Why Choose Custom Drapery?
Custom drapery brings together style, function, and craftsmanship for your Minneapolis–St. Paul home. At Aero Drapery & Blind, we design custom window draperies that frame your windows with beautiful colors, patterns, and textures—while delivering the light control, privacy, and comfort you need in every room. From fully functional draperies to simple accents panels that layer beautifully with other window treatments, our custom designs are created to fit your windows, your style, and your lifestyle.
The Types of Drapery We Offer
Drapery Panels
Full drapery panels can cover the entire window for complete light control, or be styled to rest at the sides to add rich color, texture, and dimension.
Side Panels
Side drapery panels frame the window beautifully, adding visual height to the room while introducing personality and softness without fully covering the glass.
Ripple Fold Drapery
Ripple fold drapery features smooth, flowing folds that create consistent curves from the top of the window down to the floor, offering a clean, tailored look.
Pleated Drapery Styles
Pinch pleat drapery is one of the most popular styles, known for its structured folds that add detail, elegance, and timeless character at the window.
Our Custom Drapery Options
Every custom drapery project is designed around your needs, with options that include:
- Premium fabrics such as jacquard, velvet, linen, and more
- Pinch pleat, grommet, and ripple fold styles
- Decorative side panels or fully functional draperies
- Blackout curtains with liners for light control
- Thermal drapes designed for energy efficiency
- Coordinated custom drapery hardware
Visit one of our nearby drapery showrooms in Maple Grove or Little Canada to explore fabric sample books, view hardware options, and work one-on-one with our design team.
Drapery Solutions
Our custom draperies can be designed with features that enhance comfort, convenience, and performance.
Drapery Fabric
The fabrics you select for your custom draperies make such a statement of design. They have an incredible impact on the atmosphere, as well. You’ll browse through collections of patterns, colors and textures with your window treatment specialist guiding you. We offer many fabric brands, including RM Coco, Fabricut, Trend, Duralee and Carole Fabrics.
Many common window challenges—such as excess light, drafts, or lack of privacy—can be solved with the right drapery fabrics and liners. Blackout curtains and thermal drapes can be designed to take care of these challenges, but having an expert to guide you to the right fabrics and liners is an important factor.
The Details of Window Draperies
When it comes to creating a custom look in your home, it’s all about the little details. We’ll style each and every detail to fit your vision, from the drapery hardware, to how the top of the drapes is finished.
Drapery Hardware
Drapery hardware is selected to coordinated with other style elements in your home–this can either be a matching finish, or one that coordinates well to create a specialty look. We have a range of metal finishes available to choose:
- Gold
- Matte Black
- Natural Brass
- Oil-rubbed Bronze
- Brushed Nickel
Your choice of drapery rod will accompany additional hardware, designed to attach to the top of the curtains and hang down from the rod. It’s possible that your window treatments will need curtain tie backs, drapery rings, clips or hooks. This can depend upon the header style you choose.
The Top of the Drapes
The top of custom drapes is called the header style. There are a number of ways we can customize this style so your draperies complete your home’s design. If you have an idea of what you like, or you’ve seen a look that you’d like to consider, don’t hesitate to share it with us. We’d love to create a personal look in your home. The header style is sewn at the top, and we offer many styles, including our three most popular options:
Pinch Pleated Draperies
Pinch pleats consist of folds of fabric along the top. These are “pinched” together and sewn, secured in sophisticated flat folds. The number of folds can vary, doubling and tripling materials to get the right look. Pinch pleat curtains attach to the rod with rings that clip or hook to the material.
Grommet Curtains
Grommet-style drapes are a well-loved variety of window treatments, featuring metal grommets (rings) that are affixed along the top of the fabric. This metal ring slides over the rod. Capable of styling curtains from formal to casual, this is widely used. Most people choose to customize this style for the specialty fabrics and grommet metal, which should match the metal chosen for the drapery rod.
Ripple Fold Drapes
The ripple fold header style features curved fabric folds, in consistent form, all along the top of the drapery. These custom draperies adjust along a specialty track, for smooth operation. Ripple fold curtains offer an elegant appearance and are similar to the look of our Hunter Douglas Luminette® collection.
The Layered Look
Layering draperies with blinds, shades or shutters sets a beautiful scene at the window. Not only that, but the base window covering can manage much of the light control and privacy needs of the home, while the custom drapes are in place to frame the window and add personality to the design. We also have drapery ideas for big windows. Work with your window covering specialist to create a stunning look by pairing color, patterns and textures.
Layering Favorites
Custom Drapery FAQ
What’s the difference between drapery and curtains?
Custom drapery is often more formal, with longer lengths, crafted from heavier fabrics, with more detailed header styles and often lined for room darkening or energy efficiency. Curtains are typically considered more casual, are used in either short or long lengths, crafted with lighter fabric weights and simple details.
What types of top treatments are available?
We offer fabric valances, cornices and swags as top treatments.
Are custom draperies energy efficient?
Yes, they can be customized with thermal fabrics or lined for insulating performance.
Can drapery be motorized?
Yes, drapery can be motorized with the Hunter Douglas PowerView® Automation system. The smart drapes attach to a specialty track for adjustments.
How do I choose the right drapery fabric?
You can come into one of our local showrooms in Maple Grove or Little Canada to browse fabric books. Spend time with a window covering specialist in the showroom, and then schedule your free design consultation to have a specialist come visit your home. They’ll bring fabric samples so you can see everything in your own home, surrounded by your other design elements.