Living and dining area, with sheers and drapes on the windows

Şile Akçekese Project

Linen-textured sheers and drapes on wide garden windows, wooden bead holdbacks, a wooden Venetian blind and sisal rugs in several rooms of the house.

Location
Akçekese, Şile, Istanbul
Products used

Natural textures, quiet tones

In this house we chose the curtains, rugs and accessories from the same family of natural textures: linen-look sheers, finely striped drapes, wooden holdbacks and woven sisal rugs. The photographs below are from the installation.

01

Sheers and drapes

Pleated drapes on ceiling tracks and floor-length linen-textured sheers on the wide windows of the living and dining area.

Living and dining area, with sheers and drapes on the windows
Living and dining area, with sheers and drapes on the windows
A drape gathered with a wooden holdback, a full-width sheer behind it
A drape gathered with a wooden holdback, a full-width sheer behind it
Close-up of the pleated drape and sheer on the ceiling track
Close-up of the pleated drape and sheer on the ceiling track
Linen-textured sheer on a window facing the garden
Linen-textured sheer on a window facing the garden
Floor-length sheer on a dark track
Floor-length sheer on a dark track

02

Wooden holdbacks

We gathered the drapes with holdbacks made of wooden beads, in the same natural tone as the finely striped linen.

Wooden bead holdback on a finely striped linen drape
Wooden bead holdback on a finely striped linen drape
Wooden bead holdbacks and striped linen fabric
Wooden bead holdbacks and striped linen fabric

03

Wooden venetian blind

On one window, a honey-toned wooden venetian blind fitted inside a box pelmet.

Honey-toned wooden venetian blind fitted inside a box pelmet
Honey-toned wooden venetian blind fitted inside a box pelmet

04

Sisal rugs

A rectangular sisal rug with a bound border in the bedroom, and round sisal rugs in the kitchen.

Sisal rug with a bound border in the bedroom
Sisal rug with a bound border in the bedroom
Round sisal rug in a kitchen with green cabinets
Round sisal rug in a kitchen with green cabinets
Round sisal rug in the middle of the kitchen
Round sisal rug in the middle of the kitchen
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