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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know this is an old post but I too had sticker shock with the cost of shutters and custom drapes. It’s obsurd imo. Not so much the shutters at 12k because we needed quite a few but the custom drapes!  I met the seamstress from the company at the design center to choose fabrics and holy guacamole the prices per yd with the cheapest at $75 to 100s. I wanted embroidered tape trim but at $100 a yd I said no thanks.  Fyi all made in China and India! Which you know damn well they paid $5 a yard. She even tried selling me $250 finials! Ha.  I tried finding a seamstress who worked out of her home to make my drapes using my own fabric but with 13’ curtain  lengths I had no luck. So I bit the bullet with two rooms custom at 7k. But I did find 10’ silk drapes  at Neiman Marcus & did custom hardware for dining rm which ran about 2k. Saved about 1k.  My biggest score was taking a chance & ordering 12’ velvet drapes on amazon for 2 bedrooms with 3 week lead time delivered from abroad! Wow They are gorgeous. Heavy thick, soft,  lined,  pinch pleated with  perfect stitching too. I added  tassel trim with double sided fabric tape,  tassel tie backs, found 8’ acrylic rods on Amazon, had my handyman hang them and absolutely gorgeous! About $1100 total for both rooms.  Best part. When my custom drapery lady saw them she immediately thought I had another company do them and before she started attitude, I told her.  She was shocked-to say the least. :D   [/quote]

Okay, but the workroom will use whatever fabric you want, it's not like you need a $75/yd fabric to make curtains. Will's Home Decorating in Hyattsville is great to work with and they sell a huge range of fabrics, many much less than $75/yard (some a lot more). Agree that the cost of the fabric is the biggest factor - it's hard to get around the labor. You can skip the retail markup on the fabric if you buy it online but you'd have to find a workroom willing to use it without a retailer and they might just markup the labor depending on what part of their business usually comes from the fabric markup. And for the vast majority of people, paying the fabric markup at a place like Will's is completely worth it because that's how you're paying for their expertise and management of the workroom and if you try to order them yourself, you'll probably make a mistake and have to buy more fabric anyway. It's true that a flat fee would be more fair since you pay "more" for an expensive fabric, but it's just like any other %-based thing.

There are just a lot of human hours involved especially if someone comes to your house to measure/install. Of course it's much cheaper for a store to buy 10,000 yards of the same fabric, make panels, and sell them off the rack. So if they have what you want, you should definitely buy those. [/quote]

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