Taking a Walk on the Creative Side

This past week at Pineapple House was busy, busy, busy. Stephen and Zach made their round trip to Canada and returned with all the updates from the client proposal. In order to have everything ready for them, I finished gathering all of the memos and printing off tear sheets.

The product of one of many trips to ADAC.

They met with the wife of the household as well as their twelve-year-old daughter, who definitely knows what she wants. Once they returned, Zach and Abby reviewed the changes with me and I got to work on updating the floor plan. Many of the changes had to do with moving the furniture around. The task made me reminisce on the hours I spent playing Sims as a youngster. I used to play it just so I could build a house and arrange the furniture. I also had to make a corresponding furniture list that kept track of the furniture locations of the house they are moving out of and where they were to be placed in the new house. This became quite confusing because I would lose track of the placements and forget that I relocated one piece while keeping that same piece in its prior location on the plan. But needless to say, everything was put in its correct home once I was finished.

I also had to gather estimates for fabric that was going to be used to re-upholster the clients' old furniture. I  learned how to call the corporate customer service of the furniture manufacturers, tell them the repeat of the pattern on the fabric to be used, and then they would tell me how much COM (customer's own material) would be needed. Before doing so, I had to call and inquire about the available stock of the COM. This seemingly easy task became a little difficult when I found out that some of the fabrics were discontinued with no stock on hand. In those cases, I had to look for a sub for the fabric. However, you also have to make sure there is enough fabric in-stock, especially when working on a short time frame because there may not be enough time to have the quantity you need made.

Hours were spent making phone calls and doing price/stock checks. Luckily, Abby had a side project of pulling together a few schemes for a client's walk-in closet. The client wanted either Tiffany blue or a feminine pink scheme. We ran to ADAC to look at fabrics and trims which was very fun. We ended up going super feminine and came up with three options.

A glam, pink option with natural details and a pretty antiqued mirror ceiling.

A casual, blue option with soothing accents.

And my personal fav, a glam blue option with metallic accents and a mother-of-pearl ceiling.

This was my most creative assignment yet and I have to say I wouldn't mind doing more of them!

I'm excited for this upcoming week because we are going shopping for this weeks install. We will be looking for accessories, lamps, and art pieces for the home. We have a small install coming up on Thursday and I'm looking forward to experiencing the whole process. Details to come!