We have combed by way of our Livingetc archives and pulled out our favorite front room curtain concepts. From easy, elegant pinch and pencil pleat curtains to ornamental trims, assertion pelmets and wild colors, there is a curtain model and concept for each dimension room, each scheme and each style.
A front room ought to really feel cosy and useful, and including curtains can create a way of softness and luxurious within the area. Now with autumn upon us, utilising curtains for layering functions generally is a nice answer for a seasonal refresh.
Listed below are 20 front room curtain concepts to encourage a window remedy change…
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1. Mix in
Curtains full a front room – and a contemporary strategy is to pair them tonally with the partitions. Decide a cloth to enhance the living room colour scheme you have already got, for a very cohesive and enveloping look. Navy blue linen on this blue living room helps tie the room collectively.
Choosing a cloth which is simply a few shades darker than the paint will end in a layered and luxurious look. Sometimes, matchy-matchy works.
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You may have a curtain match the wallpaper too, as has been achieved right here, with curtains dip-dyed on the similar peak because the strip of color on the partitions.
2. Pelmet
A pelmet is an ornamental, usually upholstered board fastened above a widow to cowl up the curtain rod or fixtures. It frames and provides construction and distinction to those blush pink drapes beneath.
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3. Distinction pelmet
Turner Pocock, the design duo recognized for turning conventional therapies on their head, are large followers of utilizing them of their designs. ‘When utilizing pelmets we nonetheless attempt to preserve an air of modernity about them, we use easy shapes with light-hearted fascinating trims’, explains Emma Pocock.
Right here a press release material was used to inject sample and color.
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4. Ornamental trim
Giving curtains an ornamental trim will create for a sophisticated, interior-designed look. The trim beneath additionally injects some additional texture into this blue living room scheme.
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Whether or not you have acquired full-length curtains or a cloth roman blind, including an ornamental trim or sample to the sides could make completely all of the distinction to turning easy window remedy into extra of a characteristic. Inside designer Naomi Astley Clarke says: ‘I like utilizing braids so as to add curiosity to curtains, and distinction materials to main edges could make a beautiful assertion too.’
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5. Roman blind
Roman blinds are good for recessed home windows the place there is no area for curtains to bunch up on both aspect of the window pane. Roman blinds can create a really streamlined look.
Crowning a Roman blind with a dangling piece of material – just like a pelmet – with an identical trim will give it a good smarter look.
6. Layered
Create an excellent cosy look by doubling up in your window therapies; A material Roman blind for privateness within the evenings, with full-length curtains both aspect to border the window. Crowning it with a pelmet on the prime will create a neat and tidy end.
‘Layering window therapies and curtains is a favorite trick of mine. Do not be afraid of including blinds to your home windows after which layering over with floor-length curtains. This provides depth and curiosity to the area!’ says Inside designer Alison Giese.
Inside designer Gillian Segal agrees: ‘I am an enormous fan of layering window masking varieties – for instance having a window with a cloth roman (maybe in a sample) and stable material panels flanking it.’
‘I usually use Roman shades with curtains to make the room extra sensible for privateness or to dam gentle,’ provides inside designer Anne Carr.
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7. Tie-back curtains
Tie-back curtains can provide quantity, and a regal look. They’re historically crescent formed and made by masking stiff cotton fabric known as ‘buckram’ with a lightweight wadding and furnishing material. Steel or wooden variations which repair on to the wall are additionally out there or you’ll be able to merely use an ornamental twine.
We quite just like the theatrical look that tie-back curtains achieved right here in an inside doorway. It could make a enjoyable and dramatic entrance to a play room or dressing room.
8. Inner curtains
And talking of inside curtains, curtains are additionally an effective way of zoning areas, sectioning of areas and creating privateness when wanted.
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9. Goblet pleat
These lush, satin curtains are inspiring in additional methods than one. Firstly, they’re used to present this room a everlasting texture, hanging in entrance of partitions quite than home windows. Secondly, the goblet pleat is a mode we do not usually see.
