Beautiful curtains for living room

65+ Curtain Ideas to Inspire Your Next Home Makeover

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Lemon Ombré

While curtains are designed to keep light out, they can also accentuate it in the daytime too. Take this sunny bedroom in a Woodstock, New York, home with interiors by White Webb where the curtains—dip-dyed alpaca linen versions from Rosemary Hallgarten—frame the views outside.

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Luxurious Gold Valence

If you’re looking for period drama, opt for a gorgeous draped valance and complementary Roman shade, as with this Midas-touched bedroom in (yes) a historic Italian tower.

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Height-Accentuating

This look, in a Tudor-style home sensitively reimagined by ELLE DECOR A-List designer Frances Merrill, could have easily gone over-the-top cottagecore. But funky silhouettes and neutral, floor-grazing curtains positioned high above the windows not only bring the look down to earth but flaunt those gorgeous timber ceilings.

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Complementary Patterns

If you’re stuck with tiny windows, use curtains to create the illusion of size. Here, in a 16th-century painterly Parisian pad, designer Eric Allart selected a longer curtain in a Simrane floral (the same textile that appears on the headboard and bedding) to move the eye around the maximalist space.

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Floral and Traditional

A full-blown valance look doesn’t need to be stuffy, as designer Veere Grenney proves in this cheery London townhouse. The antique furnishings and ruffles may lean traditional, but a 1960s Gaetano Sciolari pendant and an abstract artwork by Daniel Jacomet keep things contemporary and cool.

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Mint Green Curtains

Leave it to textiles expert Caterina Fabrizio, the second-generation co-owner of her family’s textile house, Dedar, to know how to hang curtains where it counts. Here in her primary bedroom, the mint green shades have a fun, black-and-white striped backing and help to bring the green of the garden inside. Another word of advice? Swap out your fabrics seasonally, just as you might change your wardrobe. “The furniture stays and the fabrics and carpets change,” Fabrizio says.

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Striped Roman Shades

These striped Roman shades in a brand new Houston residence designed by Elizabeth Young add visual zip to an otherwise all-white room. Follow suit if you live in a rental or aren’t ready to commit to patterned wallpaper—and zhuzh up with fun furnishings and accessories, of course!

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Sunny Floor-Grazing Curtains

If your home is blessed with an abundance of natural light, embrace it! Design duo Brockschmidt & Coleman were entranced by the Southern sunshine that seeped into author Walter Isaacson’s New Orleans abode, so painted the dining room walls in Farrow & Ball’s Hound Lemon and selected sweeping curtains to match.

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Gauzy and Casual Curtains

If you love enveloping rooms in a deep paint color, lighten things up with lighter-than-air drapes. Here, in a Brooklyn apartment designed by Danielle Fennoy, eggplant-colored walls are contrasted by gauzy, crinkled curtains. Elliott the cat approves!

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Arts and Crafts–Inspired

This snug family room in a Sonoma, California, estate designed by Ken Fulk is giving us just the right amount of cozy Arts and Crafts vibes with timber paneling, star-patterned terra-cotta floor tiles, and floral Pierre Frey window treatments.

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Sage and Striped

We’ll sprinkle sage over everything—including curtains! Here, two striped sage panels in landscape architect Thomas Woltz’s Virginia Victorian part over a fabulous French Directoire daybed.

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Tiny Checks

In the media room of his New York City home, TV personality Thom Filicia dressed his windows in floor-length curtains patterned in the tiniest of gray-and-white checks, a move that—pro tip—not only gives the illusion of more generous windows, but also adds subtle texture to the largely neutral scheme.

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Prettily Patterned Roman Shades

Leave it to a Dior executive to have shades that look like haute couture! In the breakfast room of her Paris flat, Mathilde Favier selected a floral fabric by the late, great French decorator Madeleine Castaing to inject feminine flair to a classic Roman shade.

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Gauzy Neutrals

The views from this Pebble Beach, California, house are too good to be tampered with. So design firm Workshop/APD ensured that the curtains wouldn’t interfere. Follow suit by selecting a long, semi-sheer neutral for a laid-back vibe.

