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 cloth 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 cloth