More Curtain Inspiration

Posted by Mia on Oct 18, 2009 in Curtains |

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 -Â 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:

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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:

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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.

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..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..:

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