“Housing Works is a healing community of people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. Our mission is to end the dual crises of homelessness and AIDS through relentless advocacy, the provision of lifesaving services, and entrepreneurial businesses that sustain our efforts.”
Design on a Dime is 3 days of the best bargain shopping for interior design products and accessories! Over 60 of the city’s top designers are asked to put together vignettes with brand new items donated to Housing Works from their favorite vendors and workrooms. It’s a very intense 3-1/2 months of preparation for all the design firms, asking, well really begging, for remarkable pieces of furniture, art, rugs, accessories and more to fill up the 10′ x 12′ x 8′ high plot of real estate we’re all given to furnish and decorate as we envision.
I’m personally attracted to this event is that it really flexes the creative muscles. We are asked to make a random assortment of donated items into something beautiful and cohesive. So ideas and concepts are constantly changing and evolving depending on the items coming in.
Now, what happens to the pieces? Well the designers are given a day and a half to blitz out their “white room” and make that vision turn into a reality. All the items in the vignette are fair game to be sold! Everything is marked down between 50-70% off the retail value! Yeah! Crazy good deals! And what’s better, everything is literally ready for immediate sale! You like it, you pay for it, it’s yours! You walk out the door with it! SO MUCH FREAKING FUN!!!
I’m ridiculously psyched for the installation set up to begin on Tuesday, but absolutely none of this would be possible without the generosity of all the donors! They are the reason this event is even possible! So this is a HUGE “Thank You” to this year’s group of amazing peeps that wanted to help make a difference in the lives of so many!
Thank you to:
Design on a Dime is 3 days of the best bargain shopping for interior design products and accessories! Over 60 of the city’s top designers are asked to put together vignettes with brand new items donated to Housing Works from their favorite vendors and workrooms. It’s a very intense 3-1/2 months of preparation for all the design firms, asking, well really begging, for remarkable pieces of furniture, art, rugs, accessories and more to fill up the 10′ x 12′ x 8′ high plot of real estate we’re all given to furnish and decorate as we envision.
I’m personally attracted to this event is that it really flexes the creative muscles. We are asked to make a random assortment of donated items into something beautiful and cohesive. So ideas and concepts are constantly changing and evolving depending on the items coming in.
Now, what happens to the pieces? Well the designers are given a day and a half to blitz out their “white room” and make that vision turn into a reality. All the items in the vignette are fair game to be sold! Everything is marked down between 50-70% off the retail value! Yeah! Crazy good deals! And what’s better, everything is literally ready for immediate sale! You like it, you pay for it, it’s yours! You walk out the door with it! SO MUCH FREAKING FUN!!!
I’m ridiculously psyched for the installation set up to begin on Tuesday, but absolutely none of this would be possible without the generosity of all the donors! They are the reason this event is even possible! So this is a HUGE “Thank You” to this year’s group of amazing peeps that wanted to help make a difference in the lives of so many!
Thank you to:
BESPOKE by Luigi Gentile & Vladimir Kagan Couture
Fenton Bailey of World of Wonder & RuPaul
James Bedell of SDA Lighting & Bruck Lighting
Michael Giordano
New York Wood Flooring & Construction
Paula Orange
White Faux Taxidermy
Please check out their sites and explore all the amazingness they have to offer!