Drapes, Blinds, Soft Furnishings & Accessories

Drapes or curtains and blinds form an important part of window dressing in interior design. The various heading types affect the way that a curtain looks around a window.

Channel heading – treaded onto a pole gives a full curtain
Eyelet – large metal eyelets to match the colour of your pole, modern straight curtain finish
French pleat – a hand sewn deep triple pleat to give form to the curtain
Goblet Pleat – a hand sewn goblet or trumpet to give form to the curtain
Gathered Heading – a 1” tape with a fabric stand up to cover the curtain pole
Pencil pleat – various sizes of gathered tapes, a traditional curtain finish
Hard pelmet – a variety of shapes can be gilded, painted or fabric covered, curtain tops do not show.
Swags & Tails – an opulent curtain finish, use with high ceilings
Roman Blinds – flat fabric blinds
London Blinds – similar to a roman blind, but with inverted pleats
Venetian Blind – slats with a cloth tape and worked on a pulley system, available as aluminium blinds, wooden blinds, painted blinds
Roller blind – traditional blind in plain fabric, printed fabric. Good for velux windows.
Panel blind – kyoto style blind, use as window covering or room divider
Lambrequin – fabric covered hard pelmet frames side and top of window

Soft furnishings and accessories help link an interior design scheme linking colours and patterns in items such as cushions; rugs; throws; trimmings; tie-backs; mirrors; pictures and ornaments.