It’s simple enough to get custom drapes for an ordinary-sized window, but what if you need drapes as big as a stage?

Most homes don’t need drapes quite that big, however many homes do have large floor-to-ceiling windows that homeowners may wish to cover at night or during the heat of the day. Sometimes a commercial building will need draperies to cover windows, absorb noise or actually cover a stage.

One of our clients fell into this category. A wedding venue needed a large set of elegant draperies to cover or uncover a wall. We were asked to design and order 36 foot draperies, the largest we’ve ever designed.

We created a design the client liked, but it’s important to remember that drapery workrooms, the shops where custom drapes are made by hand, don’t always have enough room to handle so much fabric. They must lay out the fabric as part of the manufacturing process and, in this case, we would need a workroom that had more than 36 feet of continuous table space.

Could we do it? Could we find a quality workroom that could make drapes this big?

As a matter of fact, we could! We have a contract with a Colorado drapery workroom that makes stage draperies and was easily able to handle this order. Because of this relationship, our designer, Theresa Guthals, was the only designer the venue could find who could solve this problem.

Theresa’s network of relationships solved other problems as well. The room had an odd shape and it wasn’t clear how we could set up a pulley system to open and close the drapes. Theresa and installer who is a long-time associate solved the problem together.

You may not need drapes as big as a stage, but contact us if you’d like beautiful window coverings that you’ll be proud to show the world.