Burbank Traditional Family Room
This project is a conceptual design study created to explore custom window treatment solutions, fabric applications, motorization systems, and architectural integration. Images are illustrative renderings and do not represent a completed installation.
Goblet Pleat Drapery with Cornice Boards — a design project in Burbank, CA. The studio's specification practice in design intent, fabric, hardware, fullness, and installation, written from Olga's perspective.
A traditional family room rebuilt with new crown molding, a stone fireplace, and standard-height ceilings. The homeowner wanted formal drapery without making the room read as a hotel lobby.
Goblet pleat in a heavyweight linen, behind tailored upholstered cornice boards finished in the same fabric. The cornice carries the formality; the drapery does the daily work. The pair reads as one architectural element.
Heavyweight 100% linen in a warm walnut tone, interlined and lined in ivory cotton sateen. Linen specifically because a heavier weave reads as traditional without going formal-to-fault; a silk would have over-decorated the room.
Hand-built cornice frames upholstered on site, traverse rods concealed behind. Goblet headings reinforced with buckram and lightly stuffed so each cup holds its rounded shape permanently.
Cornice depth set at 8 inches — enough to read as architecture, restrained enough not to dominate an 8-foot ceiling. Fullness held at 2.5x because the goblet ornament does the visual work; more fullness would have crowded the cornice.
The room reads as traditional but personal — formal without being precious. My recommendation: the cornice and the drapery should be specified together, never separately. They are one element with two functions.
- Goblet pleat
- Cornice boards
- Traditional
- Linen
- Tailored formality