USEFUL IDEAS ABOUT WINDOWS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 285, 29 August 1935, Page 4

USEFUL IDEAS ABOUT WINDOWS

The prominent i>osition occupied by windows in any room makes it essential that the window treatment shall be the best -in conformity with its surroundings. In small rooms—especially those facing other houses or enclosed spaces—it may be impossible to hang curtains over the windows without shutting out too much light For windows of this nature it is an excellent plan to hang curtains on the-swivel-rod fixtures used for display purposes in drapery stores. With the curtains on a swivel it is possible to face them away from the window during the daytime, and to have them as a window covering at night time.

For plainly-furnished rooms, neat lace or net curtains are more in conformity with their surroundings than are more elaborate types. Curtains usually wear out first across the bottom, or across the top, according to whether it is customary to have the window open at the top or bottom. In all cases it will at least be found that the centre portion of curtains is in good condition when top or bottom, or both, are worn out. To meet this condition without purchasing new curtains, two partly-worn curtains can be made over into one good curtain. Quite attractive curtain treatments can often be made by this process, even when the curtains’do not match. This is specially so when one curtain is plain and the other is figured.