Curtain Shopping Guide: How to choose the right curtain for each room
Curtains are one of the most important elements in our home decoration. It is like a smart barrier, which can cleverly divide space and effectively protect our privacy.
It plays a pivotal role in lighting, ventilation and overall aesthetics of the home. Therefore, choosing a suitable curtain is a key step in creating a comfortable living environment.
The secret to choosing curtains.
1.feeling, cotton curtain breathability is good, feels soft, but easy to wrinkle; Polyester curtains wear resistant, easy to clean, but feel hard; Silk curtains are elegant in texture, but expensive; Hemp curtains have a natural texture, but easy to deform.
2. feeling of drooping, with the hand to touch ah, feel very hard, like the suit fabric will not drop, or you hold the fabric and then loosen ah, can not immediately restore the drooping. The ones that don't hang down need to be fixed at high temperature, which requires extra fees. Before setting, if you do not like the rigid folds of the curtains, choose fabrics with good draping.
3. look at shading
The general types and advantages and disadvantages of yarn
- Fishbone yarn
Advantages: heavy foot, good sag, fish bone hollow texture more breathable.
Disadvantages: It is easy to hang longer and longer, and the heat insulation effect is poor
Suitable for: Owners who prefer the level of appearance over practicality
- Vajra
Advantages: natural vertical, hazy and elegant, opaque to light, anti-scratch and anti-hook, cat claws are not rotten, difficult to select closed eyes
Cons: Not yet available
Suitable for: pets at home can be preferred
- Louver yarn
Advantages: Vertical strip texture, gram weight, good vertical feeling.
Disadvantages: too wide window width is not suitable for splicing, it needs to be spliced, it is not easy to overturn (the current width is less than 3M, no splicing is required)
Suitable for: dream curtain flat replacement
- Phantom yarn
Advantages: wear-resistant, anti-wrinkle, transparent filter, natural vertical, transparent, not easy to hook the wire pilling.
Disadvantages: Compared with diamond gauze, a little heavier
Suitable for: everything
- Cotton and linen yarn
Advantages: Good comfort, good air permeability, affordable price
Disadvantages: poor elasticity, fading and shrinking, easy to wrinkle
Fit: Go with everything
- Crown yarn
Advantages: light opaque, better than the common gauze curtain effect, more privacy protection
Disadvantages: Compared with the conventional gauze curtain is heavier, the lack of smart and elegant feeling.
Suitable for: low floors, short spacing between floors, high privacy requirements.
The role and function of window screens
- the role of privacy protection. The window screen has a one-way perspective function, which not only ensures sufficient light, but also has a certain role in protecting privacy.
- Regulating the role of indoor light.
We have both the need to protect privacy, but also the need for indoor lighting. Ordinary curtain materials are relatively thick, to meet the needs of everyone to protect privacy, but the curtain is too thick is not easy to light, in the daytime when the home may be dark, the window screen is not the same, it can adjust the indoor light, to meet everyone's needs for indoor light.
- Keep out mosquitoes
Many people close their windows and draw curtains to keep the mosquitoes away. At this time, the home will become airtight, and the window screens can ensure indoor air circulation at the same time, but also cover the mosquitoes flying outside.
- Let in the air.
In the process of shielding mosquitoes, window screens also have the function of letting in air. Although we close the Windows and draw the curtains to block the outdoor mosquitoes, the indoor ventilation for a long time will affect the quality of everyone's breathing.
- The decorative role of window screens can not be ignored.
Hanging curtains alone at home seems too monotonous and blunt, then the looming window screens will also add some interest to the indoor space.