Window Treatment Design in Pittsburgh, PA — Custom Drapery & Coordination
Custom drapery, fabric selection, color consultation, hardware, and full-room window coordination. We design what big-box stores can't. Free in-home consultation. Call (412) 634-5526.
- ★ Free in-home consultation
- ★ Real fabric samples on-site
- ★ Lifetime workmanship warranty
- ★ Pittsburgh-based & family-owned
Some rooms need more than a shade. They need a designer's eye — coordinated fabric, the right hardware, lined or unlined drapery, sheers layered over rollers, valances, and a plan that ties the room together. Penn Shades offers full window treatment design for Pittsburgh-area homes and commercial spaces. We measure, source fabric, design hardware, and install — without charging interior-designer hourly rates.
Signs You Need Window Treatment Design
You've redone the room — paint, furniture, rug — but the windows still look like leftovers from the previous owner. You've inherited drapery, valances, or hardware that doesn't work with your current style. You're building or renovating and need someone to plan windows across multiple rooms cohesively. You want a coordinated, designer-level outcome without the markup of hiring an interior designer for the whole house.
Or you've tried to DIY this from online retailers and ended up with mismatched widths, the wrong drapery length, hardware that doesn't reach the wall studs, or sheers that look thin and cheap in your actual light. Custom drapery and proper layered design is a tailoring job — measurement, fabric weight, lining, and hardware all have to be right or the whole window reads wrong.
Our Window Treatment Design Options
We offer five design services. Custom Drapery Design is the headline service — measured-to-fit panels in your choice of fabric, lined or unlined, pinch pleat or ripple fold or grommet, hung on hardware that fits your room and your wall type. Fabric Selection Service is a focused consult where we bring physical samples to your home and help you narrow hundreds of fabric options to a handful that work in your specific light and color story.
Color Consultation helps you tie window treatments into your existing paint, furniture, and accent pieces — useful when you're not sure what will read "intentional" vs "random." Window Covering Coordination is multi-room planning — what works in the formal living room, what works in the family room, how to handle the transition from kitchen to dining room without it looking patchwork. Drapery Hardware covers rods, finials, brackets, rings, and decorative pulls — we source quality hardware that doesn't show up in big-box stores.
Window Treatment Design for Pittsburgh Homes & Businesses
Historic Pittsburgh homes — Friendship, Highland Park, Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, Mexican War Streets, Lawrenceville — have non-standard window sizes, plaster walls that need anchor solutions, and architectural details (transoms, arched windows, leaded glass) that off-the-shelf drapery panels can't accommodate. Modern open-concept builds in Cranberry, Wexford, and Sewickley Heights need coordination across multiple rooms that share the same sightline.
We work with both traditional and contemporary aesthetics. A pinch-pleat silk drapery in a Sewickley colonial reads very different from a ripple-fold linen panel in a Sewickley Heights modern build, and we design appropriately. We serve clients across Pittsburgh, Moon Township, Coraopolis, Sewickley, Robinson, Carnegie, Bridgeville, Mt. Lebanon, Upper St. Clair, Bethel Park, Cranberry, Wexford, McCandless, Fox Chapel, and surrounding communities.
What to Expect
Call (412) 634-5526 or book online. Free in-home consultation within a few business days. Our designer arrives with physical fabric swatches, hardware samples, and a tape measure. We talk through the room, your existing furniture and palette, and what you want each window to do (frame the view, full privacy, layer with shades). We measure every window, write up the design, and quote with a fixed price. Custom drapery production runs 4–6 weeks because everything is sewn to your spec. Install is one visit, 2–4 hours.
Why Choose Penn Shades for Window Treatment Design
Window design is the most fabric-forward part of what we do, and we treat it as a tailoring discipline. Family-owned, Moon Township-based, licensed and insured Pennsylvania installers, free in-home consultation with physical fabric samples, upfront fixed pricing, lifetime workmanship warranty. We don't hide design fees inside the fabric markup — pricing is clear and itemized.
Want to see the rest of what we install? Visit the Penn Shades main site for our full range of window treatments and smart film.
Pick the right window treatment design for your space
Custom Drapery Design
Measured-to-fit panels, fabric, lining, pleat style, hardware.
Learn More →Fabric Selection Service
On-site narrowing of fabric options in your light and palette.
Learn More →Color Consultation
Tie window treatments into your existing room story.
Learn More →Window Covering Coordination
Multi-room planning for shared sightlines and transitions.
Learn More →Drapery Hardware
Rods, finials, brackets, rings, and decorative pulls.
Learn More →Book your free in-home consultation
Stop letting your windows be the unfinished part of the room. Call (412) 634-5526 or book a free design consultation online — most custom drapery projects install within 6–8 weeks.