~ Custom Window Treatments ~

Meet Mary Jo Long

Mary Jo Long, C.I.D. is an award-winning, local interior designer who will bring your design vision to life. Working in residential and commercial interior design, Mary Jo makes every design unique. Using her talent and experience to make every detail matter, she creates interiors that have classic beauty and timeless style.

As part of the interior design industry for over fifteen years, Mary Jo admits to being a traditionalist herself but works well with all design styles. In the Chester County and Newcastle County areas she sees clients with a wide range of taste and style including traditional, transitional, modern farmhouse to truly contemporary, and she loves them all!

Raised in Chester County, Mary Jo knows the area well. She moved from West Chester to Downingtown when she married, and has lived and raised a family there for over 30 years.

Curtains & Draperies

Having the correct window treatments depend on several factors: the room, the shape of the window and its position to the sun, the style you prefer, and the drapery’s purpose.

Window treatments will last for many years and serve many purposes — they keep the sun out and the warmth in; they help protect your floors, rugs and furniture from fading; they add pizzazz to any room, “finishing” it off.

They can be practical too. Today’s fabrics offer room darkening options for people who work shifts such as firefighters, police, or medical staff. Also, many fabrics are stain proof from manufacturers like Krypton — perfect defense from kids and pets.

If you prefer a simple look, you can hang stationary drapery panels each side of the window, framing it, usually in combination with a blind or shade. Adding embellishment such as fringe or contrasting tape will change the mood of the room from casual to romantic and formal.

In a traditional home you may require more layers of draperies to achieve a sophisticated design. In a colder climate you need solutions to keep the heat in but need to keep the sun out in summer. Every situation is different based on style, windows, position to the sun.

Top Treatments

Full length draperies are not suitable for every application because in a kitchen they may get dirty; in a bathroom there may not be floor space. But in most cases Mary Jo can design a top treatment that will soften the hard edges of a window, hide the mechanics of another layer, and to draw focus to the window.

There are several choices of top treatment to explore:

• Valances
• Cornice boards
• Pole and swag
• Swags
• Balloon valances
• Lambrequins
• Awnings

You can further embellish a top treatment with custom trim that will add an interesting and individual look to the finished product.

Blinds & Shades

Whether you’re moving to a new home or updating your existing home, the first thing you’ll want to do is cover the windows for privacy and light exclusion. You may need room darkening shades and draperies.

Call our window treatment specialist Mary Jo Long who will show you the many different styles of blinds and shades, and discuss the pros and cons of each for your windows. Mary Jo has several brands of blinds and shades to show you at different price points to suit your budget. One of our preferred brands is Hunter Douglas for their motorization options, incredible choice, beautiful styles and the research they put into their products that the blind and shades industry benefits from.

The custom window treatments shown here are just a selection of different styles that are available so talk to Mary Jo about your dream draperies.

Contact Us

Call Decorating Den Interiors at (610) 873-4735 or complete our inquiry form below and let us know how we can help.