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thursday: looking at stuff
Jun. 27th, 2024 06:42 pmR. and I took A. to Fusion, and then we went over to the 7 Tide showroom, primarily for Marvin. It was nice to see the “wash mode” feature, and to see how that interacts with screens. It was also very validating to see the cleverly put together room with all the home automation features, and see how R. immediately made trouble by pushing buttons to open all the windows at once, and then sitting in the light box which he had to get up from so the woman could demonstrate the shade closing in front of it. I love how a designer put this thing together to demonstrate all the stuff that you could do and how cool it was, and R. immediately demonstrated why I don’t want it. Also, “evening” mode was supposed to do something to the skylight, but it didn’t happen. The whole thing was set up by an integrator, which again, this is all the things I do not want.
Good news on the smart lock front, there is a door with a wide enough stile to at least think about putting a smart lock into. We’ll see where this goes next.
Marvin has lovely products, and they fed us a nice lunch and did great presentations and answered questions.
After Marvn, R. and I had some time to kill before picking up A., so we went over to the Boston Design Center. We started with Visual Comfort. It was extremely reassuring to look at the lighting in person, and see that for the most part, it was as I had expected based on the websites. The websites are really well put together, and the products are well-photographed so you really can get a good sense of what you are buying. It was nice to see the lights turned on, so we could get a sense of the brightness vs. the lumens listed and to also see that that was largely as I expected. Also, we saw a ton of lights that I had looked at, considered, and dismissed because I thought I / others would not like them as well as the ones I did select, and to be able to ask R. to look at them and watch him go, meh. Yay!
I did ask the woman who offered to help us about wet listed options. The Sean Lavin designed Bowman pendant is remarkably uninspiring online, however, in person is not bad at all. I doubt we will go with that one, but that kind of lighting is tough to photograph.
We also went into Deen’s Carpets. Very nice man, answered lots of questions, was very friendly. Lovely, lovely products. Nourison is a very nice commercial option, and they also had more specialized options and full customization available as well. Reealllly great stuff. There was a rug from Nepal that had a kimono-fabric inspired design that felt delightful and looked good on the wall but spectacular on the floor. I will definitely be revisiting that one.
We also stopped in Waterworks and looked at some tile.
Good times, altho riding in the backseat after we picked up A. was probably an error in judgment on my part.
We got back just in time for the piano lesson with F.
ETA: Oh, and I should add! I learned recently about “wood look” tile. The DAL tile website has absolutely hysterical stuff in their FAQ.
“Are Wood Effect Tiles Cold?
All tile is made from clay harvested from the earth and fired at high temperature. It is an excellent conductor so it holds temperature well. It is an excellent surface for underfloor heating.”
You can kind of tell that they desperately wanted to say, you are an idiot, it is tile, of course it is cold. But they were so much more polite about it and they made an effort to sell it.
Good news on the smart lock front, there is a door with a wide enough stile to at least think about putting a smart lock into. We’ll see where this goes next.
Marvin has lovely products, and they fed us a nice lunch and did great presentations and answered questions.
After Marvn, R. and I had some time to kill before picking up A., so we went over to the Boston Design Center. We started with Visual Comfort. It was extremely reassuring to look at the lighting in person, and see that for the most part, it was as I had expected based on the websites. The websites are really well put together, and the products are well-photographed so you really can get a good sense of what you are buying. It was nice to see the lights turned on, so we could get a sense of the brightness vs. the lumens listed and to also see that that was largely as I expected. Also, we saw a ton of lights that I had looked at, considered, and dismissed because I thought I / others would not like them as well as the ones I did select, and to be able to ask R. to look at them and watch him go, meh. Yay!
I did ask the woman who offered to help us about wet listed options. The Sean Lavin designed Bowman pendant is remarkably uninspiring online, however, in person is not bad at all. I doubt we will go with that one, but that kind of lighting is tough to photograph.
We also went into Deen’s Carpets. Very nice man, answered lots of questions, was very friendly. Lovely, lovely products. Nourison is a very nice commercial option, and they also had more specialized options and full customization available as well. Reealllly great stuff. There was a rug from Nepal that had a kimono-fabric inspired design that felt delightful and looked good on the wall but spectacular on the floor. I will definitely be revisiting that one.
We also stopped in Waterworks and looked at some tile.
Good times, altho riding in the backseat after we picked up A. was probably an error in judgment on my part.
We got back just in time for the piano lesson with F.
ETA: Oh, and I should add! I learned recently about “wood look” tile. The DAL tile website has absolutely hysterical stuff in their FAQ.
“Are Wood Effect Tiles Cold?
All tile is made from clay harvested from the earth and fired at high temperature. It is an excellent conductor so it holds temperature well. It is an excellent surface for underfloor heating.”
You can kind of tell that they desperately wanted to say, you are an idiot, it is tile, of course it is cold. But they were so much more polite about it and they made an effort to sell it.