Complete Guide To Custom Window Treatments

Having custom soft window treatments made isn't complicated at all. All you have to do is choose styles that are right for your home, make the proper measurements, and select appropriate fabrics for the particular window treatment styles you wish to order. Then, just place your order directly with a wholesale workroom or seamstress in your area. You can easily do this for yourself with the right instructions. It's unnecessary to hire a professional interior decorator or interior designer to help you. All of the information you need to prepare your own window treatment order for basic window treatments -- curtains, draperies, valances, swags, cornice boards, pelmets, sunbursts, shades, and tiebacks -- is right here.

If you have unusually shaped windows, or you want an unusually elaborate window treatment, you don't need to hire a designer or decorator to help you. You can go directly to the seamstress or workroom for advice. Professional decorators and designers often do on unusually complicated decorating jobs. Wholesale seamstresses and workrooms do expect their customers to take care of their own preparations for basic treatments, such as swags and balloon shades, but they usually don't mind helping you with measurements and yardage requirements for complex treatments.

This guide will teach you everything you need to know to have your soft window treatments made by a local wholesale workroom or seamstress, and keep the decorator's or designer's usual 100% commission in your own pocket.

Don't forget to read over the quality checks under Quality Sewing when you are evaluating any custom workroom or seamstress. This site also has information on finding reputable wholesale workrooms

The electronic book "The Complete Guide To Custom Window Treatments" (Home Decor Press, $14.95) includes detailed charts for measuring any type of window or door, instructions for choosing the right fabrics and patterns for each type of treatment, and guidelines that will help you avoid common mistakes that even designers make when ordering custom window treatments.

Kimberly's family owned a custom wholesale window treatment workroom for many years. If you are planning to spend money on custom draperies or window treatments, you need her advice on getting wholesale prices and avoiding common mistakes that waste money.