After buying our as-is home, I started looking for a design expert in our area.
The first thing the designer asked was if I had a particular look I was going for.
I told her that I loved the Victorian era, but I didn’t suppose it would be functional for the size of our home. The only thing I asked was that she would find some eighteenth or nineteenth century air vent covers and lighting accents. She assured myself and others she could handle that and sent myself and others on our way. She was going to make all the decisions. As long as she made decisions that surrounded our want of aged category air vent covers, I was okay. Two weeks later, the designer called and asked myself and others to come to the house. She thought she had the perfect design, although she wanted our approval before completing the renovations. When I got to the house, I could not think what I was looking at. Everything was a current design, including the air vent covers. I asked what had happened to our aged category air vent covers that I had advised. I wanted a single of the aged multiple-foot square air vents in the middle of our hallway and ornate air vent covers in place of the current wall air vents. I had neither. When she told myself and others that it didn’t fit her system of modernity, I bristled. I never told her I wanted modern, but I did say that I wanted the aged air vents and told her where to place them. When she argued, I asked her to leave our home.