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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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" Now this ceiling is just over the bedroom part of the master suite."

" Yes, yes, this is just the sleeping quarters, yeah."

" And then the den part really has a different feeling to it."

" Right, right."

" The patio like..."

" Look at this is fabulous."

" Mm-hmm."

" I love this."

" Yes, it's nice but..."

" Look at that finish is great."

" Right. Well this will be, really a little bar area, there'll be a sink in there and refrigerator here."

" Oh nice."

" And the cabinet and that more storage base bookshelves. This is really gonna give it the sense of being there."

" Leather books, leather books."

" Let it find it."

" Look at, this isnna give it ore storage fae great."

" Well this is unfinished but when the plasters do finish it we'll have a niche in here so that you can put some art or something."

" I have a gorgeous thing for over there, why don't you see what I have there."

" I like the shape of it you know, it's kind of a detail that's out of the Adamson [unk] I guess."

" Look at this view out of the window."

" Yeah it's super."

" That is gorgeous."

" So tell me know you're carrying something here that is..."

" Oh my mop fringe."

" Moss fringe and..."

" Isn't that gorgeous?"

" Now the question I was gonna ask you is how do you figure out colors and a color scheme for a room."

" Well, like here. I came over here one day and I was sitting up here and I looked out in the water, in the sand, and the shells and I just got that feeling that we should have natural in here you know."

" Okay."

" So I installed carpeting kind of whites and off whites."

" Peachy colors, yeah."

" Peachy colors with the mop fringe, yeah."

" What about finding the fabrics, I mean do you pick them out of books or what?"

" I go to diamond foam and feel it and touch it, you wanna come."

" You're sure this is gonna work?"

" I know it's gonna be perfect."

" Where did you say you found this?"

" I found it at a garage sale. It's a 3 piece English set, two matching armchairs."

" Mmmm, would you pay for it?"

" Not a lot."

" It got some stains on it."

" I paid a hundred bucks for 3 pieces, so we can work with the stains, okay."

" We can work yeah. Well then it's a real find huh."

" It's a real find. Look at the old wooden legs and it's got this nice curve in the back."

" Yeah, it is antique."

" What do you got?"

" Hi."

" Hi Jason. Jason, have you met Bob?"

" No."

" Hi Bob, nice to meet you."

" This is your place?"

" Yeah."

" Wonderful."

" Jason is gonna help us pick out some fabric for this, we're gonna see the 4 or 5 hot things Jason."

" Sure."

" Great sure."

" Why don't we take a look around?"

" Great."

" Okay."

" Alright, let me show you some stuff over here. Something that's happening right now is this [unk] look and you know carpet sort of thing."

" Beautiful."

" Also it's right here, do you see that?"

" Yeah."

" It is something a little more traditional."

" That's great."

" Right there. This is also being interpreted as you know sort of that large look."

" Yeah."

" Right here."

" Kind of southwestern isn't it?"

" Yeah, sort of..."

" It'd be great with that Randex stuff."

" Here's something that's sort of a novelty that's really catching on, but also sort of like that Italian furnace setting kind of look."

" Beautiful."

" Oh I know what you're talking about."

" Maybe..."

" It's very sophisticated, yeah."

" But something it might be hot for you."

" But not at the beach."

" This is great."

" Yeah, this is sort of a craftsman tiles, sort of a pattern tapestry."

" That's fabulous I love it."

" Maybe that she needs upstairs."

" Well, you know I think we better get him to the linens I can tell his getting nervous, come on Bob."

" Okay come on."

" Jason, can you show us some of those faded English linen kind of Ralph Laureny looking things."

" Sure, sure. Well right here we have a few things that give you that feeling."

" Mm-hmm."

" Like here is a floral faded out sort of like a half tone."

" Mm-hmm."

" That's beautiful."

" Compared to let's say something like that."

" So that's fashionable?"

" Yeah."

" See it right here also, you know in a less color."

" You got something like this when you get into the vintage colors. You know this is that save the original document color of the linen floor or maybe from who knows turn of the century to the 30's."

" So this is like a historic."

" It's beautiful."

" Yeah."

" Reproduction of the fabric."

" That's gorgeous."

" Right."

" People are getting back into that, that's why we're getting into the toile fabrics also."

" What's toile?"

" This right here was a toile usually, who knows."

" Oh Bob know how to..."

" Yeah, tell us Bob."

" Take another language."

" [unk]"

" Yeah, it sort of tells a -- story with the pictures."

" Beautiful."

" Yeah."

" You know everything you notice is sort of turned on its edge."

" Yeah."

" 'Cause this way you could use it for drapery also."

" I love this damask. Is that damask right there?"

" Right, all of these are..."

" This one here with the taupe in it."

" Oh sure right here."

" That's gorgeous, I love that."

" Is that what we call this damask?"

" Yeah, its a damask. This is a frame pattern."

" Just see how it looks right here."

" See how it looks on the sofa. "

" Oh Bob, what do you think of this?"

" Looks great."

" I loved it, I think it's gorgeous."

" I like the fact that it's neutral."

" Yeah, it's neutral and if you wanna go let's say a little darker you could flip it over."

" That's pretty elegant, yeah."

" You know you get the reverse."

" Oh look at that, that's beautiful."

" You don't think it's too formal?"

" Well..."

" You know I'd like to really wash it. Now what would it look like if I wash this then..."

" Yeah, that's sort of like an after mark or treatment that a lot of the manufacturers has put on to."

" You wash it before you put it on, before you..."

" Sure."

" Yeah, to get off the stiffness out of the thing."

" Yeah, take a look at this. Here's the piece finished from the mill, you know nice tight pattern alright. Then what's happened is, you see the top here?"

" Yeah."

" We're sort of flapped out in that and you've gotten, we've pull this out so you could see what's, there you go."

" Yeah."

" Oh yeah."

" You see, what's happened is you're washing it, you're getting a lot of different weeds, that are you know going all different ways and it gets sort of a softer model."

" Makes it a little older."

" Yes it does it makes it look really old."

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