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Originally Posted by Tervuren
I would say that given how the customer decided to use shaved 2x4's that the customer wasn't all into spending that much either.
I think the customer fell for something without realizing the cost and restriction.
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He had 580,000 budget that we can't blow up. This was a time where the economy was slowly coming back up form the recession. The home was purchased for 860k, if I remember correctly? His thinking was to move into it and when the economy comes back, sell it and more on to something bigger and better things. This was 2005. The designer and the owner knew what he was getting into and understood his money would go toward a certain items, stay within them to preserve the details from the original architects which we did. Talk about cursing salvage yards and chrome shops.