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I met this client when I still had my boutique. She came in all excited about the possibilities of browsing through my collections to dress a table for a baby shower she was throwing. She exudes a happiness that is infectious. When she called me to help her ith her dining room, I was more than happy to help. She showed me a picture of a dining room from a Martha Stewart Catalog. It was sunny,golden & glowy. The room featured a striped grosgrain ribbon tacked with decorative nailheads in the chair rail as well as a warm grasscloth paper pasted below. We looked to the resources section of the magazine & ordered the supplies. Then the nightmare began!
The crown molding, chair rail & base moldings were all installed and made a huge improvement. The grass cloth paper was installed & I chose the perfect sunny yellow paint. I chose the window treatment & trim which was the perfect compliment to all the other components. BUUUUUTTTT...when the ribbon came in I gasped! What the? This couldn't possibly be the one featured in the magazine..but it was. Oh, and did I mention is was made in PORTUGAL?? I asked the company to send more swatches that were similar...all of them were wrong. THEEEEN, I was told I could send the drapery trim sample I chose so they could make a match. Months passed with shipping delays & then the package went M.I.A. C'MON! When the trim came in, it was uneventful. SOOOOO, I got out my colored pencils & literally illustrated the trim I wanted..thread by thread, but they didn't get it right. At this point I had torn out patches of my hair, but I attempted it one more time & BEHOLD!!!, a couple of months later, the perfect striped ribbon arrived. That only took a year!..literally.
Check out the after photos below!
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