Design Considerations for your Windows
Curtains and blinds have for a long time played a secondary role in design considerations of a house. The budget can force this sometimes. Ideally, they should receive due attention, as they influence to a large extent how a room will look and feel.
There are many new houses where windows are made huge. Those require special attention to the windows coverings, which should be given ideally at the design stage of the building. When the right color and design is chosen, the room will look more welcoming, and the highlights of its appeal will be magnified even more.
There is a tendency to resort to white colors. It forms the most versatile choice of color. It blends well with most window designs. The different shades of white can be used to give each room a certain ambiance.
Nowadays, people have access to more color choices. People have no trouble going for fresh, minimal, translucent and light colors, and their selection reflects their individuality.
Their choices also consider the rest of the furniture and other decorations in a room, to follow a certain theme. The blinds can be chosen to be either laid back or stand out.
Curtains now come in a wide range of choices of fabrics and colors and cuts. You will also find minimal designs, in natural fabrics and neutral tones. The curtains and blinds can also be hanged in different kinds of cast metal rings and rails.
When choosing the kind of curtains and blinds to put in a house, you have to consider the light that comes into the rooms. Your choices will be affected by the direction the rooms are facing. Darker rooms call for more flamboyantly designed curtains and blinds. Rooms that have enough light throughout can do with toned down curtain designs.
You can also play some optical tricks through the choice of curtain designs. Vertical blinds can make an otherwise low ceilinged room the appearance of having a more room, when done right. You can also achieve the same effect when you use lengthy curtains, that reach the floor, thus ‘pushing’ the ceiling up.
The best way to go about this is to hire an experienced decorator, who will see to it that the same attention that is given to other areas of your house’s decorations is the same attention that falls on the design of the windows. This is the way to ensure you end up with the best designed windows. The rooms that are facing a beautiful scenery will benefit when the design of the windows reflect this beauty. If the view outside is boring, the choice of curtains will mask it and enhance the appeal of the room even more.
