Custom Drapery Los Angeles
Luxury Residential & Commercial Window Treatments
Design · Fabrication · Installation
Motorized drapery and designer fabrics, specified and installed by Olga Rechdouni, ASID, Interior Designer and founder of Duroque.
Interior Designer · ASID Professional Member
We approach a window the way a tailor approaches a suit. The fit is the whole job.
Serving Southern California’s Most Distinguished Residences
Los Angeles · Beverly Hills · Bel Air · Holmby Hills · Brentwood · Malibu · Pacific Palisades · Newport Coast · Montecito · Hope Ranch · Santa Barbara · Rancho Mirage · Indian Wells · La Quinta
Custom Drapery · Motorized Window Treatments · Luxury Sheers · Blackout Systems · French Pleat · Ripple Fold · Decorative Hardware
Private consultations for homeowners, interior designers, architects, builders, and estate managers.
Why Most Custom Drapery Fails
Drapery is an architectural element, not a soft good. Most of what is sold as “custom” in Los Angeles is fabric cut to a measurement and hung on a rod. Nobody asked what the room was doing.
The work starts long before the first stitch. We walk the rooms, watch where the afternoon sun lands, ask how the family actually uses the space, and look at how the ceilings, casings, and floors line up. Hardware gets chosen against the architecture, not picked from a catalog.
A good workroom can sew a beautiful panel. A designer decides whether that panel should exist at all, where it should mount, and what it has to do once the family lives with it.
Why Homeowners Hire a Drapery Designer
Custom drapery sits between architecture, engineering, and tailoring. It rewards precision at every step and punishes shortcuts within a season.
These are the nine things we resolve in writing before a single panel is cut.
Architecture
We read the room first. The drapery should continue the line of the wall, not chop it.
Ceiling Height
Mounting at the ceiling instead of the window casing routinely buys a room a foot of perceived height.
Light Control
West-facing LA glass needs more than a pretty linen. We layer sheers and blackout for the hour of day that matters.
Privacy
Most homes need privacy at night and the view by day. One panel rarely does both well.
Acoustics
Three-pass interlining at correct fullness takes the slap out of hard-surface modern rooms.
Fire Safety
In the canyons and on the coast we spec inherently fire-retardant cloth, not topical FR sprays that fade out.
Motorization
Hard-wired Lutron, Somfy, and Crestron, planned at electrical rough-in. Battery tubes are a last resort.
Hardware
Hand-forged bronze or hand-wrought iron for traditional rooms; recessed track for contemporary glass. Never builder-grade.
Long-Term Performance
Properly weighted, properly dressed drapery should still hang correctly fifteen years in. We build for that.
We don’t just make drapery.
We dress windows.
Every project starts with the room. Ceiling height, proportions, where the sun comes in, the view you are protecting, the noise you are softening, the architecture you are working with. The drapery is the answer to those questions, in that order.
The Knowledge Library
A working reference for homeowners, interior designers, and architects on how luxury drapery is actually designed in Los Angeles.
Why You Need a Drapery Designer, Not Just a Drapery Manufacturer
A manufacturer sews fabric to a measurement. A designer reads the room first — its light, its architecture, its life — and only then specifies the cloth. The difference shows the moment the drapery is hung.
Read the essay →The Most Expensive Drapery Mistake Homeowners Make
Falling in love with the swatch before anyone has looked at the architecture. We see it every week, and we usually have to undo it.
Essay 03 · 4 min readHow Drapery Can Make Ceilings Look Taller
Drop the rod to the casing and the room shrinks. Mount it tight to the ceiling and the same room gains a foot. Same fabric, different decision.
Essay 04 · 8 min readHow to Preserve Ocean Views Without Sacrificing Sun Protection
On the coast you keep the view by choosing the right openness factor, not by hanging less fabric. Here is how we balance it in Malibu and the Palisades.
Essay 05 · 6 min readFire-Retardant Drapery for Coastal California Homes
After the last fire seasons, this is no longer optional in Malibu or the canyons. What to ask for, and what to refuse.
Real Projects.
Real Solutions.
A working archive of selected residences across Los Angeles, each chosen for the specific architectural problem it solved.
Malibu Ocean View Residence
Wall-to-wall ripple fold in a 3% performance sheer, recessed ceiling track. The brief was simple: keep the Pacific in the room, take the four o'clock glare out of it.
Reseda Great Room
French pleat in oat Belgian linen, hung from a concealed ceiling track wall to wall. The homeowner wanted the panels above the window. We moved them to the ceiling. That one decision made the whole renovation read.
Olga Rechdouni, ASID
Interior Designer · Founder of Duroque
House of Drapery is the drapery practice of Olga Rechdouni, ASID, founder of Duroque. She has worked privately on Los Angeles homes for more than twenty years. Trained at FIDM and raised in a family of custom furniture makers, she came up on a workroom floor. That is still how she runs every project.
Duroque is her West Hollywood gallery and studio, now in its thirteenth year. It is the broader interiors, custom furniture, and decorative arts practice House of Drapery grew out of. Every January she is in Paris and Milan, on the floor at Maison & Objet and Salone, and at the Belgian and Italian mills she specifies from. The fabric library is current because she sees it in person.
The studio serves Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Calabasas, Santa Monica, and Woodland Hills.
Begin with the room.
We will design the rest.
Private consultations are available for homeowners, interior designers, architects, and builders across the greater Los Angeles area.
Ready to design your windows the way the room deserves?
Begin with a private consultation. We will follow with a tailored proposal, fabric direction, and an honest opinion on what your room is asking for.