Help me choose a fabric for my wall-to-wall curtains

It might be the dog days of summer, but life feels busier than ever right now. I’ve been working-from-deck in a sorry attempt at squeezing in more outdoor time—Trend Watch reports must be written, even when it’s 80 degrees and sunny. FYI, I made a last-minute IKEA umbrella purchase—both myself and my laptop were in desperate need of shade—and it was shockingly easy to assemble. —Lindsey Mather, editor in chief

Headboards come in all shapes and sizes these days: curved, squared-off, wavy, wall-to-wall. But triangular? Not really a thing. Or so I thought. While gathering intel for our latest Bed & Bath Trend Watch, I stumbled across a primary bedroom Moore House Design had dreamed up for none other than Babs (aka Brunch with Babs). Hello, elusive (and totally delightful) triangular headboard. It didn’t make the cut in the report because funnily enough, it wasn’t until after we published it that I started getting served example after example. So in honor of triangular headboards everywhere, here’s a closer look at three of them.

My very first sighting, by Moore House Design, is a master class in using this unusual headboard silhouette. In a room doused in romantic florals, a geometric shape is a refreshing pause for the eye—even more so when you cover it in crisp stripes.

In the kid’s room of a family’s Minnesota cabin, Yond Interiors doubled up on triangles: one for the headboard, one for the footboard. To me, this is satisfying symmetry. To a child, it’s a bed that looks like a house.

Are this New York City apartment’s twin bed frames custom and therefore not easily recreated? Yes. But the glam effect—in another kids’ room, no less—was too good for me to not share. Bravo, William Cooper.

Our bedroom only has one wall wide enough to accommodate a king-sized bed (a must-have for two tall people), and the window placement couldn’t be stranger. There’s just one, and it’s all the way on the right, a mere foot from the corner. My mind immediately went to a classic designer solution: a wall of curtains that, when closed, gives the illusion of well-balanced architecture. Normally, I’d buy window treatments off-the-shelf, but this much real estate deserves custom curtains. The nine fabrics I’m currently contemplating:

1. I find myself drawn to the structure of a stripe, and who says it has to be straight? The squiggles on Sanderson’s Oxbow are meant to mimic winding rivers.

2. I’m a sucker for a whimsical Josef Frank print (I used Klöverblad wallpaper in my old dining room). Baranquilla is bright and happy, but still has a linear element with that meandering burgundy stroke.

3. Tallulah Grove by Harwood House made it into our Bed & Bath Trend Watch as a textile worthy of a half-tester bed, so you know it’s good.

4. Block Shop’s Little Zipper is the most graphic of my contenders. I just love the idea of waking up to a room festooned in lemony yellow and ice blue waves—instant energy boost.

5. Sweet flowers, bold stripes, and teeny-tiny polka dots—Andrews by Maresca Textiles is the best of all worlds in my book.

6. I could also go a more abstract route, like Floral Trellis by Rebecca Atwood. And there’s that zippy yellow again!

7. So maybe I combine my two color obsessions with Temple Studio’s Dune Flowers?

8. I dove head first into Liberty’s selection and never wanted to leave. The Brits know how to do a playful floral right, a la Mitsi Sycamore.

9. Another squiggly, floral stripe, but a little more retro, though; artist Lucie Wallace’s patterns are partly inspired by her childhood home.

Ever since we launched Home Front, I spend a good chunk of every week writing, editing, and reading on Substack. Some of the content I happily consumed, below.

• I hang on designer Zoë Feldman’s every word when she does her AMA posts. Lucky me, this time she shared ideas for a basement guest room very much like my own.

• Stylist Colin King returned to Substack with the juiciest topic: “what I’ve changed my mind about.” Orchids feature prominently.

• Currently brainstorming a place to use the dreamy blue paint color Sarah Sherman Samuel recently revealed she’s put in two projects so far.

• The Brownstone Boys have been doing a fun Notes series showcasing glimpses of “old New York,” like Fifth Avenue in the ’40s.

• Advice you haven’t heard before about finding good stuff on Facebook Marketplace, from the queen of thrifting, Kellie Brown.