According to the ancient teachings of Feng Shui, windows near the house are very important for the health and psychological climate in the family. Beautiful curtains on the windows are a guarantee of a stylish, well-kept room and a great mood.
To choose the right curtains, taking into account the features of your home – the type of room, the shape of the windows, sometimes you have to resort to the help of designers: after all, there are a huge number of types of curtains for different window shapes.
Fabric curtains for windows
One of the most popular, Japanese curtains can be a decoration for the windows of a room decorated in a minimalist style. These curtains are best placed on large windows in the living room. They look like vertical blinds or a screen covering a window. Can be successfully used as curtains for balcony windows.
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Roman blinds look good on any window and suit any interior, since they are made to order. Double and triple curtains are ordered for wide windows. If you need curtains for slanting windows, Roman blinds are also used in this situation.
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Thread curtains look great not only on the window, but can also be used to zone the space of a room. A variety of materials are used to make them: linen, cotton, lurex and decorated with beads, sequins, bugles, and stones. A fashionable trend now is to decorate windows with curtains with threads in the kitchen.
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For convenience, install cassette (roller) curtains on plastic windows. The curtains are impregnated with antibacterial and antistatic liquid and, thanks to a special coating, do not attract dust. Multi-colored cassette curtains are a good idea for practical curtains for children’s windows.
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Over the course of many centuries, curtains and blinds, which are now installed on a wide variety of windows, have not lost their popularity. Blinds are a special type of curtain with adjustable slats made of fabric, wood, plastic, metal, fixed in such a way that the slats rotate, closing and opening the window.
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Wooden curtains are suitable for windows in ethnic, oriental or minimalist interiors. These curtains are made from bamboo, the canvas is attached to the window on slats. The control system is the same as that of Roman blinds.
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Design of curtains for small windows
If you wish, you can sort out the decoration of standard windows. But what if the shape or size of the window is not quite ordinary?
Curtains for a window with a door are required in the kitchen or bedroom if these rooms have access to a balcony. The task of the designer or housewife becomes more complicated in this case, because it is necessary not only to decorate the window, but also to provide lighting at the proper level. In this case, it is most convenient to combine blinds and curtains.
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Short curtains installed on kitchen windows have a number of advantages: they do not get too dirty, are easy to wash, do not interfere with the housewife’s movements from the kitchen to the balcony and back, and contribute to a normal level of illumination in the kitchen. For this purpose, we recommend ordering for the kitchen: classic short curtains, vertical blinds or Japanese curtains.
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Choose curtains for a window with a bay window (the part of the house protruding outwards from the facade) taking into account the design features and color scheme of the room. In bay windows, Roman blinds, thread blinds, and curtains are most often used.
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The peculiarity of installing curtains on triangular windows is that it is necessary not only to fit beautifully into the interior, but also to secure them so that the curtains do not move. This is where curtains with eyelets, mounted on triangular frames, come to the rescue.
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The best curtains for attic windows are blinds or roller blinds.
Hang asymmetrical curtains on narrow windows – this will visually expand the window opening. You should not choose short curtains for narrow windows; it is better to choose a long option: Roman blinds, curtains with a lambrequin.
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