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The world of window treatment ideas is so multifarious and diverse in modern times that the home-owner is spoiled for choice in terms of type, material, design, convenience, etc. Sometimes the decision to pick just the right thing for you can be overwhelming. Be it re-décor for your sitting room, a refreshing change for your dining area, or sprucing up the cavernous open space in the house, attractive yet functional window dressings are a tribute to your ‘perfect home-making’ ability.
You Need To Roster The Requirements Of A Window Treatment Re-Decor In The House. Chalk Up Your Priorities And Then List The Menial Follow Through Requirements.
- Consider the aesthetics – motif, color schemes, focal point, style
- Privacy issues – fabric transparency, sound insulation from outside in, and vice versa
- Ventilation – fabric thickness, crowding of layers of cloth
- Exposure – sunlight damage to upholstery and carpets
- Open & close mechanisms – complexity of blinds or shades
- Maintenance – easy removal and re-installation, cleaning and washing
Selecting the perfect idea for window treatment is the goal of every home owner. So the concept of perfect becomes relative to the tastes and preferences of the individual. Ultimately ‘the perfect idea’ becomes whatever the individual is satisfied with for his/her own home. Even then, every room becomes a statement of distinctive taste and design. The lounge area needs its own decor arrangement, to make an impression on guests and visitors, the more private areas like bedrooms and living rooms must appeal more personally, while the kitchen and bathing areas need to be functional and practical. If a home office room exists it needs a formal and impersonal look. All of these requirements need to be
considered while selecting your curtains and blinds.
BM Furniture, Dubai supplies some of the most spectacular designs in curtains and blinds.
Let’s Focus on Choosing Curtains for the Living Room
Your living room may be furnished with exquisite furniture, plush carpeting and tasteful wall decor like light fixtures, framed paintings and mantel pieces that really showcase your talents as a home-maker. But one salient feature of the living room is the window treatment. Often, a window can be a focal point in the living room. Window treatment can be the crowning glory to all the
rest of the decor you planned for the living room.
So important choices need to be made to start:
- selecting just the right design in colour and print to match the motif of the room
- selecting the most practical window treatment solution for the furniture arrangement in the room
- selecting the right curtain length
- selecting suitable material and hardware
The first consideration for living room curtain designs is the number of windows. A single window can be a focal point and a dramatic talking point for your guests and visitors. You could consider the effect of rays of sunlight diffusing subdued tones in the room. Or you might prefer light filtering panels making the room full of light and well ventilated.
Making a list of all the options you have found and then striking out what you definitely will not select is a good plan. This way you get closer to what you want. For instance, if you just want to create an embellished complement to the motif of the room, you can avoid tedious other considerations – like, the material or the hardware can then just be rudimentary choices. On the other hand if you want to create a lighting controlled curtain arrangement that dampens sound from the outside, material plays a very crucial role in the selection.
A living room with more than one window is usually furnished with a consistent pattern and design of window treatment. The consistent theme of colour and style with the curtains hanging from the same level and with similar fittings, will establish a sense of balance and harmony.
An important choice to be made in the process is to decide whether curtains, blinds or shades are the most appropriate for the room’s motif, space and practical considerations.
Blinds and shades can conjure up a completely different ambience in the room. Your living room becomes neat and formal with a touch of elan and flair. Interior decorators even suggest combining the two in layered window treatments. The effect will enhance depth and dimension of the little window alcove of a single window living room.
The world of window treatment ideas is so multifarious and diverse in modern times that the home-owner is spoiled for choice in terms of type, material, design, convenience, etc. Sometimes the decision to pick just the right thing for you can be overwhelming. Be it re-décor for your sitting room, a refreshing change for your dining area, or sprucing up the cavernous open space in the house, attractive yet functional window dressings are a tribute to your ‘perfect home-making’ ability.
- Blinds by themselves come as
- Venetian
- Roman
- Rolling and
- Pleated
They can be oriented horizontally or vertically. They are made up of slats that gather up together to open or extend to close. Shades are another type of blinds in that they are usually made of just one or two pieces of fabric in place of multiple slats. Venetian Blinds and rolling shades are very popular choices for living room window treatment. Since the artistic element is quite predominant in the selection of curtains and blinds, the choice is a very subjective one, and individuals rely on their own tastes and ideas to furnish their living room curtain designs.
