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CURTAINS AND DRAPERIES SHOULD LOOK
THE SAME FROM OUTSIDE
The Look of Curtains and Draperies
from the Outside of your Home
The color of the
window treatments, curtains and draperies,
in the front wall of your home should,
ideally, all match when seen from the
outside. The obvious answer is to have an
identical window covering in each window
but, of course, this is not very often
possible or even desirable when planning the
design elements of the various rooms in your
home. To take an extreme example the first
floor windows may be in a formal dining
room, an office and a kitchen and the second
floor windows may be in a hallway, in a
guest bedroom and another in the master
bedroom. This would necessarily require
different approaches in each room in order
to compliment the interior decor.
Fortunately there are
ways to accomplish a uniform outside look
even if you have a lace curtain in one
window, a drapery in another and a wood or
metal horizontal blind in still another. One
easy solution would be to use wood or metal
blinds in every window and use an additional
lace curtain, roman shade or drapery over
treatment to coordinate with the interior
room style and color. This, of course, would
be relatively expensive but there is another
way. A more economical and probably much
more practical method would be to use a
similar color in each window although each
treatment may be different.
Lace curtains in one
window could be off-white or ecru. A wood
blind could be of similar color. You could
use an off-white lining for a drapery. The
important thing to remember is that they do
not have to be identical in color - just
similar. The color of the exterior of the
window treatments should, if possible, also
match or, at least, blend with the color of
the outside of your home. This is not always
achievable. You may have, for instance, a
Victorian or Colonial home which has a
fairly vivid or dark coloring which would be
difficult to match or blend with. In this
case you would probably want an off-white or
bland color as well.
Window coverings quite
often are the very last decisions to be made
but they are just as important to the final
product. Careful planning ahead is always
important in order to create a beautiful,
warm and inviting home. Once you have
mastered these window covering suggestions
it might be a good idea to review even more
innovations about
window curtains.
We wish
you the best of luck in your decorating
endeavors.
Call us
(either AL or MARCIA) if you have any questions. One
of us is available most of the time. If not, leave
your number. We enjoy helping homeowners with their
Lace Curtain design questions.