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BESPOKE WINDOW TREATMENTS AND SOFT FURNISHINGS FOR COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS Soft Furnishing | Curtains | Blinds Pole & track supply and automation 01580 241614 | www.lilymatthews.co.uk
<strong>Interiors</strong> Supplement sponsored by 5 minutes with... Jane Cowdry We learn about Jane’s work at her company, LilyMatthews, which produces curtains, blinds and soft furnishings for designers and private and commercial clients What kind of projects do you do? The bulk of our work is for designers but we also help private clients in the South East. We work on full commercial projects such as hotels and restaurants as well as residential homes and holiday homes. Large projects are a speciality as we have the capacity to work on wide width curtains with lengths as much as 7m. We also love smaller individual projects local to us that we can turn around quickly and ensure clients can get on with their lives in a finished home or bedroom as soon as possible. Can you advise on other aspects of interior design? We help with upholstery, paint and fabric supply. We can supply beautiful headboards and pelmets, too. We also help with all the fittings such as good quality basic poles to handcrafted ones in bespoke colours. We also supply automation for easy opening and closing of curtains including voice control. How are you liaising with clients during the current pandemic? This has been difficult but like every company we have adapted. Our work for designers has continued fairly normally as there is very little face-to-face with this work and properties are often empty. We are also able to quote from floor plans and elevations in the early stages so no site visits are necessary. We have strict guidelines for measuring up and are keeping appointments to no more than twice a week as this allows for testing in between. We aren’t carrying out consultations in homes but are able to meet with existing clients at the workshop showroom at weekends when no staff are present and we can keep a distance. We can then put together fabric suggestions so we can get the ball rolling and these can be shown via Powerpoint or, if very local, with mini moodboards or packs delivered to the door. How can you help a client decide on the right fabrics for their home? When I first see a client (under normal circumstances) it would be in their home. This often isn’t to their taste as they will have just moved in, so I have to work out what they like, what they want to achieve and what makes them happy. I then ask them to look at a few books – which is the quickest way to see what they love, hate or what they might consider once we have pulled it all together. The interior of your home should bring you joy and comfort, a haven from what is going on outside and the fabrics and colours all contribute to that and form the backdrop to your home life. They aren’t just the accessory. Last year we fitted a couple of rooms in the home of a family who had relocated from London. Though they loved the new house the lady was missing her London life and office. I found a lovely fun fabric ‘Berkeley Square’ by James Hare (pictured as background) and we used it in the playroom, she said it made her smile every time she went into the room because the Square had been around the corner from her office and where she would sit on a sunny day with her lunch. When you see how design can transform a house to a home it is wonderful and our designer clients are amazing at what they do. What is the most elaborate and memorable project you’ve been asked to work on? There have been so many wonderful ones and we have worked for famous faces and famous places along the way, but two spring to mind. One of our designer’s clients had always loved the film Gone with the Wind and wanted a bedroom like Scarlett’s (if you look it up it’s swathes of peach/ pink satin). It was in a Kent manor house and the designer brought it up to date by using a soft grey satin, but it was fantastic with swags and tails and swooping tiebacks and trims. The second was more restrained but involved a sizeable Tudor hall that was transformed by the designer into a stunning seating and dining area with huge windows where we made curtains over 5m long in a printed-toorder Linwood fabric. They looked amazing and, more importantly for us, the fit was spot on! Tell us about your Beginners Curtain Making Kits... Gosh this was a bit of fun during the first lockdown! We have intermittently run curtain making courses but they have become more difficult as we have grown busier and also the pandemic meant they couldn’t go ahead. I had the idea to put the teaching into a kit so it was all together. There is a DVD, written instructions, fabrics, a pencil, tape and it even has pins and needles and cotton so you only need your own scissors and a tape measure. Of course you couldn’t have professionals in last year so my poor husband had to shoot the video. Though the continuity is a bit jumpy (my hair does some odd things!), the instructions are clear and easy to follow and it’s taught in exactly the same way as I would on a face-to-face course. You make a small pencil pleat curtain and then I show you how to easily scale that up for your own home. It’s a fraction of the cost of the courses and you can go at your own speed. lilymatthews.co.uk
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