Apple Kitchen Curtains
When you want to brighten and bring warmth to your kitchen, you should consider apple decor. The kitchen is said to be the most significant room in your home. It is a place for gathering, food preparation and family meals and therefore, it is important to make it hospitable and warm. Apple decor can achieve this look and feel easily as apples will add country flair to even the most urban kitchen. There are many things to choose from when it comes to kitchen accessories and beautifully hung apple kitchen curtains are a great place to start you theme. Whether you choose red delicious, granny smith or yellow apples, your curtains will help to embellish your kitchen space with color.
The most popular kitchen curtain designs are three-piece curtain tier sets, which feature two tiers and a swag valance to add an informal look to your living space. Fun prints can be found with red apples with pink blossoms, green leaves and borders of gingham check on ivory and white backgrounds. You will also find patterns, which include variegated apples set in beautiful wooden apple baskets. Lace curtains bordered with apples will give you a touch of sophistication, while allowing the warm glow of the sun to fill up your kitchen. Checkerboard and trellis patterns are also common designs with apple curtains.
Apple Trellis Tier Curtain.
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The nice thing about using this theme in your kitchen is that besides being magnificently cheerful, warm and bright, you will find a large selection of decorations to match your curtains including pot holders, wallpaper boarders, table clothes, napkins, crockery, and cutlery.
By decorating with this theme, and choosing country kitchen curtains decorated with apples, you will conjure up those wonderful memories of grandma’s best apple pie, cooling on the windowsill and filling your home with the colorful beauty of apples in rich reds, greens and yellows. You are guaranteed to have one of the most inviting kitchen spaces in your neighborhood. Everyone will want to stop by for a cup of coffee, or, who knows, a piece of that fabulous apple pie which you just baked!
Country Kitchen Curtains
If there’s one style of room that will really suffer for lack of kitchen curtains it’s a country style kitchen. Whereas contemporary kitchens with their shiny stainless steel surfaces and high gloss doors look fantastic with sleek blinds, something so simple will not do justice to a kitchen which is meant to be the heart of the country home (or at least look as if it is).
If you are looking for country kitchen curtains, don’t worry about finding what you need. You will be spoiled for choice as most designs of curtains for the kitchen are suitable for this style of room and they are the easiest type to find. Typical kitchen curtain fabric is adorned with all sorts of images that shout “country”.
You will find apple kitchen curtains which remind you of orchards and over-filled fruit bowls and you can find them to tone in with every color from the bright green granny smiths type apples which go with fresh bright shades to more rustic colors which are great with a natural colored room and wooden units.
Rooster kitchen curtains may not be for you but there's plenty of choice
You will find rooster kitchen curtains which remind you of a country farm yard and are very effective at extending the country theme. These are generally in natural and rustic colors too – great with your wooden cabinets and cream color scheme.
If you prefer curtains without images of fruit and farmyard you can evoke a country feeling by using very simple floral fabrics. Gingham kitchen curtains are a great choice too for this kind of kitchen.
If you prefer, you can make your own curtains with any suitable fabric. You should find many prints and patterns which will be suitable including the typical country farmyard and fruit images. Just make sure that the fabric you choose is washable. (Kitchen curtains attract grease and dirt from the steamy atmosphere of the kitchen and will need frequent laundering). Also wash and press the fabric before you make up the curtains. Cotton fabrics which are most suitable for kitchen curtains may be subject to shrinkage of up to 10%. If you wash the fabric (and any lining fabric you will use) future shrinkage will not cause a problem.
Although ruffled curtains and simple swag valances lend themselves well to the country look, do remember the requirement for frequent laundering and keep things fairly simple whether you make or buy your curtains.
One simple style of curtain suitable for the kitchen is the cafe style. Cafe curtains cover the lower half of the window allowing you to easily look out and enjoy a lot of natural light while affording you quite a bit of privacy. For a country kitchen choose a simple gingham or chintz floral fabric to stay in keeping with the theme. Large pictures of farmyard animals, sunflowers and fruit bowls don’t work so well with cafe style curtains.
As for colors, it is mainly natural tones which suit country kitchens – all shades of cream, green and yellow can work well depending on the color of your walls and cabinets. Yellow, I think, is especially good in a kitchen as it is found in every shade in nature from bright lemon yellow to dark mustard. My bright yellow kitchen curtains always remind me of sunshine and summer even on the blackest winter day in my north facing kitchen.
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