The Harmony of Elegance, Lighting and Space: Guide for your Window Treatments
Have you watched Sense and Sensibility? Or perhaps Romeo and Juliet? If you like those historical and Old English-oriented movies, you might have noticed the type of windows that Victorian houses have. They are engineered to add space and allow light to seep through the room. Back during the Old English days, women are domesticated. They stay at home, sew, do embroidery work, sip English tea and read to children. Some of these type of windows are also used to provide a view at the dining area, especially those that have well-maintained lawns.
I find such windows elegant and romantic. It's nice to have a cup of coffee in the morning and sit by such type of windows to enjoy the early morning sunlight. But it is not always a good weather. Even sunlight is not desirable when midday comes.
Venetian blinds can be installed atop such windows. These blinds are easy to use and available in different sizes. One great benefit of venetian blinds is their flexibility to blend in with any color of furnitures and fixtures in your room. Let us not forget the convenience of maintaining it clean with just a duster or a damp washcloth. The blades can be individually handled to allow a part of your room to receive light while maintaining some parts to be obscured from the sunlight.
The opaque quality of the blades of the venetian blinds provides you the privacy you need. The strings can be pulled in such a way that the people inside the room can see people outside while those outside cannot. Moreover, you can also alter the blades if you want the room to be completely obscure from anyone outside, thus providing optimum privacy.
On the other hand, if you find the venetian blinds too formal for your house or your room, you can opt to have curtains. But to use curtains means to have a different type of curtain pole for your bay window. A reliable and cost-efficient way would be to order extra-long curtain poles. Such curtain poles are ideal for bay windows since most type of windows consists of 3 panels. The length can easily be accommodated by these type of curtain poles giving you more freedom to use your curtains.
Even if you don't have enough curtains, with extra long curtain poles, you can mix and match sheer lace curtains to suit your mood and room color. If you are just renting the place and the window already has a pole, you can use paper as a curtain. Fold a manila paper just like a Chinese fan, punch a hole at the top, where you would slip the rod, and you're done! An instant curtain!
To add elegance, you can paste some cut-out colorful prints from magazines or have some clip art printed from your computer. Another option is to get your die cut machine and punch some designs unto the paper. When the light comes, the shape of the designs that you punched on the paper will create a spectacular array of light on different parts of the room.
I find such windows elegant and romantic. It's nice to have a cup of coffee in the morning and sit by such type of windows to enjoy the early morning sunlight. But it is not always a good weather. Even sunlight is not desirable when midday comes.
Venetian blinds can be installed atop such windows. These blinds are easy to use and available in different sizes. One great benefit of venetian blinds is their flexibility to blend in with any color of furnitures and fixtures in your room. Let us not forget the convenience of maintaining it clean with just a duster or a damp washcloth. The blades can be individually handled to allow a part of your room to receive light while maintaining some parts to be obscured from the sunlight.
The opaque quality of the blades of the venetian blinds provides you the privacy you need. The strings can be pulled in such a way that the people inside the room can see people outside while those outside cannot. Moreover, you can also alter the blades if you want the room to be completely obscure from anyone outside, thus providing optimum privacy.
On the other hand, if you find the venetian blinds too formal for your house or your room, you can opt to have curtains. But to use curtains means to have a different type of curtain pole for your bay window. A reliable and cost-efficient way would be to order extra-long curtain poles. Such curtain poles are ideal for bay windows since most type of windows consists of 3 panels. The length can easily be accommodated by these type of curtain poles giving you more freedom to use your curtains.
Even if you don't have enough curtains, with extra long curtain poles, you can mix and match sheer lace curtains to suit your mood and room color. If you are just renting the place and the window already has a pole, you can use paper as a curtain. Fold a manila paper just like a Chinese fan, punch a hole at the top, where you would slip the rod, and you're done! An instant curtain!
To add elegance, you can paste some cut-out colorful prints from magazines or have some clip art printed from your computer. Another option is to get your die cut machine and punch some designs unto the paper. When the light comes, the shape of the designs that you punched on the paper will create a spectacular array of light on different parts of the room.
