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The Project
Repeat clients from 2007 contacted Amy Wolff Interiors in 2021 to design custom top treatments for seven rooms in their new home.
They wanted stylish fabric treatments that would blend their new home’s updated style with their collected antiques, eclectic accessories, and personal design preferences. The goal was not to make the rooms feel overly formal or predictable, but to create custom details that felt fresh, artistic, and connected to the way they live.
The Design Challenge
The open-concept Great Room and Kitchen presented the greatest design challenge.
The client loved an inspiration photo showing sheer, flat Roman shade-style top treatments. However, the architecture of the home required a more thoughtful approach. The Great Room featured one flat wall with a 98-inch-wide split window, while the Kitchen area had a curved 139-inch-wide wall with three windows separated by drywall.
Amy needed to create a design that captured the modern feeling the client loved while also showcasing the selected sheer fabric. The “shade” sections needed to appear consistent between the two rooms, align with the window divisions, and work visually across both the flat and curved wall conditions.
The chosen fabric added another level of complexity. It was a sheer black fabric with tiny sequins in a vertical stripe pattern, which required careful planning so the finished treatments would look balanced, intentional, and beautifully detailed.
The Custom Solution
Amy designed a soft folded Roman-style top treatment that allowed the sheer black fabric to be the focal point while still giving the windows structure and polish.
To enhance the Roman shade effect, a white and metallic border fabric was placed between the shade sections. A small teal rope cord trim was added along the header to coordinate with accessories in the adjoining rooms and bring a subtle custom detail into the design.
A black blackout lining was used under the header to deepen the appearance of the sheer black fabric and conceal the board mounts. Because a typical rod weight would not work well with the sheer material, the workroom created a more refined solution by adding a tiny black welt inside the bottom edge. This gave the treatment just enough body without compromising the light, sheer quality of the fabric.
Amy’s installer templated, measured, and collaborated closely with Amy and the workroom to ensure the treatments fit properly, aligned beautifully, and installed exactly as intended.
The Finished Result
The finished top treatments brought together the clients’ modern inspiration, collected antiques, and eclectic accessories in a way that felt personal, fresh, and refined.
The sheer black fabric, metallic border, teal cord trim, and carefully planned proportions created a custom look that worked beautifully across the Great Room and Kitchen, despite the different wall shapes and window configurations.
The clients were absolutely delighted and shared that the finished result was exactly what they wanted.