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Custom Window Treatments

Determining the most complimentary window covering is always

challenging for homeowners. I can provide you the guidance in selecting

the window treatment design which will most appropriately work with

your style and decor. View some examples below.

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                                     CUSTOM DRAPERY PROJECTS

Challenge: five windows lined up next to each other, would like privacy but be decorative, would like something different but not too masculine or feminine.

Solution: Removed louver wood blinds. Installed Natural woven shades for the windows,accenting them with drapery in between each window, then finishing

them off with ties for a soft feminine approach. The drapery pattern is a plaid

for a slightly masculine look.

This is before:                                                                    This is after:

Benefit: privacy and eliminates bare walls and dresses room up.

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Challenge:Large window, client does not want covered but would like some

privacy at night. Tuscany theme requested.

Solution:fabric draped lightly going through sconces and puddling to the floor,

and a flat fold roman shade with tassels that folds up tightly.

This is before:                                                This is after:

Benefit: remains bright and open, colorful and sophisticated, and private

when needed.

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Challenge: very bright and open, but client does not want the windows covered,

needs color and have a casual elegance.

Solution: an overlapping swag with jabots on ends in a colorful leafy fabric to

reflect the woods out back.

This is before:                                                 This is after:

Benefit: stylish, colorful and open

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Challenge: window is on a long wall, dressing needed to be picturesque

with some character, colorful and private.

Solution: a unique swag and pinched jabots with a hobbled roman shade

This is before:                                               This is after:

Benefit: colorful, very private when needed and picturesque.

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Challenge: traditional style, elegant and sophiscated but not alot of fabric,

would like windows to be open but have privacy when needed and be warm

Solution: a soft swag and jabot with a faux suede flat fold roman shade and

tassels

This is before:                                                  This is after:

Benefit: private when needed and very soft but elegant

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Challenge: front bedroom is near front entrance, needs privacy and warmth,

wants a hotel suite sophistication, but soft

Solution: a flat fold roman shade in a bronze color fabric accenting the

stationary panels foral print and tassels, soft puddle on bottom for an added

touch

This is before:                                                 This is after:

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Challenge: this is a master bathroom window, house next door very

close, needs privacy but nothing long and obtrusive to the walls and

floor, needs color and picturesque appeal

Solution: a flat roman shade with a floral print and colorful tassels

This is before:                                                               This is after:

Benefit: private and picturesque

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Challenge: walk-out basement, woods in back, client wants privacy

for at night, would like casual look

Solution: natural woven shade

This is before:                                                               This is after:

Benefit: privacy and a shade that blends with the furniture

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Challenge: In Living room high ceilings and tall eyebrow window with smaller

window on opposite wall, wants privacy but still have light come in. Dining room

needed privacy but light to come in.

Solution: In living room stationary panels on half rods titlted on angle

above eyebrow with sheers ending before eyebrow. Smaller window and dining

needed  room window needed to appear taller so we angled the rods for them

as well.

This is before:                                                 This is after:

Living room:

Dining Room:

Benefit: windows appear taller, privacy is provided and light still comes

in, within budget and very sophiscated.

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Challenge: Client had roman shades made from another vendor and did not like

how they looked, wants privacy, room has a barnyard motif, needs warmth and

color

Solution: selected a design offering style and color and country flair with slight

elegance, added an area rug and tapestry over fireplace

This is before:                                                               This is after:

Benefit: within budget, met deadline, added warmth, style and privacy

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Challenge: Client wanted more color and privacy but also wanted light to be

able to shine in the family room. Kitchen bay window client wanted more color

and style for her window.

Solution: Natural Woven Averted Fold Shade in a light green and tan,

touched off with a tropical pattern soft valance in the family room. And a

coordinating pattern for the valance in the kitchen.

This is before:                                                                 This is after:

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Challenge: large bow window, needs privacy and a sliding glass door that is low.

Solution: Natural Woven Averte Fold Shades and a top valance of a contemporary style.

