New Window Treatment Hardware

Whether you are doing a complete room makeover or just need to swap out those old drapes – window treatments are certainly a big focal point in a room. When they are good, they really enhance the look of a room and ramp up the style factor, but when they are old or just do not fit in very well, they can drag the whole room down. In order to get window treatments that achieve the former instead of the latter, you will spend a good amount of time selecting the right fabrics, colors and styles for the curtains themselves, but you also want to pay attention to the hardware you are going to use to put those carefully selected curtains up.

Curtain Rods are a Smart Hardware Choice

The hardware component that actually supports your curtains or draperies and keeps them up is found in two basic styles: the curtain track and the curtain rod. Curtain rods can be basic and utilitarian in looks, but they are put to best use when you use them as a decorative aspect in their own rights. They are also sometimes referred to as “curtain poles,” and are most often used with curtain rings or hooks in coordinating colors or materials that you then attach the draperies themselves to when you hang the window treatments.

Curtain rods and poles come in a huge range of different materials, which is particularly useful if you are going for the decorative benefits this type of window treatment hardware can offer. Wood, bamboo, powder coated steel, chrome, wrought iron, brass and more – all of these materials are used to create beautiful curtain rods for your room.

The style factor can be taken up another notch when you add decorative finials to the equation. Finials are the name for the caps or pieces that can be attached to the ends of a curtain rod to add another decorative detail. These, too, come in plenty of different materials, and offer you another way to add even more stylish touches to your room’s décor. Finials range in design from simple to intricate. The most traditional finial shape is likely the fleur de lys – the French symbol in the shape of a lily that is found on many things, from flags of state to wallpaper.

Some combinations of curtain rod and finial shape for you to consider are wooden rods with pineapple shaped finials for a whimsical look, wrought iron curtain rods with the fleur de lys finials or an intricate curved free form finial shape like you might find in a wrought iron fence, and simple arrowhead s, squares, spheres, cubes, and other geometric shapes in any material with curtain rods to match. Since you can find these finials in all manner of different designs, from animals to seashells to leaves to acorns, whatever theme you have used to decorate the rest of the room will certainly have a window treatment hardware counterpart that complements it perfectly.