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Interior Design and Touring a Fabric Store

Bob tours the house with Robyn Peterson, our interior designer. She points out the built in cabinets around the bar in the den, then takes him shopping for fabrics to start brainstorming for final touches. She suggests natural colors and fabrics from sisal rugs to earthy colors in faded linen and historic reproduction fabrics.
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Interior Design and Touring a Fabric Store

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" This ceiling is just over the the bedroom part yeah master suite is just the sleeping quarters and then the then part really hasn't try feeling --"

" The -- I look at this is that there."

" Lovable yet connected finishing great all of this will be. Really a little bar area dubious thinking they're in her refrigerator years known nine cabinet and more storage space. Bookshelves this is really going to give it a sense of being leather looks leather books and how finally expresses great. Well this is not finished but when the class actors who benefit that we will have a -- she in here that you can put them aren't planning a gorgeous thing for a minute to see would have -- heart shape you know it's it's. Kind of a detail that's yeah -- out of the window yet it's -- that is gorgeous. So tell me -- you're carrying something here totally align my friend mosque fringe and that gorgeous the question I was going to ask is how do you. Figure out colors and and in color scheme for room."

" Well liked here I came over here when Damon is sitting up and I looked out in the water in the sand in the shelves and I just I just got that feeling that we should have naturally in here you know. Sisal carpeting kind of lights and off when she saw him she covenants that the mop friend went -- behind in the fabrics and in what you pick them out of books -- I got a diamond common feeling touchy when income. Your shyness that gonna work what did you say and I'm going to be perfect. I found at garage sales increased peace English set -- to matching armchairs and when you're critical of."

" Not a lot. It's got some -- I paid a hundred bucks to three pieces so that we can work with a stick work very well and it's a real fine it's a real -- look at the old wooden legs and it's got this nice -- in the back and a and isn't empty we. Hi Jason Jason in that thought no I'm I'm listening -- your place yeah. -- gonna help us pick out some fabric for this -- going to -- them. Hot hot -- Jason share grow when we take away around a private moments and some stuff over here. So it's happening right now is this tell him look."

" And you know carpet sort of thing also is right here you see that and is held a little more traditional."

" That's right layers."

" This is also being interpreted as you know so that lodge look. Right here in south western up."

" Be great with the kind extent there's some sort of a novelty that's really catching on -- little Soledad battalion for deciding."

" Kind of -- beautiful aren't they do -- it's very sophisticated and somebody might be hot -- and at the beach is this that's great teahouse. This is sort of a craftsman tile sort of a pattern tapestry."

" As you have here did not -- them upstairs. What you know I think he I think we're gonna get him to Helen and I can tell -- come on up. They -- can you show us some of those faded English when surrogate -- floored me looking things well. Right here we have a few things that give that feeling I'm gonna migrate here."

" Who has a floral faded out sort of like a half town. -- doubtful compared to let's say something like that fashionable -- C -- right here also. You -- love last collar. You've got something like that's what against the vintage collars you know this let's say be original document. Collar of the linen floral maybe from. Now let's turn of the century for the earnings so this is like -- territory and brought production I don't like people are getting back into that the president getting into the wall fabrics also went toi. This writers of when it while she is we knew who knows how does that. -- tell another language that we. -- the source tells a pinch you know it's sort of pensioners -- You know everything you go to some sort of turn on its edge -- this way you can use it for drapery also I love this damn this is a damp -- like this aren't that Tokyo sure right now are gorgeous and --"

" Is that we call this -- muster up the -- this is a framed patterns right now so outlooks on the sofa hello Bob what do you think -- it."

" Looks grow up -- I think accidentally -- neutral and if you want to go listen a little darker in the flipping over a pretty elegant you know you get -- to her this beautiful don't think it --"

" Well you know I'd like to really watch it. Now what would it look like -- I watched -- that's that's sort of like an aftermarket treatment that a lot of the manufactures a lot of and to Victoria what color -- to get -- stiffness that I think take a look at that's here's. The peace finish from the mill. You know nice tight pattern all right. Then. What's happened as you see the top here yeah where it's sort of -- out of that. And you've gotten."

" We pull this -- he could see him. Let's let go there -- is see what's happened is that you're watching that you're getting a lot of different leads. That are you know going all different ways of just sort of a softer excellent model yes it does it makes them really old."

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