Drapery questions
Hi all, thanks in advance for any advice you can give! We’re building a new home. There is a large cased opening between the living room and the dining/kitchen.
I have a beautiful pair of drapes in a very expensive fabric I’d like to use on the front dining room windows. Each panel is 66” wide, so my thought was either one panel on each window drawing to the outside, or I could have each panel remade into a pair. I can get enough additional fabric to do romans in the box bay.
Drapery Fabric:
I REALLY do NOT want to spend the obscene amount of money to have drapes made for the living room in the same fabric. plus i think it would be too busy. Im wondering if it’ll look weird to do a solid linen in a coordinating color, possibly with a trim, in the living room, or if there’s enough seperation. The wall behind the front door will actually be 7.5’, so the opening will be 12L by 8H.
Bonus question, if its ok to do different, which would you use for romans on the kitchen windows?
Thanks!
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last monthI don't have photos of my previous house with a good shot of both drapes, but I keep all my samples in a file! Just took them out and took a photo.
The floral/vine pattern was an expensive embroidered linen from Mulberry and the stripped pattern was a much cheaper linen/rayon from Duralee. The colors are a perfect match, so the mix of patterns work.
The camera dulls the colors, specially the background in the floral/vine, but hopefully it gives you some ideas.
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Here are some other mixes with the Chiang Mai Dragon in Aquamarine.
I actually have 2 pillows in this Schumacher fabric too! lol Which also coordinate with different Schumacher drapes that won't work in my new house, as my ceilings are much higher.
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Thank you both for your thoughts! Chispa, I loved the drapes in the bedroom pic you posted. I google searched, and found these 2 fabrics, for which I’ve ordered samples
The first is embroidered, which i think would be lovely. I need 44 yards for drapes for the living room, so my strong preference would be to stay under $100/yard. That leaves the coordinating solid Schumacher out!
Funnily enough, i also have 2 pillows in the orange in storage. I also used the indigo colorway of the same fabric to recover my grandmother’s dining chairs. They’re beautiful, and I’ll use them in the dining space in the new house.
i LOVE an eclectic mix of fabrics, and the dragon has all my favorite colors. It’s been my favorite fabric for at least 15 years, and I’ve used it in a couple if previous houses. Typically, I like a patterned drape, solid furniture, and a wide, varied mix on pillows and accents. If anyone likes to look at fabrics for fun, I’d surely love the additional eyes! - last month
I do love pattern and color. We currently live in a coastal area, and it seems every house is white and beige. It’s beautiful, but not my vibe. our last couple of full time houses have been filled with color, which brings me joy.
2 houses ago:
And our last house, with the drapes i have in storage:
just for fun, the beach house we redid and sold in 2020. I think there were 12 different patterns in there:
And this is where i started with that! From a post way back when:
We’re building a very traditional New Orleans style bracket house. I’m confident in my finish selections, as we’ve done this many times and i know what I like. I’ve just been stumped this time in finding a jumping off point for interiors, and deciding how open is too open to have different window treatments. And deciding if continuing colors is enough of a tie in, without being too matchy. I know its a privledged position, but still. Ugh.
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