As well as LCM going on, we had a new show the marquise to start. Me and Toni completed the floor this week.
I learnt a lot from this, as I did a parquet floor when I first start for easy virtue, but that was meant to look old and warn, like someone had been slapping varnish on it for years and years. While this floor had to be prestige, it was in a brand new expensive flat, so all the painting had to be spot on.
The designer also had no references photo of this floor as he had completely made up the pattern and the wood grain. We were given a model which the flooring on it he had created. My boss had created a sample peace of this floor, I don’t even know how she did it but it was immaculate. You held the model up next to it and it was the exact same. However the designer, now he had seen it in front of him, in a larger scale, didn’t like it. So now Toni had to somehow create this floor when the designer didn’t even know what he wanted. Which I have a lot of patience for Toni, as this happens a lot, and she somehow will always create these beautiful pieces of scenery, and a very happy designer so.
Anyway, as I said the floor had to be perfect, painting every individual panel, no happy mistake could happen. But we did it and it looked how the designer described. However if he had listened to Toni from the start it would have been brilliant, and I think he knew that once we had finished it. Because it does look great but it’s just missing that extra step, which we didn’t get time to do because he kept changing his mind.
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