mdi children problems

I must admit, it seems kind of strange. Here's the reason. I want to "skin" my app. This would naturally include the forms as well. To best do this, the FormBorderStyle of the forms would be set to "none". This would allow me to use my own images to create fake borders, min, max, close buttons, etc.. For my min, max, close images, I would use FormWindowState to set the window state to minimized, maximized, etc.. This works great on regular forms, however, on MDI children when you maximize them inside of an MDI parent form whose FormBorderStyle is set to none, it adds an ugly little grey stripe across the top of the parent, and puts the min, max, close buttons there, as well as the form's icon. This looks TERRIBLE, and thus messes up the whole skin look. So, if anyone has any ideas, I would be very greatful!

Ok. Why would you want to do this? If the user has Maximized an MDI child, and you took away the buttons, how do you expect the user to then Restore the window's size?