VALANCES, swags and
jabots, festoons and cascades
have their place, burt before
burdening the typical ranch
house window with a boat-
load of decerotion, think
twice.

The espers at Hunter Douglas,
Inc. offers thee tips for planning
window: treatments

First, ask vourself what npe of
Window you have and what vou
want from vour winds ay.
© De vou want privacy? ‘To keep
light in. to keep tight out? To cover
{unattractive window or to ply up
abeautiful one?

Then, how does the window
relate te the stele and design of the
room itself?

And lastly how ca vou be cer
win the treament vou choose
adheres ro basic principles of bakunce
dnd proportion and scale?

Freneh doors that suing open
and patio doors that shde de best
without heavy fabric trearments,
cseept perhaps a sight swag.

Shades or blinds or a new treat-
ment called Luminette Sheers are
good choices here. Luminette com
bines soft fabric sheers with vanes
attached ro rear of the sheer facings
for privacy and hight control

Another appropriate treatment is
Duetre Vertiglide, where she energy
efficient honeveomd — fabric of
Duette shades is oriented vertically
to slide across the window opening,
Palladian arches and other unusual
window types high on a wall often
can be left uncovered.

Where privacy and light control
are desired, Duette shades and
Images vertical blinds chat are
equipped with specialry hardware
systems to handle curves, arches and
other challenges are an option.

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JUST as traditional dini
sculptured glass table,
look elegant over energ

Elegant fabric top trearments like
swags can be used to dramatic effeer.
Standard sash windows and pic-

~The Fads may come and go...”

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Photo Hunter Dougtas Canada

ng chairs can be paired with a
a fringed swag window treatment can
y efficient shades.

ture windows lend themselves to
many hard and soft solutions,
depending on privacy and light con-

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Friday, December 11, 1998 — North Shore News ~ 73

hdiows in Style and scale

trol needs. If the sive or shape ofa
window iy unsatisfactory, the win
dow treatment can be mounted oar
side the window frame

Twa windows of ditterent
heights can be transtormed into
mains by omeunting draperies,
valances and cornices at the same
height.

Window frames with distinctive
architectural features, such as
pilasters, pedimenty and fanlizhts,
are often best with treatments
mounted inside the window frame
that allow the architecture to speak
for itself.

Fortunately, there are many fash-
tonable window co ring options
that will not compere with the archi
tectural elements of a room,
Sithouette window. shadings with
adjustable fabric vanes between
sheer Seings offer the look of a
sheer, the fight’ control of a blind
and the ene of a shade,

Another product in the window
Shading family that is an updated
version of a) Roman shade —-
Vignette window shadings -— pro-
Vides a tailored softness toa window
with its genth contoured fabric folds
that coll up into a sleek headrad.

An ewential step in designing
window fashions is putting the win-
dow or windows in the context of
the space. Formal rooms usually call
for attention to detail with rich fab-
tics and ornamentation at the win-
dow, while less formal reoms may
require simpler solutions.

And a wood-pancied room,
regardless of the style, may look best
with wood blinds like Country
Woods wood blinds from Hunter
Douglas that come with a variety of
decorative tapes and trims to pick up
other accents in the room.

Aluminum mini-blinds with
matte-textured SoftSuede finish,
which mimics the look and feel of

e¢reat Neighbourhood
el Bedroom * Solarium
Courtyard Views

real siiedey abo adds warmth to a
pancled room

At che tinal stages of the design
Progess, balance and proportion and
seate ar

An ettecuse tn fora pelinet
or cornice. for iistanee, can help
achteve balaace ina room by imitat-
mg one of the dominant shapes in
the room, such asa sofa back or tire-
place mantel.

Color, fine and texture should
abo be distributed throughout the
room,

The fabrics of textures vou use in
your overtreatments especially
should appear elewhere in the
decor, either ay accents like pillows
and table: skirts. or as a dominant
clement such as opholstery or slip-
covers,

Proportions should also be pleas
ing to the eve. Top rreatments, tor
cvample, look best when rhe longest
paint is approximately, one-fifth of
the total length of the window fash.
ion, and tiebacks Jook best when
Placed about a third of a way trom
the top or the bottom of the tinished
length.

In addition, avoid dividing win-
dow treatments into halves; three
Mwigs are generally more appealing
than two,

If cascades or other fabric trear-
ments are not floor length, they
should fall even with anorher design
feature such as a windowsill, chair
rail or muntin.

Lastly, scale is important. The
actual size Of a treatment as well as
its visual weight should be compati-
Me with other furnishings in the
room and the architecrure of the
room itself,

That's where Mies van der Rohe
was particularly apt: “Less is more!”

For more information, call
Hunter Douglas toll-free ar 1-800-
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