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Textured Roman Shades

For a rustic, layered look, opt for thick, textured fabrics, as designer Ryan Lawson did in this Connecticut Colonial. The natural fibers pair perfectly with the homeowners’ bohemian artworks and accessories.

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Geometric and Floor-Grazing

Designer Gail Davis used subtly patterned, floor-length curtains to create the illusion of height in this New Jersey home office. The diminutive green print, meanwhile, works to draw the eye outside.

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A Touch of the Tropics

No one uses pattern quite like Martyn Lawrence Bullard. Here in this dreamy Maui home, he worked to bring the lush tropical colors inside in both the window treatments and in the bed curtains, which are in a JAB Anstoetz fabric.

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Pistachio-Hued

The unapologetically maximalist home of French lighting designer Marie-Lise Féry features plenty of unexpected color combos. We especially love how she used curtains in pistachio (a textile by Métaphores) and dusty pink (a Kvadrat fabric) hues to pick up the colors in the rest of the room.

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Boho Border

If all-over pattern isn’t quite your thing, take a cue from design duo Nickey Kehoe and opt for sweeping curtains with an ornate border, as seen here in star chef Suzanne Goin’s Los Angeles home. Pattern recognition alert: The curtains nod to the checked edging on the lampshade.

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Rust-Colored Velvet

Antiques dealer and designer Jean-Philippe Demeyer called a medieval hunting lodge home. So it’s no surprise that the windows also featured details fit for an aristocrat, like these sumptuous rust-colored draperies. But if you choose to go heavy, make sure you lighten the mood with bright furnishings.

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Anna Fixsen, Deputy Digital Editor at ELLE DECOR, focuses on how to share the best of the design world through in-depth reportage and online storytelling. Prior to joining the staff, she has held positions at Architectural Digest, Metropolis, and Architectural Record magazines. elledecor.com 

Curtains for the living room in 2023: 97 photos with modern options

The video lists the main trends when choosing curtains for the living room

All about how to choose stylish curtains for the living room

Trends
— Fabrics
— Colors
— Design
— Layering
Varieties
— Classic
– Roman
— Roll
— Blinds, shutters
How to choose: tips

Fashion in interior design changes almost as fast as in fashion design. Annual exhibitions become the starting point, from where new trends move into practice. Fortunately, updating the interior, making it more modern is sometimes possible without high costs. To do this, it is enough to change the textiles. How to choose fashionable curtains for the living room in 2023, what new items to look for to make the room more stylish? We tell.

Natural fabrics

Design: Olga Tsurikova, Zu Hause Design. Photo: Anton Likhtarovich. Style: Ekaterina Shapovalova

Ecological space comes to the fore. This also applies to home textiles. Linen, cotton, wool, silk, velvet - natural fabrics are a priority. The same requirements apply to other window decor. For example, blinds, shutters. Pay attention not to plastic models, but to products made of wood, bamboo, metal. These are the ones designers use in their projects.

Let's tell you more about the features of natural fabrics:

• Cotton, linen - hypoallergenic, resistant to wear, strong and durable. At the same time, they crumple quite strongly, and are prone to shrinkage during washing. Both materials are universal, suitable for interiors of different styles: from classic to industrial. But irreplaceable in eco and Scandinavian.
• Jacquard. It can be either completely made of natural fibers or have a mixed composition. Differs in decorative effect. The fabric is always decorated with complex, voluminous patterns. This material is characterized by high density, strength, durability. Almost does not wrinkle.
• Wool - for sewing curtains choose a fairly thin wool. Nevertheless, even this one perfectly retains heat, is durable, almost does not wrinkle, but requires special care. In particular, there are restrictions on the washing regime - the water temperature should not exceed 30 degrees, machine washing is undesirable.
• Silk. Despite the fact that outwardly this material looks very delicate and weightless, it is durable, it is quite difficult to damage it. Some types of silk do not wrinkle. All have bactericidal and hypoallergenic properties. But silk needs delicate care. For example, too hot water is contraindicated for him.
• Velvet. For the production of this fabric, natural fibers or artificial threads can be used. Natural fabric absorbs moisture well, passes air, does not electrify, is strong, durable, easily draped. There are disadvantages: dust and dirt quickly accumulate on velvet, it needs a delicate wash.

