Comments on: Getting Beyond the Just-So Magazine Pictures http://fineremodel.com/getting-beyond-the-just-so-magazine-pictures-2007-10-30 Info, Tutorials, and Videos to Improve your Home Improvement Fri, 16 May 2008 13:31:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Martie http://fineremodel.com/getting-beyond-the-just-so-magazine-pictures-2007-10-30#comment-164 Martie Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:25:05 +0000 http://fineremodel.com/getting-beyond-the-just-so-magazine-pictures-2007-10-30#comment-164 I know a prominent custom window treatment maker. She tells me that her worst nightmare is a client who brings her a picture from a magazine and wants her to copy the design. She has gone so far as to contact magazines and get in touch with authors and designers of specific articles. "Oh, that drapery was such a headache. We had to pin it and fiddle with it for the longest time before the photo shoot." The truth is, when you're looking at a photograph, there's no way of knowing how the things in the picture actually work in real life. Evidently a lot of window treatments don't. I know a prominent custom window treatment maker. She tells me that her worst nightmare is a client who brings her a picture from a magazine and wants her to copy the design. She has gone so far as to contact magazines and get in touch with authors and designers of specific articles. “Oh, that drapery was such a headache. We had to pin it and fiddle with it for the longest time before the photo shoot.”

The truth is, when you’re looking at a photograph, there’s no way of knowing how the things in the picture actually work in real life. Evidently a lot of window treatments don’t.

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