Sheers or Voiles
Sheers, voiles or nets are fine translucent fabrics. They are used to cut down the amount of sunlight that enters a room and to create a small amount of privacy.
They can be used on their own or combined with heavier curtains to be drawn at night. For a long time they were only available in white or cream.
The selection available today is very extensive ranging from colors, beaded, textures, striped, rainbow effects, metallic, threaded with flower forms, embroidered with designs, sequined … the list goes on.
So you can …

A pole or rod is a rail or track which a curtain or valance is hung.
Poles or rods are available in many different materials – timber, brass, wrought iron, bamboo, powder coated steel, and painted timber.
They usually have coordinating rings that fix to the hooks on the heading of the curtains. Curtain Rods or Poles are a simple and effective way to add decoration to your windows.
They are easy to install and you can coordinate the finials with hold backs, and other pieces of hardware providing a fluid designer look.
Finials …

An often forgotten area of decoration is a practical one, door hardware, and even more forgotten is door stops, these protect your walls from the door handle bashing through it. Ensure that the doorstop is long enough to stop the door before the handle reaches the wall!
There are many different types of locks, used for different purposes and situations.
 
Door Locks
Cylinder Night Latch
This is the most common type of door lock. It is essentially a spring-loaded latch opened by key from the outside and lever from the inside.
There are four parts; …

When buying a new home, you will remember that you first saw a picture or drove by, if you didn’t like the look of the outside, then you just kept driving. This is an important fact to remember when we now go to sell our own home.
The first impression of the house is the one that will mean stop and come in or forget it.
So we need to make that street or curb appeal inviting and welcoming.
Start by trimming, cut everything back so it nice and neat and tidy. Make …

No decorative interior window treatment is complete without a tie back, hold back or a tassel or two! Find out what decorative accessories are and when to use them, they could help you create a stylish designer window.
Valances come in many forms and combined with a tassel fringe or lace can make a window look more dramatic.
Scarf drapery is a simple, often little sew way to dress up a window treatment, these look great with beaded trim, or a picot braid.
Most important is curtain tracks or rods, without these we …