How beautiful to hang curtains: spectacular design options

Curtains can be the final part of the interior room and its highlight. With the help of curtains, you can make the design more comfortable, sometimes they change the look of the room completely. Without curtains, the windows look “naked”, and the apartment looks like a government room. The choice of material for curtains is a responsible matter, and this is how it all begins! After all, they must still be able to drape, pick a suitable eaves and, possibly, tie up. How to do this, consider below.

First of all, choosing the design of curtains, you should take into account the purpose of the room in which you want to hang them, as well as the overall design style. Curtains should be in harmony with the rest of the interior.Agree, lush colorful curtains with ruffles and pelmets are unlikely to fit into the room, decorated in the style of high-tech. Let's take a closer look at all sorts of different kinds of draperies.

• Classic curtains. The easiest and win-win option is to buy material two or three times larger than the width of the window and lay the fabric folds. You can make it even easier - a special ribbon is sewn on top of the curtains, with which the curtains are pulled down to the desired width, forming folds. Have classic curtains necessarily symmetrically on both sides of the window. This design method is suitable for almost any room: bedroom, living room, kitchen, nursery. Just pick the right fabric and cornice.

• Austrian (Viennese) curtains. What are these curtains? This is a kind of symbiosis of the French and Roman curtains: from the first they took puffs along the edge, from the second - a lifting mechanism. These lush, elegant, sometimes pompous curtains will be appropriate in a room designed in the style of romanticism, glamor, Provence. It is preferable to use them in spacious rooms to avoid the effect of a dollhouse and cluttering up the space.They look great on wide windows in the entire wall.

• With lambrequins. Lambrequin is a short horizontal decorative drapery at the top of the window. Multi-layered constructions with lambrequins can be sewn from one fabric or partner fabrics. They will fit into the living room and bedroom, most often out of place in the kitchen and in the children's room.

• Asymmetry. Asymmetrical models of curtains help create dynamics, movement in the design of the room. They look very unusual and immediately attract attention, so such curtains must be made of good fabric by a skilled master.

• Thread. Curtains in the form of free-flowing threads, connected only in the upper part, or muslin - a spectacular, unusual decor. Such models came to us from the East, where they have been used for quite some time, due to their properties, to retain light and not to impede the free circulation of air. Curtain threads are spiral, tape, filament,decorated with beads and textile decorative elements. Used not only for window openings, but also for zoning rooms.

From the same material, it is sometimes possible to make curtains that are completely different in style and appearance. Besides the fact that the fabric can be draped in different ways, the decor used in the manufacture of curtains also plays a role.

• Ruffles and flounces. The use of such decorative elements allows you to make the interior more romantic, easy, add femininity. Suitable for children's room girls or girls, also ruffles and flounces will be appropriate in the bedroom of a young couple.
• Lace. Decorating lace curtains around the edge will add drama to the style of the room if the curtains are sewn of dark or saturated colors like black, red, cherry, burgundy, and steel. If the lace is complemented with light curtains, they are suitable for a room in a rustic style or directions Provence and romantic.
• Fringe. Velvet curtains with fringe look heavy, rich, a little old-fashioned. They can decorate the room, decorated in retro. It is preferable to use in a room of a large area, such as a hall or a living roomThe fringe on the curtains, connected by hand, will perfectly fit into the rustic and ethno-style, well suited for a country house, cottage, kitchen in a city apartment.

In addition to all other parameters, when choosing curtains in the room, you should pay attention to the window configuration. Windows are standard, floor, bay, arched, with a door and so on. Let's take a closer look at each view.

• Bay window. Curtains with draperies, multi-layered, Viennese - any, having a volumetric appearance and smooth shapes, repeating the bend of a window opening, emphasizing the unusual architectural solution of the room, will be suitable for a bay window. You should not close the bay window with Roman curtains and drapes without draperies, such forms look too simple and do not fit the smooth, rounded lines of the room.
• Arch. It is not easy to pick up curtains for arched windows, because, as a rule, curtain rods have straight lines. You can place the eaves below the arch line. Thus, we emphasize the unusual window, we will focus on the arch. It is possible to place the curtains above the arch, using the standard straight eaves, in this case all the beauty of the window will be visible only when the curtains are open, the window opening will look standard the rest of the time.The curtains are placed in a semicircle to enjoy the original design at any time of the day or night.