The photo shows the curtains on the windows in the living room, they are made of different materials.

Design: Ekaterina Vorotnikova. Photo: Sergey Ananiev

Design: Polina Andreeva. Photo: Christina Player. Style: Daria Kuznetsova

Design: Designer Katerina Karavaeva. Photo: Evgeny Gnesin. Style: Ekaterina Shapovalova

Design: Daria Smirnova. Photo: Evgeny Gnesin

Design: Margarita Melnikova. Photo: Natalya Gorbunova. Style: Elena Gorshunova

Design: Olga Tsurikova, Zu Hause Design. Photo: Anton Likhtarovich. Style: Ekaterina Shapovalova

Design: Mila Gench. Photo: Andrey Orekhov. Style: Elena Novoselova

Design: Diana Kalinkina. Photo: Viola Zavarzina

Design: Irina Baldanova. Photo: Evgeny Gnesin. Style: Irina Bebeshina

Design: Alena Nikolaeva (DNK studio). Photo: Maxim Maximov. Style: Alena Garty

Design: Alexandra Dotsenko. Photo: Evgeny Gnesin

Design: Olga Tsurikova, Zu Hause Design. Photo: Anton Likhtarovich. Style: Ekaterina Shapovalova

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Colors and textures

White, beige, cream, milky, gray, brown - neutral natural shades are placed on the first line of the rating. They are universal, do not tire the eyes, create a calm, relaxed, comfortable atmosphere.

Design: Daisy Aushev. Photo: Zhenya Muravyova. Style: Ekaterina Shapovalova

Other natural colors are also popular. For example, muted, “dusty” shades of green, blue, pink. But this does not mean that you need to completely abandon the brighter colors. In their projects, designers rarely, but still use such textiles. To make it look noble and stylish, choose complex, deep tones.

Two-tone curtains for the living room in a modern style are still popular, but not only, they will be appropriate in the classics as well. Colors alternate horizontally or vertically. Two tones can coexist in equal proportions, or one of them takes on the role of dominant, and the second appears as a border. A smooth gradient is also in demand. Curtains with a pattern do not lose their relevance: geometric or floral.

Texture is also important. The most relevant option is a texture that is as close as possible to natural, natural. Up to a coarse fabric, with a pronounced interlacing of threads. Modern curtains for the living room are often matte, without obvious shine and overflow, a delicate, soft satin glow is allowed.

Design: Svetlana Vorontsova. Photo: Mikhail Chekalov

Design: Margarita Posukhova. Photo: Anton Likhtarovich. Style: Irina Temnova

Design: Ksenia Shakirova. Photo: Inna Kablukova

Design: Ana Petkovic, Archstagram Studio. Photo: Egor Kodyakov. Style: Maria Markus

Design: Daisy Aushev. Photo: Zhenya Muravyova. Style: Ekaterina Shapovalova

Design: Olga and Irina Khalezov. Photo: Maxim Maximov

Design: Victoria Bar. Photo: Tatiana Nikitina

Design: Tatiana Tartakovskaya. Photo: Natalia Gorbunova

Design: Olga Kazantseva, Elena Bachurina. Photo: Mikhail Pomortsev. Style: Irina Chertikhina

Design: Diana Kalinkina. Photo: Viola Zavarzina

Design: Olga Peretyatkova. Photo: Mikhail Bravy

Design: Margarita Kalinina. Photo: Alexander Burnatov

Design: Natalia Istomina. Photo: Olga Melekestseva

Design: Anna Mizura. Photo: Anastasia Kutyrina

Design: Vitaly Bitiev, head of the Azbuka Dom studio. Photo: Ivan Sorokin

Design: Elena Nasyrova. Photo: Olga Melekestseva. Style: Evgenia Poleshchuk

Design: Natalia Konstantinova. Photo: Mikhail Chekalov. Style: Kati Klee

Design: Violetta Golubeva. Photo: Olga Shangina. Style: Olga Kharlamova, Anastasia Ufimtseva

Design: Diana Kalinkina. Photo: Mikhail Chekalov

Design: Alexandra Dotsenko. Photo: Evgeny Gnesin

Design: Anastasia Grigorieva. Photo: Natalya Gradusova

Design: Maria Pivovarova

Design

It changes, becomes softer, "warmer" and more comfortable, but retains its main properties: conciseness, restraint, strict forms, a minimum of decor.

