We’ve shared a few behind the scenes articles about exactly how we handle side gigs, such as this one about exactly how our illumination collection came together, as well as this as well as this about our experiences with composing a book. So we believed it would be fascinating to share a side gig that didn’t work out, in spite of putting great deals of behind-the-scenes hours into it. You understand we like to share the good, the bad, as well as the awful – so why hide something that ended up being a huge ol’ bust when we can tell you people about it?
Without naming names, a extremely great business that makes wool/cotton rugs approached us as well as stated “Let’s do a young home like rug collection!” It was ideal about the time that we had started working on our illumination collection, so it felt like a natural extension to that project. part of the reason we jumped at the illumination chance was that shades of Light shared our vision for affordability. They liked the concept of working with us to produce lights that were priced at $99 as well as under, which made the process a lot more difficult (some nice-but-too-expensive styles got canned along the way) however keeping to our budget-minded roots indicated that the whole job felt ideal for us. We were essentially creating things that we, as a customer, would get (and did buy!).
We were likewise ecstatic by the prospect of getting to style some great yet economical rugs made from great natural materials (like cotton as well as wool, which we like in our own home) as well as the rug business was on board keeping that vision too. So across lots of months of emails, calls, as well as even with shipping samples back as well as forth, we worked together with their designers as well as producers to turn concepts into renderings… as well as ultimately into genuine rugs! inspect out exactly how bit Clara was during that preliminary part of the sampling process. There’s a great arm tatt going on here, too.
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We were truly ecstatic about exactly how they were coming together. After establishing preliminary patterns, a lot of of our work was in tweaking the color schemes as well as adjusting the scale. as well as the maker was doing a excellent task of turning them into high quality, flatweave cotton rugs that we’d like to have in our own home. however the one thing that we were having difficulty seeing eye-to-eye on was the price.
You understand we’re always trying to find a offer (some may even phone call us cheap… okay, we phone call ourselves cheap) so discovering a great score on a rug is in our blood. In fact, we realized during this process that we’re not sure we’ve ever paid full cost for a rug. So as the pricing on our styles started to come back substantially higher than we expected, it was like a metaphorical record scratch. If I might beatbox I’d make the noise as well as put it ideal right here in the post. Oh heck, let’s just provide it the ol’ college try. Yeerrrrrreeeeech. exactly how was that?
The point is, we just kept asking ourselves exactly how we might potentially ask people to pay a cost that we wouldn’t think about ourselves. So after a couple of stressful phone phone calls as well as restless nights, we as well as the business concerned the contract that it wasn’t a great fit. There wasn’t much wiggle space in the prices, without compromising high quality (nothing either of us wished to do), as well as we just felt that it would be disingenuous to put our names on something that was outside of our own cost range.
The great news is that the business was still able to step ahead with creating as well as selling the rugs for the cost they wanted, so the styles weren’t squandered (although I’m not sure if they’ve hit market yet or not). as well as it wasn’t a squander for us either. We discovered a great deal from the style process as well as we came out the other end with a clearer sense of the most crucial things for us to iron out whenever we work together (namely, high quality as well as cost point) – things that we’ll understand to pin down a great deal earlier in the process next time.
I believe one evident thing we’ve discovered from this blogging journey of ours is exactly how difficult you’re driven to work when you work for yourself (the amount of effort that you put in can directly correlate with exactly how much money you produce groceries that month) however we’ve likewise had to discover not to ever let the prospect of money talk louder than our gut instincts. If it feels wrong, we just have to gracefully bow out – even if it indicates we put in months of work as well as won’t make a dime if we walk away. It sure is a much better choice than putting our names on something that just doesn’t seem to in shape (and feeling like huge ol’ rug phonies).
So that’s the story of one side gig that never saw the light of day. have you people ever serviced something for a while as well as then realized it just didn’t fit together up with your preliminary intent of the project? exactly how did everything go down?
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