A bedroom is a special personal space of a person, which is used for relaxation. Therefore, it is necessary to create a harmonious atmosphere that will promote relaxation. The combination of curtains and bedspreads in the bedroom is a very important factor, because textiles play one of the leading roles. Textiles set the tone and mood of the room. You will need to take into account the color, size, and general stylistic solution for the room.
Characteristics of a set of curtains and bedspreads
What is usually included in a set of curtains and bedspreads for a bedroom? This is always one or more curtains, a large blanket for a bed or sofa. The kit may also contain additional elements such as details for decorating curtains (lambrequin or tiebacks, for example), pillowcases for pillows (decorative and regular) and fabric napkins for a bedside table or nightstand to complement and complete the look of the room.
This solution will give the room more atmosphere, comfort and a feeling of care.
Typically, a set of curtains with a bedspread is chosen to match the style of each specific room, so that there is no dissonance between all the main elements of furniture and the bedspread with curtains, because it will look ugly. If the room is made in a classic style, then the set should be selected classic, and not ethnic or any other. For a high-tech room, for example, it is better to choose a set of plain fabrics, without patterns or special relief (smooth materials).
The main thing is to choose these elements wisely so as not to spoil the overall appearance of the room.
Room Features
A bedroom is a person’s personal space, where guests can enter only with the permission of the owner of the apartment. There may be a lot of hidden and valuable things here. The bedroom can be called the temple of the human soul.
The bedroom should be well protected from daylight by curtains, and therefore the fabric from which they are made should be dense and not allow light to pass through. The bedspread should be soft and comfortable. It is important that it is pleasant to lie on it for a long time, for example, reading a book or working at the computer. If the bedspread is made of poor material or, even worse, it is prickly, then the owner of the apartment will clearly not like being on his bed.
Advantages and disadvantages
Like all other elements of room interior design, a set of curtains with a bedspread has its advantages and disadvantages.
When decorating bedrooms, everyone chooses the style that will allow them to truly relax.
Pros of curtain and bedspread sets:
- You can quite easily complement and complete the decoration of the room thanks to decorative elements that match each other.
- There is no need to devote time (by the way, this may take several hours) to select separate bedspreads and separate curtains that would match each other.
- Beautiful appearance.
- Nice decoration for the room.
Disadvantages of curtain and bedspread sets:
- May not match the rest of the room (must be selected carefully).
- They can fill a room “too much” with one color or pattern if the set, in addition to the bedspread and curtains, included additional decorative elements such as pillowcases, fabric napkins or something else. Such a pile-up of the same color and ornament will look especially bad in a small room.
The influence of curtain color on room size
For a bedroom, curtains and bedspreads have a strong influence on the visual perception of the room, especially in its volume. Let's look at some points in this regard.
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Selecting curtains by color
- No one doubts that the complete impression of a room depends on the color scheme. You can expand the seven-meter kitchen visually, as well as hide the extra meters of the large living room. You just have to choose the right color for the curtains.
- Warm colors ranging from violet-red to yellow create the effect of enlarging and highlighting the window space.
- Colors belonging to a cold color palette make the object visually distant. This effect can be achieved using curtains with soft green, lavender, blue, or pearl shades.
- Light colors make a room appear wider, while dark colors make a room appear smaller.
Varieties
Photos of curtains and bedspreads in a bedroom set demonstrate an incredible number of ways to fit a set consisting of curtains and bedspreads into the interior of any room. But what are they, these kits?
To decorate windows and beds, special kits are used that are made in the same style.
The “curtains and bedspread” set for the bedroom is selected according to the design of the room and the general style to which the entire interior is subordinated. There are several styles in which the vast majority of bedspread and curtain sets are made:
- Classic. Strict and restrained ornaments, straight lines, usually matte fabric.
- Rococo. Usually shiny fabric, screaming of luxury and wealth.
- Baroque. It is characterized by a large amount of decor, trim and various small details made to decorate the product. Like Rococo, Baroque style usually uses shiny, flowing fabric.
- Vanguard. Creates accents in a room, usually used in a maximum of 2 or 3 colors.
Curtains for a bedroom with a bedspread must be chosen to match the style of the room; it is harmony that contributes to quality relaxation.
