Gallery
Windows we have dressed.
Every photograph on this page is our own work, in real houses across Berkshire and Surrey — curtains, box and shaped pelmets, Roman and roller blinds, and upholstery. No stock photography and no borrowed portfolios.
Full-length curtains taken right round a three-section bedroom bay, hung from a pole bent to the angles we measured on site. The drops break just clear of the floor so they stack back neatly and the bay keeps all of its daylight.
A bold botanical print carried across two windows in a deep green bedroom, topped with upholstered box pelmets in a plain contrast. The pelmet is what stops a busy fabric looking restless — it gives the pattern a clean edge to stop at.
A large-scale patterned weave made up as a full-length pair on a slim pole set high and wide of the window, so the glass is left clear when the curtains are open and the wall reads taller than it is.
Three Roman blinds made to match across a sitting room, each squared to its own window rather than to a nominal size. Cut and weighted properly, the folds stack level with one another right along the wall.
Arched Gothic windows dressed with a shaped and trimmed pelmet running the full width, and interlined curtains held back to either side. Period glazing like this needs the pelmet drawn to the arch, not squared off above it.
A textured stripe made up as a Roman blind over French doors, fitted outside the reveal so the folds sit clear of the glass when the blind is up and nothing blocks the handles.
A traditional floral print made up as a deep Roman blind for a bay. On a wide window the fold depth has to be worked out from the drop, or the blind ends up looking either starved or top-heavy when it is raised.
A bay with blinds inside the reveals and a patterned pair either side — the layered approach, where the blind handles daylight and privacy and the curtains do the softening. Very few rooms want all one or all the other.
A single full-length drop in a soft woven stripe, tied back to clear the window entirely. Not every window wants a pair; where the wall is tight on one side, one well-hung curtain looks considered rather than compromised.
A deep-buttoned wing chair re-covered in a monochrome damask. The frame was stripped and put right before any of the new cloth went on — which is the reason a re-covered old chair usually outlasts a new one.
Fancy something similar?
Whether it is a single Roman blind, a bay that needs a pole bent to its angles, a pair of interlined curtains for a cold sitting room or a chair that deserves better than it has, tell us about the room and we'll come and measure it.