• Another rare species - corner window or two windowslocated on both sides of the corner, in the latter case it is advisable to arrange them as one unit. For corner windows, use one continuous curtain on the floor or three curtains that can be tied up during the daytime. Thus, you visually enlarge the room, give space to the room.
• In an ordinary apartment with a large window or with a window opening combined with a door to the balcony, to visually expand the space, designers are advised to hang the eaves in such a way that it covers the wall completely. Thus, we create the illusion of a huge window opening. Curtains in the floor visually pull the room, making it supposedly higher.

Even the most ordinary curtains can be easily turned into a highlight of the interior, if you tie them in an unusual way.

• The easiest, but incredibly effective and bold way to decorate a window, is to assemble the curtains with an accordion and tie them in a knot. Simple, catchy and bold, however, is suitable only for well-draped, light, non-friable fabrics.
• There are other, no less remarkable ideas. One of them is to arrange folds with special magnets. You can buy magnets in specialized stores. In this case, the possibilities for creativity are limited only by your imagination: you can make a few folds and fix them with magnets or drape curtains in any very intricate way.

• The idea that women probably picked up, going through the hair accessories: stabbing the curtains with a Japanese hairpin with a stick. Unusually, original and completely unbanal. Moreover, there can be several barrettes, you can arrange them in a row or with a ladder, that is, there is also an opportunity to dream and diversify the decor of a room at the most minimal cost, even without changing the curtains.
• The classic way is symmetrical ties on the sides of the window. Contrast fabric or from the same that was used for sewing curtains. It is worth a little to dissolve them in the shape of a semicircle, and the room becomes a shade of soft romantic style. Collected in a stretched form curtains give the room rigor and conciseness.

• Asymmetrically tied curtains (one below the other or one curtain, tied to the side of the window) will give the design a dynamic, as if a gust of wind ruled the room and ruffled the curtains.Especially effectively this technique looks on curtains made of satin, with a slight sheen, softly draped fabrics. Not suitable for heavy velvet and curtains of creased natural materials.
• Well, what about the owners of velvet curtains? An ideal, already classic, way is to tie them up with a thick twisted cord with tassels. The same technique is suitable for any curtains of heavy fabrics. The cord will slide off the satin curtains, so in this case it is better to fix it additionally on the sides of the window opening.

For different purpose rooms need different design ideas curtains.

• For living room the choice of curtains, perhaps the widest. This is due to the fact that in the hall they receive guests and always try to make this particular room particularly elegant and festive. It is possible to pick up the curtains in the living room, taking into account the color scale and the general style of the room.

There are quite original ideas for the design of curtains for the living room. For example, tulle adorned with a second layer of fabric in the form of ribbons or spirals looks very unusual. Also interesting option when the drapes are draped and fastened crosswise to different sides of the window opening.Another novelty is that one curtain is longer than the other, folds are laid on it and they are allowed on top of the window in the form of a lambrequin.

• In the bedroom functionality and convenience come to the fore. Curtains, first of all, should protect the room from the bright morning rays of the sun, the light of the lanterns at night, and on the ground floors - from prying eyes. In the warm season, experts recommend the use of lighter fabric, in the winter - dense. If you are a supporter of lightweight, weightless fabrics in the bedroom, it is permissible, in addition to the decorative decorations of the window, to additionally protect the glass with Roman roller blinds. This will allow, without overloading the interior, to make the room intimate and impenetrable for prying eyes.

• Curtains in the dining room must be not only functional and beautiful, but also safe. If the window is located near the stove, there is a risk of a long beautiful curtain burning. In this case, the blinds (they are vertical and horizontal) or Roman curtains made of fabric or bamboo will help. If you are a fan of curtains, asymmetrical drape to one side and a multi-layered design will come to your rescue.This will make the decoration of the kitchen non-trivial, while safe and elegant.

• In modern interiors Often there is such a solution as a bathroom with a window. For the bathroom is perfect light air tulle, freely draped on a rod or mounted on hinges or rings.
• The windows in the corridor leave room for imagination, as there is no need to close and open them within 24 hours. Therefore, the composition may be static: in the form of Viennese curtains or intricate draperies.

How to hang the curtains, see the following video.