Friday, 14 March 2014

How To Select The Best Curtains

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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.

Begin by understanding how much privacy you require. Different rooms require different amounts of privacy hence one needs not to glare the room from outside. Translucent covers preserve much needed privacy in different rooms. Rooms used for bathing, drapes that are transparent require additional covers. Bedrooms require heavy covers to conserve some sense of privacy. Add darker covers to rooms that are not frequently used.

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.

Make a count of the number of covers required. Begin by counting the number of casements. It prevents cases of expenses on covers. Remember to take correct measurements of the shades to avoid cases of oversize or under size material. Alternatively, measure the width of these casements if made of equal size. Multiply the measurement by two dividing by width size of cover on sale.




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