Handle Your Entire Interior Design Starting with Custom Drapes
bwsit • November 29, 2017

The way you design the living spaces in your home will influence every day of your life. How you feel when you come home, how the light plays over your furniture in the mornings and afternoons, and even how comfortable you feel when relaxing in the evenings. While many people are happy with the random collection of furniture they accumulate over time, the best way to both create a pleasing interior design without replacing your existing furniture is with the power of accents. When the curtains on your windows, the pillows on your couch, and the rug on your floor all match, you can transform your living or bedrooms from the usual mix-and-match into something that looks like you hired a professional interior designer.

Of course, one of the reasons why most people don’t do this is because it’s hard to achieve when buying ‘this and that’ online and in home decoration stores, it’s hard to find things that match perfectly. But there is one fantastic trick to pull your entire interior design together with one custom order: window treatments. When you work with professional drapers who will make custom curtains, they can use the same fabric or tastefully matching designs for other accents for a quick, easy, and fun way to create a complete look.

Valances

Have you ever had curtains with a valance? To answer this question, it may help to know what a valance is. Valances are an extra, often slightly extended, layer of curtain over the top six inches to a foot of your curtains. They add shape and style and will hide the space where your curtains hang from the rod. Some premade curtains come with valances but with custom made drapes, you can choose both your drape fabric and the fabric for the valance which can match or be a different, accenting pattern instead. Just Blinds will also help you mount your valances so that they look perfect above your windows.

Sheer Drapes

Sheer drapes are another great way to add style, class, and light control to any room. If you like long, flowing drapes or even short, tidy ones, these can be strung on a separate rod or track right behind your normal drapes. Sheer drapes flow in the breeze and only block about 20% of the light, but they diffuse direct sunlight into a nice soft illumination for the room during the day and create a lovely layering effect with drapes that open in the center. With custom drapes, you can get sheer drapes of exactly the right color and size for your drapes along with help putting them up so they slide easily and separately from your drapes.

Shades

Another great way to control the light in a room is to pair your drapes with pull-down shades. These can be rigged up flat against a window while the curtains hang further out allowing you to use the curtains for decoration and thermal protection and the shades for detail light control during the hours when the sun tends to shine directly into eyes and reflect off of surfaces. You can even get cell shades that move up and down on a track to block exactly the section of window where the sun is shining in to leave you with some view.

Matching Rugs, Lamps, and Pillows

The final touch, the real way to pull everything together, is what happens when you’ve designed your drapes and are ready to match the rest of the features. Here at Just Blinds, you don’t have to stop at the window treatments. We have a comprehensive collection of rugs, pillows, lamps, wall art, throw blankets and much more. With this kind of selection, you can handle almost everything about your interior design except the paint and plumbing fixtures. To start your complete interior design plan,  contact us  today!

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How to Use Windows to Make Your Home Cozier

