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New Release

My Drapery Sketchbook

A quick reference guide to drapery styles.
My Drapery Sketchbook presents an inspiring visual catalog of:

  • Draperies: non-pleated, pleated, rod pocket, tiebacks, tieback styles, heading styles, and hem styles.
  • Top Treatments: valances, cornice boxes, swags and cascades, pole swags, pleated swags, and gathered swags.
  • Fabric Shades: Austrian, Roman, and many more.

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Fatherless: Lessons from
my boyhood

Fatherless: Lessons from my Boyhood is about a mighty miracle that transformed a lost and hopeless teenager into a leader, an entrepreneur, and a successful grownup, who accomplished remarkable things. Click here to read more.

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The best designer resource: 1000's of window decorating styles at your fingertips

Designer Window Fashions, our newest book, is now available from Amazon.com for the print edition and Google Books for the e-Book edition. 

This new book continues the tradition of showcasing classic and contemporary window coverings from some of America’s top designers. With more full-color photographs and black & white illustrations than ever before… read more

Preview the book

Are you looking for the most comprehensive resource for window coverings?

Do you need to easily illustrate design concepts to your clients?

Do you need an easy-to-reference encyclopedia for educating interior design students?

What is inside?

Valuable Information

  • Extensive window covering ideas in full-color photos and illustrations
  • Extensive bed covering section with coordinating draperies and top treatments
  • Hard window coverings coordinated with valances, swags, and cornices
  • Vital information for designers, workrooms, and window covering professionals
  • Equal size color and blackline drawings
  • Extensive yardage calculations
  • Pros and cons of various window coverings
  • Solutions for challenging window shapes
  • Glossaries of decorating and fabric terms

8 Comprehensive Chapters

  1. Draperies and Curtains: Flat panel, pleated, grommet, gathered, and more 
  2. Top Treatments: Swags, cascades, valances, and cornices
  3. Shades: Modern shades (hard) and Fabric shades (soft)
  4. Combinations: Pairing different types of window coverings
  5. Blinds: Metal blinds, wood blinds, woven woods, roller, solar, and verticals
  6. Shutters: Faux wood, real wood, barn door, and more
  7. Hardware and Trims: New and creative ways to use drapery hardware
  8. Drapery and Bed Coverings: Headboards, bedspreads, pillows, etc.

What customers say about
Designer Window Fashions

100% Verified Google & Amazon Reviews

3 Reasons every interior designer needs Designer Window Fashions

448 pages and 8 chapters of window fashions and categories

1000’s of comprehensive photos and illustrations of individual styles

Contains technical information you won’t find anywhere else

Meet Charles Randall

Best-selling author and window decorating expert

Charles Randall is the author of The Encyclopedia of Window Fashions (more than 1 million copies sold) and is listed in Samantha Ettus’s book The Experts Guide to Life at Home as a leading expert on window decorating.

He has written several other books, including:

  • The Window Decorating Book
  • Dream Windows
  • Charles Randall’s Designer Sketchbook
  • The Encyclopedia of Window & Bed Coverings
  • Dream Walls

Charles’ latest and most comprehensive book, Designer Window Fashions, is available now on Amazon. Order it today

Read Designer Window Fashions your way.

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Hardcover

Use in person with clients
and for display in your office.

Have 1000’s of window styles and technical information delivered directly to you with free shipping via Amazon Prime

$24.95

E-Book

For planes, trains and your
morning commute.

Download immediately, take it anywhere with you review quickly and easily on tablet, phone, or Kindle

$8.95

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