A Brantford window covering business has won a prestigious international award.
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Picture Perfect Window Coverings owner and artisan Tabitha Matheson and designer Judy O’Donoghue attended the Oscar-style gala in Dallas, Texas last month at the urging of competition organizers who wouldn’t reveal if they were winners.
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The pair had entered the annual Grace Awards competition that celebrates the creativity and craftsmanship of designers specializing in window treatments. It was the first time a Canadian business was recognized.
“For us to win this award was really big,” said Matheson. “We were up against North America-wide interior designers, interior design firms, and artisans.”
The award won was for design combination, and featured work they did for a client in a downtown Paris, Ontario residence.
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“That was a big, long project and the window treatments were a part of the whole design,” O’Donoghue shared, suggesting to her client “we could put pearls on your drapes, and how about this crystal, and she said ‘yes , yes, yes!’”
The drapes feature big goblet pleats with beaded pearls hand-sewn down each pleat, and a blind with pearls across the bottom and slung with Swarovski crystals.
Photos, along with a description of the process and products used in the firm’s combination design entry were seen by three judges who selected finalists. Another panel chose the winners without knowledge of where the entries originated.
“It just means the world to have our work acknowledged,” said O’Donoghue. “What I realized is that we have a body of work that’s exceptional, and I didn’t realize how much so until we were put on the platform with our peers and realized how exceptional we really are.”
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Picture Perfect Window Coverings has been in business for 24 years and located at 275 Brant Avenue since 2010.
“We have a team of really crafty sewers that make the work right here on site,” Matheson said. “We bring samples to a client’s home, offer suggestions, and it goes from there.”
The firm does both residential and commercial work on both small and large scales.
“We can do projects with our scaffolding involved, going up 20 feet in the air,” explained Matheson. “But we treat the person who is buying just one, equally as important as the person who is going to do an entire house. And what’s really important for us is that all the work is beautiful.”
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