Couture by Karen, Custom Drapery and Blinds, is a full service drapery workroom and retailer of hard window coverings by Hunter Douglas, Graber and Norman Shutters. Couture by Karen is also an authorized dealer for Lafayette Interior Fashions, Eastern Accents, and Mastercraft Stage Drapery.

Established in 1979, owner Karen Essary has 35 years of professional sewing experience, serving clients, decorators and corporate businesses from southeast Michigan, northwest Ohio and beyond.

Karen’s top priority is building a trusting relationship with each client or designer based on excellent service, attention to details, highest quality workmanship and extensive knowledge of current trends and products. Along with her many years of experience, this status as an industry professional is continually enhanced by attending training seminars, certification programs, and being involved in membership affiliations such as the American Society of Interior Designers, Window Coverings Association of America, Home Builders Association of Monroe County, Greater Detroit Workroom Association, Monroe County Chamber of Commerce, WFCP (Window Fashions Certification Program), Women Business Owners of Southeast Michigan, and Exciting Windows. Karen is a certified Hunter Douglas Professional Installer, and WEN (Women's Entrepreneurial Network).

Couture by Karen is now an Exciting Windows! Service Professional. Exciting Windows! is America’s only nationally advertised full service window fashions professionals featuring all window products – blinds, draperies, shadings and shutters, and exciting ideas to make your room more beautiful… plus and unbeatable 4-Way Guarantee, and recommended by Michael Payne, celebrity designer on HGTV. Exciting Windows! Professionals make it easy and convenient for you by coming to your home at no cost, bringing you hundreds of styles and products, in all the colors that are perfectly suited to your personal décor. You save time, you save money, and you receive the guaranteed best value in window fashions for your home.

Karen Essary took 2nd place honors in Window Fashions 2007 Ingenuity Workroom Competition for an outstanding silk panel treatment made for C'est la Vie Interiors and featured in Dick Brighton Builders Inc., 2006 Home Tour Entry. Her winning treatment was also published in the May 2007 issue of Window Fashions Design & Education Magazine. In addition, Couture by Karen has won several awards for original design of window treatments and pillows at the Custom Home Furnishings Educational Conference and Trade Show.

Award Winning Designs