Decorating your windows with stylish, colored blinds can completely transform any room. Thoughtfully chosen color palettes and custom window treatments not only enhance your home’s aesthetic appeal but also allow you to control both privacy and ambient light. As you explore trendy shades and blind options in vibrant hues to redecorate your windows, consider how different colors can establish the desired atmosphere in your home.
Factors to Consider For Blind Color Selection
Existing Color Scheme
Carefully evaluate how new colored window blind hues will coordinate with your existing wall colors, furnishings, flooring, and interior design accents. Shades should seamlessly blend in or deliberately contrast, depending on the effect you wish to achieve. Cool pastel blinds can pull colors from subtle room accents, while saturated shades contrast to become a bold focal feature.
Lighting Needs
Determine when you need privacy or light filtering or blocking. Reflective white and cream blinds brighten rooms with lovely natural light, while blackout blinds in darker navy, gray, brown, and red hues provide privacy and insulation. Home theaters, media rooms, bedrooms, and nurseries often benefit from room-darkening blinds.
Room Functionality
The mood and frequent usage of different rooms influence ideal blind colors. Bold, saturated shades inject cheerfulness into high-traffic spaces like kitchens, bathrooms, and children’s playrooms. More neutral shades cultivate calming atmospheres suited for restful spaces like bedrooms and studies. Outdoor-facing dining spaces and living rooms also suit more translucent light-filtering blinds. Consider how colored blinds can become a functional statement piece or fade seamlessly into your background color story.
Additional Decor Factors to Evaluate
Sun Direction/Exposure
The sun’s harsh rays can cause carpets and furniture to fade, regardless of window treatments. If you have intense western sun exposure, consider darker bold hues instead of lighter sage or gray shades that may overheat. Northern rooms, however, can select from a greater variety of colors without light damage concerns.
Room Size/Layout
Larger open-concept rooms can incorporate colorful patterned and textured blinds that contribute visual interest across expansive bare walls. However, more narrow galley-style rooms and those shared between neighboring rooms suit basic blinds in soothing uniform hues.
Outdoor View
Framed rooms showcasing lovely garden views or woodland scenery often incorporate simple sheer and light-filtering blinds in neutral and natural tones that tint rather than obstruct. Rooms facing less attractive street views or closely neighboring houses favor more opaque light-blocking options for enhanced privacy.
FAQs
What are popular 2023 blind color trends?
Earthy natural neutrals like beige, ivory, and brown complement unvarnished wood trims while allowing golden daylight to filter beautifully. Vibrant jewel-toned emerald, sapphire, and violet featured in blackout blinds help bedrooms feel cozy and private. Meanwhile, metallic champagne and bronze tones add glamorous accents to contemporary open-concept designs.
Where can I view blind color samples in person?
Visit our Oconomowoc showroom to see our extensive selection of blinds on display across mock-room Vignettes. Our design experts can provide decorating guidance, demonstrate product capabilities, and suggest tailored color pairings for your aesthetic vision during a personalized consultation.
How do room-darkening blinds impact decoration?
Darker “blackout” blinds that fully block outdoor light allow you to more freely layer lighting and accessories without worrying about excessive fade or clash. Consider adding supplemental recessed accents, wall sconces, or pendant lighting options to rooms outfitted with these blinds. Room-darkening, paired with task lighting, prevents eye strain when watching screens.
Elevate Any Room with Customized Window Treatments
Our window treatment specialists have helped area homes and businesses flawlessly elevate awkward spaces for years. We proudly offer an unparalleled selection, including all popular styles, opacities, features, and color options, to fashionably frame any room’s distinctive needs year-round while protecting furnishings, optimizing natural daylight, and ensuring privacy on demand.
Contact Windows Designs by Landry Brown today to explore the custom-colored blind and shade possibilities perfect for your vision. Or visit windowsbylandy.com to view our extensive in-store catalog alongside inspiring photos from successful installations. We look forward to welcoming you in our showroom and actualizing the stylish oasis you’ve envisioned through purposeful, properly tailored window fashions.
