You need to keep the prying eyes of your neighbours out of your home. You need curtains. If that is a new HDB that you are renovating, chances are, your neighbour from across your block have a full view of your bedrooms.
Sizing it right. Before you buy your curtains, make sure you know the kind of curtains you want. Half height or full height. Take a look at the height of your windows. Do they reach from bottom to the top? Grab a measuring tape and make measurements. Height and width. The width of your windows will determine how many curtains you need. And also how long your railing needs to be.
How much light to block. Do you need your curtains to block out all the lights (blockout) or just let in around 40% of the light. Those that need blockout curtains so that they can sleep in real late, will need to look for professionals. Department stores might not have the really good blockout curtains, so make sure you can test the opacity of those curtains. Department store do give you a large choice of different curtains from different brands. I got mine from Robinson
Picking a colour. Remember that your curtains will cover one of four walls of your room. Do have some thought into what colours works for your room and what kind of feeling you want for the room. Warm or cool. Bright or dark.
Letting some light in. Now if you are like me and have semi opaque curtains, you have gained an additional advantage. Your curtain's colours will fill your room with coloured light, make it very easy to way to change the feel of a room, just by changing the colour of your curtains. Of course, this works best with light coloured walls.
Notice what you are buying. When you buy those curtains, the pair of curtains you buy have the same patterns. Having the same colour does not mean they have the same pattern.
My wife had a good laugh when I hung up all the curtains, and then we realised that though our curtains are of the same colour, one had stripes while the other had polka dots. Checking the packaging, one curtain was 355# D.Brown. The second one we got was 388# D.Brown.
Don't forget your railings. I got my railings and brackets from IKEA. It is at an unbeatable price, and there are some choices of how you want the ends of the rails will look like. After buying it, you either drill the screw holes yourself, or get your contractor to do it for it. Mine did it for me for free!
An additonal note about the railings from IKEA. For the master bedroom and living room, the railing had to be quite long, so I had to buy three wall ceiling brackets, instead of two.
Sizing it right. Before you buy your curtains, make sure you know the kind of curtains you want. Half height or full height. Take a look at the height of your windows. Do they reach from bottom to the top? Grab a measuring tape and make measurements. Height and width. The width of your windows will determine how many curtains you need. And also how long your railing needs to be.
How much light to block. Do you need your curtains to block out all the lights (blockout) or just let in around 40% of the light. Those that need blockout curtains so that they can sleep in real late, will need to look for professionals. Department stores might not have the really good blockout curtains, so make sure you can test the opacity of those curtains. Department store do give you a large choice of different curtains from different brands. I got mine from Robinson
Picking a colour. Remember that your curtains will cover one of four walls of your room. Do have some thought into what colours works for your room and what kind of feeling you want for the room. Warm or cool. Bright or dark.
Letting some light in. Now if you are like me and have semi opaque curtains, you have gained an additional advantage. Your curtain's colours will fill your room with coloured light, make it very easy to way to change the feel of a room, just by changing the colour of your curtains. Of course, this works best with light coloured walls.
Notice what you are buying. When you buy those curtains, the pair of curtains you buy have the same patterns. Having the same colour does not mean they have the same pattern.
My wife had a good laugh when I hung up all the curtains, and then we realised that though our curtains are of the same colour, one had stripes while the other had polka dots. Checking the packaging, one curtain was 355# D.Brown. The second one we got was 388# D.Brown.
Don't forget your railings. I got my railings and brackets from IKEA. It is at an unbeatable price, and there are some choices of how you want the ends of the rails will look like. After buying it, you either drill the screw holes yourself, or get your contractor to do it for it. Mine did it for me for free!
An additonal note about the railings from IKEA. For the master bedroom and living room, the railing had to be quite long, so I had to buy three wall ceiling brackets, instead of two.
Check out the rest of my Renovation Blog
Master Bedroom | Bedroom 2 | Bedroom 3 | Bathrooms | Dining Room | Living Room | Shelter | Service Yard | Kitchen
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