Ideas for Curtain Window Treatment Headers

A curtain has more opportunities that drapes. There are more flexible, lighter, and aren't as bulky as drapes. Curtains have 3 basic choices of headers for window treatments. The classic tailored header, the regular stuffed header, and the stuffed top, tailored bottom header. Two are very different, but somehow in the end, the last header style brings the unique styles clashing together. Let's take a look at each of them.

The Classic Tailored Header is the most basic header you can have. It is basically the scrunched fabric around the rod, and a scrunched, tailored bottom. The next header is the regular stuffed header. This is has scrunched fabric on the rod, along with a stuffed bottom, filled with tissue paper or news paper. It is to give a younger and modern look. Finally, the last header features both of the last two styles combined. The top, underneath the rod, is stuffed, and underneath the stuffed part, is a short tailored section. This combines both the modern and the classic looks together, for those people wanting the best of both worlds.

After you have picked the bottom of your header, you can choose what you want on the top of the rod. You can have no top, a short top, or a bunched two inch top. Many people stick with the short or bunched top as it seems to make the window look larger on the inside, by covering up more of the wall above the window. This really lets you choose how you want the curtain to look and how you want your complete window treatments to look.

Which then, after you have a style all picked out, you need color. The color should go along with your style of curtain you picked for your window treatment, while also staying like the other colors in your room. Everything needs to blend together, to keep the theme of the room and the flow of the house going. The best thing to do is pick you style, based on other styles of furniture and fabric. Then go ahead and pick your color based on the major colors in your room.

To decorate your window treatments a little more, and blend them in with your other room decorations, you can hang decorations on the header. You can choose to gingerbread ornaments for Christmas, apples for spring, skull lights on Halloween, and so on. Anything you really like or feel like hanging on your curtains, you pretty much can for decoration, as long as it isn’t too heavy for the curtain rod.

Whether you like to be young, old, or somewhere in-between, there are curtains fit for your style. You can customize them how you want, and decorate them how you please. In the end, the window treatments are in your house, so go for it!