Getting the curtains and blinds right in your home can alter the entire atmosphere of your home in Perth.
Despite being one of the easiest things to renovate in your home, the right curtains and blinds can add a sense of luxury and tranquillity that can’t be achieved as easily with any other house update. When you decide to update dated and older window treatments, you want to choose something that will not only last in terms of quality but will also suit your home for years to come.
The right curtains and blinds can make the ideal finishing touch to your house. To make sure you get your design right, we’ll discuss the curtain and blind trends that are in and out this year to help you nail your window treatment renovation.
Window Trends That Are In
Smart Window Treatments
Adding an electronic element to your window treatments not only adds a luxury element to your home, but it also means you can still have adjustable window treatments in hard-to-reach spots such as high ceilings, void windows or skylights.
Electronic window treatments are also becoming more commonplace as smart home technology takes over. Especially important when building a new home, make sure you investigate motorising your window treatments to ensure you are easily able to keep the heat out during the hot Perth summers. With some electronic curtains and blinds easily adjustable with the use of your smartphone, you can adjust your curtains before you even get home, ensuring your house is at the perfect temperature when you get there.
Blackout Blinds
Blackout blinds will never be out of favour in a bedroom. Ideal when looking for a soft touch that offers the practicality of blocking out all-natural light.
Blackout blinds, as the name suggests, completely block the sun and UV light from entering your room. This makes these blinds great for spaces such as a media or cinema room, or any preferred daytime nap space. Blackout blinds are also great for keeping rooms cool during a Perth summer and offering complete privacy.
Blackout blinds are absolutely essential for nurseries and young children’s bedrooms. As most parents will know, young children need a completely dark space to help them sleep and when the sun rises nice and early the last thing a new parent wants is for the baby to rise simultaneously.
Despite the name, blackout blinds are available in a huge variety of colours, patterns and durable styles, which means you’ll easily be able to find blackout blinds to suit your room at Vision Décor.
Shutters
Arguably the most popular design trend with window treatments, window shutters are becoming a staple in renovations all across Perth.
Shutters are polished and timeless and suit a variety of homes. Plantation shutters, traditionally made from basswood, or PVC, or aluminium, shutters come in a variety of colours and finishes which add to their versatility. Timeless and versatile, white shutters are sleek and modern, offering a contemporary and tranquil feel without drawing your eyes away from the features you want to highlight in your room.
Shutters are suited to all rooms within the house and can provide a varying degree of privacy adjustable within seconds. Shutters are also energy efficient by keeping elements in and out of your home. Shutters provide an adjustable amount of light depending on what level you desire.
Additionally, shutters can be a great alternative to a room divider, offering a way to break up or add privacy to a particular space of your room, coming and going as you need them to.
Sheer Curtains
If you’re wanting to add some soft features to your room and add a sense of luxury without blocking the natural light, then sheer curtains are a great way to go. Sheer curtains are a great addition to any window, team them with blackout roller blinds, shutters or a blackout curtain to get the best of both worlds. windows which aren’t visible from your street or to rooms which already contain privacy features such as shutters.
Sheer curtains are a lightweight window treatment made from translucent fabrics, affording some privacy whilst also letting in a muted natural daylight. They come in a huge range of colours and styles which allow you to seamlessly match to your homes style. Easy to install with Vision Décor’s professional installation team, coming in a range of hanging styles such as the modern wave pleat, more traditional pinch pleats and more tab top and tracked. Sheer curtains are easy to care for and can be added over the top of shutters to add an effortless elegance to your room.
Natural Textures
Fabrics such as cotton, linen and bamboo are a great way to add a sustainable element to your window treatments. These fabrics offer a more casual and raw texture to your room, great for pairing with wooden flooring. Please bare in mind that natural fabrics are exactly that “natural”, we find that linens and the like can shrink through winter and stretch out in summer.
Natural fabrics offer varying levels of diffused natural light and element protection depending on your personal needs. When effortlessly draped and gathered, natural texture curtains and blinds offer a unique look unable to be recreated easily. Natural textures also don’t date as quickly as a print will giving you a longer shelf life on your curtains or blinds.
Multi-Layered Window Treatments
Layering your window treatments can elevate your window treatments to add the ultimate mix of style and functional versatility.
Most commonly used with a combination of shutters and sheer curtains, the design options for this trend are endless. Adding a sheer curtain over the top of plantation shutters offers the opportunity to add a soft romantic feature to your room, with the addition of adjustable levels of light and privacy.
Furthermore, adding a blackout curtain over the top of sheer curtains means you’re able to have the best of both worlds in your bedroom, with beautiful natural light filling your room in the morning and pitch-black relaxation at night.
Window Trends That Are Out
Hide the Hardware
Gone are the days where giant curtain rods and tasselled tiebacks were elegant, these days obtrusive and overpowering curtain and blind hardware will date a window treatment immediately.
Go as minimal as possible and let the window treatment speak for itself with simple refinement. Adding the curtain track as high as possible and removing it from the eye line creates a sense of height to a room without changing the ceiling height. Removing the curtain tie backs and letting them drape down naturally will also help soften your room.
Curtains that Precisely Fit the Window
Changing the size of your room isn’t possible without some serious renovations, however creating the feeling of a bigger room is as easy as updating your window treatments.
By hanging your curtains or blinds as high on your wall as possible, you’ll create the feeling of having higher ceilings and bigger windows. Make sure the curtain and blind go to the floor in this case though, otherwise the opposite effect will occur.
In addition to going high, go wide. Hang your curtain trackrod just past the edge of your window rather than on the edge of the windowsill. The more space taken up with curtains or blinds will make your room feel bigger than it is.
Loud Prints
I’m sure your Nanna’s kitchen curtains looked great in her day, but how quickly did the print show its age? Muted neutral colours might sound like an unimaginative colour palette, but by adding soft neutral-coloured curtains and blinds it will offer you the versatility that you’ll be thankful for the next time you update your space. Something that a loud print just can’t do!
But that’s not to say neutral colour palettes can’t be beautiful too, with lighter or darker muted tones adding easy elegance to any room a. And because neutral colours blend so well, you will be able to match them with almost anything you decide to add to your space in the future. Think patterned or feature colour cushions, throws, rugs and artwork.
Additionally, muted neutral colours can add a warm softness to your home without detracting from feature walls or art. Look to linen colours with warm undertones for added warmth to your room. Neutral coloured curtains and blinds work perfectly in bedrooms, living spaces or offices.
Ready to Update Your Space?
Whether you’re planning a new home build, a smaller renovation, or just after something to freshen up a dated room, Vision Décor can take the guesswork out of your new window treatments.
Using only quality and long-lasting products, Vision Décor, Perth’s curtain and blind specialist, will help design window treatments for your home that will suit your style and lifestyle for years to come.
Vison Décor are just a phone call away. Contact us or call the team on 08 9248 6160 to organise a free quote now.