Design: Ilya Mishin and Anna Surkova. Photo: Olga Melekestseva

In window textiles, this means: simple shapes, clear outlines, the absence of complex, voluminous draperies and intricate decorative elements.

Often the very number of textile layers on the window is reduced to a minimum: there is only one tulle or weightless light curtains made of cotton and linen. Even heavy velvet curtains of a discreet color, freely falling to the floor, can be used solo. It will look minimalistic.

Design: Alexandra Khasanova. Photo: Natalia Gorbunova

Design: Ilya Mishin and Anna Surkova. Photo: Olga Melekestseva

Design: Ilya Mishin and Anna Surkova. Photo: Olga Melekestseva

Design: Margarita Posukhova. Photo: Anton Likhtarovich. Style: Irina Temnova

Design: Ana Petkovic, Archstagram studio. Photo: Egor Kodyakov. Style: Maria Markus

Design: Margarita Melnikova. Photo: Natalya Gorbunova. Style: Elena Gorshunova

Design: Vitaly Bitiev, head of the Azbuka Dom studio. Photo: Ivan Sorokin

Layered

This somewhat contradicts the previous point. But the modern approach to interior design is good because it allows different interpretations.

Design: Natalia Varnavskaya. Photo: Valeria Virskaya

In contrast to the minimalist, another interior is popular - more lively, characteristic and individual. Photos of modern curtains in the hall from design projects demonstrate that window textiles in such spaces become an important part of the overall composition. It is still quite concise, but it is allowed to use brighter, more saturated colors, several layers. For example, a duet of classical paintings, Roman or rolled. Although multilayer tandems can be minimalist. For example, if you use thin curtains and blinds.

Design: Ekaterina Vorotnikova. Photo: Sergey Ananiev

Design: Anna Tarasova. Photo: Nick Rudenko

Design: Julia Poliznyuk. Photo: Elizaveta Gurovskaya. Style: Anna Strizhak

Design: Natalia Varnavskaya. Photo: Valeria Virskaya

Design: Natalia Vasilyeva. Photo: Eugene Kulibaba. Style: Lyudmila Krishtaleva

Design: Alexandra Khasanova. Photo: Natalia Gorbunova

Design: Anna Maltseva

Design: Anna Maltseva

Design: Archimix Studio

Beautiful curtains for the living room should also be practical, match the whole interior, image and rhythm of life of the owners of the house. What can they be?

Classic

Classic curtains are a versatile choice for any interior.

Design: Margarita Posukhova. Photo: Mikhail Chekalov. Style: Ekaterina Naumova

In a classic style, these can be heavy curtains made of velvet or jacquard, or lighter curtains made of silk and even cotton. They can be left to fall freely on the floor or emphasize elegance by adding laconic tiebacks.

In modern minimalistic spaces, dense, strict canvases made of matting or thinner ones made of linen or cotton will look good.

Linen and cotton are chosen for eco-style, Scandinavian and Japandi - a combination of Scandinavian and Japanese trends.

