Custom Fabric Decor for Homes in Seekonk, MA

Wide, Shallow Windows and Rooms on Different Levels

The split-levels off Newman Avenue and Arcade Avenue have a signature window: the broad, shallow picture window across the front of the upper living room. It is wider than most stock drapes are made and not tall enough for a long, full panel, which is one reason custom fabric decor in Seekonk, MA so often begins at that window. Whatever fabric goes there sets the colour for the sofa beneath it and for the rest of the level.

The ranches nearby keep everything on one floor, with the living room, dining area and bedrooms strung along a hall. Toward the Providence line, the newer construction brings larger open rooms and plain builder finishes that are crying out for colour. Each of these asks something a little different from pillows, bed covers and upholstery.

• Pillows, duvet covers and some upholstery in fabric chosen with the windows
• Planned for split-levels where three floors can be seen at once
• A showroom of bolts and swatches a short drive away in Swansea

What Goes into a Seekonk Room

Pillows for the picture-window sofa

The sofa under the wide front window is the first thing you see. Pillows in the drapery cloth, or in one colour pulled from it, finish that wall.

Covers for the bedrooms upstairs

Split-level bedrooms sit half a flight above the living room. A duvet cover that picks up the downstairs fabric links the two.

Panels for wide glass

Drapery made to the true width of a shallow window or a slider, which is where the room’s lead fabric usually starts.

Custom drapes in Seekonk

Custom Fabric Decor in Seekonk, MA for Split-Levels

The split-level is the house that most shapes custom fabric decor in Seekonk, MA. Because the levels are staggered, you can often stand in the entry and see the living room above, the family room below and the start of the bedroom hall at the same time. That makes the house read as one space far more than a two-storey colonial does, and it means fabric choices on one level affect the others.

The upper living room

The upper level usually holds the living room and the dining area, with that shallow picture window on the front wall. The best way to treat the window is often a pair of side panels that stack clear of the glass, sometimes with a valance across the top, made to the full width of the opening. The panels carry the colour. The sofa below picks it up in two or three pillows, and if the dining chairs are part of the upholstery we can take on, their seats can follow too.

Because the window is wide but short, horizontal lines suit it. A fabric with a gentle horizontal stripe or a broad, low pattern sits comfortably across a wide opening. On the pillows, a smaller version of the same idea, or a solid in the stripe’s strongest colour, keeps the look calm.

The lower family room

Half a flight down, the family room in a split-level often has smaller windows set higher in the wall, with the ground outside close to the sill. These rooms get less daylight and more use. That calls for fabrics that are hard-wearing and a little lighter in colour than the ones upstairs, so the room does not feel like a basement.

This is the room for sturdy pillows that will be leaned on, sat on and thrown about, in a woven or a textured cloth that hides wear. Picking one colour from the upstairs fabric and using it here, even in a different pattern, makes the two levels feel related when you look from one to the other down the short stair.

The bedroom level

The bedrooms sit half a flight above the living room. Their windows are usually standard sizes, so the treatments are straightforward, and the bed becomes the main fabric in each room. A duvet cover in a companion to the living room fabric, or simply in one of its colours, carries the scheme up the stairs. In a child’s room, a hard-wearing cloth that washes well matters more than an exact match.

Ranches off Arcade Avenue

The ranches nearby keep the whole home on one level, usually with the living room at the front, a dining area beside it and a hall leading off to the bedrooms. Many have their own wide front window, and the same thinking applies: panels to the full width, and pillows below that answer them.

The difference in a ranch is the length. Living room, dining area and kitchen are often in a line, sometimes with no walls between them. A fabric repeated at intervals along that line, on the sofa, on a dining bench and at the kitchen window, gives the eye a path to follow. Keep the walls and floors simple, let one fabric repeat and the space feels longer and calmer.

Ranch bedrooms tend to be modest in size. A cover in a light, plain colour with patterned pillows keeps a small room from feeling crowded, while still bringing in the fabric from the window. Where two bedrooms share a hall, a matching cover in each, in two colours from the same family, keeps the wing tidy when the doors are open, and it makes it easy to swap pillows between the rooms when guests come to stay.

Newer Homes toward the Providence Line

The newer construction toward the Providence line usually has bigger rooms, higher ceilings and open plans where the kitchen, eating area and family room are one. The windows tend to be standard sizes and more numerous, often with a slider to a deck. The walls are frequently a single neutral colour, the floors are plain and the house can feel unfinished until fabric is added.

In these homes, fabric decor does a lot of the work of giving the place character. A family room with a dozen identical windows can take a simple, repeating shade or panel, with the colour and pattern concentrated on the sofa and chairs. A slider is often dressed with panels on a long rod, in the same fabric as the pillows nearest it, which ties the glass back into the room. Where the kitchen island faces the family room, a pair of pillows on the sofa in the same colour as the slider panels lets you see the link from wherever you stand, and a duvet cover upstairs in a softer version of that colour carries it on to the bedrooms. In a large, plain room, that kind of repetition does more than any single striking piece.

Bedrooms in newer homes are often big enough for a larger print on the bed. If the main bedroom has a sitting area, a pair of chairs or a bench at the foot of the bed can pick up the duvet fabric, if those pieces turn out to be upholstery work we can take on.

