Fundamentals – Technology at Home

If using technology at home to separate ourselves from our housemates and families is a bad idea (Hint: it is), then how can we integrate technology into our furniture and interiors to complement our lives?  Here are a few pieces we show at Schneiderman’s that can do just this. I don’t know about you, but [...]

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Fundamentally American

So you wanna buy American, huh?  With all the furniture manufacturers out there, how can you truly know which is which?  At Schneiderman’s, we feature products Made in the USA and will help you honestly understand the product’s entire life so you know at which point in the process things begin happening in neighbor states.  [...]

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Steampunk Fundamentals

We introduced Steampunk as an interior design movement in the last blog post, but this is a trend that has the danger of getting ‘theme-y’.  So just how can you build this trend into your spaces without a welding diploma? One of the best ways to introduce the Steampunk trend into your space is with [...]

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Words, Words, Word

“A picture is worth a thousand words.”  True, but it turns out that a thousand words is also worth a picture.  Or so the new trend toward using text and script as a graphic element in interior design seems to indicate.  Many styles, from country traditional to casual contemporary can benefit from adding this graphic.  [...]

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Reclaim your Furniture!

Today’s Fundamentals is all about how to achieve a recycled, reclaimed look, whether or not you’re a DiY god/dess.  State Street Sofa Consider this (gorgeous!) sofa from Flexsteel.  (Yes, this is how we show it at our Schneiderman’s Furniture locations in Minnesota.)  The fabric on this sofa is not hand woven from someone’s ancestors’ denim.  But [...]

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