- 20+ Years of Design Experience — Olga Rechdouni, ASID
- ASID Professional Member
- Custom Design · Fabrication · Installation
- Luxury Homes Throughout Los Angeles
Newport Coast Mediterranean Estate
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.
Full-Estate Drapery Program — 41 Openings — a design project in Newport Coast, CA. The studio's specification practice in design intent, fabric, hardware, fullness, and installation, written from Olga's perspective.
A 14,000-square-foot Mediterranean estate above the Pacific. Forty-one openings across two primary suites, formal living and dining, library, screening room, gym, and three guest suites. Brief: one coherent design language, three architectural moods, and motorization throughout.
Three related families of drapery sharing one fabric palette: French pleat in the formal rooms, Euro pleat in the primary and guest suites, ripple fold in the screening room and gym. Single fabric house, single hardware house, single Crestron control surface.
Three coordinated cloths: heavyweight linen in warm parchment for the formal rooms, lighter Belgian linen in the same tone for the suites, three-pass blackout-lined wool in the screening room. One palette, three jobs.
Forest Group concealed ceiling tracks in every room; hand-forged iron rods exposed only in the library where the architecture demanded them. Lutron Sivoia hardwired DC motors throughout, all addressed individually.
Sequenced over eleven weeks. Motors wired and commissioned before any fabric was hung. Fullness tuned by room: 2.75x in formal rooms, 2.5x in suites, 100% carrier-spacing on the screening room ripple fold. Field-measured to 1/16-inch tolerance throughout.
Forty-one openings on a single keypad system, three architectural dialects in one estate vocabulary, zero exposed hardware outside the library. My recommendation for estate programs: phase the work but specify it as a single program. Estates that grow drapery one room at a time never read as estates.
- Estate program
- 41 openings
- Crestron integration
- Three-family drapery vocabulary
- Mediterranean
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 Newport Coast, Custom Ripple Fold Drapery in Newport Coast, and Custom Motorized Drapery in Newport Coast. For the broader practice in this neighborhood, see custom drapery in Newport Coast. 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 Ripple Fold. For the fabric itself, see Linen, Blackout, and Wool.