Custom Fabric Decor for Homes in Taunton, MA

High Ceilings, Low Ranches and Room to Grow

Taunton holds three very different kinds of room, and each one changes what custom fabric decor in Taunton, MA should look like. Near the Green and through Weir Village, the Victorians and triple-deckers have tall, narrow windows in rooms with high ceilings, where a small cushion can look lost under all that height. Across East Taunton, the mid-century ranches keep their ceilings low and their rooms compact. Off Bay Street, the larger newer colonials have generous rooms and plenty of standard windows waiting for a scheme.

What ties them together is the idea that the fabric at the window and the fabric on the sofa and the bed should be chosen at the same time. That way the colours are judged together, the patterns are scaled to the room, and nothing ends up looking like an afterthought.

• Pillows, duvet covers and some upholstery to go with your drapes or shades
• Prints scaled to tall downtown rooms or snug ranch rooms
• Cloth to touch and compare at our Swansea store

Fabric Pieces for Every Kind of Taunton Room

Pillows with presence

Generous sizes and bolder prints for a sofa in a high Victorian parlour, so the pillows hold their own against tall walls.

Bedding that anchors the bed

A duvet cover gives a bedroom its main block of colour. Picked with the curtains, it makes a tall room feel settled and a low one feel calm.

Long drapery for tall sash

Panels that run from near the ceiling to the floor draw the eye up a narrow window and set the lead fabric for the room.

Custom drapes in Taunton

Folded shades

A Roman shade suits a window too slim for full panels, and its cloth can return on the pillows across the room.

Roman shades in Taunton

Linen for lighter rooms

Soft, natural weaves work well in ranch rooms where a heavy cloth would crowd the space.

Some upholstery

We take on some upholstery in cloth tied to the window fabric. Tell us about the piece first and we will say honestly whether it is one we can do.

Choosing Custom Fabric Decor in Taunton, MA by House Type

Choosing custom fabric decor in Taunton, MA starts with the shape of the room more than the fabric. Ceiling height, window size and how much wall there is between the windows all decide how big a pattern should be, how many pillows a sofa needs and whether the bed or the window should carry the lead fabric. Here is how that works out in the city’s main kinds of house.

Victorians near the Green

The Victorians around the Green and along the older streets near downtown are the tall rooms of the city. Ceilings rise well above the tops of the windows, the windows themselves are tall and narrow, and there is often a stretch of plain wall above them. In a room like that, scale is everything. A pillow print that looks lively on a low sofa in a small room can turn into a blur from the doorway of a Victorian parlour.

The answer is usually to go bigger and fewer. Two large pillows in a confident print, with a third in a solid, read better from across a tall room than five small ones. On the windows, drapery hung from just below the ceiling rather than just above the frame makes the window look taller and gives the fabric enough length to show its pattern. The pillows then pick up that pattern, or one of its colours, at sofa height.

Many of these houses keep original woodwork, a fireplace surround or a picture rail. Those details give you colours to work from. A deep red pulled from the tiles around a hearth, or a green that sits well with dark-stained trim, can become the common thread between the drapes, the pillows and a cover on the bed upstairs.

Triple-deckers through Weir Village

The triple-deckers through Weir Village give each floor a full home of its own, with tall windows and good ceiling height for their size. The front rooms usually get the most daylight, and the bedrooms are often lined up along one side. Because each floor is a complete home, fabric decor here is often about making one floor feel like a whole house rather than a set of separate rooms.

A practical way to do that is to choose one colour that turns up in every room: in the parlour drapes, in the bedroom pillows, perhaps on a kitchen window. The fabrics can change from room to room, a velvet in one, a cotton print in another, as long as that colour keeps returning. When the doors along the hall are open, the floor looks planned from end to end.

Tall windows in these rooms also mean the bed is often placed under or beside one. A duvet cover in that room is seen against the window fabric all day, so it pays to choose them side by side. A cover that matches the drapes exactly can be too much in a smaller bedroom. A cover in a plain colour taken from the drapery print, with two pillows in the print itself, usually strikes the right balance.

Ranches across East Taunton

The ranches spread across East Taunton are a different scale altogether. Ceilings are lower, the rooms are smaller and the windows are standard sizes, often with a broad window in the living room and smaller ones in the bedrooms. Here a big print can overwhelm, and heavy, dark fabrics make a low room feel lower still.

Lighter colours, smaller patterns and natural textures such as linen and cotton suit these rooms. A pair of drapes at the living room window in a soft print, pillows on the sofa that pick out one colour from it, and a pale cover on the bed keep the house feeling open. The trick in a ranch is restraint: one lead fabric, one or two supporting ones, and plenty of plain wall around them.

Ranch living rooms often open into the dining area. Carrying the same fabric through both, at the windows and on a few pillows or a bench, makes the two parts of the room read as one.

Newer colonials off Bay Street

The larger colonials off Bay Street have roomy living spaces, big main bedrooms and a good many windows of the same size. That uniformity is a gift: every window can take the same treatment, and the colour and pattern can be concentrated where you want it, on the sofa, the bed or a reading chair.

