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 cloth never solves both.
- Oceanfront
- Dual-layer motorized
- Lutron Sivoia
- UV-rated sheer
- Voice control