For curtains to bring style to the living room or bedroom, you must respect this rule when hanging them. Otherwise, you can ruin your decoration.
In decoration, everything is a question of detail! You can spend a lot of time thinking about the layout of your living room or bedroom, but if you hang your curtains incorrectly, the entire room will be impacted. Too low, they will make your room look smaller, too long, it won’t look better at all. And if they are too short, they will make your entire interior look cheap. Does all this seem very complicated to you? Don’t panic, American decorator Bilal Rehman followed by half a million decor aficionados on social networks has a very simple rule to remember.
You will have understood that when hanging your curtains, it is absolutely necessary that the proportions are just right so that they bring style and elegance to the whole room. And how can you be sure not to make a mistake? The decorator’s secret to never making a mistake is to always place the rod as high as possible, ideally just below the ceiling to give scale to your room, then let them fall up to 2.5 cm from the floor. Thus, they give the illusion of taking up the entire height of the wall, without touching the floor. This will avoid unsightly draping and dust at the bottom of the curtains if they touch the floor. The window will appear much larger and your room will take on a new dimension. For the decorator, this is the best way to achieve “the slimmest, sexiest silhouette.” Not bad for curtains, right?
When it comes to width, keep in mind that curtains should be about 1.5 times wider than the window to provide nice folds when closed. This adds volume and gives a more chic effect to your decoration. The curtain rod should ideally extend 15 to 25 cm from each side of the window. This will allow you to completely clear the curtains when they are open and benefit from more natural light. And your window will only seem bigger!
