Making the kitchen windows: how to decorate the kitchen window and choose the decor?

How to start design of the kitchen window? Of course, with the purchase of curtains. Choosing curtains can not be guided only by the colors and quality of the material. It is necessary to take into account the general concept of space, including its size and design. Proper design of the window in the kitchen visually enlarge the space, lift the ceiling, make it cozy and beautiful. If the kitchen area of ​​the house is large enough, the owner can afford curtains in any style. The problem of the choice most likely to encounter the owners of small or non-standard facilities.

Curtains for a small kitchen

In a small space bulky heavy curtains will look ridiculous and out of place. They visually reduce the kitchen area and the weighted window. It is best suited for such a room in a country style curtains, Japanese, Austrian, Roman blinds and shutters.

• Blinds in country style. Traditionally they are made of bright calico, cotton or flax. For curtains in country style is characterized by floral motifs, drawing as a pea or cells. They can be decorated with embroidery, lace, ruffles and applications, in general, all that can accentuate the simple rustic style.
• Japanese curtains. They are a textile fabric that are attached to the eaves. On the one window can be located 3-4 webs of varying length, which can push in various combinations.
• Austrian curtains made of light, translucent tissue air. With their sewing fabric going at regular intervals, forming a voluminous bottom stage. Perfectly suitable for both classic interiors, and for interiors in a modernist style.
• Roman curtains. Are long rectangular webs, made of solid material width equal to the width of the window. Thanks to a special mechanism, they rise and gather in the folds.
• Blinds will be perfect for the kitchen in high-tech style and minimalism. Blinds do not carry great aesthetic value, but they are reliable, practical, and well protected from the sun.

The windows in the kitchen with a bay window

Kitchen with bay window - polygonal projections that extend beyond the facade, most often found in private homes, but sometimes they can be seen in high-rise buildings. This feature allows you to increase the room with an area and improve the illumination due to the large number of windows. Choosing curtains for the kitchen with a bay window, you need to decide in advance how they will house: individually on each window or go as a whole. In the latter case, the sides usually hang thick curtains on the perimeter secure the thin fabric like organza or tulle.

In the kitchen with a bay window are more likely to use three types of curtains:

• Classic, characterized by the combination of dense, heavy webs of expensive fabrics and fine organza. They are often equipped with complex multilayer lambrequins, fringes, cords and tassels. Kitchen is permissible to use the classic curtains up to the window sill and the asymmetric model.
• The Austrian, who have a kind of cloth, little is gathered from the bottom, and fit well into the kitchen with a bay window.
• French resemble Austrian, but unlike the latter is folded around the web, and not only in the lower part.

However, with a bay window in the kitchen, you can use other types of curtains, for example, short, pulled out only to the eaves blinds or shutters. Prosper in all they would look if in this part of the room is a work area, and no seating area.

A common mistake owners - drape the kitchen window with a bay window with numerous layers of thick curtains so that they are almost completely deprived of the light of the room. To avoid it, you should use a different fabric textures, mostly bright colors.

Curtains in the kitchen in a wooden house

Wooden houses attract many of its extraordinary comfort and flair. Natural colors, natural materials give a sense of oneness with nature, with their origins. In this room, even to breathe easier. But from civilization you will not get anywhere, so today, even in rural wooden house geraniums on the window, carpet on the wall and an icon in the corner are not the only decorations.

Decorate the room in a wooden house often in one of the 3 styles:

1. Village and its variants: country style and Provence. It is characterized by simple forms, unpretentious things, natural materials. Country style wooden house does not imply any stiffness and luxury. Curtains on the windows used in a country style, simple curtain to the window sill.
2. Ethnic style. In this case, the room is made, focusing on the national characteristics of a people. Room in a wooden house is decorated in ethnic style may resemble a yurt Eskimo hut Indian hut Ukrainian or Russian old house. For decoration of windows can be used with tissue characteristic national design or pattern.
3. Eco-style, which focuses on natural materials and colors.

To emphasize the natural origin of the interior, designers often use natural fabrics: cotton, linen, cotton. Colors take close to natural: olive, beige, brown.

Do not forget about the windowsill and ledge

The decor of the kitchen window is not limited only to the curtains. On the outside of the building it is possible to decorate the box with fresh flowers or unusual shutters, especially if we are talking about a private home. Shutters can be hinged in the US or the old Russian style, can be modern sliding. As for colors, it is possible to be limited to one box of petunias hang-downing, and it is possible to strengthen a few pots with ivy, which obovot its greenery significant part of the window.

Making out the window in the kitchen, Be sure to pay attention to the window sill. Upon request of the owner, it can be both wide and narrow, both long and short. Often there are apartments, where the sill is combined with top of the bar type.

When designing the interior of the premises, it is possible to play with color, because the sill does not have to be white. It can be decorated with beautiful wood paneling and plastered with wallpaper to match the room or even decorated with mosaics. Narrow windowsill may serve as a shelf for souvenirs, wide - stand for flowers.

Before you arrange the window in the kitchen, you need to choose the right curtains to the eaves. It can be plastic or wood, subtle, or vice versa, with the background of curtains. It is important that it not only combined with curtains, but also fit into the interior of the premises as a whole.