Why Choose Custom Drapery

Unlike ready-made curtains, Custom Drapery and Custom Drapes are designed around your exact window dimensions, offering a better fit, premium fabrics, and more personalization options.

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Three reasons: precise sizing (correct length, proper fullness, hem at exactly the right height), proper construction (lined, weighted hems, professional finishing), and hardware quality. Ready-made panels are typically a fraction of the cost but look visibly wrong — too short, too flat, or poorly finished. Custom drapery drapes correctly, lasts 10–20 years, and elevates any room in a way off-the-shelf panels simply can't replicate.

Modern: Ripple-fold (soft continuous S-curves on a concealed track) is the most popular current specification — clean, minimal, and elegant. Inverted pleat and grommet styles also suit contemporary interiors. Traditional: Pinch pleat, goblet pleat, and French pleat create structured, formal folds suited to classic and transitional rooms. For most new installations today, ripple-fold on a ceiling-mount concealed track is the go-to luxury choice.

Mount the rod 4–12 inches above the window frame — or at ceiling height in rooms with 8-foot ceilings. Use full-height panels that run floor to ceiling rather than ending at the window frame. Extend the rod 6–12 inches beyond each side of the window so panels stack off the glass when open, exposing maximum glass and making the window appear significantly wider. These three details alone transform how a room feels.

Almost always yes. Unlined drapery hangs poorly, fades faster, and looks flat. Your three options: Lined — fabric plus a separate lining layer; drapes well, blocks more light, lasts longer. Interlined — adds a third middle layer for the most luxurious drape, best insulation, and strongest acoustic absorption. Unlined — lightest and most casual; only appropriate for informal spaces or sheer drapery where transparency is the intent. For most installations, lined is the minimum; interlined for primary bedrooms and formal rooms.

Everything. Your local design consultant brings physical fabric samples to your home, evaluates rod height, projection, and panel sizing for your specific windows, and produces a written estimate. Professional installation covers rod or track mounting, panel hanging, hem adjustment, and motorized system programming if applicable. Warranty service is handled locally — no shipping panels to a factory or waiting on a call center.

For wide openings, sliding glass doors, primary bedrooms, and any drapery operated daily — yes. Manually pulling heavy drapery panels across an 8-foot or wider opening becomes tedious quickly. Motorized operation is smooth, silent, and controllable by remote, app, or voice. It's also the most popular fast-growing category in our lineup, particularly on great-room openings and primary bedrooms where one-tap open and close routines make a genuine daily difference.

Four factors shape the investment: fabric tier (basic to designer collections), fullness (luxury installations use 2.5× to 3× fabric width), construction (unlined, lined, or interlined each add performance and cost), and header style (ripple-fold on a motorized track costs more than a simple rod-pocket). Book a free in-home consultation for a written estimate tailored to your exact windows and design preferences.