Custom Window Treatments bring warmth to Farmhouse update

A client contacted me with the desire to add window treatments to her updated farmhouse style home. She had recently completed painting, flooring, trim, and a bathroom complete redo including tile, sink, vanity top and shower.
Her guest room with an en suite bath needed 3 window treatments to bring warmth to the space.
A classic linen was selected as the main fabric for the window treatments.

A roman shade for the small window next to the bed would help to balance the room and not overwhelm things. The larger main window would have full length drapery panels and the small window at a different height and size were in close proximity to one another.
This brought a challenge how to make the windows appear level with one another and not overwhelm the room with too much fabric.
Since the larger window needed drapery hardware to bring full functionality to the drapery panels we selected a traversing rod that had ball bearing gliders and leaded glass final ends.

This tied into the leaded glass overhead light fixture that was in the room already.
The bed linens were a simple duvet cover with white cotton shams to match.
In the en suite bath there was a small window that had blinds and the client wanted to bring the same fabric from the main bedroom into the space. We added a hard cornice board valance to the window with a curved bottom for just the right amount of "wow" and not to overwhelm the space.

The en suite bath with vanity and flooring and new shower tile given in the full view image below.

En suite bath full view

The full length drapery in the main room also included blackout lining to block out light and provide some noise control from the main street outside.

Guest bedroom with blackout roman shade and full length custom drapery panels

With the drapery and shade closed there is complete light blockage shown in the image above.

The drapery and shade open allows light to pour into the room with very little blockage of views.

Plenty of light and outside views seen with shade and drapery open

The drapery and roman shade from full view are shown in the image below;

Here is one more view of the room with roman shade featured in the image below.

The image below shows the before view of the room.

Room before window treatments

 

 

More Cornice Boxes

For some applications where clean classic lines are wanted, a fabric covered cornice is the perfect solution. Use a cornice when you just want to frame a window and bring attention to the outside views or to the shape of the window.
This can be done by making the cornice the same shape as the window. Cornices bring color and accent to any room without adding a lot of fluff.
Some of the challenges with this window grouping:
The height of the vaulted area coming up to a peak in the alcove above the arched window
The cabinets on one side were close to where the cornices would be and could cause interference.
The two side wall spaces were different sizes on each of the side windows

"Before" adding cornice boxes to the windows they didn't pop.

"After" adding cornices to this window, it really brought attention to the shape.

To deal with the challenges mentioned above:
We chose to make this cornice into 3 pieces and joined them together on site.
We made a template of the arch and made the center piece tall enough to add depth to the space, but short enough to fit into the alcove peak.
We made the two side pieces different widths to make up for the difference in the wall spaces being uneven.  The amount of difference is very small and barely visible. This prevented the cornices from interfering with opening and closing the cabinets as well.

This cornice box was added to the transom window above a slider that is adjacent to the other group of windows in this kitchen.
Also, this group of cornice boxes coordinates with the drapery panels and trillion shaped cornices in the family room that is open to this kitchen.