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Nancy Chwiecko

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http://homedesignfordogs.com/

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Dogs, Interior Design, Home & Garden

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Nancy Chwiecko is an Associate Professor of Interior Design in the School of Design at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester, NY. She has been teaching since 1989. In 2004-05 RIT awarded her a sabbatical for research on “Living with Pets: Designing Interior Space with Animals in Mind.” She has presented her ideas on “Designing Interior Spaces with Dogs in Mind” at the National Dog Conference, April, 2008 in Morristown, NJ and April 2007 in Ithaca, NY. She has been a regular presenter at Camp Unleashed in Beckett, MA as well as Lollypop Farm Humane Society in Rochester, NY.

Prior to teaching, Nancy worked as an interior designer for Getsloff Design Group, Hafner Associates and Whitney & Graziano Architects. In addition to teach ...more

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Lena – Design Inspiration

Lena

Lena in the vegetable garden 2010

January 2003-June 2015

Lena, the primary inspiration for “There’s a Dog in the House” and Home Design for Dogs, died in June. It’s taken me this long to gather my thoughts.

My father died nearly 20 years ago after a prolonged illness due to a type of dementia known as multi-infarct dementia. It isn’t as well known as Alzheimer’s and while both have dementia in co