
Awards
2018
2018 WIA
Craftsmanship Awards
Wallcovering Installers Association
1st Place Small Spaces Category
2018 Winner
Sandra Catlett
RTA, Inc
2017
2017 ASID
Designer’s Choice Award
American Society of Interior Designers
Texas
RTA, Inc
Business Services
DCA
Designer’s Choice Awards
2017 Winner | Dallas
2017 WIA
Craftsmanship Award
Specialty 2nd Place
– Sandra Catlett of RTA, Inc. –
South Region
Custom de Gournay Panels for Chancellor’s Home
Sandra initially took measurements and met with the architect and contractor in October 2015. The installation was complete just over a year later in October 2016. The main house was under a serious re-model, so it took several trips during 2016 to go check on the progress and revise their elevation drawings for de Gournay. The scenic panels were all custom drawn showing the buildings on the Texas Christian University Campus. Quite a few of the walls were curved under the stair and up the staircase to the second floor landing. Sandra ended up doing this area in sections. They did not want to put any paper in the stairwell until all the furnishings had been placed, so it looked a little strange for a while. Sandra used a woven liner under their scenics and 880 adhesive. At times she used a smoother, but most of the time they put their seams down by touch with surgical gloves or white compression fabric gloves. Sandra noted that the most difficult part of this install was finding where the pattern started and making sure it followed all the way through.
2017 WIA
Craftsmanship Award
Commercial 2nd Place
– Sandra Catlett of RTA, Inc. –
South Region
Fluff up and re-do the DWC Auditorium Walls
Over the course of 4 months, Sandra took down existing fabric from the old framed panels of the DWC Auditorium. The construction crew installed new columns down the side walls. The back walls had chicken wire under two layers of old fabric, batting, and plastic. What a mess and not much of a canvas for new art!
This project was in the planning stage for over 2 years. It took countless hours of meetings with the architects, designer, contractor, and officers of the DWC. Eleven bolts of Scalamandre silk brocade fabric; hundreds of yards of custom trim and bolts and bolts of interlining and batting had to be put up in a very short time, right before Christmas!
This was a big upholstery job for this installer’s little company. It involved a lot of planning and scheduling.
2016

American Society of Interior Designers
RTA, Inc.
Business Service
DCA
Designer’s Choice Awards
2016 Winner | DALLAS


2016 WIA
Craftsmanship Award
The designer wanted this powder room ceiling (3 sections) covered with Maya Romanoff reflective paper. The ceiling in the water closet was simple, the curved entry a bit more difficult, and the vanity area the most difficult. This 12’ high ceiling was in four sections that rise and meet in the center. Working around an existing sink and onyx back wall each piece was table trimmed and custom fitted to each section.
2016 WIA
Craftsmanship Award
The designer wanted this powder room ceiling (3 sections) covered with Maya Romanoff reflective paper. The ceiling in the water closet was simple, the curved entry a bit more difficult, and the vanity area the most difficult. This 12’ high ceiling was in four sections that rise and meet in the center. Working around an existing sink and onyx back wall each piece was table trimmed and custom fitted to each section.

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