- 20+ Years of Design Experience — Olga Rechdouni, ASID
- ASID Professional Member
- Custom Design · Fabrication · Installation
- Luxury Homes Throughout Los Angeles
Mandeville Canyon Modern Farmhouse
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.
Tailored Pleat in Belgian Linen, Whole House — a design project in Mandeville Canyon, CA. The studio's specification practice in design intent, fabric, hardware, fullness, and installation, written from Olga's perspective.
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.
- Modern farmhouse
- Tailored pleat
- Belgian linen
- Whole-house vocabulary
- Mixed manual + motorized
Related from the Studio
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 French Pleat Drapery in Mandeville Canyon, Custom Linen Drapery in Mandeville Canyon, and Custom Motorized Drapery in Mandeville Canyon. For the broader practice in this neighborhood, see custom drapery in Mandeville Canyon. 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 heading style at the top of the panel, study French Pleat, Euro Pleat, and Tailored Pleat. For the fabric itself, see Linen, and Hospitality.