There is an opinion that short curtains are best used for decorating a kitchen or children's room.
But with the right approach, modern short curtains will look good and harmonious in any room.
What are the advantages of short curtains?
Firstly, they do not take up much space, this is especially true for small and low rooms.
Secondly, shortened curtains help free up the window sill and space under the window. That is, you can put a table or a chest of drawers directly under the window sill.
Thirdly, to decorate small curtains you can use different ruffles, folds, and gathers. And the most important thing is that they do not overload the window.
Fourthly, such curtains allow the sun's rays to pass through well.
Fifthly, this window design will cost much less than large and bulky curtains.
Cropped curtains look great in both the bedroom and guest room. Especially when it comes to apartments with low ceilings. The most common example of such apartments is Khrushchev.
In addition, often the owners of such apartments make redevelopment, thereby connecting the kitchen with a guest room or a balcony with a living room. There are many options for redevelopment, so it is important that the curtains are in harmony with all areas of the room.
Short curtains for the kitchen in 2020 are a special trend. In addition to being practical and convenient, it is also beautiful. And the vacated window sill can be used as an extension of the table. In addition, shortened ones allow you to make a small kitchen visually larger and lighter.
Curtains for a small room and their effect on comfort.
Using curtains you can make the room warmer if your windows face north or if you live on the first floor and almost no sun comes through your windows.
That is, you will visually feel warmth in it, and therefore comfort...
On the contrary, you can use curtains to make the room cooler , this is if your windows face south and the hot sun looks into your window all day long.
If this makes the room hot and stuffy, it means it’s not entirely comfortable.
With the help of curtains you can make a room welcoming, cozy, almost all of us strive for this, to relax in our favorite room after a hard day at work, to relax...
You can also make the room official, give it an office style, which is sometimes necessary if you work at home and you just need to feel like you’re at work...
You can also use curtains to visually enlarge or reduce a room.
How to do all this? How to choose the right curtains for a small room? How to learn to change the look of your home with curtains?
- If the room has a low ceiling and is wide, hang curtains with horizontal stripes. - If your room is long and narrow, hang curtains with transverse, that is, horizontal stripes. — If the ceiling is low, use a ceiling cornice. The room will appear higher. — If the wallpaper is without a pattern, then the curtains can be hung with a pattern. — If the wallpaper has a pattern, the curtains for the room should be plain. — If the room is dark, use curtains made of transparent thin light fabrics. — Lambrequins make the room more comfortable. — If the ceiling is low, you can’t make a lambrequin, it will seem even lower. - Curtains of cool colors - blue, gray and others - will make the room cooler. - If the room is northern, cold, use curtains in bright, joyful colors: orange, yellow, bright green, of course, matching the color of the interior... - If the room is very small, hang ordinary white transparent curtains, it will seem more spacious.
How to decorate mini-curtains in a small living room?
When choosing curtains for the living room, you first need to decide what mood you want to create and what style will prevail. In addition, short curtains on the living room windows will help free up the window sill.
You can make a small library or greenhouse on it, in addition, the window sill can become an extension of the workplace.
For a guest room, weightless and transparent fabrics, plain or with a small and inconspicuous pattern, are best suited.
This design of short curtains will make the room brighter and visually larger.
But when decorating a room, it is very important to remember a sense of proportion; the curtains should not be very lush, overloaded and pretentious. Otherwise, the window will look bulky.
General recommendations for choosing curtains for small rooms
Selecting curtains for a small room is not easy. It is worth remembering some restrictions imposed by the size of a bedroom, nursery, kitchen or other room. Among various styles and materials, you should prefer rigor and minimalism. There are some tricks that will help you decorate a small apartment in an original and tasteful way:
- Plain canvases. Curtains without any ornament or pattern will not distract attention.
- Simple shapes (image in photo 1). Complex draperies visually reduce the size of a bedroom or nursery.
Even curtains in a small room
- Use fabrics with horizontal or diagonal stripes. This pattern is ideal for narrow spaces, and the vertical stripe will raise the ceiling in a low house.
In small rooms you should not use:
- Large prints and complex patterns. Curtains of this design will visually reduce the space of the house. Also, do not use contrasting colors.
- A large number of draperies and complex folds. Small windows here will look even smaller. For the same reason, you should not use lambrequins, brightly colored tiebacks, or complex decorative cornices in your design.
- Vertical stripes of bright colors in a narrow room.
- Verbose curtains for a small apartment should also not be used. They will not only reduce the size of the room, but also significantly reduce the lighting, which is good for a bedroom or nursery, but bad for the hall and living room.
- However, it is worth taking into account that all these recommendations can be circumvented using original solutions. For example, the lack of space can be compensated for by an asymmetrical design of the canvases.
