Spring 2019

34 Innovative Design Inspiring Creative Spaces Founded in 2004 by accomplished staging and design professional Joan Inglis, Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design has become an industry goliath renowned for its full-service approach to interior design, model home merchandising and luxury home staging. We spoke to Joan on the back of her well-deserved recognition in the 2018 LUX Leading Designers programme. In some ways, Joan’s work sits within two independent spheres of interior design. It is both deeply personal, in ways that residential design has to be, and commercially viable. Ultimately, her creations hone in on a very specific need: she realises a dream, and a need for an idyllic space to live in and experience. As her many accreditations speak in testament to, Joan is a master at staging homes for the real estate industry, helping house owners attract potential buyers in the Southeast USA. “We work primarily with new construction homes and commercial builders, individual clients in the process of building or renovating, Realtors, property investors, and commercial businesses. We have locations in North and South Carolina, with a new addition of a furniture showroom and design centre.” Joan also understands the importance of client communication and top- tier customer service in interior design. After all, success is determined by the collaborative effort, with both designer and client working in unison to create something unique, interesting, and above all, personal. “Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design promises to deliver top-quality customer service in our design projects. We make our clients’ satisfaction a priority and have many five-star reviews for customer service. All of the team have undergone interior design, home staging and real estate marketing training as well as in depth training in new construction and buyer trends.” “We are a team that supports each other and supports our clients’ needs and vision for their project. Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design has been in business a long time and we have zero turnover in staff. We operate as a family and our clients feel that unity.” Staying up to date in the notoriously fast-moving design industry remains a focus for Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design, with the entire team undergoing continued professional development to ensure that they remain the only choice for clients looking to hire the very best talent available. In Joan’s words, Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design is “the trend-setter” in their associated industries, setting the pace for others to follow in their footsteps. With this in mind, it would be an understatement to say that the greater design landscape has changed over the last fifteen years. Technology, the great accelerator of this change, has resulted in a better-connected world and opened up more opportunities for designers to showcase their work to a larger audience. “Houzz, Pinterest, Instagram and the like have created a more design-savvy public. Beautiful pictures and design inspirations are at their fingertips, yet they still need help pulling their inspirations together to create their own space. Online interior design options have emerged to offer assistance to this design-savvy DIY homeowner. As a result, Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design has expanded its list of services to include e-design to assist these new clients. On the other hand, “luxury” has become the new buzz word in the home staging industry. Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design has - since day one in the business - been the go-to firm for providing unmatched quality of product and workmanship in the luxury market. We have furnished well over $1 billion dollars in real estate.” In many ways, the one true constant in the design industry is change, as trends move in and out of vogue, as Joan discusses further. “Home builders are not doing over-the-top model homes anymore and have been moving into a more streamlined approach to their homes. I was a pioneer of this trend in model homes and provided education sessions to home builders on the topic of how to streamline model homes at the International Builders Show in 2015. We certainly follow our own path, and the world follows behind us!” On the subject of change and development, Joan makes her closing comments. “Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design regularly receives requests for projects that are out of the ordinary – restoring historic homes, designing outdoor living, and creating patterns and custom colour palettes. We always rise to the occasion of a challenge, and always create exquisite results for the client.” Of that, there can be no doubt. Joan, an undisputable expert in her field, and her team provide a service that few can match, with a history of success that truly speaks for itself. Company: Carolina Spaces Furniture & Design Contact Name: Joan Inglis, Owner and Principal Designer Address: P.O. Box 1086, Clover, 29710, South Carolina, United States Website: www.CarolinaSpaces.com Telephone: 1-855-SPACES-5 Style Dec18303