I arrived in Arizona nineteen years ago from Naperville, IL. In Naperville one of my business ventures was a custom workroom. Early in my career and after a few years of dealing with workrooms that were not only inefficient and hard to deal with; but more importantly dealing with workroom owners who didn't have the skills I wanted for my client's products, I had had enough. Although I was not a seamstress, I opened a workroom to service my growing custom drapery and bedding business. The Drapery Works was well known as one of the best custom workrooms in the Chicagoland area. To say my expectations for a new workroom in Arizona were very high was an understatement. However, I was on a mission and fortunately met Karen Barnes at a workroom industry trade group meeting. She was a very pleasant person to speak with but more importantly, I found her to be knowledgeable and passionate about the difficult issues of creating custom window treatments. Karen's workroom was a drive from my office, but I had already dealt with a couple of workrooms that were not up to my expectations, so I decided to give The Elegant Window a try on my next order. I have never looked back on the decision I made to work with Karen and her extremely talented group of seamstresses. They were everything that I wanted and produced the quality of work that my own workroom in Chicago had given me. I highly recommend Karen Barnes and The Elegant Window for all of your custom drapery and home decor work.

Our team has been working almost exclusively with Karen for several years to handle all decorative window treatments for our multifamily amenity spaces across the country. We know that we will always receive a finished product to our exact specifications and to our satisfaction, within the budget we provide, and delivered on time. Karen and her team are extremely thorough and we rely on their expertise to take our design concepts and make them even better. Karen also assists with our coordination cross-country by connecting us with reputable installers to assist with our out-of-state projects. We love working with The Elegant Window and I would absolutely recommend them to anyone for residential or commercial window treatment fabrication. We continue to have wonderful experiences with them and the product speaks for itself!

I have had the pleasure of working with Karen and her team for over ten years. Karen consistently goes above & beyond to make each project exceed my expectations. The quality & service is unprecedented, and I will continue to use them exclusively, for all of my future projects.