This is before:                                                                   This is after:

Benefit: a more sophiscated contemporary look, providing necessary privacy

when needed.

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Challenge: needs privacy, rooms are joining together, needs to flow, but

not be the same treatment, wants contemporary pattern, needs color in room,

large long windows

Solution: choose same fabric but different designs, did a fabric roman

shade with valance in Living room and fabric roman shade with 6" classic

valance, offering a contemporary style pattern on material

This is after: (no before pictures available)

Living room:

Kitchen:

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Challenge:not much of a challenge, just a large window and needing something

unique and different.

Solution: a valance that compliments the furniture colors and has unique look.

This is before:                                               This is after:

Benefit: Unique and complimentary of the decor.

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Challenge: Sophisticated style looking for something elegant yet not covering

the windows

Solutions: many versatile styles applied to enhance the elegance of each room.

This is before:                                               This is after:

Benefit: provides style and color, yet simple and elegant

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Challenge: client wanted old world Eurpoean with bright cheery colors, yet

needed privacy but still have light shine through..

Solution: panels and sheers with a decorative cheery valance for the living room

and valance for kitchen since they are in the same area of the condo.

This is before:                                                                This is after:

Benefit: Less contemporary and more old world, but bright and cheery.

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Challenge: Room was very pale, needed color and style.

Solution: selected rustic colors to work with stone table tops

This is before:                                                              This is after:

Benefit: Bright and stylish

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Challenge: Shore home with a lot of light and not very good insulation.

Solution: A decorative valance over a Natural Woven Averte Fold Shade, made of

eco-friendly materials and blackout lining to block the sun during the brightest

times of day. Lining provides insulation.

This is before:                                                  This is after:

Benefit: Style, sunblocking and warm

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Challenge: needed privacy, but wanted a more feminine approach to covering the

windows.

Solution: A decorative roller shade and flat roman valance with a floral print.

This is before:                                                  This is after:

Benefit: A very feminine and cheery style and fabric.

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Challenge: client wanted privacy but not alot of fabric in the living and dining rooms.

Solution: a traditional valance and sheers for the dining room and a more simple

valance and sheers for the living room.

This is before:                                                This is after:

Benefit: elegant, simple and bright, private

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Challenge: boxed in window, faces front, needs privacy, color blends into wall

Solution: crisscross valance set into window with stationary panels and sheers for privacy, fabric is a contrast to wall offering gold with green and rust small flower

print and a golden sheer

This is before:                                                 This is after:

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Challenge: Client still wants to enjoy view of gulf course, still have light come

in, yet have privacy and some color.

Solution: Natural Woven Averte Fold Shade for slider and a Natural Woven

Flat Roman Shade for window with blue and brown valances to top them off

and a blue and brown plaid window seat to add another dimension.

This is before:                                       This is after:

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Challenge: wants privacy, not to decorative, colorful drapery for the living

room, dining room and spare bedroom.

Solution: fresh paint, fabrics to blend well through out, panels, sheers and

valance for living room and panels for dining room on rings and wood rod. Spare bedroom needed color so we added a valance and some paint.

This is before:                                                                This is after:

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Challenge: cold in the winter, existing treatments were not warm in color as well,

needed updating.

Solution: panels with insulated linings, colorful valances to top off panels and

a roman shade over the sink to provide color and decoration, adds warmth in

several ways.

This is before:                                                         This is after:

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Benefit: warm and inviting, colorful, keeps drafts out when closed.

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Challenge: wants room to be dark for sleeping, wants color and casual style

Solution: Natural woven shade with lining and decorative valance to pull colors

in room together.

This is before:                                             This is after:

Benefit: decorative and darkening

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Challenge: needed privacy, transitional style which is not quite traditional and

not quite modern for kitchen and living room and dining room.

Solution: roman shades for the kitchen and wood blinds with a droopy stationary panels in a mixed stripe for the living room and wood blinds and stationary panels

with cascades in a paisley print.

This is before:                                                            This is after:

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Challenge: would like the light to still come in yet have a sophiscated and

decorative presence.

