Struggling to find the right kind of window treatment for each room of your new home? Looking to update your dining room, but not sure what window treatments would be best?
Start narrowing down the window treatment options for each room of your home by considering two big factors: how much light you actually want (or don’t want) and how much flexibility you want to adjust the amount of light your window treatments let into the space.
From bright, friendly light, to a dark room where you can let sleeping babies lie peacefully, these are some different types of window treatments you have to consider:
Lots of Bright Light: The Living Room
For a privacy and protection from harmful UV rays, while still allowing as much light in as possible, solar shades are a great choice for living rooms. Since most living room activities benefit from bright, friendly and welcoming light, solar shades are an easy and elegant window treatment option.
As an added bonus, solar shades can be layered behind window-framing curtains to maintain the character and decor aesthetics that shades often lack. Explore this great example of how you can combine solar shades and decorative drapes to allow bright light in your living room, while maintaining maximum design impact.
Totally Controllable Light: The Patio
Vertical cellular blinds are a great option for patios or enclosed porches.They can be opened or angled to let in a flood of bright light, or closed tightly to block and diffuse more light when you’re seeking shade.
These vertical cellular blinds are great energy savers as well, when they’re closed, keeping cold air in and warm air out. Not only can this type of window treatment reduce the amount of energy you spend, they can drastically reduce your cooling costs on hot Florida summer days.
Transitional Light: A Den or Home Office
In a den or library, having the flexibility to block out some light and gain privacy, while still being able to let daylight in on demand makes wood plantation shutters a great choice. Their slats allow some light in, but are adjustable to give you privacy and control for how much light enters the room.
Additionally, with their traditional appearance, wooden shutters can add a studious and classic ambiance to a room, ideal fin spaces where you want to feel productive and inspired. Check out this great example of a study that is completely enhanced by the look and feel of wooden shutters.
Night-like Darkness: Your Bedroom or Nursery
Congratulations! You have a beautiful new baby, but now you’ve discovered just how hard it is to get a baby to sleep! Or maybe you burn the candle at both ends Monday through Friday and spend the whole week looking forward to sleeping in on Saturday mornings, only to wake up with the sun.
In a bedroom or nursery, blackout curtains are a great option to keep light out so that you (or your new baby or toddler) can sleep peacefully. In fact, blackout curtains are one of the most highly recommended items to help your baby nap like a champ. Like their name implies, the extra-thick fabric and full lining of a blackout curtain is the perfect choice to block the most light, providing near-blackout conditions and making them ideal for a bedroom. You’ll be enjoying marathon sleep sessions before you know it!
Ready to pick out the perfect blackout curtains or solar shades for your space? Have more questions about which window treatment will give your room just the right amount of brightness? The stylists at Beach Bungalow Blinds can shed light on the situation for you. Contact us today to get started and make your space light (or dark) as you need.
