Drapery & Soft Treatments In Prairie Village
Drapery & Soft Treatments in Prairie Village, KS
Custom drapery, drapes and curtains from Solar Shield Blinds bring warmth, height and a little quiet to Prairie Village living rooms with plaster walls and a big picture window. We make custom panels, Roman Shades and cornices in our own workroom from thousands of fabrics, and our Install Techs hang and dress every one.
Where It Fits In Prairie Village
Where Drapery & Soft Treatments fit in Prairie Village
Prairie Village rooms are modest in size and rich in trim, and fabric is how you give them height and softness without a remodel. These are the rooms that call for it.
- Living rooms with a picture windowPanels hung high and wide make a low ceiling feel taller and frame the view of the front yard. Lined, they add real light control to a room that never had any.
- Dining roomsA Roman shade in a linen or a print softens the small dining room off the kitchen and takes the west light off the table at dinner without stealing any wall.
- Primary bedroomsInterlined drapery over a room darkening shade is how a bedroom on the street side gets both dark and quiet, with the shade doing the daily work.
- Window seats and benchesThe built in bench under a dormer window wants a custom cushion, and we make those to match the panels so the room comes from one plan.
Before You Order
Lining, layers, and the rooms that need softening
The houses between Mission Road and State Line were built with plaster walls, hardwood floors and painted trim, and a lot of them have been stripped back to exactly that. It looks clean, but hard floors and plaster make a room echo, and drapery is the solution. A pair of lined panels on the picture window in the front room adds height, softens the echo, and gives the house a finished look from the sidewalk. In a dining room, a Roman shade does the same job in less space. We make all of it to your fabric choice from thousands of custom options, brought to your living room in the sample books.
Lining is the decision that matters. An unlined panel is decorative, while a lined or interlined panel blocks real light and holds in heat against an original window. Then decide whether the drapery is the whole treatment or a layer. In most Prairie Village bedrooms we install panels over a Roller Shade or a Honeycomb Shade, so the shade does the daily work and the drapery does the styling. Cornices and top treatments hide the hardware and add a line at the top of the wall. Pillows and bench seat cushions come from the same fabric books so the room ties together.
Even interlined drapery lets some light in at the top and the sides, so for a truly dark room the layer underneath does the blackout work. The consultation is free at your house with the fabric books in hand. Our Design Specialist measures every opening, talks through lining and hardware, and writes an itemized quote on the spot that holds for 180 days. Soft treatments run on the interior schedule, an average of 4 to 6 weeks from order to install, and our own Install Techs install the rods and dress the panels before they leave.
What Comes As Standard
- PanelsCornices, valances and romans
- ThousandsCustom fabrics to choose from
- LinedOr interlined for real light blocking
- CushionsWindow seats and banquettes too
- Carefree GuaranteeA lifetime product warranty that transfers if you sell, plus our five year service guarantee
- Free Temporary ShadesOn every window you order for, installed while your custom order is made
Our Process
Planned, measured, and installed by our team in Prairie Village
- Free ConsultationWe bring our shop to your Prairie Village home or office. We'll listen to what you're wanting to accomplish with your windows, take a good look at every opening, and explain the options that will actually work for them.
- On the spot quoteWe take the time to make sure you know exactly what you're getting, and you'll have a complete and exact quote before we leave, so there are no surprises on install day.
- Installed by our teamEverything we install is custom built to the exact measurements of your windows, and when ready, professionally installed by our full time installers. Most projects are installed in less than a day.
Tops And Pleats
How the top of the treatment finishes in Prairie Village homes
Cornices, valances and pleat styles decide how the whole window reads. Your Design Specialist brings the fabric books and the style samples to the consultation.
Cornice styles
Hard-topped treatments that hide a headrail and add height.
Shaped cornices
Scalloped, arched and tailored profiles.
Valance profiles
Softer gathered and pleated tops.
Pleat styles
Pinch, goblet, ripple fold and flat panel headers.
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Straight Answers
Drapery & Soft Treatments questions from Prairie Village homeowners
Yes, and it's the main reason we install it in these houses. Mount the rod close to the ceiling and let the panels run to the floor, and the eye reads the full height of the wall instead of the top of the window. A cornice over the top does the same trick with a crisper line. It's the fastest way to give a Prairie Village front room some height without touching a wall.
In a living room, lined panels alone are enough. For a bedroom on the street side of the house, put a Roller Shade or a room darkening Honeycomb Shade underneath: the shade blocks the light and gives privacy from the sidewalk, and the drapery frames it and softens the room. Our Design Specialist will show you both layers together at the consultation.
Roman shades are made for that room. They take up almost no wall space, they hang flat and fold up in even pleats, and the fabric choice does the styling. Lined, a Roman shade takes the west sun off the dinner table. For the pair of windows common in these dining rooms, we match the fabric and the fold height so they read as one.
Yes. Bench seat cushions and pillows are part of what we do, and a window seat under a Cape Cod dormer is exactly the spot. We cut the cushion to the bench and pull the fabric from the same books as the drapery, so the seat, the panels and the pillows on the sofa come from one plan instead of three shopping trips.
The lining is what shows from the street, so we pick it on purpose. A white or ivory lining across the front windows keeps the house looking even from the sidewalk no matter what fabric is on the room side. That matters on a block where people walk to Corinth Square past your living room, and it's a detail we settle at the consultation.
Yes. A panel that's exactly as wide as the space it covers hangs flat and looks thin. Two to two and a half times the width of the opening gives you the folds that make fabric look like fabric, and on the picture window in a Prairie Village front room it's the detail most worth spending a little extra on.
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Drapery & Soft Treatments around Prairie Village
We serve all of Prairie Village, KS, including Corinth Hills, Somerset Hills, Prairie Hills, Town & Country Estates, Ridgeview Heights and Meadowbrook. ZIP codes 66206, 66207, 66208.
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