These houses often have a formal living room at the front and a family room at the back, sometimes open to the kitchen. The front room can take a richer, more formal fabric that is not handled much. The family room needs sturdier cloths on the pillows and anything that gets sat on every day. Using the same colours in both rooms, in fabrics suited to each, keeps the house consistent without making the family room fussy.

Main bedrooms in these houses are often large enough for a sitting area or a bench at the foot of the bed. A duvet cover and a few pillows in a companion print, with the drapes in a plainer cloth, can give a big bedroom warmth without filling it with pattern.

How Your Taunton Order Comes Together

You will hear from us at every stage until the work is finished. Most orders follow this path.

1. Reach the Swansea store with the call button, or use the form, and set up a free quote.
2. We book a time for measuring in your home and look at each room with you: the ceiling height, the windows and the furniture that is staying.
3. You come into the showroom to choose fabrics, setting the drapery cloth beside the pillow and cover cloths so they are judged together.
4. We write up each item for the quote, from window treatments to pillows, covers and any upholstery we have agreed.
5. Once you approve it, the pieces are made from the fabrics you picked.
6. Our installers hang the drapes or shades, and we follow up until you are happy.

Landings and stairways in the older houses

The tall Victorians near the Green often have a stair that climbs past a window on the landing, seen from the front hall below and the bedroom floor above. That window is easy to forget and yet it is in view every time you go up or down. Dressing it in the same cloth as the parlour drapes, or in a plain colour taken from them, links the two floors. If there is a seat or a bench on the landing, a pillow in the same fabric makes it a place to stop rather than a corridor.

Colour and the direction a room faces

Daylight changes how a fabric looks, so the same cloth can seem different in two rooms of one house. A room facing the morning sun gets warm, bright light early and cooler light later. A room that never sees direct sun keeps a steady, cool light all day, which makes blues and greys look crisp and can make golds and reds look dull. When you plan custom fabric decor in Taunton, MA across several rooms, tell us which way each room faces when you visit the showroom, and we can suggest colours that hold up in that light. A sunny bedroom may suit a cover in a cooler shade, while a dim back room may want warmth in its pillows to bring it to life.

Getting pattern scale right

Scale is the most common thing to get wrong with fabric decor, and Taunton’s mix of tall and low rooms makes it matter more than usual. As a rough guide, a pattern should be large enough to be recognised from where you usually see it. A drapery print in a tall parlour is seen from across the room, so it can be large. A pillow on a ranch sofa is seen close up, so a smaller print or a plain cloth works.

When you mix fabrics, vary the scale as well as the colour. A large floral at the window, a medium check on the pillows and a plain textured weave on the bed is easier on the eye than three prints of the same size competing for attention. At the showroom we can lay the three side by side on the table and stand back, which is the quickest way to see whether they work. In a triple-decker flat, where you see one room through the doorway of the next, it is worth checking the scales across rooms too, so a large print in the parlour does not clash with a busy one in the bedroom beyond. Keeping the boldest pattern to one room and letting the next take a plain or small-scale cloth gives each its own character while the colours keep them related.

Fabric for rooms that get used

A Victorian front parlour that is used on special occasions and a family room that is lived in every evening need different cloths. The parlour can take a velvet or a fine weave that would not last a year on a family sofa. The family room pillows want a tight, hard-wearing weave and covers that come off. Bed covers go through the wash often, so their fabric should handle that. We will point out which of your choices suit which room, so your favourite cloth ends up where it will last.

Pillows and duvet covers in detail

For each pillow you pick the cloth, the size, the shape and the edge, and how many go on each piece of furniture. Tall rooms tend to suit larger squares, and a long sofa under a wide ranch window can take a neat row. For a duvet cover, you can use the drapery fabric itself, a companion cloth, or a plain colour with the pattern carried by the pillows. Tell us the bed size and how often the cover will be laundered.

Upholstery is something we do in part. Bring a photo of the piece to the showroom or describe it on the phone, and we will tell you straight away whether it is work we take on.

Why Taunton Works with Window Works

Window Works started in Swansea in 1988 and is now in the hands of the second generation. Over 37 years, the family has worked on windows and rooms across Taunton, the rest of the SouthCoast and the Rhode Island East Bay.

• An experienced team who plan the window and the room together
• Each window measured in place at your house
• The drapes and shades put up by our own installers
• Steady contact with you from the first visit until the end
• Warranties offered on what we supply

Other pages for Taunton

All our services for the city are collected on the Taunton window treatments page. If your rooms have tall sash and you are weighing options at the glass, the plantation shutters in Taunton page covers another route. The whole range of pillows, covers and upholstery we make is described on the custom fabric decor page.

Cloth You Can Hold

The Swansea showroom is the place to see how a fabric behaves at full size. Unfold a length of a drapery print and see how big the repeat really is, then hold a pillow cloth next to it. Bring something from the room if you can, such as a cushion or a throw.

Our specialists will help you settle on a combination that suits the height of your rooms and the way you use them.

Visit the showroom

Start with a Free Quote

The first step toward custom fabric decor in Taunton, MA is a free quote. Use the call button to reach the Swansea store, book measuring in your home or ask about installation, or fill in the form and we will get back to you. If you want to see the cloth before anything else, the showroom welcomes visitors, and the contact page shows how to find it. Window Works is rated 5.0 on Google.