Window Treatments Sticker Shock!

[Anonymous]

I’m starting to wonder if the resident critic likes anything.

I don’t think they need to post their home. Mine isn’t fabulous. But I’d love for them to share pictures of rooms they find beautiful.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m starting to wonder if the resident critic likes anything.

I don’t think they need to post their home. Mine isn’t fabulous. But I’d love for them to share pictures of rooms they find beautiful.

+1.

At least she's kept the thread going for 14(!) pages with her caustic comments - which led to some interesting eye candy.

[Anonymous]

Wait I am the one who hates the Darryl Carter Christmas room but I love curtains.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait I am the one who hates the Darryl Carter Christmas room but I love curtains.

Also, I *appreciate* the Darryl Carter Christmas room, I just don’t like it. I love the wire reindeer though and the tree and the colors.

[Anonymous]

OP here are woah! I havent read past page 2, but I really had no idea that DCUM was so passionate about windows.

Hope you all can take a rest from the internet arguing about windows and spend some time ushering in the new year by enjoying your families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here are woah! I havent read past page 2, but I really had no idea that DCUM was so passionate about windows.

Hope you all can take a rest from the internet arguing about windows and spend some time ushering in the new year by enjoying your families.

No we are estranged because of their honeycomb shade lifestyle. They cut my head out of the family photo gallery wall and put it in a room with a 3000k overhead light so it could suffer in my stead.

[Anonymous]

This thread just brought me so much joy. I also have to recommend Rockville Interiors for anyone who appreciates fine fabrics and is looking for custom drapery. They did a phenomenal job on my dining room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have friends whose window treatments were the trigger for a long road to divorce.

A fool and her money ....

We may have the same friends.

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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.

Lol “pedestrian and common”

Could you be more awful if you tried?

[Anonymous]

Y’all I was JUST reflecting on how much I like my beautiful, dowdy, modern, grandma, too expensive but also DIYed curtains. They have flowers on them you’re welcome.

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Anonymous wrote:Aside from plantation shutters, which I think can look nice if you have really good light, I hate custom curtains/drapes. They look so dowdy and old-fashioned, like a dusty grandma’s house. I much prefer a simple Roman shade or white linen curtain with natural woven shades.

I sort of agree that custom window treatments tend to be dowdy, although I’m sure everyone on DCUM has the absolute best non-dowdy curtains.

What makes custom window treatments dowdy?

They tend to be heavy fabrics, often damask, and they block light, which often makes the room darker, and the fabrics tend to look dated because they are usually a custom type of pattern, and no one is going to replace window treatments that cost thousands of dollars when they were installed.

And I am someone who is very much against trends and the blight of same-ness that seems to be everywhere, but even in my mom’s house I don’t like the custom window treatments.

If you’re looking at window treatments from the 90s, of course they will look dated (and dowdy). What you described is nothing like typical modern custom window treatments.

Honestly, I cannot think of attractive custom window treatments that I have seen in real life in recent memory. My most stylish friends have something very simple like Roman shades or very airy, light drapes that you could get at IKEA. A lot of people just seem to avoid them altogether.

Agree. When we bought our home the owner had gushed over the fact that we were getting such a bargain because they were leaving the custom draperies. LOL. They were ripped down within minutes after closing. They were ugly, fussy, dusty, and probably 50 years old. Replaced with simple silk panels and linen sheers.

[Anonymous]

I linked to this thread in the newer window treatment thread and said it was my favorite ever in this forum. Can we get to 15 pages?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the thread where Eye Candy started.

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Anonymous wrote:I linked to this thread in the newer window treatment thread and said it was my favorite ever in this forum. Can we get to 15 pages?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the thread where Eye Candy started.

Listen 15 pages is okay if you have Euro pleats but if you have goblet pleats that aren’t ironic, your extra pages are dowdy.

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Anonymous wrote:I linked to this thread in the newer window treatment thread and said it was my favorite ever in this forum. Can we get to 15 pages?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the thread where Eye Candy started.

Listen 15 pages is okay if you have Euro pleats but if you have goblet pleats that aren’t ironic, your extra pages are dowdy.

Maybe if we introduce the idea of puddling, grazing, and high water curtains, that will get us there. What say you, DCUM? Do your curtains pooling on the floor? Do they kiss it? Or, are they 3 inches above?

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Anonymous wrote:I linked to this thread in the newer window treatment thread and said it was my favorite ever in this forum. Can we get to 15 pages?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the thread where Eye Candy started.

Listen 15 pages is okay if you have Euro pleats but if you have goblet pleats that aren’t ironic, your extra pages are dowdy.

Maybe if we introduce the idea of puddling, grazing, and high water curtains, that will get us there. What say you, DCUM? Do your curtains pooling on the floor? Do they kiss it? Or, are they 3 inches above?

KISS OR DIE BITCHES

Oh those designers who insist on a half break because of pants, I want to beat you over your little heads with a tasteful 2" wood rod!