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Windows give a home warmth, light, and a view of the outside world. But with the right treatments, you can also use your windows to make your home feel cozy. Coziness is a semse of comfort and familiarity. It defines a charm that feels like home, whether it's the coziness of a warm room in winter, your movie den in the summer. When we think of coziness, we often think of couches, candles, and throw blankets. But your windows play an equally important part. After all, it's your window treatments that frame the light, add softness to your walls, and set the mood for every room. The right window decorations can make your home feel warm and inviting. Using Windows, Drapes, and Shades to Create Coziness  Window treatements create a vibe for your entire room. Drapes, shades, and shutters can be used to create a backdrop of texture, color, and style. They also allow you to control the light levels in your home and even the color of the light. This means that your windows are the best place to start when making a room feel cozy. Layering soft drapes in rich colors is a great way to add that sense of comfort and warmth to a room, while cheerful blinds in soft neutrals can help a room to feel relaxed and welcoming. You can also use drapes or blinds to add a splash of color as a bold accent in any room. These touches combined with glowing sunshine during the day create a cozy and comfortable space. Plants as Cozy Window Decor You can use other types of decor to evoke a sense of coziness, too. We particularly love plants. Leafy green plants love the sunshine as much as you do and thrive when placed in a sunny window. Place an elegant snake plant in the windowsill or hang creeping ivy from a hook near the top of a window frame to make your room feel cheerful and alive with green energy. Plants make a home feel natural and vibrantly lived-in which is perfect for your cozy vibe. For a cozy kitchen, you can even grow fresh herbs in a box on the windowsill that add a delicious aroma and tasty fresh seasoning along with their natural visual appeal. Enhance Your Space with Aromatherapy Speaking of aromatics, you might be surprised how much your windows can take part in cozy aromatherapy. Window treatments like drapes and blinds are fabric that can help purfumes and essential oils linger in the room for days. Cozy scents are often warm aromas like cinnamon, vanilla, lavender, almonds, and coffee. But fresh fruit or floral scents that smell like "home" to you can also add a sense of coziness to each room. Simply spritz your curtains with your favorite scents and each room will subtly carry that comforting smell of home that makes you want to snuggle into the couch and relax at the end of each day. Moody Shade and Maximizing Light When we visualize coziness, light levels often play a role. Your minds eye may see a sun-drenched cottage or a gently lit library as your mental idea of a room that is perfectly cozy. Window treatments allow you to set the mood by reducing or maximizing light to the perfect levels. Well-designed shades and drapes can pull back attractively to maximize light, bathing your room in the warm welcoming glow of sunshine. Or if you prefer a more relaxed coziness, you can use translucent drapes or cellular shades to filter the light exactly the right amount. Diffuse and reduced light filtered through fabric of a warm color can make you feel safe and at peace. Increase Your Happiness with Window Design Your home should feel welcoming, relaxing, and cozy. The right window treatments can help set the stage for a delightful welcome home each night, rejuvinating weekends, and an overall feeling of at-home coziness when you are relaxing in your favorite place. To achieve this goal, you can experiment with home decor changes, including your windows, to achieve your ideal at-home bliss. Contact us today for custom drapes and blinds to complete your cozy room design.

What Your Window Treatment Says About You: A Personality-Based Guide

April 23, 2025
Your selection of window treatment products and services is not merely about getting a job done. Rather, if you look hard enough, you can find direct correlations between the type of person that you are and the window treatment that you select. We have created this personality-based guide to help you best discover what kind of window treatment truly matches your spirit. The Dependable Type: Wooden Blinds You are the person that all of your friends can count on. You are the type of person who truly sticks to your plans when you make them, and you are the type of person who will choose wooden blinds for your home. Privacy is important to you when selecting your blinds, and that is why you find yourself pulled into the idea of putting up wooden blinds. Besides that, they happen to be highly functional, and that's not something that you are willing to pass up either. The Planner: Blackout Curtains Those who value truly getting the most value out of their blinds or anything else that they install in their homes will think very carefully about their options. For those people, going with blackout curtains makes a lot of sense. They want to gain as much value as possible out of their options, and they know that they can significantly improve their quality of sleep and so much more when they opt for blackout curtains. These also happen to be a great option for those who work night shifts or other odd hours and yet still want to enjoy their sleep. They need blackout curtains to help increase the quality of that sleep and allow themselves to get their day started right. The Tech Enthusiast: Smart Shades They roam among us: The type of people who are quick to adopt any new technology and get to work figuring out how it can improve their lives. These people are great because they are not afraid to take a risk and because they help to move our society forward. They simply want to get more out of each day, and they often do so by adopting and using the latest technologies. These individuals will gravitate towards smart shades for the following attributes: Innovation - Who wants to stick with the boring old ways of shading one's house? Smarter options are now available, and you better believe that the tech enthusiasts among us are willing to latch on to them. Efficiency - These shades are a more efficient option for those who care about that kind of thing. They can be easily activated and set up to open or close automatically (how cool is that?!). Progressive - The "cool" factor is a big deal for people who fall into this category as well. They might not admit to it right off the bat, but they care deeply about what others think about them. As such, they want window shades that have that cool factor attached to them. The Dreamer: Sheer Curtains Finally, we land upon the dreamer. This is the person who views every day for the possibilities that it can bring. They are not scared off by those with a negative attitude. If anything, they believe that they can change those people! Instead, the dreamer wants sheer curtains because they bring in soft light, open spaces, and bring about a feeling of possibility all throughout the house. Sheer curtains are the ideal option for someone who classifies themselves in this way. They will receive plenty of compliments on their curtains, and they will appreciate how open they are to the world.  Which kind of person are you and which window treatment option makes the most sense for your personality? For more inspiration and ideas, reach out and contact us today.