- 20+ Years of Design Experience — Olga Rechdouni, ASID
- ASID Professional Member
- Custom Design · Fabrication · Installation
- Luxury Homes Throughout Los Angeles
Luxury Window Treatments in Los Angeles
House of Drapery is a studio-led practice specifying every category of luxury window treatments and window coverings for the city’s most considered residences — custom drapery, custom shades in Los Angeles, Roman shades, roller and solar shades, motorized window treatments, and the decorative hardware that ties them to the architecture. Every program is measured on site, specified in writing, hand fabricated in the workroom, and installed by a dedicated team led by Olga Rechdouni, ASID — with active work across Beverly Hills, Malibu, Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, and West Hollywood.
Custom Window Treatments Los Angeles
Every custom window treatment we specify in Los Angeles is built to the opening rather than pulled from a catalog. The studio measures on site, writes the specification, and hand-fabricates each panel, shade, and cornice in the workroom. Custom window treatments include hand-finished drapery, interlined Roman shades, layered sheer-and-blackout assemblies, and motorized roller and solar shades — coordinated under one specification for the room.
Luxury Window Treatments Los Angeles
Luxury window treatments in Los Angeles are defined by the fabric, the hardware, and the install — not by the showroom. House of Drapery sources from European mills, specifies hand-forged bronze, wrought iron, and solid brass hardware, and installs with the studio’s own crew. The result is a window covering program that reads as architecture, holds its shape for decades, and integrates cleanly with Lutron, Crestron, Savant, and Control4.
How the Right Window Treatment Is Chosen
Most of the homeowners who reach the studio do so for the same reason: the room feels unfinished. The furniture is in, the art is hung, the lighting is right — and the windows still read as a problem. In Los Angeles that problem is usually the same set of forces working at once: sunlight, heat, glare, and privacy, all pulling against the architecture the home was designed around.
Every recommendation from Olga Rechdouni begins the same way. Before any product is named, the room is evaluated against architecture, ceiling height, sun exposure, privacy, furniture placement, noise, and the way the family actually lives. A nursery, a media room, a primary suite, and a west-facing great room each ask for a different answer — and the answer is rarely a single product.
Roughly half of the studio’s clients end up in a layered program. Motorized shades paired with decorative drapery for great rooms. Solar shades with sheers for ocean-facing primaries. Blackout systems with drapery for sleep. Motorized blinds with drapery for transitional interiors. The combinations come from the room — automated window treatments in Los Angeles work best when the layers are specified together rather than added in stages.
“The goal is not to sell a product. The goal is to recommend the right solution for the room.”
That position shapes the entire scope of work the studio offers across LA County — custom window treatments and luxury window treatments in Los Angeles, motorized shades, motorized blinds, smart shades, and the layered drapery programs that tie them to the architecture.
Energy-Efficient Window Treatments in Los Angeles
Window treatments in Los Angeles do real engineering work before they do any decorative work. West- and south-facing glazing across Beverly Hills, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, and Brentwood drives summer cooling loads, fades hardwood and textiles, and produces the kind of midday glare that closes a room off from itself. The studio specifies window coverings as performance systems first — solar control, heat reduction, UV protection, and glare management engineered into the assembly — and as architectural elements second.
Solar Control & Heat Reduction
Solar shades in 1%, 3%, and 5% openness factors reject solar heat gain at the glass plane — cutting cooling load on west-facing great rooms and oceanfront primary suites without darkening the room. We specify European-milled solar fabrics in Mermet, Phifer SheerWeave, and comparable mills, sized to the opening and motorized for scene control.
UV Protection
A correctly specified solar or roller shade blocks 95–99% of ultraviolet radiation — protecting hardwood floors, fine art, upholstery, and rugs from the fade that defines an unprotected Los Angeles south exposure. For estate-scale art collections we specify museum-grade UV filtration as a baseline.
Glare Reduction
Glare is the most under-discussed window-treatment problem in Los Angeles. A 3% solar shade behind a Belgian-linen sheer eliminates midday glare on screens, dining tables, and reading chairs while preserving the view — the room remains bright, but no longer hostile to use.
Energy Efficiency
Interlined drapery measurably improves the effective R-value of a window in both directions — keeping cooled air in during summer and radiant heat in during the canyon-cold nights of winter. On large glazing assemblies the energy payback is real and the comfort improvement is immediate.
Layered Performance Assemblies
A single product rarely solves a sun-side window. The studio's default specification for west-facing primary suites and great rooms is a three-layer assembly: a solar shade for heat and UV, a sheer for daytime softness, and a blackout or privacy panel for sleep — all coordinated on one motor control plan.
Smart-Home Heat Control
Motorized solar and roller shades commissioned on Lutron, Crestron, Savant, or Control4 can be scheduled to track the sun across the exposure — closing automatically on west glazing in the late afternoon and reopening after sunset, without the homeowner ever touching a keypad.
Every Window Covering, One Studio
We treat drapery, Roman shades, and motorized roller and solar shades as a single discipline — coordinated on one control plan, specified to the room rather than the catalog. The right covering for the window is rarely a single product.