Goblet pleats are an in depth heading model the place the material is tucked and folded to depart a gap on the prime with a ‘goblet’ or ‘wineglass’ look. To maintain the goblet pleats trying full and rounded they have to be formed with interlining. They are often hung from a observe or pole.
And eventually, we love the layered look achieved by hanging a portray in entrance of the material. All these courageous strikes have paid off.
10. Midway
For home windows which have a prime half and backside half, you would take into account this strategy of including curtains alongside the underside for privateness, however leaving the highest halves naked to permit for extra gentle.
11. Pinch pleat
Pinch pleated curtains primarily collect the pencil pleats into teams of two or extra for a extra ornamental heading. It will work with most kinds of material, however keep in mind that the extra pleats, the extra material is required and so will increase the price of the completed curtains.
Pencil or pinch pleats are probably the most conventional curtain heading and can work with all kinds of observe and pole, as seen within the observe instance above, and pole beneath.
This look works each with plain materials as illustrated above, and patterned materials.
12. XL
For those who’re seeking to create dramatic quantity however tie-back types aren’t your factor, you would take into account the strategy of utilizing additional lengthy material that bunches up on the backside. It is a onerous look to get proper, however when the material bunches up in simply the suitable manner, the impact is sort of lovely.
13. Sheer
For one thing minimalist, gentle and free, sheers will make a room really feel gentle and ethereal whereas nonetheless giving sufficient privateness in the course of the day.
Inside designer Carly Madhvani favourites sheer curtains for residing rooms. ‘The right way to actually improve your residing area is by selecting a medium-weight-fabric which is each sheer to diffuse day-light and likewise cosy at evening to melt darkness. I at all times advocate rechargeable battery powered electrical opening and shutting mechanisms to get pleasure from luxurious comfort.’
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14. Sample punch
The designer beneath created a Palm Springs impressed look with acrylic curtain rods, tropical palm print curtains and brightly colored furnishings items.
15. Assertion tie-back
For one thing a bit quirky, you would add additional pizzazz with a press release tie-back…
As if this curtain material wasn’t punchy sufficient, the designer added a string of fake bananas so as to add humour to her tropical scheme
16. Bay window
This curtain pole bends and suits across the corners of the bay window completely. However quite than having only one pair of curtains to drag throughout the entire rail, this bay window options three pairs of curtains, permitting one pair to border every window pane.
17. Pull apart
For rooms the place a window stretches wall to wall, have the curtain rail curve inwards so you’ll be able to pull the curtain proper to the aspect, giving an uninterrupted view.
18. Double peak
Received a double peak ceiling? Intensify it with double peak drapes.
Permitting for additional bunchyness will give quantity, drama and grandeur.
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19. Color pop
Equally to Jonathan Adler’s house above, this front room options stand-out curtains in a daring color, injecting this area with a vibrant vitality. On this case it additionally units the color scheme for the entire room.
20. Plain
For curtains that fade into the background and let the furnishings and equipment do the speaking, go for one thing unfussy and easy.
Inside designer Kate Lester says: ‘I normally gravitate towards solids and textures relating to curtains and material. I like retaining issues easy in order that the drapes body and soften the strains of the home windows, however don’t take away from the remainder of the room.
‘Avoid fancy pleats and trims and tassels, and simply preserve it easy and stylish. Generally, if our purchasers are searching for extra versatility, we’ll layer a blackout shade beneath a linen curtain. This fashion they get the simplicity and informal look of a linen drape – however can pull down the blackout shade behind if they should block out the sunshine solely. In relation to material I additionally suppose retaining the rod small streamlined and easy is vital. No fancy finials or cumbersome rings. Much less is extra!’ says Kate Lester.
Inside designer Anne Carr agrees: ‘I actually love a minimal and impartial look relating to window curtains and material. Window therapies are actually vital to not solely present privateness but additionally to finish the look of a room. I sometimes use a stable color in linen or wool materials to create depth and class and actually like the way in which pure supplies dangle.’
