Ella needs advice designing her doggie shower!
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Comments (6)Thanks so much for your comments. Right now we will have a towel rack on a wall near the shower (when looking at the shower from the tub it will be on the right hand side) but my guess is we'll have to add a small hook by the shower door to put the towel on when we are actually using the shower. Where the towel rack will be positioned, it's not a walk, just a very long reach!! I thought the same as you that having the two pony walls make the room seem more closed in. My designer thought that having different sections (vanity/tub/shower) would make it more zen like. This is where we are really struggling because we can't find any pictures online with a look like our proposed one (we have only seen one pony wall on one side or no pony wall and just open space on either side). Yes, we do have the flexibility to make the vanity wider or narrorer. And thanks for your thoughts on the mirror. Agree, it would be nice to have the medicine cabinet and I've always had one but never used it for hair styling so I think I'll be okay in that sense....See MoreGot a line on a doggie
Comments (48)Barnmom's suggestions reminded me of my own dog's name, so I have to tell the story. My children were about 7 years old when we were searching for a sable colored collie. We had gone to a collie show and we saw a collie named "Topaz". My son thought that was really cool and said "Mom, when we get our collie I want to name her Tanzanite because you love that stone." Well, the rest of us tried to explain to him that Topaz was a great name for a sable colored dog because a topaz is brown colored, but Tanzanite would be kind of silly because they are blue-ish. He kept insisting and we just rolled our eyes and figured we'd deal with it when we finally found a dog. Several months later our breeder called and said she had a litter with a sable female that she could sell to us because she had a fleck of blue in her eye and she could not be shown. My son was thrilled and we all agreed that Tanzanite was the perfect name since she has a Tanzanite in her eye. We call her Tanzi and know that she was meant for our family. We love the blue in her eye....See MoreNeed Advice on Interior Design Fee Issue Longish Post
Comments (34)Just posting an update since we met with the designer last night. Turns out that he would have been collecting the following types of compensation under his "flat rate" model: - charging us a flat amount for design fees - marking up purchases 12% from his cost - marking up bids from contractors by some higher amount (which apparently varies by project) to cover his costs for overseeing the project, insurance, etc. He said he made the switch to hourly given the amount of research and shopping we were doing. He also asserted that he would have earned close to the same amount for the project on the original billing rate because of the markups. That is faulty logic and we told him so - our budget was our budget so marking up purchases would have meant we would have been buying less items and/or lower-quality items in order to stay within our budget. 12% of $17K is $2200 no matter what items you buy for it. And our labor costs are modest because the space was already roughed in, so he would have needed an ENORMOUS markup on the labor charges to get anywhere close to the amount that he was showing as payable based on his hourly rate. We also told him that had we known that we were being charged for every hour of work we would have used him differently. Until I asked, he never presented an interim summary of his hours or billings, or mentioned any concern for how we would stay within our budget given how much of his time he was spending. But he WAS aware of our budget and knew that we were going to some lengths to try to stick to it. To me this is the most important issue that makes his billed hours an unfair amount. A lot of our time in research was spent trying to find affordable alternatives for some of the ideas that he presented - we didn't want to change the design but we couldn't afford to do what he was suggesting. Logic says that he really wasn't being that mindful of the budget issues in presenting appropriate ideas in the first place. The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that this was a MAJOR disconnect on his part, which meant that a large number of his hours were billed without regard to what would be in our best interest. He conceded that he should have been much clearer about what terms he was thinking of changing and what the impact of that change would be on us. He is going to look at his time and use a couple of alternative approaches for how he could be compensated to come up with a number that will be his flat fee for the entire project, capped. Supposed to get Monday am. Said he really wants to oversee the completion of the work and understands that we will not explicitly compensate him for that. I am still concerned about what number he is going to propose but at least it will hopefully be in the neighborhood of a more fair amount....See MoreNeed Advice on Luxury Kitchen and Breakfast Nook Remodel Design
Comments (301)So after following along and reading and reading all the good advice and then OP's responses I did myself wonder a couple times (with a few head slaps really????) - are you reading AND THINKING about the advice posted or just posting more "I am totally out of control help me right now" questions that seemed to not take into consideration any of the advice. It was more I have to have 10', I have to have it large, I have to have it.....HELP regardless of the solutions posted. I kind of started to wonder if you are a college student in design school trying to get someone to draw up a kicking design for your homework assignment and it was the 11th hour. But I am no design expert just a learner myself. If nothing else there are some good designs in this thread with lots of elements that many would enjoy (well maybe not the topiary IN the kitchen). Oh wait a minute - THE TOPIARY IS THE SHRINE! You are all set!...See Moreeverdebz
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