http://www.amazon.com/Farrow-Ball-Brian-Coleman/dp/142360010X
I was leafing through this book yesterday in a store and found several pages of my work in it!
Just braggin’ is all.
But if any of you have it, there are several pages on Islesboro.
The book is mostly about colour choices and to be honest, I didn’t care for some of them, but hey, that is my carpentry in there.
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Thats great
Thanks.
I get to brag again come March. Cottage Living magazine just shot a spread on a house I renovated. I was the chief guy on that one so my name gets mentioned.
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Congrats on the stories. Pretty soon you're gonna be impossible to live with, aren't ya ???(-:
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LOL, the interior designers on that one already think of me that way.
Not that I want an interior designer to think of me as easy to get along with.
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Cool!
Always nice to see real people get some press.
But I'm just a screenperson online!One of somebodies "Little Friends";)
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Well I didn't want to call you a "Celebrity" as that might invite unwanted comparisions. ;-)
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
I'd hate to have to feed my paparazzi garden!
;)Thanks everyone!
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Damm.
Everytime I get published they call me "Defendant"..
Good work.
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Repairs, Remodeling, Restorations
Yeah, well, had my name in that column a couple times too
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Congrats. You have earned the bragging rights. I'll watch for the Cottage Living mag.
Congratulations. I guess the drinks are on you!
Whew! I was afraid you'd expect a clambake and pizza too!But from sounds of your other threads, you NEED a drink! Step right up son!
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The big celebrities of Islesboro:
John, Kirsty, Paul........View Image
So how long before you convert to scientology and start voting dem?View Image
Piffin,Glad to hear an instance where the real artisan/craftsman gets a mention. All too often we just hear about the designer and not a word about the person who brought it from a sketch to a sculpture. That is one of my biggest gripes with building mags and books (my other gripe is when they won't disclose the cost).Often times makes for a very skewed sense of reality.Congratulations Piffin.gk
Actually in the one at hand that is subject of this post, I did tyhe renovation/remodel design work too. The interior designers just picked colours and furnishings - but that was the subject matter of the book referenced, so fair that they got the credit for that, if you like those colours.On another job, another time, I was working with a lady who is a name brand entity from England. She had done the ID work on another house for my customer down south which got published in a book like this. anyways, she had done her colours plan for a dining room to the ninth detail. But to make all the trim work out right I had to add a step of similar to backband at panels. When she saw that, she had a hissy fit because it was not in the drawings and she had not planned for it in her colours.
I said no problem, just use this same colour in a different tone value as it steps in and things will work fine.
She went into the next room to fume for a while. The owner's wife whispered to me, don't worry about it, I love what you did here.
The final colour plan was exactly what I had suggested, minus all the ego and drama.
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"my other gripe is when they won't disclose the cost"Missed that comment, but you are very right. I won't say half of what I think in public on this, but one example - ID had spec colours and then when they saw what they speced didn't work as well as they imagined, they wanted to change it on a beaded board cieling. we had prepainted that before putting it up to save money.So I told them that will add 2-3K to the job cost and heard them claim, "Oh no, 3-4 hundred will cover it" to the owner.Then in next room, the owner described the hot pink ceiling as "a particularly horrid shade of bubble-gum. You have to change this"
took a total of seven coats of paint on that ceiling to get it right!Now I know reds are hard to work with and ceilings can reflect what is under them to change tone, but it seems like it is the professionals job to know what is right and how it goes together. That is what they get paid for, right? So when they make 'errors' that increases the job cost, I don't appreciate it when they point at my painting bill and imply that I charged too much in that area.
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LOL, Kirstie isn't such a big star anymore.er, I mean she is a bigger....um...actress
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Kudos Paul!
I will look for Cottages.
Chuck S
That's cool Piffen. Always nice to see one's work in print.
Runnerguy
Congrats