Custom curtains, custom drapes, and custom drapery are the same craft at this studio — only the vocabulary differs. House of Drapery specifies and installs custom curtains for homes, estates, condominiums, hospitality interiors, and commercial projects across Los Angeles, with active programs in Beverly Hills, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, Brentwood, and West Hollywood. Every panel is hand fabricated in the workroom and installed by our own team. We measure on site, write the specification before any fabric is chosen, and build for the next twenty years of the room.
New clients often ask what actually happens between the first inquiry and the hanging of the last panel — the studio publishes the sequence in full on our design process page.
Single-family homes across Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, Malibu, Hancock Park, and the foothill estates. French pleat, ripple fold, Euro pleat, goblet, and tailored flat-panel curtains, specified to the architecture rather than the showroom wall.
Whole-house curtain and drapery programs across Holmby Hills, Hidden Hills, Trousdale Estates, Bird Streets, and Calabasas. We coordinate with the home’s Lutron, Crestron, or Savant platform from kickoff so motors land on the right keypad on day one.
High-rise condominium curtains in Century City, Westwood, West Hollywood, Santa Monica, and downtown. Recessed ceiling-track ripple fold, layered sheer-and-blackout assemblies, and motorization run through building management and the HOA before fabrication.
Custom curtains for boutique hotels, restaurants, private clubs, and event spaces. Inherently fire-retardant fabric, an acoustic target, and the daily-use durability commercial schedules actually require.
Executive offices, boardrooms, retail flagships, theaters, and corporate lounges. Tailored curtains specified to the brand language, the acoustic brief, and California code, with documentation for the architect and the inspector.
Most clients arrive at the studio for the same reason. The house is done — the floors, the paint, the furniture — and the room still feels unfinished. Bare windows pull the eye, the afternoon light is hostile, and a beautiful interior never quite settles.
After installation the change is usually described in the same terms: the room feels finished for the first time. Daylight is softer, heat and glare are managed, the view is preserved, and privacy is effortless. The architecture reads the way it was meant to read.
Every custom curtain program runs through one studio. Design, fabrication, and installation happen under the same roof in Los Angeles, supervised by experienced interior designers and led by Olga Rechdouni, ASID. Nothing is shipped out to a third-party workroom; nothing is handed off to an outside install crew.
Local fabrication keeps the schedule honest — a typical residential project runs two to four weeks from approved specification to install — and keeps the quality answerable to one person, in one room, on one site visit.
Every program starts with the heading the architecture is asking for. French pleat for traditional rooms, ripple fold for contemporary walls of glass, Euro pleat for transitional houses, goblet and cartridge for the most formal rooms. Fabric follows, from European mills we know by name. Hardware is hand-forged bronze, hand-wrought iron, or solid brass, chosen after the room rather than before it. Builder-grade rods do not leave the truck.
Heading references: French pleat, ripple fold, Euro pleat, and goblet pleat.
Custom drapes, custom curtains, and custom drapery describe the same craft at this studio. “Drapes” and “drapery” are the trade terms — pleated, lined, often interlined, hand-fabricated panels that hang from the ceiling or a hand-forged rod. “Curtains” is the residential term most homeowners use for the same product. Either word describes what House of Drapery builds: bespoke window treatments measured on site, specified in writing, and installed by our own team across Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Holmby Hills, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, Brentwood, West Hollywood, and the foothill estates.
When clients ask for custom drapes in Los Angeles, the conversation begins the same way: the room, the architecture, and how the light is meant to behave. The heading style — French pleat, ripple fold, Euro pleat, goblet, cartridge, or tailored flat-panel — follows from the building, never from the catalog. Fabric is chosen after the heading. Hardware is chosen last, after the room is known. Builder-grade rods, ready-made panels, and showroom shortcuts do not leave the truck.
In everyday conversation, most homeowners use “curtains” and “drapery” interchangeably — and in a well-run studio they can be. The distinction is one of vocabulary and craft, not of quality.
The term homeowners use most often. In our practice, custom curtains are pleated, lined panels made from residential fabric and hung on a decorative rod or a discreet ceiling track. They read soft, informal, and inviting — beautifully suited to bedrooms, breakfast rooms, and family spaces where the room should feel gentle rather than formal.
The trade term used inside a designer’s workroom. Drapery describes the same panel taken further — hand-tailored heading, dense interlining, weighted hems, and precise returns. It is the specification we reach for in formal living rooms, dining rooms, primary suites, and rooms with tall or architecturally significant windows.
The right word is the one the client uses; the right specification is the one the room asks for. In every project, we listen for the intent and then design accordingly.
Drapery, sheers, blackout, shades, and Roman shades for LA residences.
Smart drapery, motorized curtains, and automated window treatments — Lutron, Somfy, Crestron.
Designer-led custom drapery throughout Los Angeles, by Olga Rechdouni, ASID.
Light-filtering sheers, layered programs, and ceiling-mounted ripple fold.
Heavyweight Belgian and European linen tailored to the architecture.
Interlined blackout assemblies for primary suites, nurseries, and theaters.
Rods, finials, ceiling tracks, and French returns specified to the room.
Upholstered, decorative, and contemporary cornices, pelmets, and valances.
Designer-led drapery for Beverly Hills residences and estate homes.
The studio’s flagship Los Angeles practice overview.
Belgian and Irish linens lead the conversation, followed by silk-blend sheers for ocean-facing rooms, performance velvets for media rooms and primary suites, and lightly textured wools for canyon and foothill houses. The studio specifies fabric from European mills — the climate of the room and its sun exposure decide which fabric leaves the workroom, not the showroom shelf.
No. The studio carries a full European fabric library and writes the specification before any fabric is chosen. If a client has already fallen for a textile, Olga will evaluate it against the room — sun exposure, lining requirements, hand, drape, and long-term performance — and either confirm it or recommend a closer match.
A typical Los Angeles residential program runs two to four weeks from approved specification to installation, depending on fabric lead time, motorization, and the complexity of the room. Estate-scale whole-house programs are scheduled in phases.
Yes. Any heading style — French pleat, ripple fold, Euro pleat, goblet, or tailored flat-panel — can be drawn by a hardwired or battery DC motor on a recessed ceiling track. Most estates the studio works on commission Lutron, Somfy, or Crestron motors on the home’s existing keypads.
Always. Every project is measured on site by the studio and installed by our own crew — never subcontracted. Hardware is set with the architecture, returns are hand-tacked, and motorized programs are commissioned on the home’s control system before the team leaves.
The most common are mounting the rod just above the window instead of at the ceiling, ordering panels that are too narrow for proper fullness, skipping interlining on west-facing exposures, and choosing fabric before the heading. Olga’s consultation reverses that order — the room, then the heading, then the fabric, then the hardware.
Curtain selection here is read against the architecture first. The studio’s window-type reference covers how French pleat, ripple fold, Euro pleat, and goblet curtains land on bay, arched, clerestory, and tall slider openings; the pleats, trims, and fabrics Olga returns to most often are collected in Olga’s favorite drapery styles.
Custom curtains begin where our Design Standards begin — with the room and the way it will be lived in, not the fabric. The reasoning behind every recommendation is written down.
Begin with a private consultation. We will follow with a tailored proposal, fabric direction, and an honest opinion on what your room is asking for.
