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What’s new and colorful for you home

A London shade is a tailored balloon shade, flat across the top of the treatment where pleats are added for fullness.View full post »

Your private retreat is pure heaven

With a room full of glass, ceramic, mirrors, tiles and fixtures, where does the comfort and softness come to play? TheView full post »

Capitalize on the view

Tailored mock roman shade valances, all in a modern paisley print fabric, add to the beautiful view in this masterView full post »

Maximum daylight

By hanging this tailored balloon valance up at the ceiling in Karen’s laundry room, we allowed for maximum lightView full post »

Bay window balloon

We used a gorgeous striped silk fabric to make this full balloon. It is hung at the ceiling for a clean look.View full post »

What is a tailored balloon?

A tailored balloon is one where the front of the treatment is flat with all the fullness in the pleats. This horizontalView full post »

A beautiful kitchen.

Liz has a lot of windows but still wants to keep as much light as possible coming in. We hung these swags above herView full post »

A balloon valance

Fabric matching the wallpaper was used to construct this balloon valance. We hung the valance at the ceiling to addView full post »

She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

Sea shells have grown up and become sophisticated made up into balloon valances. The valance over the kitchen sink wasView full post »