Bel Air Hillside Residence
Signature Design Concept — an editorial concept study created by the studio to demonstrate House of Drapery's specification practice in cloth, heading, hardware, motorization, and architectural integration. All imagery is illustrative rendering, not a photograph of a completed installation. No construction or installation has occurred at any specific address; this is a portfolio and editorial design study.
Signature Design Concept — Hillside Estate Drapery Program — a portfolio project documenting a window treatment approach in Bel Air, CA. A studio reference in design intent, material specification, and architectural reasoning.
An editorial design study for a Bel Air hillside residence with double-height arched windows, exposed oak beams, a hand-carved stone fireplace, and a canyon view that turns the great room into a single architectural moment. The drapery has to support the architecture, soften the canyon light, and disappear into the stack.
Ceiling-mounted inverted pleat drapery in warm cream Belgian linen with bump interlining across the arched window wall, paired with a sheer Belgian linen privacy layer on a parallel concealed track. The primary suite is layered: an outboard sheer linen for daytime and a three-pass blackout-lined cream wool ripple fold inboard, both motorized on Lutron.
Warm cream 100% Belgian linen with bump interlining (great room); sheer Belgian linen voile (privacy layer); cream wool flannel with three-pass blackout lining (suite inboard). All fabrics specified through the studio's direct mill relationships in Belgium and northern Italy.
Hand-forged soft bronze rods for the great room (the only room in the program where hardware is exposed); concealed motorized ceiling track for the privacy and blackout layers. Hand-forged bronze finials with a hammered finish.
Arched window heading specified with a custom radius track to follow the architecture rather than fight it. Interlining hand-tacked into each pleat for fold depth and weighted fall.
Lutron RA3 hardwired motors for the suite layered system, commissioned with the home's lighting integrator. The great room drapery is hand-drawn from the leading edge — the architecture asks for that touch, not for a motor.
An editorial design study showing how European traditional luxury translates into a Bel Air hillside vocabulary — interlined Belgian linen, hand-forged bronze, motorized suite layering — without resorting to dark, heavy, or cold contemporary palettes.
- Inverted pleat drapery
- Ceiling mounted drapery
- Layered sheer and blackout
- Belgian linen
- Wool flannel
- Hand-forged bronze hardware
- European traditional luxury
- Bel Air custom drapery
For the specification work behind this project, read Custom French Pleat Drapery in Bel Air, Custom Sheer Drapery in Bel Air, and Custom Blackout Drapery in Bel Air. For the broader practice in this neighborhood, see custom drapery in Bel Air. Pricing for projects of this scope is set out in the 2026 Custom Drapery Pricing Guide.