How Unique Window Treatments Can Help Dramatize Your Rooms

By Andrea Davidson


Having unique window treatments done to the windows of your home gives it a look seen nowhere else. You may find it useful to look up some tips about treatment methods on the internet so that you will achieve a custom appearance with ease. There are many advantages of going with custom treatment methods instead of going for their store-bought counterparts.

Depending on your requirements, such treatments are able to keep your home cool during the summer and warm during the winter. It also serves as a great way to save electricity and other sources of energy usually utilized in homes. In addition to all these benefits, the addition of shutters as a treatment will enhance the level of security of your home too.

Fully lined custom drapery, on average, weighs around two to two and a half pounds per panel, whereas unlined readymade drapery of the same size would only weigh around one pound a panel. Of course, you would find many stores that sell fully lined drapery. But, most of them are lined using a thin sheet of cotton percale fabric and a low thread count.

It is useful to combine the installation of windows along with interior design so that their positioning will introduce added elegance to rooms. Before planning on where your windows should be placed and how they should be styled, you should first prioritize your requirements and what you expect from your windows, whether it is privacy or exterior appearance, etc. For example, windows facing a street should be treated so that they offer additional privacy, while windows facing the east can be designed to offer maximum flow of sunlight into the room.

However, windows should be treated so that they reduce the flow of sunlight coming indoors if the windows face south or west because the setting sun produces much more heat than when it is rising. Furthermore, windows in houses with upstairs can be designed with lesser privacy. During the winter, windows facing north may assist in the flow of cold air indoors and therefore should be treated accordingly so that they include a thermal element, leading to energy efficiency.

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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