jeudi 8 août 2013

How Unique Window Treatments Can Help Dramatize Your Rooms

By Andrea Davidson


Decorating your windows is one very good way to convert any room into a grand space. The decoration of windows is an art, which is known to a handful of people. Unique window treatments are all about the proper balance of elements, such as curtains, valences, shades, and many other accents that, when balanced properly, will help you dazzle your visitors.

As the old saying goes: a single picture can speak a thousand words, making your windows appear unique can express your mood as well as your lifestyle to others. Furthermore, if done correctly, your windows can be designed to say more than what a picture usually shows. For example, the use of custom drapery makes your windows appear heavier ad fuller when fully lined.

Pleated shades offer accent as well as design to windows. You will find that treating windows is a combination of shutters, blinds, curtains shades, all coming together to make your house a home that everyone will admire. Such dressings shield sunlight from coming into your living area and also offer privacy to your personal spaces.

While such store-bought drapery is also able to prevent excess sunlight from entering your rooms and prevents fading to a certain extent, they do very little to add to the fullness of the window. The difference between the two is in the lining. Custom made draperies are usually made using a much thicker poly-cotton fabric for their lining, which blocks sunlight as much as possible and fades very little.

If you have your fitted your windows to give out a French appearance, you may have to extend the curtain rod a bit beyond the usual length used in other windows. Adding wooden shutters painted in white will offer more privacy while limiting excess light flowing into the room. Adding privacy with elegance is further possible by using leafy patterned curtains with rustic cabin windows too.

There are many DIY techniques that can be used to decorate windows using things such as curtains, sheets, paper, linens, and pennants & neckties. Curtains are one of the most frequently items used for window treatment. Regarded as one of the best ways of covering windows, curtains are used to cover windows completely or partially, adding an extra touch of elegance to the room as well.

For example, if you are looking to buy some pink and brown drapery from a store, made of toile fabric, to treat an extra wide window in a nursery school, you would definitely go through a hard time looking for them because most readymade curtains do not come in such colors and sizes. However, you could buy your materials and get someone to sew them for you. Such an approach would offer an endless stream of options that most readymade curtains do not offer.

Paper and linens are also low cost methods that are used to produce unique window treatments. Although paper is much cheaper, most people opt to make curtains out of linen. If you do not want to decorate your windows according to a set specification, you could use your creativity to customize your windows according to your liking to impress your visitors.




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