By the mid-seventies, patty was an award winning store decorator and designer with walker group and later, with cni. She was constantly looking for surface materials for her projects that would be new and fresh when the stores she was designing opened several years later.
     Frustrated with the lack of options patty started to create her own products to use on her projects.
Patty began by taking materials used in different industries and adapting them for use on walls. When she could not find exactly what she wanted she decided to design them herself and have manufacturers custom make them for her projects.
     Patty’s first wallcovering, “metalene”, won a roscoe award as did her first fabric, “wedding”.
In the late-seventies, patty found an embossed japanese vinyl product used for ceilings of rail cars. She adapted it as a wallcovering. The product was so successful that the japanese company, “lonseal” asked patty to design more embossings specifically for the wallcovering market. She has developed vinyl floorings and a unique pearlesent coloring system that continues to be marketed by lonseal.
     At lonseal’s request, patty introduced “innovations”, to become their exclusive distributor of patty’s embossed vinyl wallcoverings. It is a measure of patty’s timeless designs that many of these products are still being sold today.