COMBINATION TREATMENTS FIRST PLACE

Jennifer Holaday

Brave Maggie Designs

Nashville, TN

Moving into a new house is the perfect time to out a new style, but sometimes a client might need a little convincing. With help from Jennifer Holaday, this homeowner went bold with Magnolia fabric of one of the brightest birds: the peacock. Holaday chose gold B & B Metal Designs French return hardware side panels because of the small size of the area and Pinnacle shades for privacy and light control. The neutrality of the shades took away any element of competition with the daring fabric.

Combination Treatments Second Place

Cathy Stich

Cathy’s Curtains

Louisville, KY

While water creates a beautiful view, the afternoon sun can be a double-edged sword. For a client’s hearth room/kitchen, Cathy Stich fabricated function roman shades and decided to frame them with board-mounted panels to maintain a clean look. Because the 58"-wide-by-72"-long Unique Fine Fabrics roman shades required seams, Angel’s Distributing blackout lining was added to prevent them from showing. Simple embroidery was added to the Fabricut panels for an extra dash of pizazz.

PERIOD/HISTORIC WINDOW TREATMENTS FIRST PLACE

Sharon Gizzi

Styles by Sharon Richmond, VA

While this homeowner resides in an 1840-era home near Charlottesville, VA, Sharon Gizzi’s client longed for the look of England’s Badminton Castle and Chatsworth House. To accurately achieve her client’s requests, Gizzi chose London shades for the windows in his front parlor featuring custom-dyed fabric, cordings and trim. Functionality required that the shades be 11 feet long when fully lowered, so a lift system was engineered to accommodate the weight of the lined and interlined installations. The first pulleys used under the mounted custom boards snapped under the weight, which led to Gizzi switching to heavy-duty metal pulleys.

PERIOD/HISTORIC WINDOW TREATMENTS SECOND PLACE

Sheffield Furniture & Interiors Malvern, PA

How do you update a 1929 Colonial home full of antique furniture and highlight its original architectural details? Katie Armour and Jessica Deal Fadgen were asked to do just that: blend traditional with modern. To match the time period the house was built in, blackout-lined Fabricut Dupioni silk window treatments with Samuel & Sons trim were created. Minimal space above the window openings and existing crown molding limited the mounting space, but short valances allowed for maximum natural light and complemented the home’s details.

Top Treatments First Place

Sigita Nusbaum

Delaney Window Fashions LLC

Fishers, IN

Graduation isn’t just for students, it’s for the parents who are looking for a chance to upgrade their home. To create a focal point in this client’s dining room bay window, Sigita Nusbaum proposed a lightweight Sunshine Foam Rubber Co. pelmet with Unique Fine Fabrics fabric and banding and Angel’s Distributing blackout lining adorned with Fabricut beads. Because of the precise nature of the treatment, Nusbaum created a template for the client before starting fabrication.

Top Treatments Second Place

The Pincushion Denton, MD

To match the patriotic color scheme of this room while elevating the room’s sophistication to parallel the rest of the house, Susan Cumming Fortucci fabricated three separate valances using Angel’s Distributing blackout-lined GP & J Baker fabric and Samuel & Sons pom-pom fringe. The all-white room featuring existing wooden blinds was lacking in architectural interest, so the valances were fabricated separately over each window to accomplish this task.