How to choose Curtains?
The first step is to probe the fabric of the curtain. There are many types of fabric such as Light weighted, heavy weighted, sheer, print, textured and plain curtains. Secondly, the selection of hues plays a vital role in the decoration of your room. To make your room attractive and stylish, you will need to choose contrasting colours always as guests will have a look at the curtains at first glance. Once the colour is selected. Next is the kind of pleat that you need. We have different pleat styles. You can select one based on your liking or based on the hardware that you have installed. We have an option to add lining or blackout fabric to any of our curtains. You will find an option to select one among these while placing the order. The lining will block some amount of light coming in & protect the curtains from outside dust when the windows are open. Blackout lining will help you to darken your room & reduce the heat.
Custom curtains vs Ready made ?
Choosing curtains for home could be a overwhelming. You can find thousands of shades and fabrics. You may need expert advice to help you decides your curtains, cushions and entire living room based upon a theme. Curtains are first things get noticed in your home. You may want to touch and feel fabric. We help you shortlist your favourite colours and fabric and bring their shades at home for your look and feel. You get best of both worlds, curtains designed to suit your requirements and at the comfort of your home. We also take full house or living room set custom orders. That include Curtains, Cushions, Sofa seats, Sofa lounges, and other furniture and decor in a single theme
How much do curtains cost in India?
Cost of curtain is primarily driven by type of fabric. Brands like D'Décor, Ador have elegant looking large collection of fabrics. Branded curtain like D'Decor starts from 500 Rs per meter to 3000+ Rs per meter. Usually store offer 5-10 % discount on it. However ours discount can run deeper between 10%-15% as we don’t run expensive high market store. These heavy discounts can bring down cost of these branded fabric to almost local fabric rate. A single door curtain cost could range between 900 to 9000. Apart from fabric other costs could be curtain stitching, curtain tracks , installation cost etc.
How much do blinds cost in India?
A good quality branded Roller Blinds will starts from 180 per sqft. Stylist Zebra will starts from 280 sqft, Wooden Blinds from 485 sqft. Some innovative products like Smart curtain starts from 980 sqft. You can also automate these blinds that will cost you extra. Even in large metro cities like Banaglore, Delhi very few uses branded blinds and most of them are local fabricators. We offer deep discounts on Branded Blinds in the range of 10-15% that reduce total cost significantly.Local fabricator blinds could starts even less then 100 Rs per sqft. For balcony blinds special kind of blind mecanism can be used. Blinda re also used externally for that PVC blinds are available that are cost effective too and can start from 100 sqft. Apart from fabric/wooden blinds cost , there would be cost for blind mecanism and installation charges.
Blinds v/s Curtains
The best is to do a mix of both curtains & blinds at home. For example , living room could be decoarted with good fabric curtain while blinds can be used in other rooms like study, kitchen and children room.
How we dress our windows must ideally be decided according to the characteristics and functions, and what our room requires. Of course, how it looks matters a great deal too. Curtains are decorative materials (usually fabrics) that are suspended from the top as a screen to obscure light or block air drafts. Blinds are sheath-like coverings (of fabric, jute, metal or wood) that can be pulled down from a roller or channel. Both curtains and blinds have their own set of benefits and drawbacks.
Curtains: Curtain will filter light only in one particular way. For rooms that need multiple light-filtering preferences, layered curtain treatments (installing more than one treatment to a single window) need to be installed. This means added expense.
Blinds: They control light well
Venetian blinds have slats, either horizontal or vertical, tied together on a single cord. The cord lets the slats tilt through various angles. These blinds can be adjusted to let in varying amounts of light or block it, according to need and the time of day.
Some time both Curtains and Blinds can be used in single window.
How to choose the right cushions?
colour, pattern, texture, size, shape and the number of cushions are important parameters. You need to be in control of all that before choosing the right one. There are many different and designer cushions, but not all will necessarily match the style you are seeking. The choice of the size of the cushion depends on the size of the couch, armchair, sofa or bed for which you are buying. For eg., you can use small or medium-sized ones as a bed cushion to complement the pillows. If you want to create a lounge setting, then choose bigger ones with bold colours so that you can hold on to them while reading or watching TV.
Are Blind Costly?
The cost of blinds vary and depends on factors like the type of materials used or and whether they are manually operated or motorized.
As compared to curtains, blinds come with add-on functionalities like light control. They are also a convenient match to the decor of your room, offering best value for their price.
Could we mix blinds with curtains in living room?
We have been incresingly seeing a pattern where Curtains and Blinds are used together to create a final window fashion for your home. Such as using blackout blinds with sheer curtains or using smart curtains that looks like curtains but have blind mecanism. Blind provides light control as you need. While curtains can add elegance.