- 20+ Years of Design Experience — Olga Rechdouni, ASID
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Malibu Oceanfront — Motorized Sheer + Blackout
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.
Oceanfront Dual-Layer Motorized Program — a design project in Malibu, CA. The studio's specification practice in design intent, fabric, hardware, fullness, and installation, written from Olga's perspective.
An oceanfront residence with full Pacific-facing glass on three rooms — great room, primary suite, breakfast nook. Salt air, strong UV, and a homeowner who wanted the ocean visible from bed at sunrise and blackout-dark by bedtime — voice-controlled.
Dual-layer motorized in each room: marine-rated performance sheer outboard for UV and view, three-pass blackout drapery inboard for sleep. Lutron Sivoia integration with the home's voice control surface. Sheer presets daytime; blackout scene overnight.
Outboard: marine-rated solution-dyed performance sheer with documented 10-year UV warranty. Inboard: three-pass blackout in a warm bone Belgian linen face. The two are specified together so the visible inboard layer reads as residential linen rather than as a stage blackout.
Forest Group dual-channel ceiling track set into a concealed pocket. Lutron Sivoia QS motors specified with sealed gear housings for coastal humidity. Hardwired during framing.
Fullness 90% on the sheer (tight stack-back to preserve view), 100% on the blackout (full side seal). Stack-back engineered to land entirely off-glass on the wall return.
Ocean visible at sunrise from bed with a one-touch sheer-open scene; full blackout at night with a one-touch sleep scene. My recommendation for oceanfront motorization: specify the sheer to the UV exposure and the blackout to the bedroom — they are two different problems, and one fabric never solves both.
- Oceanfront
- Dual-layer motorized
- Lutron Sivoia
- UV-rated sheer
- Voice control
The reasoning behind this work
The decisions behind this project — how the room was read, what the drapery was asked to do, and why each specification was chosen — follow the same written method the studio applies to every commission.
For the specification work behind this project, read Custom Motorized Drapery in Malibu, Custom Blackout Drapery in Malibu, and Custom Sheer Drapery in Malibu. For the broader practice in this neighborhood, see custom drapery in Malibu. Pricing for projects of this scope is set out in the 2026 Custom Drapery Pricing Guide.
The work on this project draws on the studio's reference library. For the fabric itself, see Linen, Performance, and Sheers.