23 Oct 5 Tips to Select Beautiful Window Treatments for Your Living Room | One Room Challenge | Fall 2020 | Week 3

Decisions, decisions, decisions!  When you’re a Guest Participant in the fall 2020 One Room Challenge, you’ve got to make a lot of decisions, and fast, because you only have 6 weeks  It’s Week 3 my friends and it kicks off with a major decision about textiles happening as I write. Below you’ll find out how challenging it is to make selections when every fabric is so beautiful.  But with your help, I just might pull it off.  See my progress on the Living Room Salon and learn five tips on how to select beautiful window treatments for your living room.

 

 

If you’re just joining, I’m Deborah Main, The Pillow Goddess, and I’m smack dab in the middle of my Living Room Salon Makeover for the One Room Challenge. There are only three weeks left and I have to move quickly to make sure I can pull this entire room off by the Big Reveal on November 11th. Catch up on the first two weeks here:

Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3

Biggest News in Week 3

It’s here!  On Monday, I finally picked up the Nathan Anthony “Chablis” chair from White Glove Delivery warehouse, and cast my vote in this important 2020 election.  What a great day that was!  Isn’t she a beauty?  This photo below captures the true color of this luxury swivel chair in light blue velvet designed by Tina Nicole, co-owner of Nathan Anthony’s luxury furniture brand. I can’t wait to get the rest of the room designed so I can happily swivel my worries away!

 

What I accomplished in Week 3

1. Picked up Nathan Anthony Chablis chair
2. Picked up the re-upholstered ottoman
3. Finalized sponsorship for drapery fabric
4. Received fabric samples
5. In process of selecting drapery fabric
6. Received more wallpaper samples
7. Continue the hunt for rug, chairs, cocktail table, gold accents, art, and plants.

 

Let me first introduce you to two new partners, Vitalia, Inc. and Mitchell Fabrics, with whom I am super excited to work with on our Living Room Salon window treatments.  These are both very successful “To-the-Trade” businesses that work directly with interior designers.   I am so grateful and honored to have Vita and Julie’s support for my project in what feels like the eleventh hour. I also love the notion of women supporting women – it’s one way we make our world a better place.

 

Custom window treatments to-the-trade

Vitalia (Vita) Vygovska, above on the cover of Vision magazine, is an award-winning author, speaker, business coach, and window treatment specialist. She won second place in the 2020 Vision Workroom Competition Awards. Congratulations Vita!

Vita’s company, Vitalia, Inc. Window Treatments & Awnings,  specializes in fabrication, measurement, installation, and project management services, which save interior designers and architects time and money.

A one-stop-shop you might say, a go-to resource for design firms looking for support and expertise with window treatments, upholstery, awnings, and related products.

Details Matter in Custom Window treatments

Vita and her team have been in business since 2006 and have created a wonderful niche market by providing their clients with superb, high-quality custom products and excellent communication, Their tech-driven results and meticulous style and attention to detail have garnered national praise. Their workroom is located in the Philadelphia area and can handle custom  projects nation-wide and around the globe.

 

Try not to become a success, but be of value – Albert Einstein

 

This is one of Vita’s favorite quotes and it is a great one for any service, but particularly the design industry. Because interior designers are superheroes who juggle multiple projects at once. While not only working to provide the best service and value possible to their clients, but also to create beautiful designs.  No wonder Vitalia, Inc. custom services are in such high demand because they provide enormous value by saving designers time and money.

I had no idea how I was going to pull off beautiful window treatments. But then I remembered Vitalia, Inc. and was so impressed with the professionalism, work ethic, and quality of Vita’s projects that I knew I wanted to reach out to her to collaborate on the One Room Challenge.  I was thrilled she was excited to sponsor the custom drapery panel window treatments for our Living Room Salon and I can’t wait for you to see them!

 

Vitalia, Inc. is all about helping designers.  Their team provides the best support to help interior designers meet the needs of their clients. Vitalia, Inc. brings to the design industry a wealth of:

• information,
• knowledge,
• expertise,
• meticulousness, and
• anything it takes to have a successful project at the end

 

 

So if you are a designer and need custom window treatment support for your next project, reach out to Vita, as I can assure you her team and workroom will do a top-notch job!

Review their services on the website Vitalia, Inc. Also, follow Vita on Instagram and catch her LIVE Window Treatment Fridays where you can learn everything there is to know about her expertise – custom window treatments and awnings.

Listen to Vita on LuAnn Nigera’s (pictured below) podcast HERE.

Follow along to see the results of Vita’s team’s meticulous work with gorgeous custom window treatments by Vitalia, Inc. in our Big Reveal on November 11th.

 

Gorgeous fabrics at your fingertips

It’s one thing to have a window treatment brand eager to create custom drapery for your One Room Challenge Living Room Salon, but another to make that successful with high-quality beautiful fabric.  And you know how much I love textiles, right?

 

That’s where Mitchell Fabrics comes in. I was thrilled that Vita had an ongoing relationship with Creative Directory Julie Clary of Mitchell Fabrics.  I swear, with only 3 weeks left, these two women whipped into gear and within 48 hours Julie had fabric samples at my doorstep.  It was unbelievable how quickly they jumped on board and wanted to help make my Living Room Salon project a success.  As I said, there’s nothing like the feeling of women supporting women. Thank you to you both!