How to choose the right one
Before you rush to buy the first set you like, you need to decide on the color scheme that will dominate the bedroom. Usually, furniture and wallpaper are chosen first, and the set is chosen later so that it is one or two shades darker than the wallpaper - this way the room will look like a single whole, and not disjointed blocks of color, which for some unknown reason ended up located in the same room.
There is also a rule - the more drawings on the walls of the room, the less ornament there should be on the curtains and bedspreads so that the room does not seem “heavy”. To do this, having chosen colorful wallpaper, you should choose plain curtains and a bedspread without patterns.
It is believed that overly bright colors excite the nervous system, so it is better to stick to classic or simply pastel colors.
By type of fabric
As mentioned above, a set of bedspreads and curtains should be combined with the style of the room and the colors used in its design. But sometimes you want to diversify the appearance of your living space, and to do this you can use the following methods:
- If the interior is made in a classic style, you can choose a set of contrasting color made of jacquard or blackout (tapestry)
- A room in an oriental style is perfectly complemented by curtains and a bedspread in a bright or dark color with the same pattern shape as on the wallpaper. It is worth giving preference to dense fabric like jacquard.
- If a calm and laconic Scandinavian style was chosen for the interior, then you should continue to adhere to it and choose a not very dark set without patterns of a not too bright color. Here you can opt for velvet or acrylic curtains.
- If the “Provence” style was used for the room, characterized by an abundance of floral patterns, then you can refer to the rules for choosing a set of bedspreads and curtains for a room in a classic style, but here it is important to clarify that the fabric should be natural, like linen or cotton.
For children's room
For the room where children live, you need to choose not just a warm blanket that is pleasant to the touch - it should be beautiful and bright, just like the curtains. The best option would be to choose a set depicting characters from the child’s favorite cartoon - now, fortunately, stores provide customers with quite a lot of different models, ranging from classic cars and Disney princesses to the aliens Terry and Corvo from the cartoon “Solar Opposites”.
Choosing what the child himself will like best is the most correct decision, because this way the child will treat things more carefully, because he will like them.
You should always remember the purpose of arranging a children's room or bedroom - relaxation.
For original design
To get an original interior solution, many people are now trying to combine styles and fabrics (bedroom textiles), trying to find the most interesting option. To do this, they usually buy a separate bedspread and curtains separately: they are often of different colors, made of different materials and have completely different patterns. Some (especially born designers) manage to find that very new solution in the design of a room, combining elements that, it would seem, do not fit together at all.
You can try to combine classics with oriental style, classics with baroque or rococo, rococo and oriental style. Some even manage to combine Scandinavian style and hi-tech.
The overall appearance should ultimately resemble a work of art.
Application in the interior of a set of curtains and bedspreads
The use of such a set in the design of a room, consisting of curtains and a bedspread (other small decorative elements are optionally added) is intended to decorate the room and bring coziness to its atmosphere. Warmer “winter” sets cope with this best.
Light “summer” options usually serve only as decoration and change the design of the room due to the change of season. A bedspread can not only cover your bed during the day - it can be used to decorate a sofa, and in other cases even as a blanket, if the textile from which the bedspread is made is soft enough and pleasant to the touch.
Bedrooms
In the bedroom, as already mentioned, the bedspread has several uses at once: to cover the bed, decorate the sofa and be used as a blanket. In this way, you can quickly decorate a room, regardless of what kind of furniture is there, because now many people, trying to save every square centimeter of free space, refuse to buy beds and choose instead folding sofas that can be kept folded during the day, because so they take up 2-2.5 times less space than when opened.
It makes sense to take care of the practicality of the products, because when purchasing a new product, even an inexpensive one, you want to enjoy the beautiful surroundings longer.
Children's room
For a children's room, a bedspread and curtains are, first of all, another surface on which the characters of your favorite cartoons are depicted. It is for this reason that bedspreads in a children's room are used mainly as decoration of the room rather than as something functional. Curtains, unlike the previous decorative element, have a specific function, but for a child they still remain just a fabric on which their favorite characters are drawn.
The main advantage of ready-made bedroom sets is the presence of a uniform design.
