Window Treatments Sticker Shock!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm adding some DC designers to the mix.

I'm always admiring the window treatments that Kelly Proxmire does in her work...


Check out this room by Darryl Carter:

It take a designer to pick out furniture drapes and carpet that are all white? And look like RH catalog?

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All those rooms seem ugly and overdone to me except the whitE bedroom.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm adding some DC designers to the mix.

I'm always admiring the window treatments that Kelly Proxmire does in her work...


Check out this room by Darryl Carter:

It take a designer to pick out furniture drapes and carpet that are all white? And look like RH catalog?

In fairness to Darryl Carter (who again, is not my jam) it’s more like the RH catalog looks like him.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm adding some DC designers to the mix.

I'm always admiring the window treatments that Kelly Proxmire does in her work...


Check out this room by Darryl Carter:

I would be very mad if I paid a designer a ton of money to do this room. It is so incredibly boring and has no life in it at all.

That is the lewk though you’re supposed to add interest with whimsical antique-y “art” can you tell Darryl Carter has never done it for me but still to each his own.

I actually like these window treatments a lot but I wouldn’t pay $500 per window for them!

Considering those are probably 11ft cielings and 8ft windows and there are shades below those curtains, you definitely would be paying more than $500/window.

It’s a lovely room space. But the desk probably belonged to the client the light fixture is pure RH the chaise recliner is hideous and the upholstery is just white. Restful to look at white chairs but it’s a room that will never be used for anything but that photograph.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm adding some DC designers to the mix.

I'm always admiring the window treatments that Kelly Proxmire does in her work...


Check out this room by Darryl Carter:

It take a designer to pick out furniture drapes and carpet that are all white? And look like RH catalog?

In fairness to Darryl Carter (who again, is not my jam) it’s more like the RH catalog looks like him.

Lol Carter and RH go hand in hand !

[Anonymous]

Carter has an special eye for trendily ugly.

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oooo, thanks!!

Lol at the sunburst “HELLO WE HAVE HIDDEN THE TV BEHIND THIS ENORMOUS SUNBURST”
I also think that room is an example of when hanging the hardware so high above the top of the window doesn’t work for me. Maybe it’s the contrasting color. I love it when there’s a Roman shade behind the curtains - my eye is always fooled.

Arched windows are tough. The first one works for me pretty well, the last one not at all. Idk what the solution is maybe a giant hidden movie screen situation from the ceiling if you need to block the light. That is a very tough window configuration to dress.

The first one is a home designed by Windsor Smith out in California. I can't imagine having to find things for a room that massive. The scale is more castle or hotel ballroom than home. Well, than any home I've been in.

Agree about those last two bedrooms. I was looking at homes down in the 30A part of Florida and some of the homes have a lot of frosting. Don't get me wrong, I like frosting, but the cake-to-frosting ratio has to be right! There's one neighborhood called Alys Beach that has been built down there with a very different look. I saw a home there in Veranda this year and another in Southern Home. They still have the light feel you want at the beach, but with a different kind of airy feeling. Some of their doorway shapes feel Moroccan. So interesting.

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Okay, why are people down on Daryl Carter? Or, is there one person just posting this jabs?

I don't get it. His spaces are lovely. I still remember a Veranda feature of a Georgetown home decorated minimally for the holidays. It was so nice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay, why are people down on Daryl Carter? Or, is there one person just posting this jabs?

I don't get it. His spaces are lovely. I still remember a Veranda feature of a Georgetown home decorated minimally for the holidays. It was so nice.

I just don’t find them welcoming, usually. I don’t like all the white upholstery and the “falling apart chic” objects. But I appreciate how they’re well done and very successful.

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Those are some particularly ugly light fixtures. Lights in a wooden cage never made sense to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay, why are people down on Daryl Carter? Or, is there one person just posting this jabs?

I don't get it. His spaces are lovely. I still remember a Veranda feature of a Georgetown home decorated minimally for the holidays. It was so nice.

I found it. Very minimal. Pretty.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm adding some DC designers to the mix.

