Having posted an item about Lewis and Wood Fabrics recently, I subsequently had the rare opportunity of photographing blinds we had made using one of their very large prints, Adam’s Eden. Our customer had just moved to a newly converted large Victorian Gothic house, formerly a boarding house to Malvern Girls College, which had all the hallmarks of the era – high ceilings and large windows. Conversions of this type nearly always present difficulties of scale when rooms are divided or reduced to provide, for example, space for a new flight of stairs. In these situations “headroom” can be disproportionate to floor size, making rooms, that are actually a decent size, feel diminished. With floor space at a premium, roman blinds were both a practical and aesthetically coherent choice. Secondary glazing, standing very much proud of the casement, presented a further obstacle overcome by the design of a deep pelmet. The large scale of “Adam’s Eden” draws your eye into, in this case a bay window, rather than upwards towards the high ceiling. The girls in the workroom take the credit for the accuracy of the pattern matching across three blinds and the pelmet
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