Living room
A set of curtains and bedspreads in the living room most often plays the role of a decorative element, and is not at all considered a functional item. Usually a blanket is thrown over the sofa (to which the set was color-matched) to make the room more comfortable. Curtains that match the upholstery of upholstered furniture and the bedspread complete the composition of the room's interior, creating a feeling of “completeness” and harmony. In this case, during the visit of guests, it is better to keep the curtains completely closed or half-open, so that the similarity of the fabric of the curtains and the bedspread will immediately catch the eye and produce the desired effect on visitors.
Hypoallergenicity is one of the important components of the modern world, because many people are to a certain extent prone to allergic manifestations.
Selecting bedroom sets by type of fabric
Many owners, in pursuit of their dream bedroom, lose sight of an important detail – practicality. They encounter its realities in a relatively short time, when the material rolls into pellets, is not washed and loses its appearance. This can be avoided if you choose the right fabric, which will not only harmonize with the decor, but will also last for many years.
Often the sets include special covers for pillows. They are able to perform not only a decorative, but also a protective function.
Curtains and jacquard bedspread
Jacquard is not a type of material, but a weaving method that consists in following a special pattern of connecting fibers, as a result of which the fabric acquires many advantages. At least 25 threads are woven together to create a dense fabric suitable for making curtains and bedspreads.
Thanks to such a variety of options, buyers have the opportunity to choose exactly those products that are ideal for the interior of the bedroom.
In demand because:
- has a low level of deformation when stretched multiple times (another blanket, its fabric often stretches);
- retains its appearance for a long time, even if it is in regular use;
- is considered flexible enough to create a drape or give the desired shape to the fabric;
- not easily soiled, and even if it gets “stained”, it can be washed off without any problems;
- sunlight does not have a visual negative effect on it, the matter remains in the same color that was originally intended for a long time.
When choosing a set of bedspreads and curtains, you need to take into account the fact that it should combine favorably with the decoration of the bedroom.
This weaving method allows you to adjust the composition of the fabric, which means variability in the ratio of components. You can mix different natural threads with polyester in the ratio in which it will be most successful in each specific case.
Today there are many different styles, and the leading place on the list is occupied by the constant classics.
Thus, craftswomen weave practical curtains and other elements with their own hands, turning their fantasies into reality.
Blackout fabrics
Blackout is a type of fabric suitable for bedrooms and children's rooms, because it is particularly dense. So, even in bright sunny weather, the room can be completely dark. This is important for proper sleep; it is considered to be of high quality in the absence of light irritants to the eyes.
To decorate the bed and windows, a simple cut set made of matte and dense material is suitable.
Blackout is used by many reputable foreign textile companies. It can be used in roller blinds, Roman blinds, curtains and other types, because it:
- does not allow sunlight to pass through at all;
- does not change color when exposed to high intensity UV rays for a long time;
- amenable to shaping, draping and other changes;
- is durable, retains functionality and aesthetics for a long time;
- outperforms most curtain materials in terms of thermal insulation and sound insulation;
- does not burn, the fabric melts and goes out;
- environmentally friendly, that is, it is not a source of toxins, even under extreme heating conditions;
- gives a variety of choice.
Please ensure that the curtains and bedspread are made from the same fabric.
The following companies use it in their products: Junkers & Mullers GmbH, Coulisse, Almedahls and others.
How to make curtains and bedspread match
The easiest way to combine curtains and bedspreads is, naturally, to buy a ready-made set. However, if the required set is not available or all those presented on the shelves do not suit the interior of the room at all, here are a few rules for beautifully combining bedspreads and curtains:
- Color. Curtains should be the same color as the bedspread; shades may differ slightly (by 3 tones maximum).
- Drawing. Here it is easier to choose a fabric without a pattern at all or leave a pattern on only one of two products - either on the bedspread or on the curtains.
- Material. Both parts of the set must be made of the same material (you can take similar fabrics if you can’t find the same ones).
The bedspread and curtains combine harmoniously with each other, thereby beneficially complementing the overall decor of the room.
Using all the rules and tips given above, you can independently choose a set consisting of a bedspread and curtains that will suit a room made in absolutely any style.
