Window Treatments and Seasons Change

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Window Treatments and Seasons ChangeSpring is in bloom and there are a few ways to enhance natural lighting in the spring and summer months ahead by simply changing your window coverings.  It is often overlooked, however, that changing your room’s shades, valances, curtains, or drapes according to seasonal changes keeps your room feeling updated, open, and bright.

  • Remove your heavy, dark window covers, drapes, and curtains and replace them with light, sheer, and brighter colored window treatments that appropriately reflect the weather change.
  • Light colored shutters offer a warm, welcoming, traditional appeal to your room.
  • Using brightly colored shades, drapes, or curtains will open up your room and act as a seasonal accent.
  • Be open to new colors and materials as a way to allow your room to reflect the warmer months ahead.

No matter how you choose to alter your room’s window treatment for springtime, we at One Stop Decorating can assist you in designing your perfect room. We specialize in blinds, shades, draperies, and decor for your home. With over 30 years of experience, we are confident that we are the most qualified company in the Kansas City area to assist you with any and all of your home decorating needs.

Bay Window Treatments

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Bay Window TreatmentsBay windows, window spaces that project outward from the main walls, are commonly used to create the illusion of a larger room. There are several options available when it comes to finding the perfect window treatment for your home’s bay window.

Silk Panel Drapes

Drapes are used as a way to traditionally decorate the room in which your bay window is located. To add a contemporary twist, use a fabric tape or braid to tie off the drapes or interchange two different color window treatments.

Valances

A contemporary look can be achieved through the use of valances. Often, valances open up rooms and make them feel more inviting. This technique can be easily combined with shutters for an updated formal room.

Roman Shades

Roman shades are a tasteful and functional window treatment choice for a bay window. This design technique is used as a way to frame the bay window while providing texture and color accents for your room.

Finding the perfect window treatment option for your home’s bay window can be difficult. We at One Stop Decorating can assist you in finding the right window covering for your bay window. We specialize in blinds, shades, shutters, draperies and decor for your home. With over 30 years of experience, we are confident that we are the most qualified company to assist you with any and all of your home decorating needs.

Update A Traditional Kitchen

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How to Update a Traditional KitchenKitchens are a core part of a household as they’re often a room that family and friends share. It is possible to update a traditional kitchen space and transform it with a contemporary twist.

Color

Color is an visual important statement. Color can brighten or darken a room, as well as represent an emotion. In a traditional kitchen, don’t rule out shades of the color grey. Grey is a subtle hue, which can be used with white to update your kitchen space. Don’t rule out an accent wall to give the room a pop of color (such as yellow).

Kitchen Window Treatments

Depending on the look and feel of your updated kitchen, window treatments can be a simple but seemingly effective update. Kitchen windows can be updated with a valance, roman shades, or window scarves. The options are endless. When choosing an updated addition to your kitchen windows, it is essential to decide how much natural light you would like in the room. This will determine whether your want a sheer material or not (meaning more or less natural sunlight, respectively).

Adding accessories such as indoor plants, herbs, and any natural earth tones will create a feeling of calm and warmth.

No matter what updates you find are right for your family’s kitchen, we at One Stop Decorating can help you achieve your perfect kitchen. We specialize in blinds, shades, shutters, draperies, and decor for your home. With over 30 years of experience, we are confident that we are the most qualified company to assist you with any and all of your home decorating needs.

Window Treatment Ideas for French Doors

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French DoorsFrench Doors, doors that have one or more panels of glass set into the entire length of the door in order to also function as a window, can be difficult to find appropriate window dressings for. French Doors, also known as French windows, have commonly been installed to replace sliding glass doors. Here are a few tips to keep in mind when searching for window covering ideas.

  • Think of French Doors as a Window – Once you view your French Doors as a window, it will become easier for you to narrow down what type of window dressing would be perfect in your room
  • Consider Lighting – The window treatment should reflect how much natural sunlight and privacy you prefer from your French Doors.
  • Consider Décor – Keep in mind surrounding window treatments, the overall style, colors, and textures of the room. This will determine how much flexibility you are able to have with your French Door window treatment ideas.
  • Remember the handles! – The most common difficulty with finding the ideal window covering for your French Doors is working around the handles. There are several options you may consider: wood blinds, faux wood blinds, shades (which can fit between the door and handle), sheer draperies and curtains. Depending on the depth between the door and handle, blind slats can be carefully adjusted to fit over the handles or the blinds can be mounted inside the frame of the window. Brackets can also be installed at the bottom of the window to keep the blinds from hitting the window when the door is opened or closed.

There are many options available to you while you’re finding the perfect look for your overall room and French Doors. We at One Stop Decorating are proud to offer our customers our experience and expertise at each of our four store locations: Shawnee, Lee’s Summit, The Northland, and Overland Park. We are the largest independent, full line decorating resource in the Kansas City area.

Horizontal or Vertical Window Treatments

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Horizontal or Vertical Window TreatmentsWhen choosing the perfect window treatment for your room, it is important to know when to use horizontal or vertical window coverings.

Horizontal Lines – Accentuate width of a window.

Horizontal window dressings should be used on windows that are taller rather than wider.  They often bring warmth into a room (ideal for family rooms).

Vertical Lines – Accentuate height of a window and give height to a room.

Vertical window coverings should be used on windows wider than they are tall, including windows that are wider from side to side.

The style of your room’s décor can also effect which window curtains or drapes are the right choice for you. Clean, defined lines often accentuate a room that is decorated with modern, contemporary, or any form of eclectic styles. Softer, less defined lines accentuate a room that is more traditional or country styles. Another consideration is that the efficiency and amount of natural light will be impacted by factors such as how old your windows are and what direction your windows face in a specific room.

Throughout the process for your search for new window treatments, you may need a professional hand – One Stop Decorating can help find the perfect window treatment for you. One Stop Decorating specializes in blinds, shades, shutters, draperies, and décor for your home. With over 30 years of experience, we are confident in assisting you with any and all of your home decorating needs.

How to Make Small Bedroom Windows Appear Bigger

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Make Your Windows Look LargerHaving large windows helps to open up a room. If you happen to have small windows, there is no need to replace the window with a bigger one, as this would be an expensive home repair. Consider these design tips to help your windows appear larger to the human eye. There are ways to open up your room by making your windows appear bigger by using the appropriate window treatments.

Curtain Choice & Placement:

  • Place the hardware above your window frame, while extending it beyond the sides of the frame.
  • If you are looking for height, raise the valence bar higher than the window frame.

Horizontal Window Dressings:

  • Horizontal lines accentuate width.
  • If you want your window to appear wider it is recommended to go with horizontal window blinds.

Vertical Window Treatments:

  • Vertical lines accentuate height.
  • Vertically hung blinds add visual height to your window.
  • Another window treatment idea to add visual height to your window would be to use an outside mounting.

These tips can help to open up your room with carefully chosen window treatments that will create the feeling that your windows appear larger (at a much more affordable cost than replacing your windows). We at One Stop Decorating are proud to offer our customers our experience and expertise at our four stores located in Shawnee, Lee’s Summit, the Northland, and Overland Park. We are the largest independent, full line decorating resource in the Kansas City area.