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The Look of Curtains 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.
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