How long should curtains or draperies exist? Generally, the longer the drape or drapery, the more than dignified, dressy, and formal the await. Shorter curtain lengths always imply a coincidental, relaxed, and breezy mood. The decision is yours:

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  • In formal or dressy rooms, curtains should but bear on the floor.

  • A romantic room deserves elegant, extra-long defunction that pool or pool on the flooring.

  • Defunction to the sill, or to the bottom of the window trim (called the frock), await smashing and are applied in a kitchen.

  • Never hang defunction of any length near a stove.

  • Dens or family rooms proceeds dignity from draw draperies or defunction that reach the floor.

  • Curtains that stop short of the flooring, ending at the top of floor moldings, expect bad-mannered. If curtains are hung too high, simply lower them (if possible) to solve the trouble.

Not all windows are beautiful. Fortunately, draperies can help hibernate flaws. Try these solutions for the post-obit questions:

  • Window besides short? Attaching rods just below the ceiling molding and hanging long, to-the-flooring curtains make the window look taller and more than elegant.

  • Window awkwardly long? Add a deep cornice or valance in a higher place draperies with a bold horizontal pattern. Create further distraction by adding a horizontal line in the grade of a strongly contrasting louvered shutter.

  • Window too narrow? Extend curtain rods beyond the window and hang open draperies and so that they barely cover the frame, leaving equally much drinking glass exposed as possible, all of which makes a narrow window seem wider.

  • Window too wide? A huge window wall can overpower a room. Break up the space past hanging several panels across the window. They can hang straight, or be tied back in pairs. If draperies must be drawn for privacy, let the panels hang direct, and rig drawstrings so that the panels close every bit though they are separate pairs of draperies.

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Katharine Kaye McMillan, former senior editor of a New York City-based national mag, is a writer whose work appears regularly in magazines and newspapers. She is a contributing writer to internationally circulated Florida Pattern Mag. She is the co-author of several books on decorating and design, including Lord's day Land Fashion, which is the footing for licensed signature collections of furniture and accessories by three leading American manufacturers and importers. A graduate of the Academy of Texas in Austin, she holds a masters degree in psychology and is a doctoral student in psychology at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida.

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