When my son decided he wanted to make furniture for living, I decided I was going to be his first client.
I had seen some of the smaller pieces of furniture that he had made, and it was stunning.
I’m not saying that as a mother, but as a buyer of handmade furniture. Although, I guess there could be some kind of nepotism going on considering I wanted to be my son’s first client. I never really gave him any sort of guidance as to what kind of handmade furniture I wanted, or if there was any type of design I wanted in my furniture. I told him I could use a new coffee table and side tables in the living room, a new sideboard for the dining room, and a new headboard for my bedroom. I guess I naturally assumed that he would make the side tables and a coffee table match. I assume the sideboard in the dining room would match the table chairs and china hutch in the dining room. He grew up in this house, and he should have been well aware of what kind of design was in our furniture. Granted, he had not seen my headboard since my husband and I had just bought a new bed, but I was sure he should have seen the bedroom and know how to match the headboard to it. I was so disappointed when I brought the handmade furniture home and realized that nothing matched anything else. When I questioned my son about the mismatching of the handmade furniture, he said it was considered eclectic and not mismatched.