Designer Window Fashions
About this ebook
· Designer Window Fashions is the best organized, most effective design aid for choosing and designing window treatments.
· With hundreds of color photographs and blackline illustrations, Designer Window Fashions presents countless combinations of window and bed coverings for any room in the home: from a simple rod pocket curtain to a designer masterpiece.
· 448 pages of essential information for interior decorators, interior design students, window-covering professionals, and DIY enthusiasts.
Includes:
· Extensive window covering ideas in full-color photos and illustrations
· Extensive bed covering section with coordinating draperies and top treatments
· Hard window coverings coordinated with valances, swags, and cornices
· Vital information for designers, workrooms, and window-covering professionals
· Equal size color and blackline drawings
· Extensive yardage calculations
· Pros and cons of various window coverings
· Solutions for challenging window shapes
· Glossaries of decorating and fabric terms
Chapters:
1. Draperies and Curtains: Flat panel, pleated, grommet, gathered, and more
2. Top Treatments: Swags, cascades, valances, and cornices
3. Shades: Modern shades (hard) and Fabric shades (soft)
4. Combinations: Pairing different types of window coverings
5. Blinds: Metal blinds, wood blinds, woven woods, roller, solar, and verticals
6. Shutters: Faux wood, natural wood, barn door, and more
7. Hardware and Trims: New and creative ways to use drapery hardware
8. Drapery and Bed Coverings: Headboards, bedspreads, pillows, etc.
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About the author
Charles Randall is an award-winning author of the best-selling window decorating series: Window Fashions, first published in 1986 with sales of more than one million copies.
Charles Randall has also collaborated with other interior industry experts, such as Kathleen Stoehr, editor of Window Fashions Magazine to produce The Window Decorating Book (2009). Sales of more than 100,000 copies.
Charles Randall is a leading expert in window coverings. When looking for the world's expert in all things related to window treatments, Samantha Ettus, author of the acclaimed "Experts' Guide" series, selected none other than Charles Randall for her Experts' Guide to Life at Home book focusing on improving the aesthetics of a home as well as living well within it. Ettus asked Randall to discuss how to select window treatments. In her book, Charles can be found between Barbara Guggenheim on hanging paintings and Debbie Travis on choosing interior colors.
Charles's books are available in Arabic, Turkish, Spanish, Russian, and French. He has also found a place on national talk radio shows, having completed one in Canada and one in the US.
Books by Charles Randall:
The Window Fashions Series: Window Fashions (1986), The Encyclopedia of Window Fashions (2006), The Encyclopedia of Window & Bed Coverings (2012). Designer Window Fashions (2020). (Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award)
Charles Randall's Designer Sketch file
The Window Decorating Book
The Complete Home Decorating Idea Book
The Dream Series: Dream Windows, Dream Walls, Dream Floors
Fatherless: Lessons from my boyhood (March 2023)
Fatherless is his deeply personal memoir about growing up fatherless.
Website: www.CharlesRandall.com
Email: pete@charlesrandall.com
