There is a reason that block print fabric has been one of the most prized textiles in the world for over four thousand years. The technique — carving a design into a wooden block, loading it with dye, and pressing it repeatedly across fabric by hand — produces patterns that no industrial printing process can […]
Walking into a room that had been professionally designed — a luxury hotel suite, a beautifully photographed sitting room, a show home that makes you stop in the doorway — you notice almost always at the windows something that is rather tricky to identify right away. Somehow, the curtains look simply perfect in a fashion
There’s something special about the light in a room with linen curtains that is difficult to describe and nearly impossible to replicate with other fabrics. Its warmth but lack of weight, filtering but not blocking out, softness but not diffuseness make natural linen an amazing domestic pleasure — you experience it yourself and you understand
In the bedroom is where curtains truly become valuable fixtures in any household. While living room curtains merely frame windows and add style, bedroom curtains play an integral part in sleep quality, room temperature regulation, and creating the atmosphere from when you first wake up to when it is time for bedtime. Curtains can make
Most people clean their curtains roughly once every never. This is understandable — taking down curtains, wrestling them into a washing machine that may or may not fit them, waiting for them to dry, and then rehinging them with a step ladder is a significant project that gets indefinitely postponed. Curtains require regular attention –
Small windows are one of the most common frustrations in home decorating — and one of the most fixable. Whether it is a bedroom in a Victorian terrace, a bathroom in a flat conversion, a living room in a compact apartment, or a kitchen in an older house, small windows have a way of making
Buying curtains without a prior measurement is one of those things that works well in theory. But when the curtains actually arrive, you find out they are twelve centimetres too short, or so skinny that they don’t even touch in the middle when pulled together, or so large that they gather in an unsightly way
Curtain colour is one of those decisions that sound very straightforward until you find yourself in a fabric store or scrolling through hundreds of online options only to suddenly be in doubt of the actual colour of your living room walls – are they cream or warm white – and depending on the answer, is
Sheer curtains or blackout curtains? This is the question almost always raised in a debate about home decorating, and it usually divides people into two strongly opposing groups. And usually, behind that very question there is a whole bunch of other questions: What about privacy during daytime? What if I like having natural light but
If you rent your home, you already know the drill. Or rather, you know you cannot use one. Landlords, letting agents, and rental agreements have strong opinions about holes in walls — and most of those opinions involve words like ‘deduction’ and ‘deposit’. However, you shouldn’t accept having bare windows in a rental as if
