Saturday, 15 March 2014

How To Select The Best Curtains

By Gwen Lowe


For one to come up with a perfect interior decoration, one needs to lay down various factors that touch on interior decor. Correct selection of curtains ensures that perfect match is made to interior walls. To ensure that there is added beauty to the interior of your home considers factors the following when purchasing covers. However, consult further expertise from designers.

Start by understanding your privacy. One needs to purchase drapes that cannot be seen through from the outside. This will help in conserving the much needed privacy in your home. Parts of a house for example, bath rooms and bedrooms should not have only drapes but additional covers must be added. Home owners need to pair them with darker covers to preserve much needed privacy.

Understand the amount of sunlight required in every room. Depending on the location of a room, not all receive equal amounts of light. Having transparent drapes is vital for living rooms or sun rooms. For bedrooms, one requires heavy drapes for the purpose of shielding much light from penetrating into the room. Plan accordingly after assessing the amount of sun beams required for different rooms.

Take into consideration the material used in making the drapes. Heavy material must be used in this process. Different fibers combinations may be used hence make them unique. This is an added feature to allow less light to penetrate through them. Silk material is usually prone to fading. They end up in the long run looking wasted and ugly. They area expensive yet do not last for long.

Remember to consider the design and decorations on the shades. This is in form of drawings, embroideries and other paintings. For painted shades and covers, they must not fade easily since this makes them ugly. Well knitted embroideries do add beauty to them increasing the chances of them staying for long. Proper painting and drawings must be selected to avoid color clashing with the painted interior walls.

When you are buying covers, always remember to put into consideration the theme of your house. This also means that you ought to avoid color clashing or instances where covers are not matching with eh design or theme of your windows. Make sure you get the ones that have the right matching in terms of thickness so that they blend with the house theme. However, remember that bright colored covers are not always the best especially when it comes to your eyes.

Carry out the comparison shop step. Compare different designs and prices in different shops. It is a vital step since purchasing a cover may mean that it is going to be used for longer periods. Make sure to purchase something that you want to match perfectly with interior decor. Make comparisons of the decorations, embroideries and paintings on the covers. Perfect blending is vital.

Figure out how many covers are needed. Count the number of casements in your home to avoid unnecessary spending on covers. Task the measurements of the windows to avoid cutting the material if oversize. You may alternatively, measure the width of the windows and multiply them by two. Divide it by the width size on sale if it is odd number buy an additional drape.




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