Window Wears

Window Wears at 1010 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 340 is a custom window treatment studio in the Georgetown waterfront commercial building, providing the bespoke drapery, Roman shades, and soft window covering solutions that the Georgetown residential client requires for the complete interior. The custom window treatment studio occupies a specific and important position in the interior design specification: the window covering is one of the final decisions in the room renovation, made after the furniture has been placed and the lighting has been designed, which means the drapery or shade must work with all of the other decisions that have already been made.

The custom workroom approach that Window Wears provides, as distinct from the retail window treatment chain’s catalog selection, allows the Georgetown client to specify the exact fabric, the exact pleat style, the exact lining, and the exact hardware that the specific room and the specific window require. The Federal-period Georgetown room with its tall, narrow windows has specific proportions that the standard catalog shade may not address with the accuracy that the historically informed interior requires.

The soft window covering, which includes the drapery panel, the Roman shade, and the other fabric-based treatments, adds a dimension to the room’s character that the hard treatment cannot provide: the weight of the fabric, the way it moves in the air that the opening window brings, and the way it controls the light while maintaining the room’s warmth are all qualities that the custom fabric treatment achieves and that the metal blind or the roller shade does not.

The 1010 Wisconsin building at the Georgetown waterfront concentrates the design services that the Georgetown renovation client needs. Hours run Monday through Friday. The custom window treatment consultation at Window Wears at 1010 Wisconsin Avenue NW Suite 340 begins with the site visit: the studio’s designer visits the Georgetown client’s home to measure the windows, understand the light conditions at different times of day and season, and assess how the existing room composition should inform the window treatment selection. The site visit eliminates the measuring error that is the most common source of the custom treatment problem, and it provides the designer with the room context that allows the fabric selection to be made in the actual light conditions rather than in the showroom.

The soft furnishing tradition in the Georgetown interior, which includes the window treatment as one of the most significant textile decisions in the room’s specification, draws from the English and American decorating tradition that Georgetown’s Federal-period architecture belongs to. The lined drapery panel, the interlining that provides the dimensional fullness and the insulation that the unlined drapery lacks, and the heading style that determines the way the drapery panels fall and move are all decisions that the custom window treatment studio’s expertise informs. Hours run Monday through Friday.