I have an Interior Designer customer who sent me this link. She loves this look!
http://www.houzz.com/photos/51936/Guestroom-eclectic-bedroom-other-metro
gene
Those curtains look like they belong with the "deconstructed" furniture. Seems like I remember a discussion of the deconstructed furniture that is only half-way upholstered and VERY expensive.
OMG
That type of design feature on curtians would attract dust like flypaper I think!
On another note...I used some webbing to make 2 banners. Cut a bunch of peices about 7" long (as pennants), then cut a little "V" in one end(inverted..), sewed a casing on the other end, threaded the banner peices on ribbon. Instant banner. Sturdy & stands up to rain. Sheds a little bit though. the 2nd one I made I took a sharpie & wrote HAPPY FALL Y'ALL (ala Paula Deen) - the girls in the office liked it!
Sam
Ready for the trash can in 4-6 years. American automakers pumped this "planned obsolescence" in the 1960s.
Maybe put a bunch of clinch-its through the back side of the jute webbing border so whenever anyone runs theirs hands down the border the sticky ends of the clinch-its will cut their hands. :o
I'm thinking of getting a piece of fabric and bordering it with ply-grip. I'll call this look: "Jaws" (you have to think of one of the old James Bond movies to find this really funny).
gene
Give me an example of what a designer would charge for coming up with these unusual uses of webbing and such? The webbing bording cloth as a curtain for example. It doesn't portray quality, to me. It is in a class with tatoos, "anything to be noticed and different". (No offense to tatoo lovers).
How long would someone use such decor? Three months (a relative short period anyway)? What home price range is this stuff going into?
Oh well, everything is different,
Doyle
Quote from: DB on October 17, 2013, 05:25:24 am
What home price range is this stuff going into?
When I see stuff like that in my customer's homes, it's usually Yuppies that are making 100 grand.....but living a 200 grand lifestyle. They tell themselves that they are doing stuff like the webbed curtains in the interest of being "Chic". But actually, they're just pinching pennies.
It might be a fun little DIY project, but I can't imagine paying a designer to come up with that crap.
Quote from: DB on October 17, 2013, 05:25:24 am
Give me an example of what a designer would charge for coming up with these unusual uses of webbing and such? The webbing bording cloth as a curtain for example. It doesn't portray quality, to me. It is in a class with tatoos, "anything to be noticed and different". (No offense to tatoo lovers).
Doyle
Doyle, I kinda disagree about the tattoo analogy. With home décor, especially curtains, you can always change them whenever you want. But a tattoo is forever. (I'm not a tattoo fan for this reason and a few others).
I gotta say, I actually think the jute border is a cool look. But yes, probably trendy, and the trend will be done in a year or two. At my house I never sweat about paint or window coverings, because if you don't like them, it's not a big deal to change them.
OK..........topic headed straight into the ditch.
It seems like nowadays, if you say anything negative about tattoos, you offend at least half the population. I don't have any. And if my 2 grown daughters ever came home with one.......I'm scrapin' it off with a cheese grater.
I was eating at a local restaurant one evening, when a young waitress told me that she was going to be 18 in a few days. She said that the first thing she intended to do upon turning 18, was get a tattoo.
I asked her "Why?" She said "Just to show my parents that I'M in charge now".
A man at the next table showed her his 2 arms, both totally engulfed in tattoos.
He told her that he now regrets every single one of them. She acknowledged that she would probably regret her decision somewhere down the road. But that won't stop her now.
I never understood why the temporary henna tattoos never caught on among the ink crowd. Same principle as the webbed curtain. People quickly tire of a particular look, and want a change. So they waste money on something that they know they'll soon be tired of. Why not do the same with tattoos? Kids love to piss off money. I can't think of a better way.
A mate of mine covered a few couches in potato sacks, sold a few and actually had a feature article about them in a magizine, those curtains would have gone well with them. He was busy for a while till the novelty wore off.
Re: Tattoos, my dad advised to never get tattoos as they were a way of identification that you can't get rid of, and that you never know you may need to disappear. Looking back now, the fact that there were no relatives on my fathers side of the family and information offered by him was vague at best, I think I may have grown up in some sort of witness protection program.
I never liked dating women with tattoos. It was like when you go spelunking (caving) and you find graffiti on the wall. It's a constant reminder that someone else was there first.
I never liked dating women who had more tattoos than teeth. Enough said.
If I were young and single today, and felt the same way, I don't think I would like dating very much.
gene
PS: A topic on unique, trendy draperies gets highjacked by a discussion of tattoos. Now that's funny!
PPS: Mike Tyson. Enough said.
PPS: Tramp stamp. Enough said.
PPPS: I don't remember if I put this on here, but if I did, sorry for the repeat. I think my new tattoo is causing an infection. I should have paid the extra $6 for the guy to use a sterilized needle.
Sign on a tattoo door:
IF YOU ARE UNDER 18,
DRUNK OR HIGH ON DRUGS,
OR AN ASSHOLE,
JUST GO AWAY
AND DON'T COME BACK,
UNTIL YOU AREN'T.