Design: Irina Baldanova. Photo: Evgeny Gnesin. Style: Irina Bebeshina

Design: Ksenia Shakirova. Photo: Inna Kablukova

Design: Elmina Gay. Photo: Roman Spiridonov. Visualization: Alina Cherkasskaya

Design: Violetta Golubeva. Photo: Olga Shangina. Style: Olga Kharlamova, Anastasia Ufimtseva

Design: Evgenia Pestova. Photo: Eugene Kulibaba. Style: Elena Karasaeva

Design: Evgenia Pestova. Photo: Eugene Kulibaba. Style: Elena Karasaeva

Design: Margarita Posukhova. Photo: Mikhail Chekalov. Style: Ekaterina Naumova

Design: Maria Pivovarova

Design: Poplavsky Group

Design: Anna Malyutina

Design: ANFEDO interior design & decoration

Design: ANFEDO interior design & decoration

Design: Poplavsky Group

Differ from classic

Design: Evgenia Ivlieva. Photo: Natalia Vershinina. Style: Yana Yakhina, Polina Rozhkova

They are also divided by design.

• Classical Roman - when opened, this is an even, smooth canvas.
• Cascading - if the canvas is lowered, decorative folds will still remain.

It can be seen that in the photo of the living room interiors, classic Roman-type curtains are used in different styles: minimalism, eco and scandi. Cascading ones are suitable for more decorative interiors, for example, neoclassical.

Design: Lidia Napreenko (Mimosa interiors). Photo: Maxim Kanakin. Style: Ekaterina Lapteva

Design: Natalia Smorodina. Photo: Natalia Vershinina

Design: Karina Seiful-Mulyukova. Photo: Sergey Krasyuk. Style: Kira Prokhorova

Design: Karina Seyful-Mulyukova. Photo: Sergey Krasyuk. Style: Kira Prokhorova

Design: Denskevich and Yulia Ermakova, Yucubedesign. Photo: Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich

Design: Ekaterina Nenasheva. Photo: Nikita Korostelev. Style: Anastasia Tushkanova

Design: Evgenia Ivlieva. Photo: Natalia Vershinina. Style: Yana Yakhina, Polina Rozhkova

Design: Olga and Irina Khalezov. Photo: Maxim Maximov

Design: Elmina Gai. Photo: Roman Spiridonov. Visualization: Alina Cherkasskaya

Design: Irina Akimova's studio

Design: Ekaterina Nenasheva

Design: Olga Kazantseva, Elena Bachurina. Photo: Mikhail Pomortsev. Style: Irina Chertikhina

Rolled

The design resembles Roman ones. These are canvases with a lifting mechanism.

Design: Tatyana Kuchina and Maria Shusharova, FamilyDiz studio. Photo: Alexey Danilkin. Style: Yana Aniskovets

When lifting, the fabric is wound around the rod. But unlike Roman rolls, they are always concise and devoid of additional decor. There are also different options for density: from blackout to translucent.

Design: Valeria Khusnutdinova and Ekaterina Astafieva (Ingresso Interiors studio). Photo: Natalia Gradusova

Design: Veronika Knyazeva. Photo: Evgeny Gnesin. Style: Olga Vasilyeva

Design: Tatyana Kuchina and Maria Shusharova, FamilyDiz studio. Photo: Alexey Danilkin. Style: Yana Aniskovets

Design: Daria Smirnova. Photo: Evgeny Gnesin

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Blinds and shutters

Stylish, modern replacement for classic curtains. Designers prefer blinds and shutters with a horizontal layout. Such window decor can be chosen in a modern, retro and rustic interior style.

Design: Fedor Krylov

A big plus of blinds is that they accumulate less dust and are easy to clean. In addition, they take up little space, which means they are suitable even for small rooms.

Design: Alena Nikolaeva (DNK studio). Photo: Maxim Maximov. Style: Alena Garti

Design: Alina Lyalina 9Ol000 Follow simple rules.

Design: Ekaterina Nenasheva

Work with style. In most cases, textiles are selected based on the design of the entire room. For example, classic curtains - to a classic interior. But today experiments are allowed and even welcomed. If you are confident in your taste, you can try unexpected combinations. For a room in a brutal industrial style or with loft motifs, choose airy, light curtains. Bring a touch of minimalism into modern classics with metal blinds. Or add a bit of country-house vibe by installing wooden shutters.

