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Wonderful Window Treatment Ideas For Your Home

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It’s hard to know what window treatments would be right for your home, whether you should opt for blinds or curtains, then it’s a question of what type of blinds or curtains you need. So, to help you make the right choice for you, here’s some window treatment inspiration that should hopefully point you in the right direction.

Double Up On Your Roller Blinds

Roller blinds - window treatment ideas

For some things ‘less is more’, but this isn’t true when it comes to roller blinds! Normal roller blinds usually come in either dimout or blackout fabric, with dimout fabrics letting some light pass through and blackout fabrics not letting any through, this can be a pain in rooms that see use at all hours, as at night dimout blinds will let in too much light, then during the day blackout blinds will leave the room very dark.

With double roller blinds, you avoid this problem, as they’re equipped with both a blackout roller blind and a dimout roller blind, meaning no matter what time of the day it is, or what you’re doing in the room, you can always have the perfect amount of light.

Use Patterns To Create A Focal Point

patterned roller blind

Focal points are a great tool to have in your interior décor arsenal, you can use focal points to pull attention to well-decorated areas and away from areas which still need a bit of work. Even in a perfectly decorated home, having a feature piece or focal point is still helpful for creating a sense of flow throughout the home.

Patterned blinds are excellent at creating a focal point in almost any room of your home, as eye-catching patterns will draw focus and create a lovely contrast against the rest of your room. You should look for patterns that mesh well with the theme for your home’s décor, like using floral patterns in rooms with plants, for example.

Choose Curtains For A Classic Look

Classic curtains, light blue floor length

If you are going for a more ‘classic’ style of décor for your home, then you should avoid using blinds as for the most part blinds tend to look more modern. Curtains, on the other hand, are much more adept at providing a classical, timeless look you’d expect to find in a beautiful old country home or a stylish villa nestled in the mountains of Europe.

With curtains, the two main factors are colour and texture, you’ll want a curtain that not only fits in with the rest of your décor but one that can also use its texture to create a subtle contrast to other elements of your décor.

Shower Room Makeover – Before And After

Shower Room Makeover

We’ve never really liked the pink fittings in the shower room. We’re saving up to have them changed but until then, we’ve decided to embrace the pink!

I’ve been searching Google and Pinterest for ideas on the best way to decorate a room with pink fittings.

I can’t say I’ve ever thought about decorating with grey. When the first coat had gone on the walls, I have to admit that I got a bit worried.
I asked Anthony if he thought we should go and buy the lighter grey that we’d seen at B&M but he said I should wait and see how it looked when the room was done.

He was totally right because I absolutely LOVE it!

Before

It always looked messy because there wasn’t enough storage. Only one of the cupboard doors opened which was annoying, especially for me because I can’t bend very well due to having a bad back. I couldn’t reach into the far corner of the side with the fixed door.

Shower Room Makeover Before and After

After

Taking the doors off opened up all that storage space and looked so much better.

Shower Room Makeover Before and After

Before

The paint didn’t cover very well when we first did it. You can’t see it on the photo, but when you go in the bathroom you can clearly see it looks all cracked.

Shower Room Makeover Before and After

After

We stripped off the wallpaper and painted the wall directly. It covered much better.

Shower Room Makeover Before and After

Before

This corner always looked grubby, no matter how many times it was cleaned.

Shower Room Makeover Before and After

After

I love it now, it always looks clean!

Shower Room Makeover Before and After

Before

You can see how this set of shelves got everything dumped on them. I really didn’t like it and was happy to see it gone!

Shower Room Makeover Before and After

After

It’s so much easier to get out of the shower without the shelves in the way 🙂

Shower Room Makeover Before and After

You can read more about shower systems here

Shower Room Makeover Before and After

My favourite new addition to the bathroom has to be the shelves Ant built. They’re perfect for our needs 🙂

Shower Room Makeover Before and After

I love reed and essential oil diffusers. This black reed diffuser was a cheap one from B&M. I bought it because it was black; I don’t usually buy cheap ones because they don’t usually work very well, but this one makes the bathroom smell wonderful.

Shower Room Makeover Before and After

Shower Room Makeover Before and After

I know these wall stickers have gone out of favour, but I still love them!

Shower Room Makeover Before and After

Shower Room Makeover Before and After

The room was done on quite a small budget. Most things were bought at B&M. The wall stickers were from eBay and the wood for the shelves came from B&Q.

B&M

  • Grey Emulsion Paint – £10
  • White One Coat Gloss – 10.99
  • Off Cut Lino – £20
  • You Only Live Once Picture – £1.99
  • Crystal Towel Ring – £5.99
  • Crystal Toilet Roll Holder – £4.99
  • 4 Pce Bathroom Set (soap dispenser, toothbrush holder, cup, soap dish) – £5.99
  • Wallpaper – £2.50
  • Overdoor Hanger – 3.99
  • Bathmat – £3.99
  • Shower curtain – £5.99
  • 3 Pce stacking baskets x 2 – £2.99 for 3
  • Medicine caddy – £2.49
  • Reed diffuser – £1.00
  • Shower head – £5.99
  • Bin and toilet brush – £5.99
  • Glass heart clip jar – £1.99

Ebay

  • 10 Pce towel bale – £13.99
  • Flower hair girl wall sticker – £3.49
  • Fairy wall sticker – £5.49
  • Shower track hooks and gliders – £2.69

B&Q

  • Conti Board – £27.50
  • Fixings – £6.00
  • Fascia tape – £15.00

Approximate total cost – £175

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