Draperies Make the Room!!!

Let's return to my buddy and bidness partner, Kris's bedroom.

We are in the process of redoing it, and I started showing it to you this past Sunday.

To see that post, click here.....

So, on Sunday, we got up to this point in the room's redo.....

Last week, I had the draperies installed.

I chose a simple warm toned ticking stripe from Jasper Fabrics, that are produced by Michael Smith,

Studio 534, the showroom I work with in the Boston Design Center,

 carries it.

I like the way it pulls out the colors of the wallpaper, but isn't visually busy.

The windows don't reach up to the ceiling, so to make them look taller, I plan on installing wooden Venetian blinds just up to where the drapery pole is installed, making the window look like it goes up that high.

It's what I did in the hallway....

The top slats of the blinds stay closed, hiding the fact that there is just wallpaper behind it.

Makes it look like the window goes up that high!!!!!

I am a woman.

I am good at faking things......

Sooooo.....

In Kris's bedroom, we are still waiting for the blinds, but I've had the draperies installed.

I took this picture as the first window was getting it's clothes....

I couldn't wait for the installer to finish.....

We had waited a year for these babies to go up.

If Kris didn't insist on sending her kids to college, we could have done this a lot faster.....

Looking good behind the bed!!!!!

Here they are on both windows....

We can't wait to change the bedding, so please ignore the black and white toile.....

I had the draperies made to gather on a pole.

The pole was mitered to return to the wall, and the gathered fabric covered the return.

This makes for a full luxurious look, without a lot of fuss.

If you gather a drapery on a pole with a finial, you can't get the gathering to return to the wall, so the fabric ends up looking too wide and full.

If it returns to the wall, some of the width is cut down by the turn, and you get the fullness of the fabric without it being so wide.

This is a blurry picture, because once again, I forgot to take a detail shot, and blew up an image that wasn't happy about it.....

I really need to take a shot of how it returns to the wall, so you can understand what I'm ranting about.

So....

So far we've gone from this....

To this

To this

To this

Next up.....

We'll go over the lighting!!!!!

Latah, Gatah