Best Drapery Styles for Traditional Homes
Crown molding, beams, coved ceilings, and exposed bronze hardware. Traditional architecture is asking for a pleated heading and almost always one of three.
Traditional residential architecture in Los Angeles — Spanish Colonial, Mediterranean, English country, classical — asks the drapery to participate in the architecture. The heading carries rhythm; the hardware carries presence; the cloth carries weight.
French Pleat Drapery
The most architectural drapery heading — hand-tacked three-finger pleats that fall in disciplined, evenly spaced folds.
FormalPinch Pleat Drapery
The umbrella category for hand-tacked pleated headings — two, three, and four-finger variations, all gathered and tied at the top.
French pleat — the traditional default
Three-finger French pleat, hand-tacked, 2.5x to 3x fullness, on exposed bronze or wrought iron rods. The studio's default in any traditional or transitional Los Angeles residence.
Goblet pleat — the estate-scale specification
For estate-scale formal rooms with at least 12 ft. of ceiling height, goblet pleat reads as ornament and participates in the architecture as decorative millwork would.
Box pleat — the modern-traditional alternative
For modern-traditional libraries and studies, box pleat reads as the most tailored heading in the catalog without losing the discipline of a hand-tacked pleat.
Still deciding? Walk the room with Olga.
Every consultation begins with the architecture. We will tell you which heading the room is asking for — and why.
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