I'm always admiring the window treatments that Kelly Proxmire does in her work...


Check out this room by Darryl Carter:

I would be very mad if I paid a designer a ton of money to do this room. It is so incredibly boring and has no life in it at all.

That is the lewk though you’re supposed to add interest with whimsical antique-y “art” can you tell Darryl Carter has never done it for me but still to each his own.

I actually like these window treatments a lot but I wouldn’t pay $500 per window for them!

Oh I think that window is more like $3500. Easily.

For sure and a prime example how, if you have money you probably are living in a home with 20+ windows, high ceilings, therefore large windows. Wouldn't even be particularly high end to spend 2k/window on 30 windows. Also a nice home isn't going to have small standard windows which is what IKEA is good for.

What kind of a moron pays 2k/window for beige curtains and shades? That whole room screams pottery barn + extra monotony.

2k per curtain makes sense if the trend was for elaborate window treatments, but simple stuff like this? Not worth it! That’s like paying 500 for plastic shoes that look like rights. Just buy the rights!

2k will not get you elaborate curtains. In my master bedroom, I have 8ft windows.i have shutters and blackout curtains. I don't shop at Pottery Barn, we had a designer come in and the shutters were 1,400ea each (had to do painted wood, composite was too heavy for windows of our size). We then layered lined blackout drapes along the sides of the windows and those with hardware were $900/each. This is with the designer discount. That was $2,300/window. I live at the beach and I can assure you I don't want elaborate. I like light and airy. Hence the 4in shutters. However in some rooms I do need curtains to block out all sun and for a feeling of warmth.

For fun, I just looked at Pottery Barn and "on sale" the curtain alone would have been, for my home over $500 each window, no idea on the hardware. I think I got a good deal at $900 including install. Plus my curtains had to be longer than the longest PB even offers.

I’m sure it’s lovely but honestly, I don’t know whether you got your money’s worth, and you wouldn’t feel compelled to post all that if you felt you did. I just hope your entire room isn’t beige or greige.

I appreciate your opinion, but I'm very happy with what our designer did. I think you are psychoalayzing my post a bit too much.

I actually think we got a pretty good price. I also had very little desire to measure and head over to stores or order swatches, or hut for the non standard sizes we need, so considering the full service experience we had, I'd do the exact same thing over again.

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Anonymous wrote:Okay, why are people down on Daryl Carter? Or, is there one person just posting this jabs?

I don't get it. His spaces are lovely. I still remember a Veranda feature of a Georgetown home decorated minimally for the holidays. It was so nice.

I found it. Very minimal. Pretty.

Ugh I hate it. I like the colors, but there’s nowhere to sit. Try to sit in the bed thingy and you’ll touch the art (which is silly). The marble bench with the prison mattress is not much better.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay, why are people down on Daryl Carter? Or, is there one person just posting this jabs?

I don't get it. His spaces are lovely. I still remember a Veranda feature of a Georgetown home decorated minimally for the holidays. It was so nice.

I found it. Very minimal. Pretty.

Ugh I hate it. I like the colors, but there’s nowhere to sit. Try to sit in the bed thingy and you’ll touch the art (which is silly). The marble bench with the prison mattress is not much better.

She posted TWO interior photos and only one is of a room. “Nowhere to sit” is an odd statement.

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Anonymous wrote:Okay, why are people down on Daryl Carter? Or, is there one person just posting this jabs?

I don't get it. His spaces are lovely. I still remember a Veranda feature of a Georgetown home decorated minimally for the holidays. It was so nice.

I found it. Very minimal. Pretty.

Ugh I hate it. I like the colors, but there’s nowhere to sit. Try to sit in the bed thingy and you’ll touch the art (which is silly). The marble bench with the prison mattress is not much better.

I would loooove to see the inside of some of your homes. As an appraiser, I can say that maybe 5% of the population has the eye doe design and of those 5%, maybe 10% has the money to implement a fraction of it. Most homes I go in are pedestrian and common.