Lace window coverings decorating design ideas

Lace at the window
 
 
Okay. I know this is a trifle old fashioned, but note how effective this is at allowing light in while privacy is maintained. Yes. This is exactly what your grandmother might have placed at the window but there was method in her design.
 
 
 
Lace curtains incorporate light and beauty with craft, effectively feminizing the interior of this room.  
 
 

 
 
The entire feeling of each of these rooms has been transformed into a kind of magical world of delicacy and refinement. No minimalism here. Instead a curious kind of fragility.
 
Yes. Here too a simple vinyl roller blind tucked up underneath any of these curtains would add to the privacy and warmth most of us need at night. Our forebears were solving these puzzles of what to do with the window long before modern methods. Besides, isn't minimalism a little too masculine sometimes? A little too utilitarian? Doesn't minimalism occasionally add an unnecessary brutality to what should be the comfort of home?
 
Where else can you get both seclusion and light?
 

 
 


 

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