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What Kind of Window Coverings Are in Style For 2023?

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Even a minimalist design style requires texture and interest, which is why blinds/shades and drapery (or curtains) go together like sunglasses and, well, every layered ensemble. Blinds with drapery can be the best window covering combination. Here are our best tips for beautifully styling your blinds, shades, and shutters with drapery and curtains in 2023.



A layering of drapery with blinds or shutters can help curtail the sun’s heat and damaging rays and provide expressive visual options in a room that plays different roles at different times of the day. A layering effect helps with sound dampening of a room; hard surfaces reflect sound around a room, creating echoes that are not conducive to a feeling of comfort and warmth. 

Design is all about punctuations, blocks of visual interest, and neutral calming, all perfectly put together in a room, and on a bigger scale, within the whole of a home or commercial space. If you’ve tried designing your own space, you know it isn’t always as easy as it looks. Most of us have a great eye for certain aspects of design; however, the professional balance and the availability of the time required to put it all together sometimes stumps us.



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Cellular or horizontal shades with drapery:

drapery with blinds


Here, we balance the degree of visual busyness of the shade with the lack of busyness of a drapery. In a small space like this dining room, the two artworks with a small amount of blue pair perfectly with the drama of full blue drapery. The linear horizontals of the shade provide the
small element needed in a balanced design.









Tips for cellular or horizontal shades with drapery:

  • Especially with cellular, horizontal shades, or wood and faux wood blinds, the tight horizontal elements become important. They are an integral part of the rule of tiny, medium and large features in a properly designed room. 
  • The horizontal will visually blur whatever is outside, and you may want to consider whether that smudgy colouring can be enhanced with a coloured shade to become more of a design aspect of the room or pull out a highlighted colour. Isn’t design fun?



Roller shades or blinds with drapery:

Matching blinds - with a single drapery

The white colour block of the light filtering roller shades offers a calm in the room, and the drapery brings a subtlety of colour that downplays the white shade so it does not overwhelm. The Covers Designer’s Edge decorator perfectly defines the two different windows within the space. The smaller one becomes a light enhancer while the large window takes the position of the focus for the seating area.







Tips for roller shades or blinds with drapery:

  • When choosing a colour for blinds and drapery, it may work best to have your drapery panels matching or in the same colour family as the walls, allowing the blind to be the only strong colour. Why? Because a tall drapery panel relates to the wall, whereas the blind is a rectangle or square of colour. The drapery panel is the moderator between the blind and the wall.
  • The size of your window, and hence, the impact of colour you use on your one large blind or series of smaller blinds, will require some consideration. It is always very helpful to take advantage of an experienced eye to help you visualize a look. The designers and decorators at Covers Designer’s Edge will have encountered a similar scenario to yours and have options at the ready to keep your renovation or refresh on track.



Shutters with drapery or curtains:

window-coverings-bedroom-Covers-Designers-Edge

Shutters and curtains or drapes absolutely go together, as illustrated here in a calming, Covers Designer’s Edge client’s bedroom.

The shutter, as a hard-surfaced window covering, suits a drapery panel’s softening and layering effect. Shutters create a depth as light plays between the vanes.

Shutters are also striking as a stand-alone window covering. 






Tips for shutters with drapery or curtains:

  • Drapery or curtains look best when they have less, or equal to, the visual impact of the shutter. Shutters have dimensional and architectural interests so keep your drapes simple. Here, the star of the show is the shutter. 
  • Keep the colours of the shutter and the drapery the same for a calming and balanced look. Because the shutter has such a presence, it means a bit of downplaying elsewhere on the window. You probably have a hit of colour already in the room, in a floor covering or a piece of art. Let those pops of colour be the focus where they exist, not as much in the drapery. If your drapery picks up one of those bright colours from somewhere else in the room, you’ll force the eye to bounce between these elements. 

If you are in love with a fabric that has a pattern, make sure it is mostly the same colour as the white of your shutter with a downplayed and slight pattern.

  • A brightly lit room requires a lined drape or side panel if your windows have shutters. Unlined drapery panels may show the sun through the shutter’s vanes, which is usually a busy visual. Use a sheer or unlined panel if you’ll never pull the drapery across, remaining at the edges, or if the room does not receive bright sunlight. 
  • A bay window with a built-in upholstered seating area below works with shutters and curtains. The curtains should end just above and not touch the sill.



What is the difference between drapes and curtains?

We tend to think of a curtain as a window product that does not reach the floor. There was a time the term curtain was used to describe a lighter-weight window fabric, but that definition is used less and less; lightweight sheers and unlined panels are mostly now referred to as drapery. However, a chosen fabric’s lack of formality may evoke the use of the term curtain over the term drapery, as in the phrase, a cafe-style curtain.



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