A window treatment is an essential interior decorating style that can give any room in a house or office a new look. A well-planned window treatment can provide your home the privacy it needs, as well as aesthetics. Moreover, window treatments can control the amount of natural light that goes in to an area of the house.
Truth be told, though, window treatments can be expensive. Nevertheless, if you're creative enough, you can find implements that won't burn a hole in your pocket. Something as simple as a fly screen can do wonders to make a window stand out, but only if you knew how to dress it up.
There are four things you need to keep in mind if you're planning to update the window treatments in your home on a budget. Those are:
- Style
Whether you're aiming for formal or something casual, the window treatments must coordinate with the general look of the room.
- Privacy
The location of the room influences how a window can be decorated to achieve privacy. If the room faces out into a busy street or is easily seen from the outside, you can consider window treatments that can be readily pulled closed and opened as necessary. A perfect example of these is electric blinds. On the other hand, a simple valance is enough to provide some character to rooms located in more quiet parts of the house.
- Light
The type of window treatments also depends on how much light is received into the room. How much light do you need to filter or block? Do you want fixed drapes to completely cover the windows, or do you want to control brightness with window treatments that can partially allow the desired amount of light?
- Difficulty
Choose window treatments that are not complicated to execute. Your particular choice must not only conform to the general house interior, but must not be difficult to make or install. If you have limited designing skills, using blinds is your best option.
There are three items in the house that you can repurpose into window treatments. These are bed sheets, tablecloths, and shower curtains. Figuring out how to repurpose these is no rocket science, not when you can search do-it-yourself video tutorials on YouTube that teach you how to design such so they can be used as "curtains" for your windows. It doesn't have to be all about blinds if you know how to jazz up the previously mentioned items to make the eye-catching.
One way to make the bed sheets, tablecloths, and shower curtains repurposed as window treatments look expensive and stylish is to embellish them. Among the different approaches is to use stencils and fabric paints to add interesting details to the otherwise plain and boring drapes. You may also consider sewing buttons, beads, sequins, and artificial flowers in attractive pattern across the curtain material. If you're not into sewing, you can decorate with iron-on appliques or simply gather the panels and tie them with ornate ribbons and curtain holders.
Window treatments don't have to be elaborate and expensive. All you need is creativity to highlight those openings in the wall and transform them into beautiful windows to frame your view of what's outside your comfort zone.