Wood, Bamboo And Other Options For Window Coverings

Window coverings come in a lot of permutations and combinations

. You have a lot of options at your fingertips to choose the right kind of blinds for your windows. There are many factors that you have to consider and cost becomes an important factor too. Firstly, you have to decide how much privacy you want.

This is opposite to the view you would want the window coverings to provide. More the transparency, better the view and worse the privacy and hence your preferences are important. You may want to go with transparent window coverings for the living rooms and the Blackout shades for the bedrooms.

Another thing you have to consider is the openness factor to ensure that the blinds do not let in a large percentage of UV rays or heat inside. A common manipulation used is when the window coverings have an aluminum deposit on the exterior or white facing the street to keep the heat away. You could also have a blackout backing to keep as much light as possible if these are being planned for your media room and sleepers.

A very interesting and aesthetic option is wood. Woven wood blinds of high quality could provide lot of elegance to the room. If the ambience you have promotes natural look bamboo or wooden blinds would be the right choice to go with. These wooden blinds also come with banding to protect the edge of the fabric and also to provide a classy contrast. You can also choose a wrap on either side measuring one r two inches. The banding and the wrap usually of cotton run across the bottom. You can choose beige blackout liner, ivory liners or white light filtering liners to go with the blinds.

Classic wooden blinds are given window treatments and come with crown valence and a nice contoured bottom rail. These are flat slats with width ranging between 2 ? 2 inches. The R value which is the energy efficiency of the window coverings is very good for the wooden blinds. Routes and valances and tapes are generally used for pulling up or down these wooden window coverings. Remote controlled shutters are also getting popular these days without the need to pull down the rollers or the cords and can decide the extent of covering sitting on your sofa.

These wooden blinds of the faux wood variety comes in shades such as cinnamon, Sumatra and espresso have a rustic natural grain look that adds to the elegance of the room. Wooden plantation shutters with shades such as cherry, chestnut, walnut, mahogany or cacao provide an earthy warm look to the room. One can go for composite shutters which have a mix of wood and PVC.

This provides a painted wood warm look. The composite and plantation shutters are very durable too and can be ordered with a whole range of patterns and textures depending on what you want. Window covering of golden oak and honey maple patterns look exotic and soothing too.

Wood, Bamboo And Other Options For Window Coverings

By: Terro White

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