Contemporary Window Treatments Defined
Window treatments add personality and flavor to a room instantly. They are often used to draw a color scheme together or attract attention to or from a specific area or item in the room. The assortment of colors, styles and design options available in window treatments is as varied as the human race. Used for both practical and aesthetic purposes, modern window treatments have taken on a definition of their own. To help understand what you are getting, here are a few of the common terms used in designer window treatments.
Blinds- Blinds are individual slats or vanes that can be rotated, raised and lowered to filter air, light and sound.
Shades- Window shades are a solid, single-pieced unit. When down, the entire area of the window that it is covering is concealed.
Shutters- Shutters are usually wooden louvers, or slats, fixed onto a tilt wand mechanism with limited filtering capabilities.
Drapes- Window treatment drapes are long pieces of material, often referred to as curtains, that hang loosely without any mechanism. They are supported by a curtain rod, upon which the drapes can be pulled open or closed.
Sheers- Sheers are a combination of blinds and shades. These contemporary window treatments offer the soft material of shades or even drapes with the mechanical ease of blinds.
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