Our Design Process: From your first call to final installation.

Clients reach the studio by phone, text, email, or through the website. We reply using your preferred method. A short 10 to 15 minute conversation is used to understand the project, answer your initial questions, and confirm whether the studio is the right fit for what you are trying to achieve.

If the project is a good match, an in-home consultation is scheduled — typically within 48 hours, subject to availability.

No preparation is required. Inspiration photos, Pinterest boards, floor plans, or magazine clippings are welcome, but entirely optional. You do not need to have any decisions made in advance.

We ask that everyone involved in the design decisions attend the consultation. Drapery specifications touch architecture, light, privacy, and daily habits — the conversation is more useful when every decision-maker is in the room.

The designer arrives alone or with an assistant. During the appointment, we evaluate the home, the architecture, the windows, the ceiling heights, the natural light, the furniture layout, the room proportions, and any existing window treatments.

The conversation covers, among other things:

• Privacy and light control
• Blackout requirements for bedrooms and media rooms
• Operating habits — daily use, seasonal use, children, pets
• Manual vs. motorized operation
• Design preferences: colors, textures, fabric types
• Budget and timeline
• How the room is actually used

With that context, the designer develops recommendations tailored to the room. These may include sheers, blackout systems, decorative drapery, layered treatments, pleat styles, decorative hardware, manual or motorized operation, fabric composition, texture, and color palette.

Related reading: motorized drapery, blackout drapery, sheer drapery, and decorative hardware.

A curated collection of fabric samples is brought to the consultation so the conversation about color and texture happens in your actual light, against your actual walls and furnishings.

Because thousands of fabrics are available across our mills and partners, additional samples may be sourced after the consultation if needed to refine the direction.

Decorative hardware, tracks, and motorized systems are specified alongside the drapery itself so that finish, scale, and operation are considered together rather than as an afterthought.

A detailed written proposal is provided at no charge following the consultation. It can be reviewed and discussed by phone, text, or email at your convenience.

For a broader view of how investment is structured, see our custom drapery cost guide.

For clients who want a fully resolved design concept before committing to fabrication, the studio offers an optional Designer Rendering Package for $350.

• A realistic rendering of the recommended treatments in the room
• Complete design recommendations
• Hardware recommendations
• Fabric recommendations
• Preliminary yardage estimates
• A complete design direction for the space

If the client proceeds with the project, the $350 is credited toward the project. If the client chooses not to proceed, the design package remains the client's property.

Every treatment is custom made for your specific windows, hardware, and specifications. Manufacturing timelines depend on scope and material availability:

• Rush projects: approximately one week, when materials are on hand and project scope permits.
• Most residential projects: approximately 2 to 3 weeks.
• Larger projects: up to 8 weeks, depending on scope.

Every treatment is inspected in the workroom before it leaves for installation — hems, leading edges, pleat geometry, header stability, and hardware fit are all checked against the specification.

The installation team protects surrounding surfaces, installs the treatments, tests operation, and programs motorization where applicable. Nothing leaves site until every treatment operates exactly as intended.

For a deeper look at installation considerations, see our installation guide and custom drapery installation in Los Angeles.

We complete the project with a final walkthrough — demonstrating operation and care, answering final questions, and confirming that every treatment performs the way it was designed to.