Pay attention to the features of the room. When choosing window textiles, an individual approach is needed. And here we are talking not only about taste and stylistic preferences. It is necessary to take into account the size, illumination of the rooms. For example, for the south, where there is a lot of light, denser canvases are suitable. For the northern ones, where it is always gloomy, they are light, which will not block access to the already meager natural light. It is good to have several sets of textiles for different seasons. Indeed, in winter and summer, the illumination of the room is significantly different. In a small room where there is a lot of furniture, it is better to hang compact Roman, roller blinds or blinds. In a room with low ceilings, classic curtains to the floor or slightly lying on the floor will help visually add height, especially if you fix the cornice not directly above the opening, but closer to the ceiling. A narrow room can be made visually wider by fixing the cornice outside the window opening.

Consider color combinations. Designers often use this technique: they choose curtains to match the color of the walls. This does not mean that they must match tone on tone. Canvases can be slightly lighter or darker than the walls. This allows you to visually blur the boundaries of the room, make it more spacious, but at the same time preserve the volume. Especially when it comes to light shades. If there are many other textiles in the room - carpets, throws, decorative pillows - do not try to pick one pattern or color. It looks boring. Curtains should overlap with other textiles in separate details, but not completely. They also work well as a contrasting object, for example, due to a rich color or pattern. But then they need a calmer background.

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Curtains for the living room - 135 photos of the perfect combination with design

Curtains in the living room, made in a modern style, perform a functional purpose and become an element of a design thought out to the smallest detail. If you miscalculate with the choice of curtains, do not deliberately approach the choice, then the most expensive and modern design will look ridiculous.

Contents

1. Curtain selection
2. Contemporary style
3. Classic is always in trend
4. Hi-tech
5. Minimalism
6. Living room with access to the balcony

Choice of curtains

In the design of the living room, and indeed any other room, the final touch is the choice of curtains that suit the style. Curtains should match the chosen style of the room as much as possible in order to give it even more beauty and comfort.

It is worth noting that each style has its own kind of curtains, and you should be well versed in this, because if the choice is not successful, the design will be spoiled.

Modern style

Modern style is a cross between minimalism, hi-tech and electric. In this style, today people express their “I”, their taste, their concept of comfort.

Modern curtains for the living room - only straight, it is also possible to use curtains on grommets or hinges. The use of clamps is not allowed. The range of colors is combined with other colors of the interior or is an accent. Important: freshness and purity of color. Curtains in the living room 2022 are made from natural fabrics with a pronounced nice texture. Use a pattern either with geometry, or completely monophonic.

Classics are always in trend

Curtains in the classics - a mix of heavy fabric with airy, delicate organza. Light fabric does not let the rays of the sun into the room, and heavy and rather dense curtains do not let strangers into the house. Any fabric is used, the pattern and its texture also do not matter. In addition, more and more often the design of curtains for the living room involves the use of cords, braid or lambrequins. The main thing is to withstand the range of colors, texture, which will be in tune with the rest of the interior.

Hi-tech

In hi-tech there is no place for superfluous details, here every thing, detail is in its pre-allocated place. The style is absolutely unpretentious, very cold, not cozy. Previously, this style was used in the design of offices, but today there are many adherents of style for decorating their premises. The design of the window space in this style is not used for decoration, but carries an exclusively functional load.

If you look at numerous photos of curtains in the living room of this style, it will become clear that the curtains are as simplified as possible and often even strict, of medium transparency, with a sheen. The choice of the fabric used is of great importance - the material must be of high quality, modern, using a metal thread.

Minimalism

Decorations are not allowed in such an interior, everything should be concise and clear. The fabric should be chosen responsibly - it should be light and plain, letting in the sun's rays.

Living room with access to the balcony

If the large living room has a balcony, it is worth considering effective curtains, because often the door to the balcony is opened, and therefore the curtains are more tested.

1. Blinds - practical, but it gives the impression of not a living space, but an office. Not even standard white blinds, but in color, deprive the room of comfort and homely warmth, coziness, and fatness.

2. Sliding type curtains - curtains on the grommets move easily, they will not deform due to fastening, they can be draped.

New curtains for the living room with access to the balcony allow you to create a practical and at the same time cozy interior, the main thing is to take into account the style of the renovated interior.

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