Bay Window Curtain Ideas That Add Style
Unique window treatments need not be difficult, and treatments can applied that match the rest of your drapery theme through out your home. Bay window curtain ideas are just a little more unique than the standard window dressing designs, due to their physical shape. Some have a built in benches with storage that require drapery that will hug the exact angled form of the windows. Special curtain poles or rods are specifically made to wrap around the edges of the window, allowing you complete privacy when you are not admiring the exterior from your grand viewing area.
To garner some additional curtain ideas for bay windows in your home. You need not go any further than the World Wide Web for a plethora of stylish examples. A quick search will reveal that using a combination of curtain panels and vertical blinds will give you the privacy that you need at times, and also use the two in combination for letting varying amounts of light in during the day. You can also use a curtain panel arrangement that covers the complete entrance to the bay window area, instead of using a specialty bay window curtain rod to edge the angled borders of the window. This will almost give the appearance of having extra sitting room and the drapery is used as the separating wall. This is used in conjunction with the vertical blinds will give you a small sitting area that can be segregated from the interior of the home as well as blocking the light from the outside of the house.
Some bay windows do not have built in cabinetry and can have furniture placed next to window. A leather tub chair and small end table will make for a wonderful sitting area to curl up with your favorite novel, and the installation of eyelet curtains on three separate rods will let you adjust the light filtering in to help illuminate your new reading area. Sheer curtain fabric used with individual pull down shades will also give more control over privacy from neighbors, and letting the full sun in while preventing prying eyes to see into your home completely.
Public photo sites on the web will allow you to search for additional curtain ideas. Try flickr.com and picassaweb.google.com to start your hunting down examples. You will be able to view a slide show on the many curtain styles that people have installed in their homes, to get an idea of what will work for your bay window. Sometimes you will find the less is more angle in a photo and be able to create a treatment in just a couple of hours that will give your viewing retreat a fresh new look and feel.
There are few if any publications that cater to the bay window industry and typically more ideas can be obtained form architectural design books at your local library. The photos and sketches within these books may give you additional ideas of how apply window coverings in a tasteful method that will still show the artistic attributes of the bay window itself.