Pleated blinds, interior features of a modern apartment with pleated blinds, do-it-yourself pleated blinds
An interesting and unusual window design is one of the main tasks in creating a chic interior for your home. Therefore, you need to very carefully and carefully approach the purchase of curtains for a window opening. In this article you can get useful information about the recently come into fashion look of curtains called accordion pleats.
Content
- Pleated blinds and their application in the interior
- How are pleated curtains
- Types of Pleated Curtains video
- Pleated day-night curtains
- DIY pleated paper blinds
- Pleated curtains VIDELLA video
Pleated blinds and their application in the interior
This type of window decoration was invented in Germany. Pleated blinds look like blinds, but they are made of paper or corrugation. When using this original design system, new ways of extraordinary window decoration became available.
There are two options for accordion pleats - horizontal and vertical. Not complicated and very comfortable designs pleated made such curtains popular in cases when it is necessary to achieve protection from the scorching sun in inclined and attic rooms. Pleated blinds will be an ideal find for people who prefer diffused, not bright light - light penetrates through them relatively well, even when closed, you can freely get enough light flux to illuminate the room. Today's technologies make it possible to make on the pleated surface diverse, complex and not very, drawings or ornaments that will be clear and colorful, will remain for a long time and will not change their appearance under the influence of the rays of the bright sun.
Pleated curtains can be installed on all types of plastic windows. And pleated curtains are an ideal option when the window opening has not quite standard sizes and shapes, for example triangular or arched. But if it already so happened, and you are the owner of a home with non-standard windows, then pleated curtains will be your salvation.
How are pleated curtains
The convenience of these curtains is not at all complicated installation. In order to hang the pleated blinds it is not necessary to have certain skills. Pleated blinds in control are similar to blinds, chain and lace are also used here.
Buyers have the opportunity to purchase a wide variety of models, for example, models that respond to the brightness of the room lighting, which open in different directions, which are equipped with sensors and an electric drive.
There are many types of such curtains, but there are two main ones - horizontal and vertical. The possible color scheme of curtains will definitely please you - it will allow you to easily choose curtains for any type of interior. In a room with dark shades walls - light pleated curtains will help to dilute dusk, in a room where light shades dominate - bright pleated pleats will be a wonderful color accent.
Types of Pleated Curtains
Mainly for the manufacture of such curtains use fabric and paper. Pleated paper curtains are divided into two types - through which daylight and blackout freely pass (made from paper that does not transmit light). Installing them is not difficult, but in operation they are not entirely convenient. This is a good option for temporary use. If repairs are needed, they will be easier and easier to exchange for new ones. In the cleaning options, they are also finicky - you should forget about their wet cleaning.
To make pleated blinds with your own hands will not be difficult, they will turn out to be an interesting moment in the design of the room.
Fabric curtains have a huge selection of colors, they are not subject to mechanical damage, they are much stronger and much more resistant to direct sunlight. Mostly polyester fabric is used for production - its impregnation in a special composition allows for a long period of time to keep the desired shape of the folds.
Caring for fabric blinds is quite simple - brush away the collected dust with a damp cloth, and if necessary, use a vacuum cleaner. German developers were delighted with the release of blinds made of fabric that can be washed in water with detergents.
Pleated day-night curtains
Such curtains will look great on panoramic large windows and, provided that two fabrics are used, they will quite successfully replace the usual curtains and tulle. For the manufacture of such curtains, two types of fabric are used, which radically differ in density. One of the fabrics is rather dense - it is intended to save from bright sunlight and excessive heating of the room, the other, more transparent, is intended for window decoration in winter and in the evening.
Curtains hang day-night only on rectangular windows, and it does not matter where and how the windows are located.
Pleated day-night is used on the usual horizontal windows, ceiling and dormers. You can manage them in different ways. There are options for electrical and manual control. Manual is carried out using a chain, rope or pen.
DIY pleated paper blinds
Paper pleats are one of the types of curtains that can easily fit into any room design. They are a little difficult to make yourself without certain skills, but believe me, the result is worth it. Naturally, they can be purchased in a special store, but having created the curtains with your own hands you will be happy and puffed up before your friends that you managed to do it yourself, plus you will save a certain amount of money.
Now step by step we will consider how to make curtains with our own hands.
- First of all, prepare a pair of planks of wood equal to the width of the window. Still need paper, as wide as a window, but longer than the window.
- Now we take glue and glue one end of the paper to one of the planks.
- After finishing work with glue, we make folds for the entire length of the paper over the entire width of the plank.
- Then glue the second strip and the second end of the paper with glue. After that we fasten both straps for several hours.
- If there is a desire to make a pleated with ropes, make small holes along the edges, thread the rope, which is fixed on the lower and on the upper bar.
So step by step you can make pleated curtains with your crazy handles!
Pleated curtains VIDELLA
It is also worth to bring to your attention information about a recently appeared novelty from Polish manufacturers - these are VIDELLA pleated curtains. Important advantages of VIDELLA are universality, more advanced adjustment of width and length, for use on a wider scale and on various window shapes, convenience and practicality in operation and maintenance, a fashionable color palette, the ability to adjust lighting from top to bottom and bottom to top, amazing appearance and with all this - the price affordable to everyone.
All of the above are sufficient reasons for the high popularity of VIDELLA pleated blinds among today's buyers.
