The right window treatment can enhance a beautiful room’s good qualities, transforming nondescript windows into decorating assets for your home. Your window treatments are as important to the complete look of your room as much as your furniture, flooring and accessories.
Plan your window treatments when you choose your wall colors, furnishings and floor coverings so everything flows together. When you begin your room make over consider the following, the type of room and the function of the windows in that room, the decor, the window type or style and your budget.
Then to get started decided if you want the windows to be a main focal point in the room or part of the background? You will need to decide if the window treatment will serve as both decorative and functional? Finally, you can decide on a style that best suits the look you want your room to convey.
Using a combination of two different window treatment styles within the same room works well, the key is to make sure that the same fabric or a combination of fabrics is used on all the windows. Make the most of your room by incorporating the window fabric and a variety of complimentary fabrics elsewhere in the room, perhaps some accent pillows. Don’t be afraid to mix styles and fabrics, there are no written rules and each window has an opportunity for your decorating creativity.
by Susan Dorbeck