Poles or rods are available in various materials – wood, brass, iron, bamboo, powder coated steel, and painted wood.

They usually have coordinating rings that fix to the curtain hooks into the title. Poland is a curtain rod or a simple and effective way to add decoration to your windows.

They are easy to install and you can coordinate the finials with hold backs, and other pieces of hardware designers to provide the views of liquids.

Finials are improving at the end of decorative poles. They come in various shapes and sizes, some simple, some complex, from the traditional fleur de lys, and arrowhead to the fruit pomegranate and pineapple, and back to nature with the seeds, shells, along with the simple colonial turned wood balls.

Tab Top Curtains * on the trunk and climb up the finial decorative.

A more contemporary type of pole system tensioned steel wire, which does not impose on the window. It is used with grommets for curtains ** style.

Simple style tension rod is a stick to obtain a position between the window frame, and held there by spring tension system. It is often used to shower curtains.

Rod and up to up the finial is used here for casual cloth scarf ***.

* Asian Influenced Tab Top Curtains on the Rod up the finial

Tab top curtains are a modern style window decorations unusual. This example shows how the simplest form of curtain window treatments.

A standard rod and spiral to provide a form on which to hang the curtain up the finial. Created as a large curtain fabric but with the tip at the base and head and has a fixed width of about one inch head toto tab.

Is yarn through the tab and this is how the curtain hangs. fabric used here is contemporary with Asian influence in the mirror and beads to form a decoration. The color is bold and intense, and the wallpaper in the background has the look of a golden age with washed or motive.

Type the curtains while I grade as usual hangs at random depending on how it was taken, and also because they generally do not have the fullness of a lot and rarely wrinkles.

They do not have a very long life if they are often taken as a scrub cloth directly on the stem and causes wear and tear tabs.

They are the perfect choice for decorative curtains frame the window when used in a transparent or thin cloth.

Top grommets Curtains **

This is similar to tab top curtains but have metal grommets (eyelets) fixed to the head of the curtain on a regular basis.

They can then be threaded through the rod, pole or a more contemporary view, the tension cables.

They are often used with tension rods as shower curtains.

To create an interesting display of a vacation home, use a stainless steel grommets with canvas, cotton duck, or drill, and using stainless steel wire tension.

They also work well when used on railway supported around the bed, for example in hospitals, or relaxing at home.

To see more traditional, decorative hooks through the grommets to attach and using sticks and ring system.

*** Smooth Scarf curtain on the rod in the living room Stylish Sun

Light and spacious rooms. This view is framed properly by closing the window of the double belt.

Furniture placement and formal symmetry. typical rattan chair in the sun room and side tables to create a central focal point.

Window treatments used to soften the vertical lines of the window.

A simple black rod is used to climb up the finial decorative. A soft sheer see-through wrapped in a swag on the trunk and tail format that creates a formal softness to the room and add a romantic atmosphere.

Window treatments work well in this room, it was smooth and no more than space to flow like a traditional swags and tails can not, this is caused by the parent and use an informal bidding with transparent fabric weight.

If the song has been used with curtains pencil pleated curtains for example they will have a closed space, blocking the view of beautiful and too formal to use the room.

This room is used primarily in the daytime so that the curtain of this option only for decoration and these solutions fit. Other options could blinds on the windows, this works well for the sun room as they can be used to direct sunlight when it is too strong, but they take up space on the window. Nets or voiles can be used in this situation, but they do so permanently spread while reducing the appearance of glare Sun

To conclude this room dry regions are considered in balance with the window treatments.

They can be used on their own or combined with heavier curtains to be drawn at night. For a long time they were only available in white or cream.

The selection available today is very extensive ranging from colors, beaded, textures, striped, rainbow effects, metallic, threaded with flower forms, embroidered with designs, sequined … the list goes on.

So you can see that they are quite a fashion statement for your window. A very good alternative to blinds.

The use of sheers in this contemporary apartment allows diffused light to enter and makes a subtle design statement. They are ceiling hung on a track behind a pelmet in the form of a lowered ceiling and the curtains seem to float.

Sheers are a great way to add soft and subtle decorative curtains as seen in this photograph. The sheers diffuse the sunlight as under curtains, and then the gold decorative curtain to the side is pulled through a ring to act as a tieback, very clever design accessory.

The heading options vary greatly, from pencil pleats for a lovely fullness to inverted pleat for a more flat sophisticated look, to a simple gathered head that will be covered with a pelmet, valance, swags and tails or a scarf drapery.

They are also commonly threaded through rods or poles using a casement heading.

Nets or Net Curtains

Net curtains are similar to sheers, but the construction of the fabric is different. The strands of yarn are interlocked to form patterns of fine or large holes in the fabric. They can be fine or coarse, with varying degrees of complex patterns.

They are hung in a similar fashion to sheers.architectaria

There is a trend today of puddling curtains, this is where they are made longer than the height required and “puddle” on the floor, this requires a skill in fabric selection, so that they sit well. It is used commonly in living rooms and bedrooms.

With puddle curtains on a hand drawn track, make sure that the width of the curtain is not excessive as they become heavy and difficult to draw back. They are also prone to picking up all the fluff from your floor, so a little bit more attention is required to keeping them looking smart.

The top of the curtain (the heading), for all curtains can be at ceiling height, above or at the top of the window frame or flush with the window reveal.

It all depends on the space that you have. Do keep your choice constant in your home as it can look very odd if some curtain heads are fixed at different heights to others, especially when you can view through from room to room.

The finished length of ceiling to floor curtains should leave a 10mm gap, so that they don’t catch the floor and are easy to draw back, the gap for finishing at a windowsill only requires 5mm.

For safety reasons, never cover radiator heaters with curtains, look for another solution, either stop the curtains short of the heaters or use a blind as an alternative style of window treatment.

Consistency in design of the window treatments allows for a symmetrical form to be created here in this photograph. The head of the curtains are all the same height and the window swag and tail valance details are all the same and they are all held back at the bottom of the window sill which provides a regular frame for the windows and creates a flow and rhythm to the window treatments.