French pleat, ripple fold, Euro, goblet, and tailored flat-panel headings — hand fabricated, hand installed.
Explore →Flat, relaxed, and hobbled folds — interlined, cordless or motorized lift, tailored to the opening.
Explore →Continuous s-curves on recessed ceiling track — the heading of contemporary walls of glass.
Explore →Hardwired Lutron, Somfy, and Crestron DC motors — silent, recessed, integrated with the home.
Explore →European-milled solar fabrics in 1%, 3%, and 5% openness — tube motors recessed in ceiling pockets.
Explore →High-transmittance performance sheers that hold the view and carry the room in daylight.
Explore →Three-pass interlined blackout assemblies with side channels for true sleep darkness.
Explore →Hand-forged bronze, hand-wrought iron, unlacquered brass — rods, rings, brackets, finials.
Explore →Installed by the Studio’s Own Team
Every window covering we specify in Los Angeles is installed by the studio’s dedicated install crew — drapery and curtain installation in Los Angeles handled entirely in-house, with rolling scaffolds on marble and hardwood, hand-tacked cornices set at ceiling height, and motors commissioned on the home’s existing Lutron, Crestron, Savant, or Control4 keypads before the team leaves.
Read the Installation GuideBeverly Hills · Malibu · Santa Monica · Pacific Palisades · Brentwood · West Hollywood
The studio works privately across Greater Los Angeles — custom drapery in Beverly Hills, custom drapery in Malibu, Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, and West Hollywood, with estate-scale programs in Bel Air, Hidden Hills, and Calabasas, and heritage interiors in Pasadena and Hancock Park.
View the Project PortfolioRelated Los Angeles services
Custom Curtains Los Angeles
French pleat, ripple fold, and tailored panels measured and installed across LA.
Motorized Drapery Los Angeles
Lutron, Somfy, and Crestron integration for smart shades and automated drapery.
Custom Drapery Los Angeles
The studio’s flagship Los Angeles drapery practice — design, fabrication, install.
Sheer Drapery & Ripple Fold Sheers
Light-filtering and privacy sheers on layered or ceiling-mounted programs.
Belgian Linen Drapery
Heavyweight Belgian and European linen specified for drape and tailoring.
Blackout & Room-Darkening Drapery
Interlined blackout assemblies for primary suites, nurseries, and theaters.
Decorative Drapery Hardware
Rods, finials, French returns, and ceiling-recessed tracks.
Cornice Boxes & Top Treatments
Upholstered cornices, pelmets, and decorative valances built at the workroom.
Roman Shades Los Angeles
Flat, relaxed, and hobbled Roman shades — interlined and tailored to the opening.
Beverly Hills Estate Drapery
Designer-led drapery for Beverly Hills residences and estate homes.
Custom Drapery in Los Angeles
The studio’s neighborhood-by-neighborhood Los Angeles overview.
Window Treatments & Window Coverings in Los Angeles
What is the difference between window treatments and window coverings?
In practice the terms are interchangeable. Window coverings is the trade term for any product that dresses a window — drapery, Roman shades, roller and solar shades, and decorative hardware. Window treatments is the design term for the same category, more common in residential and interior-design conversations. At House of Drapery we use them as synonyms and specify the full category under one studio.
Do you specify luxury window treatments throughout Los Angeles?
Yes. The studio works privately across Greater Los Angeles, with active programs in Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Holmby Hills, Trousdale Estates, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, Brentwood, West Hollywood, Hancock Park, Pasadena, Hidden Hills, and Calabasas. Every project is measured on site and installed by the studio's own team.
Do you handle motorized window treatments and smart-home integration?
Yes. We specify Lutron, Somfy, Crestron, Savant, and Control4 systems and commission motors on the home's existing keypads before the install team leaves. Motorization is treated as part of the architectural plan rather than an upgrade.
What custom window treatments do you offer?
Custom drapery (French pleat, ripple fold, Euro pleat, goblet, tailored flat-panel), custom Roman shades (flat, relaxed, hobbled), roller and solar shades in European-milled fabrics, sheer and blackout assemblies, and hand-forged decorative hardware — specified as a single coordinated program for the room.
Which window treatments reduce heat, glare, and UV in Los Angeles?
Solar shades in 1%, 3%, and 5% openness factors are the studio's first specification for west-facing Los Angeles glazing — they block 95–99% of UV, reduce solar heat gain through the glass, and cut glare without darkening the room. Layered sheers in Belgian linen carry the room visually; an interior blackout or privacy panel handles night and sleep. For sun-side primary suites and great rooms we routinely specify a three-layer assembly: solar shade for heat and UV, sheer for daytime softness, blackout for sleep.
Are your window treatments energy efficient?
Yes. Cellular and interlined drapery assemblies measurably improve a window's effective R-value; solar shades reduce cooling load on west- and south-facing glass; and motorized scenes can automate seasonal heat-gain control without the homeowner thinking about it. We specify performance with the same rigor as we specify fabric — the engineering is part of the design brief.
The reasoning behind this work
Choosing between drapery, sheers, Roman shades, roller shades, and combinations is the work of the consultation — not the showroom. Our Standards explain how that decision is actually made.