The Rest of the Story.....the week gets rosey!!!!

O.k., sorry to keep everyone hanging there...the client later calls me to tell me that the painter (A.A.'s painter not mine) has made new samples and she likes one of them.  I guess he got busy after I left and did four samples for her...she chose one of those.  Sooooooooo, I have to call my faux guy and tell him the job is off ( I hated to do that to him!).  The client also said that the contractor (A.A.) had told her that I said she needed to redo the marble flooring in the kitchen and breakfast area and also that I had the perfect porcelain tile to go in there....huh????? In the beginning the client made it clear that the flooring stayed and was not part of the plan in the remodel...after all she has it throughout the downstairs area.  So next I get a message from her asking for me to bring over the sample of the tile....you know the one that I told the contractor about...NOT!!! So, being gracious (designers are that way!) I go pick four samples for her for flooring choice...porcelain would not have been my choice at all!!!  Now days natural stone is so affordable and so beautiful...if you are using granite and then a high end marble for the island....you need something just as dressy on the floor, but subtle enough to not take the spotlight away from the marble island top......I really do give up!  I got a call that she loved one of the samples, so next the contractor calls me up and thanks me and says this is going to be a real showplace.....and that it is really all coming together.  He can't wait to show other clients this project.....I am still here scratching my head and wondering what kind of game this is we are playing!!!  I have since returned to the job to see what is going on...the same painter is still there, although not talking to me now....so I must be the bad guy here.....and the cabinets have not been touched, although there are two doors that have a milky, almost limey green wash over them and then a band of metallic that looks like a child smeared it on!!!   Sooooooooooooooo, I really do know this is sooooo unprofessional of me to vent in public about a client...I did not mention names here... and for all of my clients that do read this blog, I adore you all (you know it is not you I am talking about!!), appreciate you even more now, and am back on track focused on your projects (yes...andrea I will have figures for your beautiful bedding by the end of this day and yes, Cari, I will have the estimate to your Dad for the remodel and exterior projects......and I'm looking forward to next week and seeing or talking to all of you!!! -Sandra