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16                            THE BRANDON SUN • YOUR HOME YOUR WAY • THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2021

            How to style your curtains




               Are you considering up- best reserved for drapes that
            dating your curtains? If so,  stay open since they need to
            here’s  what’s  fashionable be restyled every time they’re
            when it comes to this window  opened or closed. Curtains
            treatment.                that skim the floor shouldn’t
                                      hang more than 1.5 cen-
            HANG HIGH                 timetres above it.
               Installing curtain rods
            closer to the ceiling will make   GET WIDE
            the room feel larger. The ex-  Add visual width to your
            tra height visually increases  windows by opting to go
            the vertical space occupied by  broad with your curtains.
            the windows and creates the  Mount rods that extend 7.5 to
            illusion of a higher ceiling. If  15 centimetres past the win-
            possible, hang your curtains  dow frame on either side. Al-
            10 to 15 centimetres above  though you can go even wid-
            the windows to maximize  er, the curtain rod shouldn’t
            their impact.             be more  than one-and-one-
                                      third the width of the win-
            GO LOW                    dow.                      you have enough fabric to  to two-and-a-half times the
               Contemporary curtains are                        adequately cover the intend- width of the window.
            long and should hit the floor   GO FULL             ed area.  The rule of thumb   To find curtains you love
            or even puddle onto it. How-  Curtains look best when  is  that  the  combined  width  or the fabric to make them,
            ever, pudd ling curtains are  they’re full, so make sure  of the panels should be two  shop at stores in your area.






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