Near Route 6

Houses close to the commercial stretch along Route 6 hear and see more traffic than those on the quiet side streets. Lined drapes that close fully help with privacy and soften the room at night, and they tend to be plain on the street side. Inside, the pillows and bedding can bring back the colour and pattern, so a practical window treatment does not make the room feel plain.

How a Seekonk Order Runs

We stay in contact with you all the way through, until the last piece is in place. An order for custom fabric decor in Seekonk, MA usually goes like this.

1. Call the Swansea store or fill in the form and book a free quote.
2. We arrange measuring in your home. A specialist measures the windows, looks at how the levels connect and notes the furniture you are keeping.
3. You choose the fabrics at the showroom, comparing the window cloth with the pillow and cover cloths side by side.
4. We set out every piece: drapes or shades, pillows, covers and any upholstery agreed.
5. Your quote comes with each item listed.
6. Everything is made from the same choices, and our team installs the window treatments.
7. We check back with you until you are happy with the result.

Mixing prints for a split-level

In a split-level, three or four rooms can be in view together from the stair, so the fabrics need to get along across the whole house, not only within one room. A useful trick is to choose a family of two or three colours at the start, then let each level use them differently. The living room might wear the boldest print in those colours on its picture-window panels. The family room below might use the same colours in a sturdy plaid on the pillows. The bedrooms upstairs might take a plain cover in the quietest of the three. Seen together from the entry, it reads as one plan.

Pattern size is the other thing to watch. Wide panels across a shallow window can carry a generous repeat. A sofa cushion beneath them cannot, so a smaller pattern or a plain weave in a matching colour usually suits it better. Laying everything out on the showroom table makes that balance easy to judge.

What the front window’s sun does to fabric

The picture window on a split usually faces the street, and depending on which side of the road the house sits, it can take hours of direct sun. That sun falls on the panels and on the sofa below. Over time, some colours soften faster than others, and the cushions closest to the glass feel it first. Lining the panels protects them, and turning or swapping the pillows now and then spreads the wear. If the window faces the afternoon sun, we may suggest a slightly lighter colour for the pieces right under it and save the deepest shade for the bedroom covers, which see far less light.

Sliders off the kitchen and the deck

Many splits and ranches here have a sliding door from the kitchen or dining area out to a deck. It is often the busiest doorway in the house and the hardest opening to dress. Panels on a long rod that stack clear of the door are a common answer, and the vertical blinds page linked below covers the other options. Once the slider has its fabric, the nearby seating can pick it up: a few pillows on a kitchen bench or a window seat in the eating area, in the same cloth or one of its colours, make the corner feel finished.

Cloth that copes with everyday life

The lower family room in a split takes the knocks: children, pets, game nights and the dog that likes the corner of the sofa. Pillows there need a close, firm weave, a colour that forgives a mark and covers that come off for cleaning. A bed cover upstairs needs to handle frequent washing. The panels at the picture window, by contrast, are barely touched from one month to the next, so that is where a delicate silk-look or a loosely woven linen can go. We will be plain with you about which cloth belongs where, so the one you love ends up somewhere it will last.

The view from the front door

Step inside most Seekonk split-levels and you land on a small entry with short stairs going up and down. From there you see a slice of the living room, a slice of the family room and the start of the bedroom hall, all at once. That first view is worth planning. A strong fabric at the picture window, glimpsed from the entry, sets the tone. A pillow or two in the same colours, visible on the family room sofa below, tells you the house was put together with care.

Sizing, shape and finishing

Each pillow is your choice of cloth, size, shape and edge, and you decide how many go on each sofa, chair or bed. For a long sofa under a wide window, a row of larger squares often looks better than a scatter of small ones. Bed covers can be cut from the panel fabric, from a companion print or from a plain weave with the pattern left to the pillows. Give us the bed size and how often it is laundered and we will point you to cloths that suit.

As for upholstery, we do take on some. The pieces vary so much that we would rather hear about yours first, by phone or with a photo at the showroom, before saying yes.

The Store Behind the Work

Founded in Swansea in 1988 and run by the second generation today, Window Works has spent over 37 years in Seekonk homes and across the SouthCoast and the Rhode Island East Bay.

• Specialists who have worked in plenty of splits, ranches and new builds
• Each window measured in place, at your house
• Fitting by our own installers
• We stay in touch from the first visit to the finish
• Warranties on offer for the products we supply

More for Seekonk homes

All our services for the town are on the Seekonk window treatments page. On the window side, the Roman shades in Seekonk and vertical blinds in Seekonk pages are worth a look, the second for sliders. For every kind of pillow, cover and upholstery we do, visit the custom fabric decor page.

Fabric You Can Handle

From Seekonk it is a quick trip down to Swansea. Bring a throw, a cushion or a phone photo of the room, and set the cloths out together: one for the picture window, one for the sofa beneath it and one for the bed upstairs.

Our team will help you trim a long list to the few that suit the house, its light and how you use each level.

Visit the showroom

Ready When You Are

Getting custom fabric decor in Seekonk, MA under way starts with a free quote. Press the call button to reach the Swansea store, talk about measuring in your home or installation, or leave your details on the form for a reply. Prefer to begin with the cloth itself? Drop into the showroom, and find the way on the contact page. Google reviewers rate Window Works 5.0.