Solution: One big panel pulled to the center of the two windows and tab top

valances.

This is the before:                                                   This is after:

Benefit: Elegant yet casual and within budget.

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Challenge: dated bay window needing a style.

Solution: A unique gathered type tail and swag with sheers

This is the before:                                              This is after:

Benefit: With fresh wallpaper and paint, new carpets and a much more current

decor with elegance and color.

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Challenge: traditional, small budget, no need for privacy

Solution: paint walls soft gold, board valance in elegant scroll patterned material

with green background and gold scrolls

This is before:                                                   This is after:

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Challenge: transitional, small budget, specific colors needed to blend with existing

furniture

Solution: stationary panels in gold, burgundy, green combination in stripe on a

wood rod

This is before:                                                 This is after:

Benefit: stylish, blends well with furniture allowing the furniture to pop out but

combines all colors of pillows.

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Challenge: providing privacy, decorative, yet durabe enough for children and

a dog

Solution: Hardwood blinds and decorative fabric valance to bring color into the

room and compliments the picture.

This is before:                                                              This is after:

Benefit: Ability to have privacy yet durable enough to withstand abuse

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Challenge: Bay windows in living room and dining room with awkward angles,

needed a soft aqua to blend the dining room chairs, living room is more casual,

privacy needed

Solution: panels and sheers that close and soft inverted pleat valances.

Added new paint and rearranged furniture in living room.

This is the before:                                                 This is after:

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Challenge: semi-formal dining and living rooms which are all one room, elegant

yet simple

Solution: valance using fabric with three colors to tie rooms together, touching

off with fringe to add some elegance

This is before:                                       This is after:

Benefit: warm and classy

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Challenge: removing paper shade and finding a stylish shade rich in color and

texture to complement the existing valances.

Solution: Natural woven shade made of bamboo and a fabric with sheen

This is before:                                                      This is after:

Benefit: rich and soft

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Challenge: Client wanted a spa like atmosphere. Needed something to work

with the existing window shades.

Solution: Installed scarf like drapery with swag in a soft sheer fabric with pastel

colors.

This is the before:                                          This is after:

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Benefit: With new paint on the walls, complimentary pillows to match, a softer

and refreshing look.

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Challenge: Needs a Traditional yet contemporary flare and color for living room

and family room..

Solution: Swags with floor length jabots and contrast banding and panels that

reach the floor with color. .

This is living room before:                                        This is after:

This is family room before:                                            This is after:

Benefit: Colors flow throughout the house, brighter and stylish.

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Challenge: Dated and bland.

Solution: Modern design and brighter fabric.

This is before:                                                              This is after:

Benefit: a touch of class

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Challenge: Wall with five windows and little space between them and a large

french door. Wants privacy with elegance.

Solution: Provide a treatment to create the look of one window for the five

windows and install a fabric track panel for the french doors. Plus installed wood

blinds on the windows.

This room was an addition to the home, so there are no before pictures,

since it was underconstruction.

This is after:

Benefit:

Privacy, elegance and a Tuscany flare.

(After pictures provided by Lisa Ward Photography)

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Challenge: Provide a window treatment offering privacy but allows light to shine

into room. Eyebrow frame creates challenge, needs specific type of drapery.

Solution: Install a treatment with panels that are stationary, and provide

sheers to offer privacy and light.

This is before:                                              This is after:

Benefit: 

Privacy, elegance and bright.

(After picture provided by Lisa Ward Photography.)

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Challenge: Provide a more contemporary style treatment providing

privacy but allowing the sun to shine in.

Solution: Replace vertical blinds with wood blinds and add a swag and

jabot for a contemporary flare.

This is before:                                         This is after:

Benefit:

Brighter, welcoming, stylish and contemporary flare

(After picture photographs are by Lisa Ward Photography)

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Challenge: Older kitchen renovated into a Tuscany kitchen. Window above

sink butts up against cabinet on one side, large window needs to provide privacy

yet allow light to shine in, door needs to be slightly covered. Wants Tuscany

style design.

