Mandeville Canyon Modern Farmhouse

A modern farmhouse with shiplap walls, exposed truss ceilings, and twenty-eight openings throughout the main house. The owners wanted a single quiet drapery vocabulary that read as appropriate to the architecture in every room.

Tailored pleat in a single Belgian linen across every primary opening. Tailored pleat reads cleaner than a French pleat in modern farmhouse architecture and slimmer than a Euro pleat — the right middle answer.

Belgian linen in oat, 12 oz., interlined in the formal rooms and the primary suite; unlined in the guest suites where light pass-through was desired. One fabric house, two specifications.

Concealed ceiling track in living areas; matte black iron rods in the dining room and study where exposed hardware was wanted. Somfy Sonesse 28 motors on the great room and primary suite; manual hand-draw on secondary rooms.

Fullness at 2.25x — appropriate to the slimmer tailored pleat. Mounted ceiling-to-floor in every room without exception. Truss intervals coordinated with the structural drawings before track was specified.

The home reads as a single intentional architectural moment in every room. My recommendation for modern farmhouse: one fabric, one heading, two specifications (lined and unlined). Variety here reads as indecision; consistency reads as design.