FAQs

• What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
  I am always supplied with basically a moving hardware store within my van equipped with all necessary equipment to handle any job, whether it's anything to do with all drapery and artwork installations... For 31years supporting the designer industry in every aspect!! That also includes all fixtures(bath,sconces, mirrors, furniture, etc.) I have the highest end designers that i can give as references at any request!!!
• What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
  I have owned and sold several corporations within the design industry with as many as 30 or more employees that have worked for me for many years within the design industry. I have mentored many Interior Designers and Interns from various Universities that have prospered within the design industry throughout many years I started as a production manager in my early 20s. Manufacturing vertical blinds for Bedells MFC.. Then at age 22 opened up a retail store called Vertical Station and a service company called Metropolitan Installations and Repairs.... At that time 1988 I was then doing consultations for all drapery, shades window treatments and doing installations for many design firms. In 2004 I co-founded Designers Choice Design Center. My design center was for the design trade only. With having over several hundred design firms on account. I was selling fabrics, hardware, furniture, accessories as a wholesaler satellite design center to the Washington D.C. Design Center. In 2006 I opened up The SilkTasselRod Shoppe in Arlington, Virginia along with my drapery workroom to the trade, mostly high end design firms...manufacturing draperies, euro shams, bedskirts, pillows, etc. Trust me, i did not mention my over several hundred dignitaries throughout New York and the Washington D.C. area that i have had the absolute pleasure to professionly work with. Way to many to mention!!!! Now, after getting rid of all the payroll and the headache of my crazy endeavours,..i have settled down enjoying exactly what I love to do.... Giving the public the best of services in the best of ways at a affordable fair cost. The public deserve the best!!!!!!😀
• How did you get started doing this type of work?
  I came out of the US Army in 1987,... thinking to myself at the time that all i wanted to do is take some good time off and relax in every way!!!!! Within a couple of weeks i went to a gathering with several people and friends and struck up a conversation with this older guy that mentioned he and his family has had a business running strong for 3 generations. He expressed interest in me,.. knowing that i just completed a 4 year stint in the US Army and noticed how I presented myself in a organized, disciplined way.... Within 1 month of starting my eventual career within the design industry,.... this guy, Mark Stamer,.. Bedells MFG. Company,.. made me his production manager,.. leap frogged over several employees that had been there way before me..... Awkward!!!!🙄 For the next year and a half I was manufacturing vertical blinds for designers around the Wahington DC, Mid Atlantic areas...... Everything else from that point started my career in the designer industry.........