Solution: Fabricate a treatment on a rod without finials for over the kitchen sink,

provide valance and cafe curtain on large window to allow light to shine yet

create privacy,add an hourglass treatment on door allowing to be opened and

closed.

This is before:                                             This is after:

Benefit: A Tuscany kitchen with bright colors, privacy and sunshine creating a

more cheerful and warm feeling.

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Challenge: providing a cheerful room without adding too much pattern and color

to the existing decor

Solution: soft green paint and limited drapery with subtle stripe pattern

This is before:                                                       This is after:

Benefit: bright and cheery with nice flow of patterns, not busy

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Challenge: Bathroom shared by a boy and girl, needed something both masculine

and feminine.

Solution: Checkers for the Stagecoach shade and floral for the ties and seat

cushion.

This is before:                                           This is after:

Benefit: Cheerful and bright.

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Challenge: Different sized windows located in stairwell limiting choice of designs,

walls needed some color.

Solution: Painted living room half blue and half ecru. Kept the valance design

with a more casual look and added a flat roman shade with heavier fabric to provide

privacy and warmth. Valance has blue and ecru in the fabric to tie the room

together.

This is the before:                          This is after:

Benefit:

Warmer, private and decorative with a casual flare.

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Challenge: Provide a more updated summer cottage style treatment which

provides privacy but allows the sun to shine in.

Solution: Replace vertical blinds with wood blinds and install a swag and

jabot for a summer cottage with a contemporary flare.

This is before:                                 This is after:

Benefit: Brighter, contemporary flare and summer cottage atmosphere. Completed within specified timeframe.

(After picture photographs are by Lisa Ward Photography)

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Challenge: minimal budget, privacy but stylish (3 windows had nothing on them

to begin with)

Solution: Natural Woven Shades made of bamboos, mesh, and natural woods

This is after:

Benefit: privacy, style, affordable and environmentally safe

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Challenge: summer condo, all rooms, privacy, regulation on materials used, contemporary decor, easy access through slider, but blocking sun and private

Solution: drapery and natural woven shades with white blackout/privacy liners,

mesh screen for slider and panels.

This is before:                                                This is after:

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Challenge: lack of space between window and cabinets for any drapery

with a rod or board, needs to block sunlight

Solution: Wood blind, easy to handle, blends with cabinets

This is before:                                                           This is after:

Benefit: provides and blocks light when needed and asethically blends nicely with cabinets

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Challenge: Family room and playroom adjacent to each other, needs to be fun

and whimiscal yet appeal to all ages in the playroom and traditional yet casual in

family room

Solution: box valances of contrasting colors tying in the two rooms, family room required

a traditional look so paisley was chosen, playroom needed to be fun so a stripe was

applied, yet each drapery had a touch of the other rooms fabric.

The following are the before pictures of the playroom windows and door:

After Pictures:

Closer view:

Here is the before picture of the family room in the same house:

After Pictures:

Benefit: Provides a fun whimsical style for the playroom and traditional style

for the family room, ties both rooms together by sharing fabric, completed within timeframe and budget

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Challenge: Large window in living room, unusual layout of glass, then wood,

then glass, wanted contemporary flare;small windows in dining room, wants a

formal yet contemporary flare

Solution: Swags, cascades, and panels with contrast lining and a large roman

shade in the living room and swag and panels with butterfly shades in dining

room

These are the before pictures:

Here are the after pictures:

Benefit: Provides contemporary flare, yet goes well with traditional area rug,

accents the green in the area rug, both rooms tie together well, on time and

within budget

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Challenge: small window, Tuscany style decor

Solution: scarf using Tuscany style brackets and elegant fabric

This is before:                                               This is after:

Benefit: Elegant and soft

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Challenge: Large windows, sliding glass door, wants to be able to view the lake without obstruction from the sunroom and family room.
Solution: Swags and Jabots

These are the after pictures:

Benefit: elegance, large view, easy to manage

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