Drapes or Curtains to style your Apartment

Choosing right style or design for drapes in your apartment attracts your guest or friends when entering your apartment. Drapes enable you to block sunlight and add some privacy for the room. When choosing drapes, make sure you are considering other factors like wallpaper, paint and room lighting. If you are in search of  drapes for your living room or treating windows, here are some helpful tips for you.

Things to consider before buying drapes or curtains for your Apartment

Following things help you to buy drapes that suits best for your apartment and fit your budget.

• Research: There are number of websites and books or magazines available that offers you latest design and trend in market. You can search in internet and in your  market for latest designs and colors of drapes available. This will help you to know which design  and color that enhance the look of your apartment.

• Color of drapes: You must consider the theme of your room, size of window, colors of walls, furniture and floors when considering right color. Bright color helps you to attract the visitors when entering a room. Dark color suits best for large room and light color gives spacious look for small room.

• Focal point: If your room has no focal point, you can make one by treating your window with attractive drape. If you already have one focal point in your room then you can use your drapes to lead focus on them but adding attraction of drapes will hide that focal point. Focal point is point of attraction when people enter a room or apartment.

• Size: Drapes are available in various size and shapes that suits best for your apartment. A general rule is your draperies should be two and a half times the size of the window you are covering. The fuller the panels, the more luxurious the window treatments will be.

• Privacy: Draperies are not only used for shading and elegant look but also for privacy in your room or home. If privacy from neighbors is important to you, then you will also want to order curtains wide enough to cover your entire window and makes it difficult to see inside a room or your home.

• Length: First, you probably need to decide where you would like your curtains to end in relation to the floor. Drapes cover entire window or door giving elegant look and enhance beauty of the room.

• Price: Drapes come in various colors, designs and patterns to go with the decor you have in your apartment. The cost of drapes varies depending on the look and demand for the trend or style. Drapes are available in price ranging from cheap to more expensive. You can choose drapes that suits best for your apartment and price affordable by you.

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Choosing Right Fabrics for Drapes or Curtains

The fabric you choose must well go with theme and mood of your room that you are trying to convey within the room. Fabrics can be from softest velvet to roughest burlap. It is recommended not to use a delicate silk in a high traffic area. While choosing fabric, you must consider how the panel is used. If the panels will be pulled closed on a daily basis, then using fabrics like a white silk is not recommended. As you will quickly notice that our hands can leave dirt and oil behind on delicate fabrics when we pull curtains closed.

Many fabrics today come with stain guard protection to help with everyday mishaps and busy families.  Along with your fabric choice, the style of panel you choose can greatly affect the mood your curtains will create. If you want the drapery to “pop” and be the focal point then go crazy with the designs or bold with the color selection. If you are ordering custom curtains through the internet or a designer, be sure to ask for a fabric sample before you purchase panels.

Styles available in drapes or curtains for your Apartment

The style of drapes enhances the look of your room. The style of panel you choose can greatly affect the mood your curtains. Here are some styles for your curtains or drapes.

• Swags: Swags are curtains that form a decorative element over a window, hanging from two fixed points either side of the top of the window. They provide accent within the room, rather than a focal point.

• Café curtains: These types of curtains or drapes are easy to pull open and shut. This generally covers bottom half of a window only and add a bit of style and flair to room.

• Traverse and café curtains: This incorporates the look of a café curtain but also adds privacy and elegance by having a full drape posted along each side of it.

• Two-Way Traverse: This is the drape set that you can pull from either side towards its center. It is a great foundation curtain for layering.

• One-Way Traverse: This drape is the kind that you use when you have a door that opens on one side only. It allows you to pull the curtain to one side to let in light.

Choosing right drapes that suits the theme and color of your room adds look of your apartment. You can either make your window focal point with elegance drape or make your drape a supporting element to focus on focal point in your room. Choose the drape that best go with theme, color and furniture of your room. Drapes add beauty and gives privacy in your room or apartment.

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