Curtains bring a character to your house and add a charm to the brick and mortar house that we call home. While curtains are a main part of home decor, they also perform a role in protecting your privacy from sneaky peaky neighbours or protecting your furniture and home decor items from sunlight. How to choose curtains for various rooms in our house is the most important question that haunts all of us while making a purchase, and thus we’re here to help you to make your decision making simpler.
Tips for choosing curtains for your house
- Choice by room type
The purpose of curtains, their functionality and their appeal changes as per each room type in our house.
- Living Room Curtains
Your living room is the first impression of your house and thus it is very important to know how to choose curtains for living room. While some may want classy curtains for living room others may prefer modern curtain designs for living room. The choice completely depends on your taste and the budget that you have set aside for your home decor.
Your living room often has a window and a terrace or balcony door and curtain design for both of these may be similar. Since the terrace door span is usually wider, curtains cover a large part of the width of the wall. If the margins on both sides of the terrace door are not significant, it makes sense to let the curtain cover the width of wall end to end. Latest trends and curtain designs in living room allow the curtain to flow from ceiling to the floor to cover the entire width of the wall having terrace door. A pelmet on the ceiling adds elegance to the design of living room curtains.
- Bedroom Curtains
Your bedroom is your private zone where you relax and have a good night’s sleep or enjoy your afternoon siesta. I’m sure the dilemma on how to choose curtains for bedroom is same for all of us.
Window curtains for bedroom serve a dual purpose, first is of course protecting the privacy and second is controlling the sunlight as per everyone’s preference. If your room is facing east west, blocking or limiting light becomes a priority and thus adding a dim-out or blackout to the curtains will help. For those who do don’t get direct sunlight, may just want to keep the curtains the way they are or just add a thin lining (astar) which protects the curtain colours and also helps to increase life of curtains. Bedroom windows also have multiple options like roller, printer roller, wooden blinds, zebra blinds and roman blinds which can be opted as per the choice, functionality or decor of the room.
For those who love having their room lit up during the day but also want to protect the privacy can use sheer curtains or tissue paired with the main curtains.
- Kids Room Curtains
Children these days are smart and have their own ideas of decorating their room. There are many attractive designs for kids bedroom curtains which can pair up with the theme chosen for your prince or princess’s room. Depending on the age group, curtains have a wide choice to suit kids room decor, right from cartoon prints, marvel themes, quotes for teenagers and cute designs for toddlers. If you want to create a curtain design to match your wall paper, there are options where you get your own design and we will create a window roller curtain for you.
2. Types of curtains & fittings
There are multiple curtain types to match the decor and budget needs. Curtains can be installed as rod curtains, on curtain tracks, as roman blinds, roller blinds, horizontal or zebra blinds. Choice depends on the utility, design and matching the decor.
Rod Curtains
A very simple and sweet type of curtain which is installed on hollow steel rods fitted above the window or the door. There is a lot of variety in the rod fittings available to match the decor of your room. Easy to install, remove and operate. Curtains with normal pleats or American pleats can both fit on the rod.
Curtain Tracks
A simpler and trending curtain fitting is a curtain track. Tracks curtains can be installed a few inches above the door or window or even fit within the window or door slot. Track curtains for living room can be fitted on the ceiling to enable the curtains to flow right from ceiling to floor. Two tracks can be installed one behind the other so that main and sheer/ tissue curtains can be installed with ease.
Roman Blinds
A very elegant type of curtain is a Roman Blind Curtain/ Roman Curtains which is suitable for your living room, dining room or your bedroom window. Roman blind mechanism allows you to pull up or pull down the curtain with help of a chain. You have to be however be careful with kids who will want to pull up and pull down the curtains just for the fun or operating it