Picking Just The Right Curtains To Match Your Colors And Style

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When visiting friends or family, it's not uncommon to notice the decorations in the house and to feel that nagging feeling that there's so much more you could do in your own home. One of the things noticed first is both the curtain rods and designs of the curtains and how they accent the room. Next time you're in someone else's house, take a look at their curtains to get some ideas on what you might want to do in your own house.

Magazines about design and fashion often show the latest styles, shapes, and colors for both curtains and curtain rods and can be a source of inspiration and suggestions for those that are decoration challenged. While useful, it's important to remember that curtains should show a sense of YOUR style and that any colors or patterns might look great in the room that they're in, but they have to match the overall design scheme you've already created in the planned room.

One of the worst things you can do is pick out your curtains based on their color or design alone and then get stuck redecorating the entire room to match, like using burlap curtains in a minimalist home look and feel for example. Before purchasing any curtain rods you might want to take the following into account:

- Size of the room - Shape of the windows - Age of the house - Style of surrounding furnishings - Purpose of the room

Most critically, making sure the size of the curtains are correct and will cover the size of the window ensures a good fit. Some curtains are known for being able to cover a plethora of window shapes. The age of the house is important, as it will give you a good overall design to follow for the house in its entirety. Making note of the furnishings in the room will keep you from having to redecorate the room around the curtains. The purpose of the room should be noted. Is the room a study that might benefit from dull, muted colors? Is the room for a child that might look better with patterns and pastels?

One of the less discussed methods of picking just the right curtains is trying to understand how the patterns and colors make you feel when you look at them. Feel motivated? Maybe this would be a better pattern for a work space. Feel relaxed? Maybe this would be a good fit for the bedroom. It's astonishing the impact curtain colors and styles can have on the mood of the room and taking this into account when picking out the right curtains can help to make sure you have just the right fit to match the room, your style, and the look/feel you're going for.

We're confident the above advice will assist you to pick out just the right curtains for any room in any home. Best of luck and happy shopping!