Are Blinds, Or Curtains Better For A Bathroom?

By Sarah K Howarth

Be very careful while designing the layout of your bathroom. While designing, keep the privacy factor in your mind, and then adjust the position of your bathroom window accordingly. Moreover, people conscious for more privacy also use curtains, or blinds sometimes. Although muddled glass is used in the bathroom windows, but still, curtains and blinds provide you an extra feature of security, and privacy.

Moreover, curtains can also be used to lighten the superficial look of a bathroom. It is better to use light and plain stuff rather than decorated, or ostentatious cloth, which might be annihilated by the steam.

Your preference for privacy, the area, and the set up of your bathroom must be considered while choosing the curtains for you washroom. However, do not choose a thick fabric that blocks all the sunlight. The curtains should be teaming with the theme of bathroom, or bedroom. Choose a waterproof fabric that can withstand extreme humidity inside the washroom, and dry quickly.

Using blinds is much more practical and efficient way, because they consume a lot lesser space to get fitted in front of the window. Infact the bathroom with blinds on its windows looks a lot spacious. To brighten up your bathroom, blinds of bright colours can also be used. To add more flair and classiness to it, you can also draw a contrasting border around the window using a stencil.

Humidity and dampness in the atmosphere of the washroom matters a lot while purchasing the right kind of blinds. For this reason, you should prevent using wooden blinds even when they are polished. Gaps in the Horizontal Slat Blinds make this type of blinds uncomfortable to use, as your privacy comes at a risk in this case. Therefore, the best option among all is to use Roll-Down Blinds. However, Venetian Blinds are also not a bad option.

Blinds have their advantages, such as they are available in a variety of colours, and designs. These colours and designs can be adopted to give the bathroom a proper theme. Some of these can be bought at pretty cheaper prices. However, they have a downside to them as well; they are quiet difficult to clean. Wooden blinds tend to wrap in humid or moist areas like bathrooms, and kitchens.

Curtains also provide you a variety of styles, designs, materials, and sizes. Curtains help a lot in giving a dull effect to your room by jamming the sunlight outside the room and making your room much comfortable, relaxing, and warm. However, its disadvantage is that they are pricy, and they often do not go with the theme of the room when it is refurbished. Moreover, even if you have raised your curtains, they block sunlight, but with blinds, you can easily obtain all the sunlight.

Both curtains and blinds have their advantages and disadvantages. It is also advisable to mix and match both of them to obtain the required look. So, either of the two options can be a good choice for your bathroom, depending upon how and what material you are using. - 29956

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