A wall of glass overlooking a private backyard is a gift, and the right drapery treatment makes the most of it.In this Brooklyn townhouse, the challenge was straightforward in concept and demanding in execution: hang floor-to-ceiling sheers that would enhance the room's connection to the outdoors, add warmth and color to the space,High Ceiling Drapery Installation in Brooklyn.
The art of installing custom drapes.
On the garden floor of a Brooklyn townhouse, we installed floor-to-ceiling sunny yellow sheer drapes selected by MKCA Architecture. The height of the ceiling called for precision in measuring, sewing, and mounting—ensuring that the panels hang perfectly.
The project came to our workroom through MKCA, the architecture firm behind the townhouse renovation. The family room and kitchen share a generous open-plan volume anchored by a full-height glass wall that opens the interior to the backyard. The architects wanted the window treatment to honor that openness, nothing heavy, nothing that would compete with the view, while adding a layer of warmth and personality to what could easily read as a cold, minimalist space.
The specification: ripplefold sheer drapery, center opening, motorized on a black traverse track to match the glass wall grids, with a fabric that would bring energy to the room without overpowering it.
Fabric was the central decision on this project, and the choice of MKCA was a woven sheer produced in Italy in a radiant warm yellow. The color is deliberate and confident, it catches and amplifies the natural light that floods through the glass wall, turning the panels into a luminous element of the room even when drawn only partway. In a family space shared by both adults and children, the yellow reads as joyful and alive without feeling informal.
The Italian weave has a structure that behaves exceptionally well in this ripplefold application: enough body to maintain a consistent S-fold across a wide span, while remaining transparent enough to preserve the view and the sense of connection to the backyard.
Ripplefold was the right pleat for this installation for several reasons. The clean, modern wave travels smoothly along the motorized track, stacks back tightly at the edges when fully open, and creates a finished, deliberate surface when closed. On a wall of glass at this scale, a less disciplined pleat would have introduced visual noise the architects had specifically designed out of the space.
High ceilings in a townhouse renovation present their own set of installation considerations. At full drop, every millimeter of fabrication tolerance becomes visible — seams, hems, and the parallelism of the leading edge all read at scale in a way they simply do not in a standard-height room. The motorized track was installed at the ceiling line, keeping the hardware invisible and the full height of the glass uninterrupted.
