- 20+ Years of Design Experience — Olga Rechdouni, ASID
- ASID Professional Member
- Custom Design · Fabrication · Installation
- Luxury Homes Throughout Los Angeles
Field notes from Olga Rechdouni.
A working designer’s observations on the trade fairs, the European mills, the hotels worth studying, and the architecture and interiors quietly shaping how the best rooms in Los Angeles are now being specified.
The Truth About Motorized Drapery: What Most Los Angeles Homeowners Don't Know Before They Buy
Why the first question is not which motor to buy, but which window treatment you are designing — a working designer's field guide to motorized drapery in Los Angeles.
Why Your Window Treatment Designer Should Be Involved Before Construction
Coordinating the drapery design before drywall, ceiling pockets, and electrical are finalized — a working designer's guide to specifying motorized drapery during new construction and renovation.
House of Drapery's Eight Favorite Drapery Fabrics for Luxury Interiors
The eight fabrics we specify most often after more than twenty years designing luxury residential interiors and bespoke window treatments in Los Angeles.
Notes from Maison & Objet, Paris
What the European trade is showing this season — and what is quietly being walked away from.
European Textile Mills — The Houses I Trust
Why a small set of family-run mills in Belgium, Italy, and France quietly produce most of the fabric I specify.
Luxury Hotels — The Window Treatments I Study
What the best hotel rooms in the world quietly get right about drapery, and what residential design can learn from them.
Interior Design — Where the Work Is Moving
Observations from a year of specifying drapery alongside the designers and architects shaping Los Angeles residential interiors.
Upscale Window Treatment Design — The Principles I Specify By
Twelve years of specification, distilled to the rules that have not changed and the rules that have.
Architecture and Interiors — Reading the Room
How I walk a residence before specifying a single panel, and what the architecture is almost always telling the drapery to do.
Salone del Mobile, Milan — A Debrief
What Milan Design Week signaled for residential drapery in the season ahead — and the quiet pivots happening at the edges of the fair.
A Week with the Heritage Mills of Northern Italy
Notes from a working visit to the Como and Biella weavers — what they are warping, what they are sunsetting, and what is worth specifying right now.
Aman, Bulgari, Rosewood — A Comparative Room Study
Three flagship hotels, three approaches to the primary suite. Where each gets the drapery exactly right, and where each leaves work on the table.
Los Angeles Residential Architecture — The Current Cycle
A working designer's read on what the city's architects are building this year, and what the architecture is asking the drapery to do.
Field notes feed the technical work. Where a journal entry points to a specific specification, it usually turns into a longer essay in the knowledge library or a reference card on the resources hub. Pleats, trims, and fabrics that keep recurring in these notes are collected in Olga’s favorite styles, and how those decisions land in clients’ homes is documented in the studio’s testimonials.
Forthcoming essays on how custom drapery is priced
A companion series to the Standards chapter Understanding Custom Drapery Pricing. Each essay expands one strand of the methodology into a field note from the studio.
- The Biggest Myth About Custom Drapery Pricing
- How Designers Actually Estimate Luxury Drapery
- Millions of Fabrics. Thousands of Hardware Choices. One Custom Solution.
- Why Two Identical Windows Can Cost Completely Different Amounts
- The First Question Every Professional Designer Asks
- Ready-Made vs. Custom Drapery
- Why Fabric Is Only the Beginning of the Estimate
- Why Professional Specification Comes Before Pricing
Essays are published in sequence. The canonical reasoning behind each entry lives in the Standards; the journal expands the studio's field experience around it.