Follow up to a follow up to a post from two weeks ago: the wall tile that nearly did in my client
So by popular demand, here's an image of the kitchen that caused the ruckus I wrote about on 15 and 16 September . I think it's pretty mild, but to the eyes of my client, it was pushing so far into the realm of the avant-guard she could barely stand it.
The tile:
The cabinet coloration:.
The counters:
The lights are showing up really orange-y in this image. In life, they are an amber-y brown that plays against the wall tile nicely. Here they are:
The pendants are the Sasha II from Besa Lighting with an "Amber Cloud" shade.
This was in no way a horrific kitchen or a awful task or whatever I think is unattractive. It's a reasonably-priced activity that I made look loads extra steeply-priced thru multiple the hints and suggestions I've found out through the years. Even so, it's no longer some thing that might make it into my brag report underneath everyday instances.
Again, there's not anything wrong with it and I'm having an epiphany here. Hold on a minute. I see myself as a excessive-cease fashion designer and in a number of methods I am. The paintings that finally ends up within the file I display potentialities is from high 5-determine (and various six-figure) jobs. But now that I reflect onconsideration on it, I have not landed something with a budget that excessive since the inventory market crashed a yr in the past. The biggest activity I actually have going right now has a finances of $60,000 that is going toward a major kitchen overhaul, a master tub and a extensive remodeling of the interior partitions on the primary floor of this house. Two years in the past, that task would have had a price range two times what it's miles now and would had been a notably extra bold project.
But it's not two years ago and in this market at least, people are spending less money on home renovations. I'm thrilled for the work and the project I'm describing will most definitely make it into my brag file. But since the bulk of everything I've done for the last year has been more along the $28,000 renovation pictured at the beginning of this post, is myglamor jo b brag file spooking people? I wonder if I should show off my lower-budget jobs in these troubled times.
Seriously, what do you suspect? If you had been a customer interviewing designers, what would you need to peer? Is an aspirational portfolio a turn off?