This center-design pieced Roman shade was installed in a Show Home in Littleton, Colorado. It measures 29" wide by 72" long. The breakfast table dictated the color scheme for this shade: orange-checked chair cushions, purple napkins and yellow china. The shade is made from solid-colored chintz. This is a south-facing window and the shade shines when the afternoon sun streams through it. 

The shade glides neatly behind the door handle when it is raised or lowered. This photo shows the nice effect of combining a pieced Roman shade with another type of window treatments, in this case, wood blinds.

The design is very simple for an interesting reason. This shade was made 3 days before the Show Home opened to the public. I had made several other shades for the designers in other rooms of the house. I received a frantic call less than a week before the opening asking if I could make one more shade. The wood blinds had just been installed and you couldn't open the door more than a few inches! The headrail of the blinds projects almost 3" into the room and the door headrail hit the left-hand window headrail. I mounted the 1x2 board flat, so that now the projection of the door window treatment was only 3/4".

Interior design by Jaime Cummings and Lynn Shannon. Photography by Don Riley.

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