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Re: Website Client

Edgar

11-07-2007

EDS

Warm Worm

Warm Worm

Pierre Levesque

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Posted by Edgar on November 7, 2007, 1:55 pm

> Well it appears for the very first time I have a client attained directly

> from my website.

> Never before has that happened.

> She's in Birmingham, AL and I spent 3 hours on the phone with her this

> past Mon.

> Yesterday she overnighted her package of ideas to me which I will receive

> today.

> She's an attorney and I already did the websearch on her.

> The site is 9.85 acres in a very rural area 20 miles south of Birmingham

> on the top of a high hill, the foot of the Appalachians.

> Supposedly you can see 25 miles from the top of the site.

> She's sending me aerials and topos and I've already viewed it in 3d on

> google earth.

> The front of the property is level with the road, which is a gravel

> logging road, and then abruptly and steeply slopes down toward the rear

> property line where there is a stream and a pond.

> She has some unique upscale tastes and has subscribed to Architectural

> Digest, her bible, for the past 20+ years (gasp).

> She has collected antiques from all over the world and wants to

> incorporate them into the design.

> (a pair of 13' high mexican mesquite doors-hand carved, a pair of large

> scale moroccan hand pounded iron gates, 17th century wood and marble

> corbels, stained glass transoms from the 15th century, etc., etc.)

> One of the interesting parts is that her husband is wheelchair bound and

> always wanted a treehouse when he was a kid but never had one, so now in

> the creation of their dream home she wants to incorporate a treehouse into

> it somehow, wheelchair accessible of course.

> No money has changed hands yet but I expect to have her under contract by

> the middle of next week.

> I likes these kinda projects, they stretch your synapses almost to the

> snapping point from all directions and you've gained so much when you come

> out the otherside.

> A hugely powerful learning experience, and thats what its all about.

Sounds like it will be very interesting. Keep us posted.

--
Edgar

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Posted by EDS on November 12, 2007, 2:10 pm

>> Don wrote:

>>>"

>>>

>>>Several hundred pages of *stuff* was dropped off by fedex a little while

>>>ago.

>>>I think she thinks I am a designer as well as interior designer or just

>>>doesn't know the diff.

>>>I mean, I don't really care about that giant 8' dia 200 bulb chandelier

>>>she wants to hang in the dining room.

>>>My plan will just show the standard lamp fixture, you know, the circle

>>>with 4 lines radiating out from it.

>>>Now if she wants to pay for detailing and specs, thats another story.

>> There is a reason why judges (and other legal people) need mockups and

>> 3-D walkthroughs. The ability that allows them to cite code and spec

>> materials unfortunately puts a lot of them on the short end of structural

>> visualization from plans. She may have to pay not only for detailed

>> drawings but also walk through visualizations and a model.

>> 8 foot diameter chandelier sounds very cool with the right sized room and

>> ceiling. Actually might be better used in another space entirely like a

>> tall foyer or great room extension

> For various reasons I'm going to try to avoid getting too invloved in how

> she does her antiques.

> One of the items she mentioned was an antique chinese wedding bed

> (whatever that is - what, you have your honeymoon on it then move on to

> the real one, for the rest of your life???) headboard that she wants to

> use as a fireplace surround in the grand room and it will be a see-thru

> version to the master bedroom.

> I don't wanna be held responsible for that thing not matching up properly

> to the opening to the firebox.

> A local person will have to do all that.

A building facade I just finished on Beacon Hill has a remodeled hi-end
restaurant behind it. (they make a very good latte ;-) and the truffles are
to die for.) The new owner went to Italy and came back with a truckload of
antique doors and panels. The restaurant interior designer was in NY. I
ended up working with the GC and Owner's rep to fit some items in. The
restaurant drawings were good, but nobody can be positive some antique will
slide right in and work without some reworking of the surroundings unless
they are on site and available.

Posted by Warm Worm on November 14, 2007, 6:59 pm

Don wrote:

> "3D Peruna"> wrote

>> Don wrote:

>> designer as well as interior designer or just

>>> doesn't know the diff.

