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A Quiet Place

Created and Written by Barbara J. August
Graphic Design by Elizabeth Milnes

The little nook, hallway window or out-of-the-way window seat provides a great opportunity to let your design imagination soar. The following pages provide great examples of how to create that special place that is both inviting and captivating through creative window treatments and coordinating interior fashions.
Sanitas' Surface Statements wall coverings collection adds the perfect touch to enlighten this stairway and window seat. The Palazzo Diamond and Marble Stripe designs feature a faux marble background to add depth and a visual texture to the setting.
Eisenhart Wallcoverings features its Kitchen and Bath collection in this cozy bathroom nook. The wallpaper is based on an innovative design from one of the Pfaltzgraff dinnerware patterns, Tea Rose, which becomes an elegant bathroom background. The balance between traditional elegance is struck with the functional durability of a vinyl wall covering.
To create and adorn this private window seat in gracious style, Covington Fabrics selected Classic Signatures by Fifth Avenue Designs from the Beaux Arts Collection. Classic Signatures features beautiful floral designs in varied scales with the soft color touches of today's traditional taste.
This quiet corner window design by Debbie Fornoff, Debbie Fornoff Interior Design and Draperies, Pekin, IL, layers a classic floral swag and jabot top treatment over a neutral colored pleated shade. The treatment provides privacy, light control and an attractive frame for the outdoor view.
Decrotex offers a complete collection of sheers, including a crinkle voile, pleated batiste and shimmering metallic. The layered treatment shown here creates a look of elegance as the fabric folds gently outline the window in soft color and texture.
The soft simplicity of Allium sheers with lace from Heritage Lace sets the mood for a quiet place such as this kitchen nook. The window seat provides an alluring place to read a book or enjoy the morning sunlight through the soft folds of lace.
This peaceful library setting is enhanced with the luxury and convenienceof BTX automated cellular shades that control ambient light making the setting ideal for reading and relaxing.
A cheerful blend of light and privacy control, along with a serene color scheme and comfortable furniture, provide a cozy resting place in a hallway window niche. The designers at Preferred Interiors, Folsom, CA, chose an ADO jacquard lace for the festoon with puddled side panels and self-lined ADO voile for the functional Austrian shade.
döfix No*Sew iron-on shirring tape was used to create these formal swags with tensionless banding ironed-on with döfix Bortenfix hemming tape. The cordless shades use the dofix aluminum slat system with hook and loop fasteners. The rosette and bow accents were made with döfix iron-on lining which enhances even the most limp fabrics for maximum form stability.
Natural fabrics and neutral colors provide a comfortable atmosphere for this quiet space. Kirsch Accordia cellular shades in natural wool color soften the sunlight and cast a warm glow throughout the room. Tab-top panels are casually hung from decorative drapery hardware from the Kirsch Studio Coordinates Collection.
Kelly Clark designed the Ashbury Place II collection for Seabrook Designs, which features three new styles including a small Jacobean with country charm, a Chinese floral and flame with a Chippendale formality and a cabbage rose with an English cottage coziness. Each is perfect for creating an intimate, quiet space any place in the home.
Kelly Fredrickson, Blue Ribbon Interiors, Corona, CA, designed and installed this window seat setting in Waverly Cottage Plaid fabric for the box balloon valance and bench cushion and Laura Ashley coordinating wall coverings and fabric for throw pillows. Drapery workroom services: Gloria Vega, Creative Toppers, Norco, CA. Soft goods workroom services: Doris Rogers, Doris Home Apparel, Corona, CA.
As the air turns cooler and dusk settles in at the end of the day, this comfortable nook is made inviting for relaxing and escaping the rigors of the day with Symphony Duofold shades from Comfortex. The shades allow the last glimmers of natural light to filter through into the room, while preserving total privacy.
This living room corner window is dressed in a moiré no-wood cornice and beautifully flowing floral swags and panels fabricated with Kwik-affix products. The setting is enhanced with coordinating fabric for the room furnishings that complement the room's warm, homey feeling.
With a diverse color palette and a variety of textures, Softstyle[TM] pleated shades from LouverDrape® offer a shade for every window setting. The shade is a perfect fit for this angled stairway window. The soft neutral tone provides the right touch of light filtration and privacy.
Silhouette® window shadings from Hunter Douglas Window Fashions offer the light control of a blind, the soft, airy look of sheers and the easy operation of a shade. Made from soft fabric, Silhouette raises and lowers like shades and opens and closes like horizontal blinds. The clean lines and elegant simplicity of Silhouette work well alone as in this elegant stairwell setting or with an overtreatment.