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Can you ever get enough of curtain inspiration? I can’t! I need a thousand new ideas :) Window treatments significantly affects a room’s style and atmosphere -  and it’s an area where only your fantasy and creativity sets limits. I started thinking a bit about curtains in Curtain Inspiration Needed! and here’s a sequel. First, an idea on how to bring nature inside:

tree-branch-window-treatment by humanerecipe. (also @ Apartment Theory). Here is an easy 3-step guide on how to create a beautiful window treatment with help from the outdoors. Great idea, I think! It may also look gorgeous with a white branch to a white wall, or a branch painted colourful, against white.. Moving on, for a bedroom, I think this idea below is soooo appealing:

To place shutters on the interior of a window! This open-and-shut-treatment I found @ diyideas.com. It comes with an advice: To give shutters the look of well-worn architectural salvage, apply a crackle-paint treatment. Mount the shutters to the window frame with offset hinges that allow the shutters to swing fully open or closed. To round off for today, here’s some flickr-finds for inspiration. Below: silk curtains, to the left colourful silk curtains by xJavierX and right, Draped by Lalitree.

..and lastly, before I leave you for my Sunday steak, window on lake como with drapes, 1968 by aroid, and to the right, window by sp00kus. Classic, trendey..:

Are you, like me, pretty tired of the “panel curtains” that can be seen in each and every home? In Sweden, at least, panel curtains have been extremely popular the last decade. They are often in linen, and they look and hang very exact, one on each side of the window. There is something with the squariness and stiffness of the fabric and hanging that acts as a stop sign on my mind… I want curtains to be alive! Below are two examples of inspirational variations, from the magazine Sköna Hem. Pic to the left shows an asymmetric variation of the traditional linen curtain. Different colours, lenghts and types of fabrics are mixed and some straps and decorations are added. Result: much more fun and lively than the traditional straight panel style. To the right, six lenghts of a thin white curtain (from IKEA btw, named”Lill”) gives the room a soft light and a smooth feel. As curtain holdbacks, something originally made to hold a canopy is used. I like that idea.

This photo below has actually nothing to do with home decor, it’s a press photo of the Swedish folksinger/songwriter Sofia Karlsson. But I do like the curtains! They look beautiful, romantic, delicate and pleasant. Just like the music of the woman in the foreground.

Nature transformed into warm colourful interior details. Ready to move in to a September home. To use as curtains, table cloths, miscellaneous decorations – here’s two autumn favourites from Marimekko:

If we are very lucky, we will shortly be owners of a 3 bedroom flat with two pieces of big-sized half round windows. The last couple of days I’ve been pondering what kind of curtain styles (or decorations) would compliment these types of windows. The pic isn’t great, but from the estate agent’s photo they look like this. If you were *forced* to hang some kind of fabric on them, how’d you do it?