Exciting Windows

Buying a home with character and life gives you an excellent chance to try your hand at decorating it and making it into a home to be proud of. Older homes often have quite a bit of character, but may need to be remodeled or decorated to help enhance the character and make it into a comfortable living space. By using dcor pieces, you can turn any home into a welcoming and inviting space that you will love and enjoy. Even if you are not a decorator, you can make a house into a home. A home should express your personality, and through decorating, you can make the home feel like an extension of yourself. From roman shades to curtains and more, you want every facet of your room to express your own personality and decorating style.

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Window coverings serve an important role in your home, giving you privacy and also protecting your furniture and décor from the harshness of prolonged, direct sunlight. But the range of choices is so wide, including blinds, shades, shutters and curtains, that some homeowners have a hard time deciding which they prefer, or whether they can mix their window coverings according to the room where they are installed. There are no hard and fast rules about what you should use, versus what you could use. The decision is up to your tastes, preferences, and what works with your decorating scheme. What you decide is great for one room, may not fit in another, so you switch from blinds in the bathroom to window shades in the bedroom, and that is just fine, as long as you are happy with the way the décor looks when you’re done.

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Custom roman shades give you the look of costly custom workroom shades at a price that will pleasantly surprise you. These tailored and sleek window shades are prepared of the same fine drapery fabrics, but their superior head rail and control systems make them much easier to install and operate. Custom roman shades, sometimes called roman blinds, are an attractive blend of today’s popular decorating styles, colors, and textures. Roman Shades proffer the soft elegance of drapery with the practical function of a shade. We present a wide range of decorative fabrics to create the mood you desire from modern casual to formal elegance. Custom roman shades are a classic window treatment. They are simple, elegant, and can fit well in any style of room. Roman shades are prepared from a single of fabric panel.

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Rustic country decor is an extension of American country style decorating. In addition, traditions have been borrowed from French, English and some Swedish country. Rustic country decor can be defined as coarse, charmingly simple, non-fussy, unfinished and yet with endearing qualities. Rustic country decorating consists of the use of natural woods, aged surfaces, rough finishes and simple lines. This decor is about handcrafted objects, simplicity, furnishings that you enjoy and that connect you back to nature. Rustic cottage furniture is commonly made with pine and perhaps painted with hand-painted designs such as flowers, birds, animals, country scenery or leaves.

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Window coverings seem to be the bane of my decorating existence. On HGTV they make it look so simple but for me, finding decent window coverings and actually getting them installed has been a monumental task. A task that is still not complete, even though we’re inching up on FOUR years spent living in this house. I don’t know if it’s just us being home-improvement idiots, but hanging curtain rods always turns into a ridiculous affair replete with curse words, extraneous holes in the wall and stripped drill bits (it would appear that all our doors/windows are framed out in titanium). Last year we finally hung curtain rods over the kitchen window and the adjacent sliding glass door and ever since then I’ve been on the hunt for appropriate window fashions. The slider is a problem all its own: it needs full-length curtains because we get the dreaded fish-bowl effect from the house that backs up to ours. I found some plain but serviceable insulated curtains from J.C.Penny, which finally arrived in February and have been sitting in their bag at the base of the window ever since. Ahem.

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Anyone lucky enough to have bay windows has a great looking addition to a room with the additional seating possibility it offers, but may also face a challenge getting curtain ideas for bay window requirements. Obviously, ordinary curtains and rods won’t work for a curved bank of bay windows, and even for single windows there are issues. Bay window treatments will vary with the style and number of the windows, the use of the room, and the style of the residents as well. For those who want to do their own design and decorating, curtain ideas for bay window situations can even mean learning to use special tools to reshape and fit traditional hardware to fit window openings that are not flat and shallow.  Curtains for bay windows can be treated like any other as the simplest option when single windows are involved, with maybe mini blinds directly on the window part and the curtains flush with the walls. This of course will lose the effect of the window design and makes it hard to use the window box as a seat.

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Draperies
Whether your appear is formal or casual, up to date or traditional, use draperies or curtains to accentuate your decorating scheme. Normally lined, pleated, and floor-length, drapery panels often attach by hooks to a traverse rod. A cord mechanism such a hangs behind either the left or best panel draws both of the panels open and closed. Because of the way a traverse rod works, drapery panels don’t continually retract as compactly as curtain panels do, so if a window has miniature wall space nearly it, you may like to mull over curtains or a different sort of treatment.

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