I live in a loft in Brooklyn, a recent transplant to Greenpoint (love my neighborhood!). I work as a freelance writer, blogger, stylist, gilder, and crafter. I curate a daily personal lifestyle blog called the Haystack Needle (http://www.thehaystackneedleonline.com). I'm also one half of the shop Cabin 7 (http://www.shopcabin7.com) — a collection of gilded objects for the home. I started out in magazines, working in the home department of Real Simple magazine and later worked as the home editor of Redbook. I love to scout cool finds for the home — everything from an amazing loveseat to a green laundry detergent that really works. I'm a new mama to our baby girl, Juniper, who amazes me every day with her curiosity for life and big smiles.
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These gorgeous drapes slide across a large bay window at my Brooklyn yoga studio, Kula Williamsburg. I love the mix of the rich velvet curtains with the sheer, gauzy overlay. So I set out to create a similar look with my bedroom's loft windows. Here, I share my inspiration and a peek at how my bedroom curtains turned out.
The velvet and gauzy drapes are clipped to a track and slide open and shut. The curtains even look pretty drawn open, when the gauzy overlay reminds me of a pleated vintage dress.
The windows in our loft are super large, so I could not find ready-made curtains in the right length. I scouted a blue-gray velvet from the garment district in Manhattan.
Then I had a pocket sewn in the top (to fit over my curtain pole) and hems sewn along the edges.
I commissioned designer Nadia Yaron of Nightwood to make the gauzy overlay. She found the perfect fabric with that vintage, gauzy look.
We left the bare seams of the gauzy fabric so it frays a little — and adds to the bohemian style. Nadia is a master at working with gauzy textiles (you may remember this bedroom she designed for a Design*Sponge editor).
Here are some sources for where to find a similar look in ready-made curtains:
