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Friday, February 7, 2014

Window Covering Ideas with Roman Shades

Enhance Your Room Decor by Using Roman Shades

Using matching Roman Shades on the windows can considerably enhance the impact of the room decor, especially when you are using modern interior decoration themes.  You can easily make to room appear superb by making creative use of various complimentary colors for room walls as well as windows.  For example, if you are using green as the base color of your interior theme, you can use soft green roman shades on the windows and various other complementary shades of green on bedspread and upholstery of the furniture.  Nevertheless you should avoid using similar colors on everything to avoid making the room dull.  Adding splashes of reds, purples and pinks on pillow covers and other decoration pieces can warm up the room.  To add elegance, you can use cream on walls and window frames. 

Using Room Darkening or Blackout Roman Shades

If you want to darken the room by blocking excessive natural light or glare of the sun, the best way would be to use Blackout or Room Darkening Roman Shades on the windows.  Suede Roman Shades can add class and luxury to the ambience of any room.  For giving a beautiful finished look to the windows Vectora Roman Shades are also a good option.  These blinds have a nice subtle texture.    They can also block significant amount of light from coming inside the rooms.  This aspect makes these blinds ideal for rooms where you would like to relax, sleep or watch TV.

Using Light Filtering Roman Shades


As compared to the Room Darkening or Blackout Shades, these shades allow more natural light to come inside the rooms while controlling glare or excessive light.  Hence, these are ideal for the windows which are exposed to direct sunlight. Mounting Sienna Silk Roman Shades is a good option as they provide a sleek and silky look to the room. You can also clean these blinds easily.  Cassino Roman Shades, on the other hand, have a more crushed silky appearance. Another advantage of these Light-filtering Roman Shades is that you need not compromise privacy to allow natural light inside the rooms.  While selecting shades, make sure that the colors blend perfectly with the other colors used in the interiors.

Motorized Roman Shades
If you are looking for a more modern roman shade, than maybe motorized roman blinds would do the trick. These motorized versions can come in all the styles listed above and can be customized to any length or height of window.  

Friday, January 24, 2014

Living Room Window Covering Ideas

How to Enhance Your Living Room Using Motorized Roller Shades

In most of the homes, the living rooms usually have large windows to allow natural lighting inside. Also living rooms are also usually located in the side of the house which gets the maximum sunlight.  While this provides ample daylight inside the room, the disadvantage is that sunlight  cause harm to the furniture and fade upholstery inside the room.

The best way to prevent the harmful effects of the sunlight would be to have a proper window covering.  Traditional curtains can to some extend provide some protection by allowing sunlight in the day time and privacy during the night time.  However they do not give you good control of the lighting inside the room.  The best way to create ambient lighting inside the living room would be to use Motorized Roller Shades.

There are a variety of choices in the motorized shades available for mounting in the living room.  You can choose the transparency of shade as per your location and intensity of sunlight.  You can also choose from shades which allow clear visibility from inside the room but does not allow people from outside to look inside the room. There are shades, which provide heat insulation, which can help you to improve the effect of air conditioning inside the rooms. 

You also have a choice of manually operated shades and motorized ones.  Motorized shades are much more convenient to use as there is no need to pull cords or push levers to operate the shades.  You can use a remote control and adjust the lighting and heat inside the room sitting in your armchair.

Other two advantages of using motorized shades are that you can use them to prevent insects and bugs from entering the rooms and also provide privacy for those inside the house.  You can program the motorized shades to close after dark so that your activities inside the house are not visible to any passerby.

Motorized shades have become an integral part of modern living as they provide convenience as well as comfort.  Motorized shades are a boon if you have outdoor areas as you can use them to convert them to enclosed spaces where you can relax and even entertain your guests. You now have to option to use these areas as indoors when needed and reconvert them to outdoor areas after use.

Motorized shades can also permit you to use those areas which have excessive sunshine at certain times of the day.  You can enjoy the morning or evening sun sitting in your porch and close the shades when the sun is too harsh.

Mounting motorized roller shades on your living room and other areas of the house can give you long term and short term benefits while enhancing the ambience of your house.

For more information or to help answer your design questions visit RoseSun Window Coverings at http://www.rosesunmotor.com/