Window Treatment Help Please- open concept, shades or drapes?
Katie Rice
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
Hi All! Hoping you could provide some assistance with window treatments for my new home. It's an open concept kitchen/family room. (photos attached). Should I do:
1. Roman shades on all the windows and leave the slider bare
2. Roman shades on all windows with drapery panels on the slider
3. Roman shades on the kitchen windows and narrow living room windows, drapery on the slider and the windows on either side of fireplace
Another question I have is- do you think that the shades in the kitchen and family room need to match? I really love the oasis linen shade for my kitchen windows, but not sure I want to do that throughout the whole family room as well. That said, can anyone recommend a coordinating fabric? The finishes in my kitchen are definitely more gray, and once all my furniture comes in for the family room, those are more natural/oatmeal colors. The only thing staying in the family room is the rug. The fireplace has some gray in it, but mostly pulls tan/beige.
Ah! Your assistance is so much appreciated.
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Comments (12)Thanks for all the suggestions. The width of the area I'm working with makes things very challenging, doesn't it? val -- the advantage to your idea of roller shades is not having to worry about any cords hanging down. I did look at something called a solar shade at one time, but I think I may want a softer look. les -- one of my first thoughts was to use some type of pleated or honeycomb shade (because they are available without cords) along with a valance to hide them, just as you suggested, but somewhere along my thought process, I thought it would be nice to have some kind of single-panel panels to soften that side of the room. I probably should let that idea go because it may not be the best solution for the area, especially considering the limited amount of clearance I have to the right. We have Silhouettes in the LR, which I love, so if I have the Luminettes in the FR, that may flow nicely thru the house. One of my concerns about the Luminettes, tho, is when they're open, I wonder how much space I would have to allow for them to stack. deborah -- maybe you can answer my question about how tightly the Luminettes stack when open. sally -- do you also have the Luminettes? parma -- thanks for the pictures. We don't get The Sun Times, we get The Tribune. I looked at the paper's website, but couldn't find the article. I'll try the Divine Design website. The thing is I don't really want a lot at the windows and after having nothing there for such a long time, anything will seem like a lot to me, I think. I still want to have them very open during the day, especially on a day like today with all the snow we're getting. We have some very large pine trees in our yard that look so pretty in the snow. I hope to head out to a local drapery store on Monday to at least get some suggestions there....See MorePlease help me choose light fixtures open concept space
Comments (13)A floor plan will really help. It will let us see what lights you can see from where. Is your faucet and your hardware both chrome? and your door handles the dark finish. I can't tell if it is antique brass or not? What is your DR chandy - is it brass? You need to figure out, if you are following the article that you posted what category each of the above elements fall into. (the faucet, hardware, etc.) My feeling is that you have already mixed your metals. For example - in the kitchen you have chrome hardware/faucet (step 1). Step 2 would indicate picking a matching metal which you did with the island light and either of the window lights. (I prefer A2 as it adds another element - the white glass shade - into the mix while retaining the metal. Where I am bogging down is in the transition areas between the rooms which is why a floorplan would be helpful. For the foyer/LR I would pick H2 and J1 but that is subject to change depending on the floorplan and how the rooms are connected. Edited to add: Don't forget, unlike a bathroom, a kitchen comes with other metals. What are your appliances, pots/pans, cutlery. What are your plans for your stools - any metal there? In your foyer, LR and GR - does any of the furniture have any metal in them and if so - what type. Are any of your accessories metal. How about your backsplash. This thought and question was triggered while I was just in my kitchen and happened to notice my copper backsplash which is behind and underneath my stainless steel range and vent. My hardware and faucets are brushed nickel while my lights in the eating area and family room are aged bronze. My pendants are a mix of the two and act as a transition. I treated each `area of the house as a separate area. Kitchen/eating area/family room is one area while the DR and LR was treated as a separate area. Because the Kitchen/eating area/family room had a mix of metals I felt comfortable using either of those 2 metals in other rooms. The copper backsplash was my jumping off point for using copper in a variety of accessories throughout the house.. So, 3 metals throughout the house. This post was edited by blfenton on Wed, Nov 5, 14 at 18:30...See MoreWhat color and style drapery. open concept,penthouse with no privacy i
Comments (2)I like your idea of a roman shade on the window and drapery on the door. You have a lot of natural textures, leather, etc. My first thought was a soft grey linen but the more I thought about it, the more a really textured burlap moved into first place. I don't think you would necessarily have to line it for privacy, but of course you could. You might want to think about a larger rod diameter as well, the 1/2" tends to sag. Hope this helps!...See MoreWindow treatments for open concept - design help needed!
Comments (5)question,,,why do you have that sofa against the windows, when the wall opposite has nothing? Right now if you were to do any type of drapes, they'd get bunched up behind the sofa. can you flip it and take another pic? (that sectional is actually too large for that narrow space, but lets see how it looks on the other wall). do you have a rug for that space or a coffee table or ottoman? this is a similar long, narrow room like yours. look at how it's arranged for the windows next to fireplace, they are too narrow for drapes, so i'd do your woven wood blinds there. just do an inside mount. (and you don't need to cover every window) some ideas for woven woods, and drapes if you want to try a combo on the others. this would be nice near the dining table. you could also do Silhouettes or Pirouette blinds Plantation Shutters patterned drapes over plain white blinds. cellulars. if you move your sofa to the other wall, you could drapes like these on those windows...See More
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