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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aside from plantation shutters, which I think can look nice if you have really good light, I hate custom curtains/drapes. They look so dowdy and old-fashioned, like a dusty grandma’s house. I much prefer a simple Roman shade or white linen curtain with natural woven shades. [/quote]

I sort of agree that custom window treatments tend to be dowdy, although I’m sure everyone on DCUM has the absolute best non-dowdy curtains.[/quote]

What makes custom window treatments dowdy?[/quote]

They tend to be heavy fabrics, often damask, and they block light, which often makes the room darker, and the fabrics tend to look dated because they are usually a custom type of pattern, and no one is going to replace window treatments that cost thousands of dollars when they were installed.

And I am someone who is very much against trends and the blight of same-ness that seems to be everywhere, but even in my mom’s house I don’t like the custom window treatments.[/quote]

If you’re looking at window treatments from the 90s, of course they will look dated (and dowdy).  What you described is nothing like typical modern custom window treatments.[/quote]

Honestly, I cannot think of attractive custom window treatments that I have seen in real life in recent memory.  My most stylish friends have something very simple like Roman shades or very airy, light drapes that you could get at IKEA.  A lot of people just seem to avoid them altogether.[/quote]

LOL at IKEA being equivalent to custom drapes (which can also be done in a “very airy, light fabric.”

Honestly, it sounds like your notions of upscale interior design haven’t progressed past watching the original “Dallas.”[/quote]

Who is more likely to have dated decor: the person making a reference to “Dallas” or the person who is too young to have any idea what you are talking about?

Let’s ponder on that one a bit... :mrgreen: [/quote]

Youth doesn’t mean you have good taste.  But please, do keep buying your window treatments at IKEA.  For some people, that’s all they can afford.[/quote]

Lol. I think this is why so many people hate custom drapes. They associate them with people like this poster, who act like snobby b!tches and look down their noses at the poors who can’t afford their ugly curtains. And yeah, your house still looks like a grandma’s. [/quote]

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