The worst tattoo I ever saw: Texas, just outside of Shepard Air Force Base. Fresh out of tech school, when we had enough freedom to leave the base, a friend wanted to get a tattoo and asked me to go with her. One of the artists was a big scary looking biker dude, who showed us his pride and joy tatt. starting at his hand/wrist was a woman's high heeled shoe and going up his arm was her leg in fishnet stockings. The tatt then gets interrupted by his disgustingly hairy armpit, and then the fishnet continues down the side of his torso, then the other shoe around his hip.
Quote from: jojo on October 17, 2013, 04:55:56 pm
The worst tattoo I ever saw: Texas, just outside of Shepard Air Force Base. Fresh out of tech school, when we had enough freedom to leave the base, a friend wanted to get a tattoo and asked me to go with her. One of the artists was a big scary looking biker dude, who showed us his pride and joy tatt. starting at his hand/wrist was a woman's high heeled shoe and going up his arm was her leg in fishnet stockings. The tatt then gets interrupted by his disgustingly hairy armpit, and then the fishnet continues down the side of his torso, then the other shoe around his hip.
Ok now, that's just gross. Yech!
As for the curtain, I don't particularly like how it was done. Too "shabby chic" for me. It's poorly sewn. At least make it neatly put together. It looks like a 10 year old just learning did the sewing.
June
It seems whenever one of the goofy ideas comes to play the construction of it is like that. I remember watching a tv show once about switching houses and redoing each others. One of the homes rooms was painted a red and it had to be the worlds worst paint job.
Quote from: scottymc on October 17, 2013, 12:51:42 pm
A mate of mine covered a few couches in potato sacks, sold a few and actually had a feature article about them in a magizine, those curtains would have gone well with them. He was busy for a while till the novelty wore off.
Nah they still doing THIS! Lot's of DIY'ers doing it on French looking type chairs. Pinterest is covered up with them - Potato sacks is a good analogy - looks more like rough burlap to me. Sure couldn't have it with cats - even declawed ones. What ARE people thinking when they do this type of stuff.....
Sam
Yes, no craftsmanship, symbolism over substance or something like that. I appreciate great craftsmanship, like the boat (June did) that was showen couple weeks ago, Perfect! you were on your game June. Not a wrinkle or anything anywhere.
Too add, I appreciate expensive window furnishings,outstanding craftsmanship is just "over the top" any where you find it. I am drawn to furnishings like custom area rugs with very expensive binding and fringe. The last I had done, the trimmings might have been more costly than the carpet I had it done on. That type of work, I never get tired of. My Henredon down and spring cushions, I will never part with. Glad I got them when I did, because I doubt I could be satisfied with the offerings today.
It is interesting, the things I like are expensive, but I never ask the price.
Gene, I suppose you work with designers with reputations that draw nice clients? There is significant credit to you to achieve that association. I know you enjoy what you do.
Doyle
Thank you for the kind comments, DB.
I do work very hard, but more times than not I enjoy what I am doing and it just does not feel like hard work.
Years ago I attended a convention of motivational speakers. Zig Ziglar was at his peak and the premier speaker.
Zig said something like, "Don't worry about your own money. Focus on helping others make money and you will find that money falls into your pocket."
There is a caveat of truth in this. If I can make money by helping others make money, then I'm in business. (Pun intended.)
And this is what I do. I provide a level of service and quality that is second to no one, at competitive prices, that help Interior Designers make money.
I'm in business to make money for myself. In working with ID's, I do make money for myself by helping them make money.
I do not have an adversarial relationship with ID's. I have a win/win relationship. (Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Successful People)
And I would add that those ID's who need an adversarial relationship get their upholstery needs taken care of elsewhere.
gene
Quote from: gene on October 19, 2013, 06:46:32 am
I do not have an adversarial relationship with ID's. I have a win/win relationship.
I used to have several "win/win" relationships with ID's. But over the last 25 or so years, as the number of home improvement stores and discount retail fabric outlets have risen, the number of "truly" professional decorators has dwindled. Most now work for a small/mid-sized design firm. The rest are "bottom feeders" just looking for the cheapest, cheapest, cheapest price.
But just because all MY relationships with ID's are adversarial, I'm not arrogant enough to think that successful ones don't still exist around these parts.
For whatever reason, ID business just isn't a sector of the trade that I covet anymore. I used to. But I found myself forsaking all my "Off the street" customers just to stay caught up with ID work that I was usually doing at a cut-rate.
I recently met an ID at her client's home to give an estimate. I drove 55 miles into miserable rush-hour traffic.
Every last pillow was going to have at least 3 fabrics and 2 trims, and she wanted me to tell her EACTLY how much of each to buy. We spent over 3 hours going over everything. Then the next day, she called back to say that she was changing all the fabric/trim choices, and we would have to meet and go over it all again.
At that point, I remembered why I stopped pursuing ID business. I just don't need the aggravation.
I still have a couple of "Old timer" decorators that I have worked with successfully since the 80's. But they don't do that much anymore. Maybe a couple of jobs a year.