Design Journal

Design Journal

What Amy has learned making window treatments, written down. How to read a fabric, how to choose between drapery and shades room by room, and the details that decide whether a treatment looks finished.

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  July 24, 2026

  What actually makes a window treatment look expensive

  Fullness, length, stack, lining, and how a panel is dressed on installation day. The details that separate finished work from covered windows.

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  July 16, 2026

  Drapery, shades, or blinds: how to decide room by room

  A room-by-room way to choose between drapery, shades, and blinds, starting from what the window actually has to do rather than from the product.

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  July 8, 2026

  How to read a fabric: weight, weave, and how it will actually hang

  What weight, weave, and hand tell you about how a fabric will hang once it is made up, and what a memo sample will never show you.