Moving Day

Occasionally some of my clients decide to leave me.  Not because they don’t love me anymore but because life has moved them in a different direction.   They sometimes move to a different home in a different state.  They almost always keep me with them in a small way.   Usually this means they take all their “stuff” with them.   So most of what we picked out together gets moved.  Art is hung on a different wall, window treatments are changed slightly to hang on the bigger/smaller window and book cases look a little different with the same things, but a few more added.   Sometimes I’ll go to the new home in a different state and help them get their “look” back, sometimes they send me a picture (thanks to the internet we can do a lot online now). Sometimes we facetime to tweek the look.

It is crucial to pack up the window treatments correctly.   Most movers aren’t equipped to even know how to fold those pleats so that they will hang right when they come out of the box.

It’s not like you just lay a 120″ panel on a curtain rod and put it in a box.  The pleats need to be carefully laid into place, and each panel needs to be tied up just so…

 

But this client is going to be all set when she gets to her new place.   She won’t have a million wrinkles to get out of the fabric because a lot of care went into packing  it right.  It will stay in storage for a little bit, while the new home is still being built, but when it comes out, she’ll be able to hang them smoothly.

She’ll know where the tassels are…

…and the roman shades will be all set to unwind…

…and each room is ready to be unpacked and hung for a pretty fast complete look.

Then, she’ll call me and we’ll “tweek” a few things, and she’ll be HOME.