Window treatment is one of the easiest ways to express your unique style and liven up a room. Its also an investment that you want to make sure remains stylish.
This year’s hottest trends offer twists on the past while keeping an eye on the future. As home trends toward smaller spaces continue, there’s no better way to make a more stylish impact than your windows.
Consider adding some of the newest trends in window treatments for large windows.
Natural
In recent year, many homeowners have expanded their homes to include their outdoor space. As a result, a blending of indoors and outdoors has become more important.
Natural window treatments such as wooden blinds, or eco constructions such as bamboo and cotton shades, serve as a wonderful transition between the two. This is a trend that is not only growing but sure to continue for many years as a basic.
2. Sheers
Building off of the natural trend, sheers are playing an important role in bridging the gap between indoors and outdoors. Allowing for much more light, this option also gives you the ability to be present in both spaces at once.
For a simple but effective update, consider sheers in all of your transitional spaces.
3. Textures
The satin curtains of yesterday are just that so yesterday. Today’s trends lean toward textured offerings that not only function well but add a styling element that softens the room.
With the rise of wovens in window coverings, it’s easy to get a variety of textures through the use of novelty yarns like boucle, eyelash, or yarns with thick and thin variations.
Textures window elements are a great way to provide a more cozy room experience and are just the beginning of this trend.
4. Embellishments
Everyone could use a little more fun in their life, right? Embellishments make a comeback with tassels, rick-rack, pom-poms, and more.
As consumers become more experimental in their style, they aren’t afraid to differentiate their spaces with unique touches that lean toward playful. Think fun and colorful accents to neutral bases.
5. Patterns
After years of taking the safe route, consumers are reacting well to the growing trend towards patterns. Opulent traditional looks that bring in texture such as velvets give a sophistication to any room.
On the other end of this trend, fun and quirky geometrics from tiny (that can look very textural) to large-scale make great room statements. Exploring patterns on windows is a great way to take a calculated risk in your decor.
6. Metallics
For homeowners who love a little bling, this trend is a great opportunity to add an element of retro sophistication. With a nod toward the 50s and 60s, metallics have a throwback feel while remaining fresh to today’s consumer.
Metallic blinds, as well as metallic elements in window components, make this trend a new venture for many consumers. The best part? Cleaning metallic blinds is a breeze.
7. Color
While neutrals are always a mainstay in window treatments, 2018 brings some fresh colors. The resurgence of the 70s and 80s fashion has given rise to Yellows like we haven’t seen in years.
This goes well with the natural trend and can make a transition space seem flooded with sunshine. More sophisticated neutrals such as Elephant create complexity in a room while more serious spaces (such as the office or dining room) begin to use jewel tones again.
But, think more globally than the jewel tones of the past as this trend pulls from the blend of cultures we are now able to experience at the touch of our fingertips.
8. DIY Solutions
One option is to hang up hooks and cut a dowel rod from the home improvement store to the right length. It’s not exactly pretty but it will hold up your curtains at the right height and can be measured to actually fit the width of your windows.
If you can’t find curtains that are the right length, width, or design, you can always just buy some heavy fabric, hem the edges, and stitch a rod pocket for yourself.
If you’re not particularly handy or your windows are too strange even for the dowel-rod solution, some people even settle for thumbtacks and flat sheets just to get their unwieldy windows covered.
9. Custom Designed Window Treatments
If your windows are difficult to work with and it seems nearly impossible to get attractive, functional blinds or drapes in place, you don’t have to put up with sun in your eyes or unattractive solutions.
Instead, you can work with professional drapers who can not only provide you with a wide selection of window treatment options but can make you beautiful custom solutions for even the strangest windows.
10. Personalized Colors and Materials
In addition to a variety of types of treatments, you can have the colors and materials customized. Your window treatments can be made in any color and from a variety of materials so that they match your paint, rugs, and furniture precisely the way that you envision.
You are able to choose the kind of materials, the thickness, the texture, and the effects.
You can have thick or insulated drapes if you feel you will need to block cold in the winter, and solar shades for controlling the sun’s direct heat in summer. Solar shades are available in a variety of colors and patterns, so you can have the custom look you want along with the benefits of greater control over the effects of the sun in your room.
You can choose semi-transparent curtains over your shades if you want to always have some light streaming in, or go for opaque if you think you’ll want privacy. Whatever your vision, it can be achieved with customized materials.
Window Treatments for Large Windows
All in all today’s hottest trends make one thing clear: consumers are ready to be more playful and bring fun back into their lives. Contact us today and let us show you how 2018’s hottest trends can make your home and life more stylish and enjoyable.
We can work with whatever your house has to offer, finding mount points and designing custom solutions to the puzzle of your unusually sized or shaped windows.