A window, is a window. It’s made of glass and it let’s in light. And you cover it with curtains when you don’t want the light, or anybody’s eyes looking in. You can’t change its size and shape (at least we Mumbaikars living in city apartments can’t!), nor any of the factors mentioned above. Which means we can’t really change its look / feel / vibe or what it does for a room, right? So what is this window treatments post about?
Window Treatments 2022
Well… wrong! Though window treatments are simple, it does help to put a little thought into them. Which fabric? How high? How wide? What style? These questions can be answered quickly and easily. So, asking them and getting the answers right is a very simple way of taking your room from drab to fab. And that’s what this window treatments post is about!
Living Spaces
Nature Inspired Living Room
This open, airy living room has large windows along almost two entire walls. The heights of the windows though, are different, and this is one of the unusual instances where we have used different window treatments along adjacent windows.
The window on the right side has a deep and low beam. As you can see, the TV unit is fitting entirely into the depth of the beam. Bringing the curtains ahead of this beam would mean that they would come fall ahead of the unit, or we would have to make the unit deeper still to come in line with the curtains. Instead we kept the curtains below the beam. Also, we used blinds in this window so that the curtains don’t cover the sides of the window when pulled apart and block the view into the terrace.
The window on the left is the first one you see as you walk into the home. We took the drapes all the way up to the ceiling and let them fall down the entire length. They help give height to the room and add the gentle airy vibe.
We kept the fabric colours really light so as to keep their visual impact minimal. Your eye tends to ignore them and look at the beautiful balcony and terrace beyond them. It also minimises the impact of the different heights of the two adjacent curtains, which would be much more obvious if they were darker.
Living and Dining of Sylver
The considerable living and dining room of Sylver has large windows on both ends. What’s more amazing is that neither of them look into any other window of any surrounding building. So, for a change, we did not need curtains for privacy here.
Next, since they don’t have a television in their living room, we didn’t need to curtains to block out the glare on to the television either.
So we did away with the solid drapes in the room completely. We just have these beautiful sheer drapes in the windows, to block out direct sunlight and the harsh summer glare when required. With pink and beige cords woven into the fabric, they look rich and add colour. The vertical stripes going all the way up also accentuate the high ceiling.
Living and Dining Room of Keje
Though this huge living room window also has a clear view with no privacy issues, this living room has a television. Can you see the reflection of the curtains on the TV screen? It makes it very difficult to watch television this way. Which is why the heavy drapes here.
Since the room is not too heavy on furniture, we decided we could go a little heavier on the drapes.
The richly embroidered floral fabric adds both colour and pattern here. The sheers are a delicately embroidered pattern in white on white with a sprinkling of sequins.
Bedrooms
Nature Inspired Master Bedroom
The impact of having curtains falling from the ceiling is more apparent in this picture, where they seem to make the ceiling look so much further away from the floor.
The fabrics here are once again very light with a self pattern on them. In this case, it’s to make sure that the wallpaper remains the primary focus.
Notice how the gently curved pattern on both fabrics is in sync with the tendrils of the vine on the wallpaper?
Entertainment-Cum-Guest Room of Sylver
In this room, we’ve used a mix of solid blinds and flowing sheer curtains. The sheer curtains, because I just love the vibe that flowing fabric gives to any room. So even a dark, cement textured, mood space takes on a gentleness because of it.
The blinds, because here we used a part of the wall near the window to make the pooja area. Usually when you draw curtains back, they rest on the wall and don’t block the window itself so much. Here, they would have hung next to the pooja, blocking off a part of the window and the light coming in from it. Using blinds helped avoid that.
As for the fabric, doesn’t the cloudy, uneven colour on the sheers blend into those textured walls perfectly?
Master Bedroom of Sylver
Different types of windows means we used different window treatments in this room too. Can you imagine a half curtain tucked away into one corner of that little window when it is drawn open? That would look quite messy. So the small window got a simple Roman blind.
The larger sliding doors deserved all the flowing fabric we could give them, and don’t they look amazing?
We managed to add a hint of colour with the blush and blue stripes on the curtains. The white, embroidered sheers add the pattern even in their shadows. And yet let in all the possible light to make the room look so bright and beautiful.
Little Girl’s Room – Sylver
The logic behind the type of curtains used in this little girl’s room is the same as what we used in her parents’ room described above.
What changed here were the fabrics.
The heavy drapes have embroidered stars, flowers and hearts in pinks and purples to go with her room colours. They also have tiny sequins embroidered along every line which twinkle gently in the night light and look oh-so pretty! The sheer fabric, with self woven white stripes, plays the perfect supporting cast.
Study of Sylver
Since this window is internal, opening into the dry balcony of the kitchen, we had a free hand with the shape and size of this one. As you can see, it’s the only window in this room. Considering we couldn’t give it any more width, we gave it as much height as possible, taking it from floor to ceiling.
Because it’s narrow, we used the same trick that we did in the entertainment room above. We allowed the sheer fabric to flow freely from top to bottom since it doesn’t take up too much space or block too much light even when it is drawn to one side.
Can you imagine if we had the solid fabric drawn similarly to one side too? It would have blocked out most of the light. And so the Roman blinds are just perfect here.
We chose a heavier pattern with muted colours for the blinds. The diamonds on the sheer match the diamonds in the print.
Master Bedroom of Keje
This bedroom is a mix of modern and vintage, of rustic texture with a luxe vibe. We used the curtains similarly.
The curtains blend with the textured walls while the embroidered sheers add the luxuriousness.
The heavy drapes are a self embroidery in linen. The sheer fabric has richly embroidered motifs in blues and reds to go with the room colours.
And that’s our window treatments roundup for the year gone by. Selecting fabrics and furnishings is one of my favourite parts of any project. While the rest of it seems like building the foundation, getting to this stage feels like I am finally breathing life into the rooms I design.
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I will be back next week with more spaces from Keje. There is plenty more of that beautiful home to share with you and I am still super excited about it. Remember to sign up here so you’re the first to know when that happens!
Until next time,
“Love the elegant touch that curtains bring to a space! 😍 Where did you find these beauties? Any recommendations? 🏡”