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Please help identifying fabric!
Comments (4)I'm not sure if this is the same fabric but go to Country Curtains website and look at Moire Plaid . I see a blue and a red. You may have to pull up the blue to get to the red, not sure....See MorePlease help pick fabric to coordinate with CL sofas
Comments (14)I like the lighter tone of the fabric on the left in the picture. Better contrast with everything else. Both are nice...but if you choose the one on the right everything will have the same "value." Have you ever seen those red filters quilters who have a hard time seeing values judge fabrics with? If you looked at both samples I'd bet dollars to donutst that the fabric on the right in the pictue would "read" just about identical to the drapes and sofa....See MorePlease help! Inexperienced soapstone fabricator woes :-(
Comments (27)FWIW, I'd like to chime in with support for the calmer-minds faction here. *deep breath*. Maybe -- can you ask the fabricator to hold off for a day or two while you get grounded and more information and importantly, a fuller sense of the guy's capabilities? I'm not really sure that this question is terribly easy to get a grasp on, a person's capabilities. But if you're allowed to interact with the guy - that is if he's willing to talk with you and your GC is Ok with the conversation, could you feel out his willingness to watch some of those DIY youtube videos and the like? If the difference between DIY and professionals is that the former is a little more humble and willing to learn, and your fabricator has already demonstrated some willingness to learn inasmuch as that he asked that "dumb" question, maybe you can still yet get the best of both worlds. I'm sure, for example, the fabricator knows that's a "dumb" question that he asked, but he needed to know it and is letting on to you his non-experience with this particular stone. That's not a crime or certainty that he can't do a good job .... just, as you say and others make very clear, a warning sign. But maybe not a game-changer? So, can you buy yourself a little time to see whether the fab's willing to continue staying open to learning? I think his attitude is really key. If he's exasperated by the requirement to cut this exotic, and all that he will need to learn and the necessity of interacting with the pesky owner, etc -- then I'd hazard that those are important data that suggest you start, as they say here 'running'. But if you feel this guys is like a professional version of the DIY's, open and willing and eager to learn, then you're golden. Hopefully he'll see this as a great getting-paid learning experience on a new, hot material that he's likely to have more opportunities to cut some of in the near future. That's the sort of "can-do" attitude you can really benefit from. But if it's just grumbling and complaining and resentment, then, well ......See MorePlease help me find fabric again.
Comments (16)Les, I didn't think about the repeat. I'm a little concerned about the red colors since it's not a red, red in the floral. I would think even if it's not an exact matach, since it's not a lot, either would still coordinate. Here's what the original fabric would've looked like. This might help, this is where this curtain is going. I'll be making a valance out of the floral fabric for the window. I'm getting ready (today) to paint the vanity a dark chocolate brown (SW Woodsy Brown) like my stairs. The floor is gray. I don't like it and have been kind of ignoring it. Don't know how great of an idea that is. The feathers in the corner are gone. I will be painting and adding hardware....See MoreRelated Professionals
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