3 Popular Window Treatments For Your Home

Window treatment ideas for the home come and go however there are three types of window treatments that have remained popular throughout the decades.
Can you guess which ones they are? Keep reading to find out.
Fabric has been used for hundreds of years as a window treatment.
It has always been easily available and affordable and sewing used to be a large part of the homemakers life so it was easy to purchase some fabric and sew a window treatment for the home.
In more modern times, not many people make their curtains.
Instead they are either custom made or bought pre-made from major department stores, in sizes that fit standard windows.
There is a huge selection of fabric curtains available.
Whether it's the one color, or stripes or prints, you are bound to find something to suit your taste and decor.
Having them pre-made suits our busy lifestyles.
We can just measure up our windows, go to the store, make our selection and have them up in a matter of minutes.
Most of the pre-made curtains simply slide onto the curtain rail so they're very easy to put up.
You also have a range of sheer curtaining to choose from.
You can get continuous curtaining that you just buy by the yard, with no side hemming required.
They just slide onto the curtain rod as is.
You can also get sheers in tiers or as cross-over curtains which suit the more traditional type of home.
Valances have always been a popular window treatment.
Used a lot in pioneer days when fabric was hard to come by, homemakers back then would use what material they could find and put it across the top of the window.
It looked dainty and dressed the window.
Nowadays of course, you can get valances in every imaginable color, pattern and finish to go with just about any decor.
Blinds are the other window treatment that has gained popularity over the years.
You now have a huge selection to choose from besides the once standard venetian blind.
Now you have slat blinds made from wood, faux wood, and fabric or vinyl.
You also have vertical blinds made from fabric or vinyl.
Then there are roller blinds and roller shades made from vinyl or fabric like polyester.
With such a selection of curtains, valances and blinds on the market, there is plenty of choice for covering your windows with one of these popular window treatments.