Privacy With Style

We have come a long way from the old fashioned style of net curtains that Grandma had in her home. There are so many beautiful fabrics available today to give privacy and sunlight control in your home.Take a look at the way these sheers flow evenly across the window. This window looks out onto a neighbouring house and the owners wanted not only to preserve their privacy, but also to make a design statement. The fabric is a woven cotton muslin, leadweighted in the hem to make them fall beautifully and finished with a wave top heading. The tops of the curtains are attached to the curtain track with a unique stud system, are easily removable for laundering, and always look tailored with the pleats spaced perfectly evenly.






You can see in this picture how the folds flow beneath the track. This pleating system looks great on lined curtains too and is a much classier finish than a gathered curtain tape.

 The curtain  on the left is a combination of two colours of sheer that have been joined to create a border. The fabric is Amble white, with the border in Amble sheer, by Villa Nova.

This gorgeous cloth is called Pompom, by Charles Parsons. It is 100% polyester yet looks and feels like linen. It has the added advantage of being 300 cm wide so can usually be made .
continuously, i.e. without seams showing.













A closely woven sheer can also be made in to a roman blind, a very contemporary yet quite soft look to complement any interior.







If you would like to find new and exciting ways to transform your home give Rachel a call on 027 221 4049 or email her at rachel.jldesign@xtra.co.nz

Gorgeous Wallcoverings from Casadeco

Look at these gorgeous wall panels from Casadeco!

Believe it or not these are not blocks of wood attached to the wall.....This is a wallpaper panel that turns what would just be a bare stretch of wall into a sophisticated and very grown-up space. It marries beautifully with understated furniture and is inviting without being fussy.




And how about this one for a bit of fun?...

 In a house where all the other walls are painted in a neutral colour this bright and cheerful wall pops out and makes a funky in-your-face statement.
The mix of bright primary colours gives plenty of scope to draw from when selecting accessories.
There is no need to wallpaper the whole wall, either. One roll of the paper cut into matching strips and pasted to the wall, perhaps in a giant rectangular shape like a large painting, or any shape you like would make a great talking point.


This one is a quiet and restful statement, a piece of art in itself. Again it contains multiple colours to give you plenty of scope to co-ordinate furnishings and it teams beautifully with the green wall. Note too the elegant white curtain with the eyelets set into a contrast band at the top. This is a room you want to come home to.


Casadeco have a great range of wallcoverings and fabrics and are just one of many collections we can access for you. We would love to help you turn your  special space into a warm, welcoming and vibrant home. Give Rachel a call on 0272214049 to set the ball rolling.

Simple But Stunning

We love it when a client asks us to create something special to suit their colour scheme. These cushions were made from a heavy linen cloth and finished with contrasting gros-grain ribbon stitched in a simple but striking design. We used feather inners for the cushions as they plump up beautifully and don't go flat over time as polyester fill has a tendency to do. These cushions are to go with a set of white linen curtains with  3 rows of black gros-grain stitched across the top of the curtains. Simple, but stunning. It is so satisfying when the most uncomplicated of designs give the most striking outcome.
Cushions are traditionally used for a practical purpose to make sitting in a chair or sofa more comfortable. These days they are as likely to be used to soften the severe lines of furniture and to add a focal pop of colour or design to a room.
We would love to create something like this for you.
Give Rachel a call on 0272214049 and discuss your ideas with her.

Warming up for winter

The nights are starting to draw in and daylight savings time is nearly at an end for this summer. Another couple of weeks and we will be drawing the drapes early to keep in the heat. Beautiful curtains and blinds are our specialty and we pride ourselves in the process of selecting colours and fabrics with our clients and turning them into beautiful drapes.
 This gorgeous fabric is from Textilia Fabrics, 'Chalet' colour Spring. It drapes into beautiful folds and makes lovely roman blinds too. It is a two tone Jacobean design in a vine pattern on a Jacquard weave cloth.Although it looks like a heavy linen cloth it is in fact, a mixture of linen, polyester and viscose which help to stabilise the linen threads. The curtains were lined with a heavy blackout lining, which not only blocks out the light but adds to the insulating qualities to ensure the heat stays in the room and doesn't disappear through the glass. Don't be fooled into using 'thermal drape' curtains as an insulator, it is about as useful as pasting paper to the window. Air needs to trap between the layers of fabric and lining and often we add an interlining (called bumph) to provide an additional layer of trapped air. An interlining also helps to add substance and weight for light materials like silk.
We selected a Resene paint for the walls, a warm white, 'Merino'  and added a bedspread in white, back cushions with soft shades of aqua and pale yellow and a throw in a soft aqua chenille. It is a beautiful restful room, inviting to come home to.
We begin the process by visiting your home, selecting and sourcing colours and fabrics and seeing the job through to completion in our workroom.New tracks are supplied and fitted when we install your curtains.
We are based in Wellington, New Zealand and can be contacted on:
 027 221 4049, or by email: rachel.jldesign@xtra.co.nz.  
Website: www.janlambertdesign.co.nz