About Window Treatment Styles
Choosing the best window treatment styles for each room in your home is a matter of personal taste, but knowing something about the different styles of window coverings that are available can help you make the best choices to accent your decor. Does this Spark an idea?
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Casual Window Treatment Styles
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Cape Cod and cafe curtains are popular window treatment styles for kitchens and children's rooms. Simple tabbed curtains can keep the mood light and casual in family rooms and bedrooms. Valances hung above mini-blinds are a popular choice for casual living rooms and bedrooms.
Formal Window Treatment Styles
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Formal window treatments usually consist of sheer panels, valances and drapery panels that can be drawn closed across the sheers. Traditional formal drapes often fall to just above the floor. Draped valances are a popular contemporary formal window treatment style.
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Window Treatment Styles That Correct Shortcomings
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Small windows can be made to seem larger by choosing curtains or drapes that fall several inches below the window sill. Camouflage windows at uneven heights by the drapes for all the windows at the same height from the ceiling rather than measuring from the top of each individual window.
Fabric Window Shade Styles
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Window shades can be drawn over a window to block light and afford privacy. Roman shades are designed to be drawn up along drawstrings passed through curtain rings sewn into the curtain panels. Balloon shades are similar to Roman shades, but are designed to billow in soft folds at the bottom. Pleated shades and honeycomb shades can be combined with tailored panels and drapes for a more formal look.
Window Blinds
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Horizontal window blinds and mini-blinds are popular window treatments in casual rooms and in offices. Vertical blinds have a more formal feeling and appearance. Blinds can be made of stiffened fabric, metal or vinyl.
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