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Window Treatment Tips for Any Bathroom

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You picked the perfect faucet. Your shower curtain and towels are carefully coordinated. You finally found that Dyptique candle you’ve been searching for. Don’t stop there!

A just-right bathroom window treatment can be the perfect finishing touch for your dream bathroom.. Here are a few expert tips to help you choose:

1. First things first: How steamy is your bathroom?

Does your mirror fog up when you shower? If so, pick a treatment that’s great for high-moisture baths and in-shower windows, like a solar shade, a Chilewich roller shade, or faux wood blinds. These treatments are extremely durable and won’t warp. They’re also great for privacy, speaking of which…

Faux wood blinds are extremely durable for your bathroom.

2″ matte edged wood blinds in Ivory / Smoke

2. How much privacy do you need?

It’s different for every customer and every bathroom. Roller shades made from our Thompson and Park materials offer tons of privacy while still letting in natural light – but they are best suited for well-ventilated bathrooms.

Top down bottom up shades can be raised from the bottom or lowered from the top, allowing for various degrees of privacy and light control. Top down bottom up functionality is available for roman, woven wood, cellular and XL pleated styles, so there’s tons of selection.

Try a decorative tulip roman shade in a rich fabric. You can even layer it over a light filtering roller shade for extra privacy on your bathroom windows.

A decorative tulip roman shade.

3. Working on a powder room?

A small half-bath is your chance to turn an often overlooked space into a jewel box for you and your guests. Try a decorative tulip roman shade in a rich fabric. You can even layer it over a light filtering roller shade for extra privacy.

Swatches are the best way to test out privacy, color, texture and durability for your bathroom.

A detail of roller shade swatches

4. Try it before you buy it.

We know you’re impatient for that first bubble bath, but do yourself a favor and stop into a showroom or hop online to order free swatches – it’s the best way to test out privacy, color, texture and durability for your bathroom.

The Shade Store Participates in Record-Breaking Design on A Dime Event

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Picture this… the bell goes off and shoppers dash through meticulously styled vignettes by some of the hottest names in interior design to snatch up high-end, custom product for a fraction of its retail price—and on top of all of that, the proceeds all go directly to charity.

That’s what Design on a Dime, an annual event put on by Housing Works, is all about. Sound a bit like the Hunger Games? Well, that’s how designers and shoppers alike describe it. Grabbing items as fast as they can and trying not to get in a fist fight!

This year, The Shade Store donated window treatments to four New York-based interior designers to use as part of their displays—Ron Marvin, Marc Houston, Patrick Hamilton and Francis Toumbakaris. After the event finished and the dust settled, we chatted with each of them to get their take on our product and why they chose the treatments they did. Here’s a little peek into the designer’s spaces:
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“The Shade Store was incredibly gracious and generous donating the tailored pleat draperies in a rich deep emerald green velvet, which was donated by Robert Allen,” said Marvin. “We used the Steel Drapery Rod and Rings in the Antique Bronze to help give that rich traditional, but modern look.”

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“In order to give some depth and visual interest in my space, I wanted to create a corner window with a view,” said Toumbakaris. “I needed perfect framing with drapes and a cornice. My color scheme was grey, taupes and browns, and I am in love with your Wool Satin fabric. Ripple Fold drapes with a 9 inch cornice in Wool Stain Storm came out in perfection.”

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“I chose this drapery to emphasize the height of the space, focus the view, soften the aging plaster walls and create a sense of formality,” said Houston. “I layered wool flannel tailored pleat drapes in sand with winter sheer elegance panels utilizing gloss black hardware for a contemporary, architectural effect.”

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“I had considered doing Exotic Ebony for the wood, since I knew they’d look amazing, glowing against the charcoal walls, and their two-tone grain helping me knit all the space’s wood tones together,” said Hamilton. “In the end, though, I opted for the Matte Edged blinds in Grey Ash…the grey EXACTLY matched the wall covering, and the color match seemed too good to pass up. It’s also a go-to move of mine, having the main window treatments mimic or match the walls, a habit of working in Manhattan-small spaces. I loved how the window wall closed off the space without closing it in. Thankfully, contractor extraordinaire Vlad Tomasevik made it happen… as did The Shade Store!”

It was an honor for The Shade Store to work with these designers on a project that raised more than $1.3 million dollars for Housing Works. With that donation, Housing Works has began its construction of the Hull Street Residence. Hull Street is a from-the-ground-up housing development project that will transform a vacant 6,000 sq ft. lot into a beautiful, sage home for 26 single, formerly homeless adults living with HIV/AIDS.

To learn more about Housing Works’ mission, click here.

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