Designer rant
Mar. 29th, 2007 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avanta7Spouse and I want an accent chair to go with our new living room set. We want a contemporary chair in a striped neutral fabric, something that blends with the deep chocolate brown of the leather sofa set, and is enhanced by the cherry and glass tables. That's not too much to ask for, right?
Wrong.
Apparently, our taste differs widely from what the furniture designers have decreed will be available at this time.
We've found several chairs that both spouse and I like, but none of them have come in fabrics we liked. In fact, we haven't found fabric that we like at all in any of the furniture stores we've visited. And believe me, we've sat down and gone through every fabric sample they've had available.
(I feel I must clarify something here: Spouse is the party insisting upon a specific type of stripe. I've found several fabrics I really liked, contemporary geometrics mostly, but he hated them. And he was hateful about hating them. Chair shopping has not been a happy experience.)
Anyway...
Failing finding anything in bricks & mortar, I've gone online. Same thing. Great chairs, wrong fabric. Let me show you what I mean:
This chair:
is perfect as far as the styling goes. And the stripe is close to what he wants, but this particular stripe is too "peach" and not enough "caramel". None of the other fabric options even comes close.
So I hunted online for fabric, thinking "maybe if I find a fabric, I can google the fabric name and come up with a chair". The closest fabric to the ideal is this one:
and I can't find a single chair on the entire internet which lists it as an upholstery option.
Ditto this one:
And this one:
See what I mean?
So my choices are:
Which of these options do you think will be most successful AND least expensive?
I don't know either.
Wrong.
Apparently, our taste differs widely from what the furniture designers have decreed will be available at this time.
We've found several chairs that both spouse and I like, but none of them have come in fabrics we liked. In fact, we haven't found fabric that we like at all in any of the furniture stores we've visited. And believe me, we've sat down and gone through every fabric sample they've had available.
(I feel I must clarify something here: Spouse is the party insisting upon a specific type of stripe. I've found several fabrics I really liked, contemporary geometrics mostly, but he hated them. And he was hateful about hating them. Chair shopping has not been a happy experience.)
Anyway...
Failing finding anything in bricks & mortar, I've gone online. Same thing. Great chairs, wrong fabric. Let me show you what I mean:
This chair:
is perfect as far as the styling goes. And the stripe is close to what he wants, but this particular stripe is too "peach" and not enough "caramel". None of the other fabric options even comes close.
So I hunted online for fabric, thinking "maybe if I find a fabric, I can google the fabric name and come up with a chair". The closest fabric to the ideal is this one:
and I can't find a single chair on the entire internet which lists it as an upholstery option.
Ditto this one:
And this one:
See what I mean?
So my choices are:
- Buy a length of fabric and hope we find a old chair in great structural shape but in desperate need of re-upholstering.
- Go to a designer and pay through the nose for a custom-made chair.
- Convince spouse to be more flexible on choice of fabric.
Which of these options do you think will be most successful AND least expensive?
I don't know either.
