Steps to Custom Drapery for Your Home

When it comes to polishing the look of a home and making it feel all cozy, you look for the furnishings that can fill the space. The furniture can induce relaxation, the kitchen décor can bring ease to entertaining, and the color and style of the window coverings can show something really unique or refined about the homeowners. You may not be one of the homeowners who ever thought they'd consider windows a part of the space; you probably thought of the windows as just a part of the building construction. But, the time and detail that goes into custom drapery can make all the difference in the world when it comes to making your home feel comfortable and tailored to your family's taste.

Deciding to make use of the aesthetic and functional benefit of custom drapery involves taking on the three major components of the process. The completion of your interior space will require impeccable fabric choice; curtain top type distinction, which involves rod and hook selection; as well as length and width decisions for fullness, which involves detailed measurements throughout. You'd begin this three part process by selecting the right custom drapery company for your size project. Whether you would like a nice fabric to finish off your down stairs rooms or you live in a home filled with a variety of window shapes and heights, a professional company can provide a thorough consultation in your home and walk you through to the end product. They begin with a consultation where they will listen to your ideas, take thorough measurements of each window according to its actual size and the fullness of fabric for the look that you'd like to achieve.

Your upholstery service or interior designer will sit with you to search through samples of materials according to color, pattern, sheen, and sheer qualities that it has to it. He or she will help you with this stage because there are hundreds of options in every category of style that you could possibly select. After that decision is made, you can also select the curtain top type from styles that include:

• rod pocket, for a covered rod
• tab top, which presents the top of the fabric similar to blinds and the rest flows down in thick pleats
• grommet top, which used metal circles punched into the material to allow the rod passage through for a simple draping
• box pleat allows only the very top of the curtain to have a flattened interval pleat appearance raised and receding but all facing forward
• pencil pleat, which appears similar to that of a folded fan for a tighter pleat at the top of the fabric
• pinch pleat, which is a tighter pleat than the pencil design but there are clusters of pleats in identical sections

The remainder of the material can be tied back, hooked with a bow or allowed to flow to the flooring in the room. Yet, this is only possible if the measurements are correct and communicated correctly from the designer to the custom drapery manufacturer to the contractor for installation on the proper windows.