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Sometimes your window treatment needs to do more. In the window featured above, the customer felt the window was rather small for the width of the wall. Any regular window treatment would make it look even smaller compared to this wide wall.However, in this case, she decided to do 4 things that greatly "enlarged" the window to the wall, thus balancing the look and creating an effective optical illusion.
Here is what she did:
1. Made the actual cornice, a full 12" wider on each side of the actual window width. Thus this 48" window opening became a 6 foot wide cornice.
2. The use of the heavier fabric on the top and bottom, a burgundy-red velvet, made the overall cornice seem larger and more substantial than the 12" height that it is.
3. The accent feature of a natural leather piece and concho focus the eye to the center increasing the illusion of a great wide window with the cornice being so wide.
4. Finally, she used the back tuck groove to gather a sheer from the outer edge of the cornice to just over the edge of the actual window. The sheer does not move, but it further disguises the actual edge of the window.
All in all this is a wonderful use of the cornice, fabric and accents to "fix" a design issue that had been a problem. The cornice, fabric, leather and sheers at approximately $165 is significantly cheaper than having a new wider window installed in the room.
I am sorry but this is tacky. For 165 you could have gotten some nice drapes online or even at walmart, got rid of those hideous blinds, put up a nice curtain rod, and stepped into the 21st century. Southwestern went out in the 80s and its not coming back, sorry. I am a degreed interior designer.
Hi ptays,
Our customers determine what they want to do with their cornices. As far as I can see Southwest is still in vogue, particularly in this Western state, Arizona. As I stated in another post, I am sure you are a good designer. However, I would hope that you are a bit more careful in your comments to your customers that you do not insult their intelligence by berating their ideas.