Externalize your interior by shaping your window and door treatments
Any home is not only providing security for its' inhabitants, but also allows light and mood to enter from windows and doors. These two elements help expand or detract from the space, provide security and shape the light entering a home. There have always been a range of ways to dress windows and doors, as well as the objects themselves, and historically we've seen little change to either. Perhaps we could se these as the backbone of the home, the foundations of interior design perhaps lie with windows and doors.
Although glass has been around for around 5000 years, there is little to demonstrate that aside from refining added chemicals, the application has not changed nor has the incredible retaining properties of the material changed. Of course as a society we have minor differences in utilization of windows or doors, however they provide the same functions. Nomadic tribes people may use leather skins as doors and windows, retractible in packed portable homes, or castles may use a port cullis as primary doors, we are keeping elements out, and inviting light in, regulating temperature and protecting interiors with their issue, whatever the materials.
Complimenting your interior with windows and doors
Shaping a room, moving a window, blocking off a doorway are all aspects which these pages cover. We will look at materials and designs for window coverings, specific examples of images and projects like these interior images or these which demostrate a gallery of doors.
We will use practical examples of how to dress your interior windows and doors. Providing safety and security is paramount to successful design with these elements. The Greeks used shutters for windows, and doors have been used since man could move a boulder. What a long way we have come when we see a site about windows here. There is no other single element which goes as undervalued as these aspects of interior design and our aim is to provide a new focal point for an interior by letting light flood back in changing the mood and essence of what has been created within.
We'll look at materials for curtains, the need for color choices and design, and why some materials lend themselves for more durable functionality and some do not. Historically homes have shaded and vinyled, fabriced and wooded, we see all of these within context and allow the visitor to choose which most compliments their windows and doors for a finish which is second to none. Various coverings are used including wooden shutters depending previously on the availablility of wood for shutters, a material investigated for interior shutters already during the Greek empire. Curtains and other coverings which we will go into more detail also demonstrate a rich fabric history and are as relelvant as many plantation shutters to the home owner. Modern materials have of course influenced windows and doors as well as ways of treating these.