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Home Decor: Curtains Can Make Or Break A Room!

By: Natalie Dobber

Curtains are essential part of home interiors, important to enhance the overall positive energy flow in the house and keep the inmates fulfilled. Curtains add to the style, grace and elegance of the house. They add new dimension that's not just decorative but also very practical and functional. They can be very good way to enhance energy efficiency of your home.

Curtains are, basically, window dressings often substituted by blinds. They come in many shapes, sizes, and materials. They offer privacy and can change the look of the whole room. If you select your curtains carefully, you can increase the intimacy of your room, and add a touch of elegance and style to your home.

While choosing curtains for your home, you should select the color that matches with the rest of the home decor and it should also define your personality to some extent. If the interior design of the house already reflects your influence, then finding drapes to match should be no trouble. Essentially, your curtains should reflect your own personal style and be in harmony with the rest of your decor.

Warm, rich and earthy colors add to the coziness and intimacy of the room so if you are decorating it to look cozier and more intimate, consider reds and browns for the curtain color. Also, select fabrics such as velvet or similar fabrics that are heavy yet soft to complete the intimate cozy feel. This makes the room look warmer, more welcoming and smaller to share a higher degree of intimate feelings with friends and family.

For more elegant and formal rooms, cool colors should be used. Blues and greens make the room seem bigger than it is, adding a spaciousness that might not exist naturally in the room. Light fabrics like silk and linen in opaque, solid cool colors add formality and elegance to the room.

For a cool and breezy feeling, choose prints and pastels for window curtains. Being light and sometimes even translucent, they give the feel of openness and happiness and are especially appropriate during summer months.

Curtains are more than just home decor. They remove the usual monotony and a feeling of living in fish bowl. Plus they add to the privacy and energy efficiency of the house. One you have pulled up the curtains, you feel warm and secured, since you know no one can look in or intrude on your privacy. Curtains act as very good heat insulators. Light fabrics for curtains in summers keep the home cool and thick one in winter keep it warm. Thus, you can save on you energy consumption costs.

Curtains are a normal part of our lives. They help us beautify our homes and feel more comfortable in them. And, if we choose carefully and think about the purpose of each room, our curtains can contribute to the atmosphere and feeling in each room of the house.

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