Window Treatments

Asian Window Treatment Ideas

As global perspectives become universal, Asian window treatments are growing frequently popular. The peril when employing any kind of artistic window treatments is overcoming the danger that your design choice might be too theatrical. No one wants their home to look like a stage set or, in the case of Asian window treatments, a Chinese or Japanese restaurant. This means that the key word in Asian window treatments is subtlety.

One option is to accent certain Asian elements in your room while keeping an overall Western feel. In this case, you will be using your Asian window treatments to pull together a lacquered coffee table, a framed print and a vase, just as an example. Either way, you will probably be investing in wood blinds as your window treatments.

Bamboo wood rolling blinds are very popular window treatments. Bamboo blinds can be combined with a large variety of decorative, vertical cloth tapes to subtly expand on any theme. These window treatments come in both slats and sticks, each offering a different degree of light control. Tatami window treatments are another option. These tend to offer more light control than bamboo window treatments, though the appearance of tatami vs. bamboo is nearly indistinguishable.

Finally, consider the color of your window treatments. Tatami and bamboo window treatments can both be stained to any color, though they are naturally a light tan. Depending on the rest of the room's decorating scheme, black, light green, and red are also very popular color choices for Asian window treatments.