How to create a warm and decorative atmosphere with curtains?What material to choose your curtain to preserve your intimacy and let the light enter?An expert answers all your questions about the dressing of the windows.
The decorator Anne Valéry helps us to choose our curtains to dress our windows as well as possible.Size, to the material through color: you will know everything to choose your curtain.She even explained to us how to correct the faults of a room thanks to the curtains!
What curtains to choose to hide from neighbors?
Anne Valéry: Before buying her curtains, you have to ask the question of the desired atmosphere.The curtains are a bit "the icing on the cake", they must be extremely refined.They must reflect everyone's personality, the choice of color and materials is very personal.
It all also depends on the season.When we have the means, I recommend wise and not very colorful curtains that repel the radiation in summer.As for winter, I opt for double curtains, very warm, in thick woolen.We want a cocooning appearance, we want to prevent the cold from setting up in the room.
Obviously we do not choose the same curtains in the bedroom and in the living room.In the bedroom, you need an blackout lining on the outside.A few years ago, the blackout curtains were grayish and archaic, now there are beautiful silk imitations, embossed velvet especially in designers Guild.
The sheers have the advantage of letting light pass and preserving intimacy.There are beautiful synthetic materials with patterns.I recommend blinds for a sleek style, very design.They adapt to a contemporary atmosphere.
You have to have fun, we rarely think about it but I advise you to use wool.Go to affordable stores and take wide films and unusual materials.Be careful to mix fabrics of the same weight, it is not pretty to have a curtain that frowns.
How to correct the faults of a room thanks to the curtains?
Anne Valéry: in the case of a too high window, instead of choosing a plain curtain, make visual ruptures.Put for example horizontal stripes and increase the height of the cantonnière.Choose two materials: a wuffed velvet and a less noble material.This tip has two advantages: you will have creative curtains and can afford expensive materials.
Conversely, if the window is too low, choose vertical scratches and install a ceiling hook system (with eyelets or rails).Forget the cantonnière, opt for piping and little frowned folding curtains.
If the ceiling is too low or too present, transform visual perception thanks to the motifs of the curtains.If the room is narrow, put fine stripes.
What colors to choose for my curtains?
Anne Valéry: Personally I avoid white, black, broken white...Black and white decor is for people who are afraid of making faults.The curtains allow you to play with touches of colors.
If you can buy curtains in beautiful fabrics, with beautiful finishes (wild silk, pancakes, taffeta, velvet...) and we get tired of it, remember to dye them!You have to let go of the decor thanks to the curtains.We can afford fun patterns.
What materials do you recommend to dress the windows?
Anne Valéry: I favor natural materials, for example the big linen canvas to create a contemporary and refined atmosphere or even wild silk.I really like wool but she has an annoying tendency to distort herself.I also fall for the embossed and very colorful velvet of guild designers.
I also appreciate diversions, choose unexpected materials for your curtains.For example, I used mattress courses once, a success!
What size for my curtains, one or two sides?
Anne Valéry: For the size of your curtains, it's simple: count once and a half the length of the window.And make sure that the seams are the least visible as possible.
Dress your windows by Anne Valéry.15.90 euros in Editions Massin.
