Curtains, Custom-Made: The Case for Skipping the Showroom

In the well-run American house, window treatments are rarely bought off a shelf. Architectural Digest's editors this week made the case for custom curtains over retail-ready options, pointing readers toward the workrooms and fabricators they rely on for the real thing. It is a small distinction with an outsized effect on a room — the difference between a curtain that hangs and one that is built to a window, a light, and a house. For the kind of homes this desk covers, from Palm Beach to the Hamptons, that has always been the quieter mark of a room done right.

With reporting from Architectural Digest.