Special requirements are presented to the kitchen design. Indeed, the room should be simultaneously stylish, cozy and functional. On a par with furniture, a significant part of the attention immediately attracts curtains and eaves. With their help, they emphasize the overall style of the kitchen, visually increase the space and create the necessary degree of illumination. Choosing curtains and curtains for the kitchen, are guided by the following considerations.
We select cornice under the curtains
First are determined with the type of curtains. In accordance with them, they buy a holder of one or another design. Curtains for the kitchen must meet certain requirements:
- Practicality: Do not absorb fat and soot, easy to wash off, do not keep burning.
- Fit into the overall design of the room and correspond to the style of the kitchen headset and household appliances.
- Adjust the amount of sunlight, easy to move.
- Provide access to the window and forwards, as the kitchen is often ventilated.
The most practical blinds and Roman curtains to the windowsill. They are perfectly protected from the summer sun, easily rise if necessary and occupy little space. Under them choose eaves of the corresponding design. Such a cornice is mounted on the ceiling, window opening or directly on the frame of the window. If the width of the opening is large, it is better to use several lanes of the curtains.
Japanese curtains look beautifully in the kitchen and beautifully look beautiful. They make them out of small strips of flax, silk, cotton fabrics or bamboo. Mixed on an aluminum profile whose width is 60 cm.
Another modern version of the design of the kitchen window - rolled curtains. They are mounted on a special cornice, can be equipped with an electric drive. Such designs are used in the Smart Home system.
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Complex curtains with lambrequin will require a double or triple cornice, and Austrian, French and Italian are suspended on a special holder.
Note: Eaves for curtains with lambrequins hang under the very ceiling so that it is convenient to open and close the windows sash.
Varieties of eaves in design
By design cornice to the kitchen can be:
- Single-row if you plan to hang only tulle;
- double-row - for curtains and curtains;
- three-row - for complex curtains;
- Lifting - for curtains going up;
- panel - for Japanese curtains;
- profile;
- round;
- with a baguette closing the facial part;
- string;
- Erk cornice (special protrusion from the wall). It can be round, profile or made of string. Its feature is that the cornice is divided into short parts connected by special hinges. This allows you to mount the design in the curved erkers.
At the place of fastening:
- ceiling;
- wall.
By the method of fastening the curtains:
- on hooks;
- on loops, ties, rings or recordings;
- on clips;
- Combined (for example, on the rings with clips).
Metal or wooden?
According to the manufacturing material, the cornice into the kitchen is divided into the following varieties:
- Metal. They can be steel, aluminum, copper and brass. Release matte and shiny products, as well as colorful varnish coated. Separate variety - forged eaves. Made to order, such decor elements perfectly fit into the kitchen interior, decorated in a classic and modern style. The decoration of metal pipes and profiles, made by Venetian glass, genuine leather or Swarovski crystals, combination in one product of different metals allows you to implement almost any designer fantasy.
- Plastic. Plastic baguette designs are much cheaper and more practical. They are more unpretentious in leaving and operating. Baguettes of plastic curtains perfectly imitate natural materials (wood, diverse stone) and metal.
- Wooden. Such products are not recommended to hang in the kitchen. The tree is expensive, and the dampness and the kitchen fat will lead it to an indecent look rather quickly. On the other hand, such eaves sometimes are simply indispensable for underscore. So if your kitchen is worth a good exhaust, and the stove is not too close to the window, then you can risk.
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All species are decorated with a variety of lugs that give the product personality. Selecting the tips for the kitchen and kitchen headset, easy to emphasize any design room.
How to choose a cornice to the kitchen in length
Imractical to hang into the kitchen too long eaves. As a rule, the window has furniture, household appliances or washing. Even short curtains in this case will be born at hand. Ideally, if the length of the eaves will be greater than the length of the curtains. In this case, the space is better perceived by the eye and looks more aesthetic. The minimum width of the cornice is 30 cm more window opening. Too long product can be trimmed with a hacksaw or a grinder.
Unfortunately, the sizes of the kitchen do not always allow you to hang such a design. If the window is not very small compared to the width of the wall, it is advisable to stop your choice on the Roman type curtains or the like. Narrow and long window to decorate Tulle.
Note: If the space by the window is occupied by kitchen furniture only on one side, hang asymmetric curtains. So you can choose a long profile, visually increasing the width of the window.
Features of design
Chrome-plated kitchen eaves perfectly suitable for curtains on moduvers and high-tech church. The string is used in decorating windows with soft flowing tissues in the style of high-tech and minimalism.
For those who have chosen on a wooden product: It is advisable to choose it for the color and texture of the kitchen headset. Especially harmonious fit such ensembles into the Country style.
The narrow window is decorated with sliding curtains - it will visually increase the space of the room. Heavy double and triple curtains on forged and massive cornices hang in the kitchen with an area of at least 12 sq.m. A large drawing in the porters visually reduces the room. Light transparent curtains on the string or on the rings of one-curtain cornice are better looking at small kitchens.
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The form of the design may be not only straight, but also curved. Single-row curved structures in large spacious rooms look good. Also, such a cornice is simply necessary at semicircular protruding windowsides.
Equally important is the method of fastening. Under the light curtains, any mounts are suitable, and under heavy choose their sufficient quantity and check the wall strength in the installation places. The distance from the wall to the curtains is determined by the windowsill width and the presence of speakers of the heating system (radiators, pipes). On average, it is 10 cm.