A Cornice Window Treatment

My customer knew she wanted a cornice for her newly painted dining room. The only other decisions to make were the style of the bottom cutout and the fabric to use. The style we chose has a center point which I think works well on a double window. The customer suggested we change the style a bit by making the side pieces longer than the pattern specified. In picking out the fabric for the cornice, we took into account the fact that the room is painted a beautiful shade of red (my favorite color!), and she has a navy leather sofa in the adjacent great room, and touches of red, blue, and gold in her kitchen. We picked this large-scale print from Carole fabrics because of the colors that were incorporated into it, and the scale of the print. This particular print is called Laurie and the color is Sapphire.

What will this really look like?

So often, clients will say to me "I just can't quite imagine what this is going to look like". They worry that the fabric we've chosen won't work in the room, or that the design won't compliment the rest of the house the way they had hoped. But now, with the help of Dream Draper, a software program developed by Evan Marsh Design, I can take a picture of their blank window, upload it to my computer, and choose from hundreds of design and fabric options to show the client a pretty close rendering of what the finished product will be. Each design can be sized to fit the client's window, and colored in with the fabric of their choice. We can make changes to a design - raise or lower long and short points, change fabrics or detailing, or tweak in any number of other ways. We can also help with the layout of your room with a feature called "Space Planning". We can even paint your room "virtually", so you can see how your room could change with a different color on the walls.