Consider Your Home’s Style

American Heritage:

Rooms are warm and comfortable, and are decorated with American antiques, crafts and collectables, and distressed pine and oak finishes.
Suggest: Simple chic: aluminum blinds or wood shutters; honeycomb or pleated shades; shadings, sheers or louvers with natural-looking fabric.

Casual (Cottage, Farmhouse):

Rooms are airy and spacious, and furniture ranges from comfy down-filled couches and chairs to wood furniture - both hand-painted and unadorned.
Suggest: Stylish minimalism: aluminum blind or wood shutter; honeycomb or pleated shade; shading, sheer or louver with natural-looking fabric.

Contemporary:

A fresh, uncluttered design that is functional and comfortable.  Clean lines dominate with experimental uses of materials; concrete, man-made materials, glass, natural and unique wood species, metal, and textiles.
Suggest:  Understated, clean design: aluminum blinds; simple shade, shading, sheer or louver.

Eclectic:

Art Deco mixed with French Country.  Asian flair mixed with contemporary.  However you mix and match styles, these rooms reflect your unique design sensibility - and personal collecting style.
Suggest: Bold designs (brightly colored blinds, shades, shadings, sheers or louvers) when you want the window treatment to be the room’s main attraction, understated designs (simple blinds, shutters, shades, shadings, sheers or louvers) when you want to draw attention to other furnishings.

European:

Old World charm dominates this design style. These homes have a lot of open interior spaces. Decorative touches may include plush area rugs, hand-painted, antique armoires, and ornately detailed textiles.
Suggest: Take advantage of these warm open interior spaces by choosing window treatments that allow a lot of light in: sheers and louvers will accommodate that goal. If your room’s design is more country than European, consider the more informal, organic look of a wood shutter or woven wood shade.

Formal (Regency Period, Victorian):

This design style is characterized by antique furnishings, marble or wood floorings, ornate surface treatments, formal fabrics, decorative wallpapers and heirlooms glowing with the patina of history. It is elegant and ordered.
Suggest: Ornate and elegant: pleated, honeycomb, Roman or woven wood shade; sheer, shading or louver with formal fabric; wood shutters.

Rustic:

Generally natural and earthy (think wood floors, exposed beams and roof timbers, flagstone fireplaces, iron hardware, and sheepskin rugs
Suggest: No-frills and natural: wood blinds or shutters; woven wood shades (created from reeds, bamboos and grasses).

Traditional (Classic, Queen Anne, Georgian Revival, Victorian):

Emphasis is on timeless and classic materials from marble flooring and finely carved wood furniture and surfaces, to gilded silver and gold leaf mirrors and Oriental rugs.
Suggest: Classy and luxurious: A blind or wood shutter; honeycomb, pleated or Roman shade; shading, sheer or louver with richly colored or textured fabric.

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