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This afternoon we are here at Mrs. Jackson’s home. This is a house in the La Brea neighborhood.
This house has a lot of character. Architecturally the client has done a lot of work to it herself.
She’s a builder so the house is done with a lot of beautiful touches including an entrance
with high columns. We’re going to be working on her family
room area. In the family room area she wanted a little bit more character and she chose
some colors to accomplish that. We have a lot of leather in there, dark leather so we
chose to go with some greens and some plaids. So we are going to go ahead and take a look
at the inside. So follow me in. So we’re in the house now and Martin already
started putting some of the swing rods up for the wrought iron wall decor. The goal
in this house was to bring some of the beautiful outside colors inside the house. The wall
colors are done in sort of an avocado, I would say pistachio green with just barely a touch
of blue in it. And that was the whole idea, to bring that greenery from outside in.
Since it’s a family room, one of the things that you will find in color psychology is
that the green brings a lot of peace into the living room. That’s what we were trying
to do, to bring that peace into the room but at the same time it has to be a little bit
uplifting. The way you do that is to bring in some red combined with the greens and to
that we added some dazzles. Also for the room being eclectic, we chose to go with mission
brown colors so that we could have that mission look that picks up the old world columns and
the character of the house. So now we are starting to put up some of the
hardware and we ran into a little problem. The space between the ceiling and the molding
is less than an inch. We predicted that so we came prepared. That’s also something
that you always want to make sure that you are measuring, the clearance of the brackets
for most drapery hardware and the space that it is between the molding and the ceiling.
I’m going to show you what I’m talking about up here, let’s take a look at it for
a minute. OK looks like we now got it in and it seems like it’s going to work. We’ve
got it, it’s lining up and I think we should be fine from here on.
Our client is a decorator so she’s picked out some really, really gorgeous colors. And
this is what we are going to be putting in to bring color into the room. If you notice
once we put it up against the wall you will find that we’ve got the same wall colors
and we brought in the reds so that we could give it a little bit more of a pizazz. We
also have cut this drapery fabric at an angle and the reason why we did that again is because
we are using drapery scrolls. When using this type of custom window treatment, we cut the
drapery at an angle to make sure it will accommodate the angle we are using for the wall.
For this size drapery scroll, which is a 27 inch scroll, I chose to go ahead and do two
widths of fabric so it’s done really nice and full. This is our larger drapery scroll
and our smaller scroll you can get away with doing one or one and a half widths of fabric
but this particular one I chose two simply because they wanted it to be very lavish.
So we ran into a little glitch here with this job. One of the things that we ran into is
that on the measurements for the shades we made a mistake. Instead of 76 and a half we
did 67 and a half. So that’s something that they always tell you, to double measure before
cutting. This is one of the things I guess we should have done and these are the things
that you run into sometimes being in the custom drapery business. You need to be prepared
for these sorts of things because it’s called a remake and you have to be able to go ahead
and take care of it when it’s necessary. This is also one of the reasons why we tell
our clients or teach our students, don’t underestimate yourself simply because of these
problems. You just don’t know when this will happen and you have to leave room for
error. These are some of the corrections we are going
to go ahead and do. We discovered that there are a few things that need to be corrected
and we will gladly make sure that they are taken care of so that the client is fully
satisfied. I made a list of everything that needs to be done. We’re going to date it
and have her sign it and we will go ahead and take care of the problems.
What was so great about today is that the errors that happened today allowed us to look
at and see where the holes are and we can patch holes again and see how we can make
sure that the job goes smoothly. And it comes back to details, doing them over and over
again. And what’s great is that this is going to teach us how to do things better
from here on. So it was a great learning experience today.
The experience has been great. What I really find is that whenever we ran into a problem
we always find a way to correct it to satisfy me and that means a lot. I like the colors
and I think you chose a good theme to go with my walls and hopefully I can decorate around
it and if I have any questions about decorating I’ll ask about that too. It’s been a happy
experience and the guys that you have installing; they are very nice and pleasant to work with.
There is nothing like having work done and not being happy and so far I am happy.