I think the fabrics are just beautiful and totally understand your wishing to tie the chairs into your Asian theme. I'm just wondering how the ornate and delicate florals of the Asian look are going to go with the splats on the chairbacks which are very arts-and-crafts/deco. I'd suggest maybe the more you could marry a geometric pattern with the Asian, that might be the way to go. Or possibly a plain velvet in red or gold then? That might work for all concerned? I just fear that the red fabric will look brilliantly with your room but not the style of the chair itself, and it will instead draw attention to the fact you've recovered the chairs. Obviously, though these are your chairs and you need to do what you'll enjoy seeing each day and which will make you happy. I can't wait to see how it all turns out! Cheering you on, Jenn Here is a link that might be useful: My crafting/thrifting/decorating blog

Old River Cabinets is a custom company like Geppetto is with pricing about the same. Old river does not have a book and is a pain to price on the fly because you have to know every little upcharge that is based in their computer system they only have. Geppetto on the other hand has a book with cabinets every 3" with countless modifcation charges that I can apply to any cabinet to make it what ever size I want as I stated in the original post of modifying depth width or height in any combination. If they do not have a cabinet I can start with I have to fax in what I want and wait for a quote back. 3" increments just gives you an easier way to arrive at an exact cost. I can stack them verticaly, I can join them horizontaly up to 8' long for a custom look when they are installed. I can change the doors add a drawer anything you can think of. I can custom color match the fireplace which we are doing. I can custom color match the door sample which has the perfect color wood she wants which she has looked for 2 years to find. She is very picky when it comes to color. Geppetto will make anything I can dream. They are custom just in a manner that is easier to price as a designer who is not a employee of theirs. My overhead excluding gas is $3,000 a month. This business is about competing with the prices of the next guy. Lowes and Home Depot who's cabinet companies they represent sell approx half of all the cabinets in the US are the largest competition. 50% markups on semi custom products are about what you have to do to compete on price but then you can not compete on being as established as as they are when you are self employed per say. A typical set of semi custom cabinets cost the dealer 4-6k so a mark up would be 2-3k per transaction. Now since most people want to go with the established to big to fail company they will only buy with you if you give them a deal they can not turn down. So you drop your margin to do it if it is possible. Or you have contractors that want to work with you where the end price to customer is close in price to Lowes and Home Depot but they want money the owner is not aware of which makes you cut your margin in half and share it with the contractor. So either way you slice it I sell cabinets for the average kitchen that are all plywood dove tail full overlay soft close full extension for 6k most of the time and make $1,200 if you are lucky! So a custom kitchen which takes about twice as much time to figure out as there are many more ways you can layout the kitchen so you do multiple layouts before you find the perfect one for the customer has 400% more profit in it then the semi custom prices of the big box stores. And according to multiple posts on here the competition in supposed "custom" is 50k and up! Where I would be a total price of half that! I was not trying to make this about me I was more agreeing with the title of the thread of sticker shock shock. I have other people who buy fix and sell condo's and town houses here in the dc area where the cabinets cost me 900 - 1200 and I mark it up the same 50% to stay competitive. That translates to 450 profit. But wait.... that customer comes from a granite company that wants money for referring the business. So when you give them a 15% discount the profit on those kitchens goes to less then 200 including in home delivery costs. The industry forces you to work on percent markups. You spend as much time on a small job like that as you do on a semi custom kitchen which pays 1,200 or a custom one which takes a little longer that I doubled the price like other companies do I would make 25-50k on one kitchen? And people want to say that is the way you stay in business because you have overhead? Sticker Shock Shock. I agree. I must be to practical. I just wanted to give some context to the prices and point out that the orignial poster was correct to be shocked in my opinion and state some facts as to why it is true. Antss is right that it does take money to sustain a showroom. But you do not have to rip off your customer to do it by doubling the price of custom cabinets. How much money do you need to make on one job to stay in business when you are talking about profits upwards of 35k per transaction?

I received the May issue of Trad Home and you're right it does photograph very well. They also give a layout of the apartment. That's a lot of bathrooms for such a small space. There doesn't seem to be any place where you can escape the color blue. But since she gets to redecorate every 7 years she won't have to wait long to have something different, even if she does grow tired of it quickly. When I watched the show Jill had her hair up and was wearing a print dress. The photograph that made the magazine had her in a solid blue dress with her hair down straight. I wonder how many times she frenetically changed her look before settling on the right one!

Thank you everybody for your kind comments, great suggestions and useful information about this table. I haven't decided what I am going to do with it yet. When I do I will let you know;) Palimpsest-Thank you for your article about the "watertown slides" very interesting. Yes, I agree with you about it being more art deco-y than bediermier-esque( I googled some examples). There are some similarties such as the tapered legs. I think 1920's or 1930's is more like it just from the images I googled.