Mitchell Fabrics has successfully built their brand by blending three different companies, and 150 years of combined experience, into one.  They have enhanced all aspects of their business to meet the rising demand of a rapidly changing industry. The focus is simple – a high-quality product and excellent customer service for today’s busy designers.

Fabrics to fall in love with

Let’s just say, that when I jumped on their website it was love at first sight!

Mitchell Fabrics is continually enhancing its website to make the online shopping experience better. I found it super easy to navigate with an array of stunning fabrics. They’re also working hard to add new collections each quarter.  Their new website is a textile lover’s dream!

Mitchell Fabrics has launched three new collections.

• Mitchell Basics
• Mitchell Design Studio
• Mitchell Classics

 

And that’s not even counting their delicious new Luxe Velvets, to die-for!  So here’s my challenge and where y’all have been helping me on Instagram.  They have so many gorgeous fabrics that I’ve had a difficult time figuring out which one will be the best for the custom drapery of our Living Room Salon.

Fabric decision for custom drapery

After pouring hours over their gorgeous fabrics, here are the fabric memos I ordered, and what a beautiful package it came in!  (I love a brand’s packaging, and they get a gold star!)

 

I ordered several and narrowed it down to these five below:

Lilliana-Indigo Cotton

Florette-Linen Velvet

Shanzi-Indigo Velvet

Royalton-Caribbean Embroidery

Vineland Blue Embroidered Velvet

It was difficult to pass on their navy embroidered Luxe Velvet, but I narrowed it down even further and posted these four options for my Instagram followers to vote on.  Were you one who gave your input?  If not, please do so right HERE.

Mitchell Fabrics’ Creative Director Julie Cary has been so incredibly helpful taking the time to speak with me on the phone so I could learn more about each fabric.  Plus she quickly took the photos above so I could see how they drape. Incredible customer service!

Did you know there’s a difference between drapery and curtains?

Well, I didn’t know until now.  In fact, I’m learning a lot during this process of selecting fabric for our window treatments.

Feeling confident about your interior design decisions is important. Window treatments, whether it’s Roman shades or living room drapes, is a decision that needs to be front and center when designing any space.

Below are The Pillow Goddess Tips on what I consider in selecting the window treatments:

5 Tips to Select Beautiful Window Treatments for Your Living Room

1. Overall design of the room
2. Function of drapery
3. Style and color
4. Living room furnishings and patterns
5. Overall decor of your home

 

Here’s the deal with our Living Room Salon.

It’s small. The entryway walks right into the living room, the breakfast nook, and the kitchen.  There are one double one single windows that need window treatments.  The room has little natural light and the whole point of remodeling this trio of rooms was to lighten and brighten it all up. Thus the cream walls and white kitchen cabinets.

In addition, right in that entryway, I plan to put wallpaper as an accent wall. So in selecting drapery I have to factor in all five tips above.  The geometric pattern of the chair and ottoman, the dark blue velvet sofa, the new gorgeous light blue Nathan Anthony “Chablis” chair, as well as how all of this flows into the breakfast nook which is the focal point when you enter our home.  So color and style are very important – and I’ve been struggling with mixing patterns!

It’s one thing to mix patterns in your bedroom or on pillows. It’s a little intimidating to mix them in an entire living room that serves as an entryway to your home and where guests mingle and relax, as well as have cocktails and dine in the nook and kitchen.

I was in such a tizzy I had to place a midnight phone call to my dear friend, interior designer Robin Baron!  And your votes are helping too, thank you.

But in the end, it is ultimately my decision. I’m the one that has to feel confident in my selections and my husband has to have input too. So the decision-making process continues. Because for all we know, with the state of the current pandemic, we may be the only ones looking at this room for the next 12 months!  I hope that’s not true cause I miss all our family and friends and I’m dying to entertain again!

My biggest takeaways from Week 3:

1. you can never plan enough,
2. you cannot make one design decision in isolation of the other design decisions, and
3. it is a given that when participating in the One Room Challenge, at some point in time, everything peeks to a major crisis point where everything should have been ordered weeks ago.

 

Falling in Love with More of Mitchell Fabrics!

Okay, toward the end of my search I saw this incredible fabric on one of my favorite dining chairs.  Now, all I have to do is figure out my next project!

Please review the Mitchell Fabrics website and follow them on Instagram. I know you too will find a fabulous textile for your next design project!

While this has been a challenging week, I’m thrilled to be selecting fabric with your input, and next week, Week 4, I’ll finalize pretty much everything else –

• wallpaper,
• lighting,
• rug, and
• bar and table chairs,

 

Onward we go into Week 4!  You’ll have to wait until the BIG REVEAl on November 11th to see our new, custom window treatments by Vitalia, Inc.

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Please follow me on Instagram (and my Stories) to keep up with my progress, as I’m sure at some point my trusty seamstress and dear friend Kim, and I, will get to work on installations. Also, to get massive amounts of design inspiration for every room in your home, be sure to check out the 20 Featured Designers and 200+ Guest Participants!

Time is of the essence now, and I need to be on top of my game, so with my election ballot cast, I plan to spend my weekend looking at beautiful china for my tabletop setting.  That’ll be fun!

Till next week, when it’s time to finalize wallpaper and install it, remember to get out and vote for this important 2020 election. As always, thank you to our generous partners for sponsoring products for our Living Room Salon and for your support during this exciting project! XO PG

Note: This post is sponsored by Vitalia, Inc. and Mitchell fabrics, and the other partners below, in exchange for product.  All images are by the respective brands; opinions are my own.