How to Decorate a Living Room Bay Window

Decorate a Bay Window

Bay windows are one of the most dramatic ways to add light and depth to a living room. If you are lucky enough to have one in your home, then use it to make your living space the most vibrant room in the house.

Just as you can design visual interest with furniture and accessories, you can also create a room with a view using the luxury of a bay window. In order to make a room with a bay window a designing masterpiece, choose window treatments and accessories that highlight this majestic home accent.

Instructions

1. Window Accents: Go for Drama

   To make your living room look even bigger than it already is, choose window treatments for your bay window that are tall and dramatic. Choose to hang your curtains several inches above the wooden framework that surrounds your bay window. This heightened use of fabric around the bay window will bring added attention to this important focal point of the living room. Make sure that you do not cover large portions of the window with fabric. Keep it wide and open! To embellish the overall appearance of the curtains, use curtain ring clips to hold the window treatments in place. With these curtain ring clips, you can choose just about any fabric that lights up your eyes.

2. Bay Window Ledge: Romantic Accessories

   Almost all bay windows have a wooden ledge that extends several feet beyond the flush surface of the wall. This bench like wooden area can be accessorized with candles and berry vine to create a modern design. Adding visual interest to the wooden ledge draws even more attention to the seducing bay window. You can use candles of varying heights or similar heights to add an element of romanticism to the window ledge.

3. Elegant or Casual: It's Up to You

   In a room that is intended to be casual, like a living room with a large bay window, your furnishings don't have to be symmetrically balanced. You could put a small end table on one end of the bay window and a plush chair on the other end. Or, you could put your couch below the bay window and accessorize on either side of it with a rustic floor lamp or a clay accent vase. You don't have to use formal decor to dress up a bay window. Very simply put, you can accessorize your bay window is a way that is comfortable and casual, or you can use elaborate decorations. Bay windows are stunning and versatile.