- 20+ Years of Design Experience — Olga Rechdouni, ASID
- ASID Professional Member
- Custom Design · Fabrication · Installation
- Luxury Homes Throughout Los Angeles
Newport Coast Yacht — Owner's Stateroom
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.
Yacht Stateroom Blackout Program — 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.
The owner's stateroom of an 85-foot motor yacht. True blackout for sleep at anchor, marine-FR code compliance, and a fabric brief calling for the residential warmth of Belgian linen — typically incompatible with marine certification.
Specified a custom IMO-certified linen-look weave from a European mill that supplies both residential and marine markets. Three-layer system: sheer, privacy drape, blackout, all on marine-grade tracks engineered for the stateroom's curved bulkhead.
Custom IMO MED-certified linen-look fabric woven specifically to match the residential linen palette of the rest of the yacht interior. Blackout layer: marine-rated three-pass blackout. The two specifications were sourced together so the certification chain is continuous.
Custom-bent 316 stainless track following the curved bulkhead, marine-spec motors on all three layers, sealed wiring chases coordinated with the yard during refit.
Track radii laser-measured to the curved bulkhead. Panels fabricated to the curved sweep so they fold flat against the wall when stacked. Fullness held to 100% on the blackout for tight side seals.
True blackout at anchor measured below 1 lux, residential warmth maintained, full marine certification documented. My recommendation for yacht stateroom work: source the residential-feel fabric and the marine certification from the same mill. Mixing supply chains is where certification chains break.
- Yacht stateroom
- Curved bulkhead
- IMO MED-certified
- Marine blackout
- Custom-woven fabric
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 Motorized Drapery in Newport Coast, Custom Blackout Drapery in Newport Coast, and Custom Fire-Retardant 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 fabric itself, see Linen, Blackout, and Fire-Retardant.