. Of course we love the love, but the challenges are terrific and this is the perfect place to talk about them.
We made a conscious decision to not talk on the website about the endless reasons why Design in a Bag is not meant to replace a professional designer or replace the creative process in general.
- For those who can, do. For those who can’t or don’t want to… Design in a Bag. But even more so, even for those who can, who actually enjoy the creative process of putting materials together and agonizing gleefully over the combinations (like us)…this saves people like you hours of running around getting samples.
- And you get 3d renderings, a resource shopping list, and paint swatches to boot! So it saves money on paint, and it’s good for the environment and it’s good for the room in your basement that’s not longer full of paint cans from swatch tests…ok, so less paint cans. We hope people see this as the interior design Tupperware party of the future. Order a few, swap and mix and match with friends, experiment and gain confidence because you have the materials in your hand and in your home.
Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?
- Sure, some people will just look at the different combos, take the ideas, and go off and put them together on their own. But we’re willing to take that chance, and hope that people see the real benefit is in the touching and feeling and seeing the materials in your space, not just on a computer screen.
- The combination of the materials, 3d renderings and paint swatches bridges the gap between a tear sheet in a magazine or a picture on a design blog and your actual space in your home. So many people look at pictures and can’t wrap their head’s around how to translate what they see into their own space.
- Design in bag is primarily for people who don’t have access to interior designers or don’t have access to many of these design materials. It’s for people who can’t afford an interior designer and for people that really struggle with making decisions and pulling elements together - but it’s also for people who are working with designers to get a jump start on a project or even for designers themselves to easily and conveniently order samples and mix.
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March 20th, 2010 — 4:59pm
Thanks to Poppytalk for picking up Design in a Bag on their blog!
Design in a Bag are ready-made interior design samples for the kitchen and bath created by Chicago-based designers Rebekah Zavelhoff and Nick Nichols of kitchenlab-chicago.com. Starting at $59 each bag includes beautiful samples for tiles, counters, cabinets, counters, paint suggestions as well as images/renderings of what they will look like when they are all put together. Choose from more than 30 bags based on style and tones or order a custom one. Available online at designinabag.com. Read more…
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March 19th, 2010 — 4:55pm
Thanks to Brittany Stiles for posting about Design in a Bag on her blog
Thursday, March 18, 2010
I got a call from a potential client this morning inquiring about help with her kitchen remodel. She said she had a good start already because she had purchased a “Design in a Bag” that she saw in Better Homes and Gardens. Now she just needed a little guidance and direction in terms of construction, functionality, and implementing the design. Read more….
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March 5th, 2010 — 4:24pm
Design in a Bag wants to thank Better Homes and Gardens Magazine for including us in the March 2010 issue by announcing a giveaway for lucky Better Homes and Gardens readers
The winners of this giveaway: 5 lucky BHG readers will get their choice of one Design in a Bag style from any of the ready-made, in-stock collections on our website www.designinabag.com
Sign up to win! You can get up to 3 entries plus a 4th bonus entry! See below for details.
If you’re not already a fan on Facebook or Twitter follower of Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, do it now to enter the giveaway contest.
To start, visit Design in a Bag.com to pick the bag style of your choice – you’ll need this information for the entry requirements below.
Entry #1:
Become a fan of Design in a Bag on Facebook and comment on this post which bag style you’ve chosen to win
Entry #2:
Post to your Facebook status that you’ve entered to win a Design in a Bag giveaway contest: I’m entered in a giveaway contest to win a ready-made interior design recipe for my kitchen or bath at www.designinabag.com/blog
Bonus entry #3:
Include in a tweet or Facebook post someone that you referred to enter the contest
“I hope I win, I really need a new kitchen. I got @juliez, @jillR, and @janetS to register as well!!”
Entry #4:
Follow Design in a Bag on Twitter including in your tweet or retweet: I’m entered in a giveaway contest from @designinabag and @BHG to win a ready-made interior design recipe for my kitchen or bath
Can’t wait to find out if you won? Design in a Bag is giving a 15% discount to all Better Homes and Gardens readers good through March 27th . Just use the promotional code BHG0310 to get your discount
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March 2nd, 2010 — 4:58pm
Thanks to Lipstick to Crayons for featuring Design in a Bag on their blog!
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Lesley Weidenbener is a writer in Indianapolis and the author of www.TheDesignFile.net, a blog about contemporary interior design. Visit the blog for design tips, DIY ideas and home tours. Lesley is also a newspaper reporter covering politics and state government and spends her free time working on her small city home with her handy husband.
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Over at The Design File, we’re always looking for easier ways to make our homes look fantastic. But if you’re like me, sometimes it’s hard to get the planning going for a big home project. I have so many ideas that I don’t even know where to start.
But designer Rebekah Zaveloff — who wrote the “Kitchen design trends 2010″ guest post over at The Design File earlier this month — has sympathy for folks like me. Read more…
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February 26th, 2010 — 9:12pm
Thanks so much to Lesley from www.thedesignfile.net for asking me to guest blog about kitchen design trends…thanks for so many things – for being so friendly, open and helpful when I asked a few blogosphere related questions even though we’ve never met! And last but not least, thanks for featuring Design in a Bag on your blog!
-Rebekah
A new look for your kitchen: It’s in the bag!
from the design file.net 2.25.10
If you’re like me, sometimes it’s hard to get the planning going for a big home project. I have so many ideas that I don’t even know where to start.
But designer Rebekah Zaveloff — who wrote our “Kitchen design trends 2010″ guest post earlier this month — has sympathy for folks like me.
It’s why she and John “Nick” Nichols, her husband and business partner, created Design in a Bag, which are ready-made interior design recipes for your kitchens and baths that start at just $59. You can also get customized recipes starting at $159 per bag. Read more….
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February 23rd, 2010 — 10:10pm
Thanks to Frugal Design Girl.com for their review – we’re so glad you found out about us. And we just love the Garanimals comparison…hilarious!
This is one of those “Why didn’t I think of that” moments.
Everyone (yes…everyone!) looks for fabulous kitchen decorating ideas – and designer Rebekah Zaveloff is selling them. Cheap.
Pure genius was her decision to start designinabag.com, which offers material samples for your cabinets, counters, and tile as well as paint selections (geez – let’s not forget to mention the 3-D images of what it will all look like when it’s put together.) Read more…
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February 14th, 2010 — 12:18pm
A special thanks to Better Homes and Gardens Magazine for including us in this month's issue!
If you found out about us in Better Homes and Gardens Magazine, be sure to let us know! We’d love to know what BHG readers think…what you like, what you’d like to see added or changed. Also check out our customer questionnaire if you’re looking for help selecting a style, fill this out and send us some pictures and our designer will help you select a bag style that fits you and your home. Featured here is the Kelton bag from our Classic collection. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter or Facebook to keep up with new bag collections, giveaways, contests and more!
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February 5th, 2010 — 4:02pm
Keep and eye out for the upcoming issue of Better Homes and Gardens Magazine…with a color article featuring Design in a Bag.
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