>>> I mean, I don't really care about that giant 8' dia 200 bulb chandelier

>>> she wants to hang in the dining room.

>> You will when you find out it weighs a ton and needs extra structural

>> reinforcing to keep it up and a hoist system to lower to change bulbs and

>> clean it...

>> (and she'll care when she discovers the cost of that one fixture is more

>> than the cost of the rest of then entire electrical package and probably

>> the plumbing package, too)

> 88 pages.

> Thats how much stuff that lady sent me.

> Unbelieveable how many antique thngs she wants to incorporate into this

> house.

> I don't get involved with this stuff, ever.

> Even if I was on the site 24/7 trying to keep up with all of that would put

> you in the intensive care unit but quick.

> She's gonna get a straight set of building permit drawings and thats it, if

> she wants additional hand holding she better find a local boy...or gurl.

> One of her notes to me: "I am a very large and powerful lady."

I'd write back: "In what sense?"

Posted by Warm Worm on November 15, 2007, 9:06 pm

Don wrote:

>> Don wrote:

>>> "3D Peruna"> wrote

>>>> Don wrote:

>>>> designer as well as interior designer or just

>>>>> doesn't know the diff.

>>>>> I mean, I don't really care about that giant 8' dia 200 bulb chandelier

>>>>> she wants to hang in the dining room.

>>>> You will when you find out it weighs a ton and needs extra structural

>>>> reinforcing to keep it up and a hoist system to lower to change bulbs

>>>> and clean it...

>>>>

>>>> (and she'll care when she discovers the cost of that one fixture is more

>>>> than the cost of the rest of then entire electrical package and probably

>>>> the plumbing package, too)

>>> 88 pages.

>>> Thats how much stuff that lady sent me.

>>> Unbelieveable how many antique thngs she wants to incorporate into this

>>> house.

>>> I don't get involved with this stuff, ever.

>>> Even if I was on the site 24/7 trying to keep up with all of that would

>>> put you in the intensive care unit but quick.

>>> She's gonna get a straight set of building permit drawings and thats it,

>>> if she wants additional hand holding she better find a local boy...or

>>> gurl.

>>> One of her notes to me: "I am a very large and powerful lady."

>> I'd write back: "In what sense?"

> Imagine a 400 lb female lawyer with PMS.

> (I have her wrapped around my finger, LOL)

As opposed to your hard-on. LOL

Posted by Pierre Levesque on November 19, 2007, 1:30 pm

>> Don wrote:

>>>> Don wrote:

>>>>> "3D Peruna"> wrote

>>>>>> Don wrote:

>>>>>> designer as well as interior designer or just

>>>>>>> doesn't know the diff.

>>>>>>> I mean, I don't really care about that giant 8' dia 200 bulb

>>>>>>> chandelier she wants to hang in the dining room.

>>>>>> You will when you find out it weighs a ton and needs extra structural

>>>>>> reinforcing to keep it up and a hoist system to lower to change bulbs

>>>>>> and clean it...

>>>>>>

>>>>>> (and she'll care when she discovers the cost of that one fixture is

>>>>>> more than the cost of the rest of then entire electrical package and

>>>>>> probably the plumbing package, too)

>>>>> 88 pages.

>>>>> Thats how much stuff that lady sent me.

>>>>> Unbelieveable how many antique thngs she wants to incorporate into

>>>>> this house.

>>>>> I don't get involved with this stuff, ever.

>>>>> Even if I was on the site 24/7 trying to keep up with all of that

>>>>> would put you in the intensive care unit but quick.

>>>>> She's gonna get a straight set of building permit drawings and thats

>>>>> it, if she wants additional hand holding she better find a local

>>>>> boy...or gurl.

>>>>> One of her notes to me: "I am a very large and powerful lady."

>>>> I'd write back: "In what sense?"

>>>

>>> Imagine a 400 lb female lawyer with PMS.

>>> (I have her wrapped around my finger, LOL)

>> As opposed to your hard-on. LOL

> You know what they say, 'the bigger the cushion the better the pushin'.

> heh

just make sure you have a bag of flour nearby...

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