Great Ideas For Interesting Window Treatments

Need ideas for interesting window treatments ? Not sure what kind of curtain style would work in your room ?Want the designer window treatments look but with a realistic budget ? Then take a look over these window treatments ideas below and get some inspiration for your own home.

Window Valance Ideas

Valance window treatments like these above are really simple window treatments to do but will add something special to any window treatment. These kind of valance window treatments with just a gathered heading are really simple.

Also very window treatments when it comes to hanging valances with the window curtain hardware used on this one. To find out more about this window treatment style take a look at how I went about hanging valances like this one.

Wooden cornice Window Treatment

Wood valances or cornice window treatments like this one above are a really great ideas for interesting window treatments. This one was found in a junk store and had come off the top of an old french wardrobe that was beyond repair. It needed a bit of touching up with some paint here and there. However what was just a piece of old junk has been transformed in to something of beautiful window treatment.

I installed it to the wall over this window on simple shelf brackets. Then I hung a pair of faux silk drapes that I got for a bargain on ebay. I hung them from curtain curtain tracks fitted to the underside of the decorative wooden cornice. Then used metal curtain holdback arms to dress them off the window.

Shaped Window Treatment Cornice

Take a look at this fabric covered window cornice I fitted recently on an odd shaped dormer window. We had a problem that we wanted to just use a roller shade to cover the window. However it then looked a little bare over the top. So we decided to fill the space with an upholstered board.

To start with we used a piece of wall paper to create a paper template of the shape. We held it up over the window and pushed it to follow the shape of the ceiling. Then marked it with a pencil line. then finally cut it out and held it up to check it was the correct shape. A really easy and cheap way to make window treatments patterns.

We then placed the paper template on to a piece of 1/4 inch thick plywood and cut it to shape. Then covered the plywood with a layer of polyester fiber wadding. this was glued in place using spray carpet adhesive. Then finally the fabric was stretched over and stapled to the back.

Finally wooden batens with velcro tape were screwed to the wall over the window in several places. Then the oppposite velcros strips were stapled to the back of the cornice board in the corresponding places. Then when the cornice board was held up in postion and both sides of the velcro met. It held itself up in position with no trouble at all. I think it another of those great ideas for interesting window treatments that looks complicated but again is another of those really simple window treatments that look more complicated than they are.

Corner Window Cornice

Sometimes coming up with good window treatment ideas for windows like these in a corner can seem difficult. We wanted to somehow tie these 2 windows together. Yet also still come up with unique window treatment ideas at the same time. I like to think this picture above shows we did end up with a window treatment style that works really well.

I hung a pair of curtains on the sliding doors and then just a single curtains to the smaller window. It would have look a bit too crowded with another pair of curtains I felt.

Then we topped it of with a fabric covered window treatment cornice. This was made with a bend to fit the corner of the room. The cornice top boards were made at 8 inches wide to allow curtains and roller shades to be installed underneath.

Easy Make Curtains

These rod pocket curtains in the pictures above and below are beautiful looking window treatments that anyone would be proud to have gracing their home. These curtains have been made with an extra wide rod pocket to allow a chunky 2 inch curtain rod to pass through.

These are probably the simplest form of custom curtains that you can make. They can be made with basic sewing skills. These are lined curtains and also have interlining sewn in between to give them a luxurious look. These again are great ideas for interesting window treatments with that touch of luxury

These rod top pocket curtains have two extra things that make them extra special. The first is the 2 inch ruffle (upstand) over the top of the rod pocket. Then they have been make extra long to drape on to the floor.

Also did you notice how high over the windows that the curtains are hanging. This shows you can hang curtains very high over a window and still have them look great. This was done to fill a large empty space over the landing window. Then we did the same on the 2 smaller windows to look the same.

I really only recommend this kind of window treatment for narrow windows like these. That is if you intend to use them as this curtain style does not like to slide across the curtain rod very well. Notice on the window above that the curtains meet in the middle and will only pull back off the window by being draped in to curtain tiebacks.

I hope you liked these ideas for interesting window treatments, and I will be adding more over time so call back regularly for updates.

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