When choosing living room curtains, the material is also an important factor that should not be ignored. Although the living room roman shade are mainly decorative, the functional properties of the material itself are more important.
Material selection
1. Cotton and linen curtains
Cotton and linen is the most common natural material, is a blend of cotton and linen according to a certain proportion, in line with environmental and human health requirements, and both hemp and cotton features, its breathability, not easy to ball up not curling.roman blind
Disadvantages:The biggest disadvantage is the lack of elasticity, easy to fold, take care of quite a lot of trouble, slightly rough to the touch.
2. Man-made fibers
Man-made fibers, in many smart curtains material is one of the most popular. Sturdy, durable and wear-resistant, the most important thing is that the sun resistance has excellent performance, and is not easy to deform. This different material Roman blind curtain are very resistant to dirt, usually three months to clean the work themselves once.
Disadvantages: Although dirt resistance and sunscreen convenience is better, but compared to the other two materials permeability and moisture absorption will be slightly worse.
3. Velvet curtains
Velvet is a general term for cut velvet fabrics, the surface has a light layer of velvet, delicate and soft texture, fashionable and elegant, visually extremely beautiful, good drape. And it has the characteristics of light blocking, breathable, heat insulation, UV protection, moisture and so on.
Disadvantages: However, because of the fine surface of the fluff, it is easy to get dusty, so it needs to be cleaned regularly, and it is a bit troublesome to take care of it later.
From the degree of dirt resistance, synthetic fiber > cotton > velvet; from the noise reduction aspect, velvet > cotton > fiber. Therefore, the selection of curtains must be careful.
Selection of shading
The choice of curtains for the living room, not only to block as well as the external vision and sunlight, but also can not make our indoor environment light excessively low darkness, but also to be able to heat insulation and noise reduction. This requires a study involving the shade of the curtains. For different areas of brightness information needs of people, and in turn can choose different shading rate of curtains.
1. 10% -20% shading: Usually in this shade, usually a window screen. It creates a sense of hiddenness, but it is mainly used in the role of embellishment and curtains.
2.30% shading: belongs to the roving series, it has a certain isolation of ultraviolet rays and light, and the light transmission is still very good!
3.40% -50% shading: isolate the dazzling sunlight outside, but does not affect the lighting effect, but make the indoor light softer.
4.4.60% -80% shading: meet most people's needs for curtain lighting, can feel the alternation of day and night, and curtains have a certain degree of compactness, so in addition to the function of sunshade, in the summer and winter can also have obvious heat insulation and cold effect, noise reduction effect is also obvious.
5.85%-100% shading: for us a long time in insomnia problem in general, this cultural degree of shading treatment effect will be better, and to a certain extent, the noise reduction effect will also be improved.
The higher the shading of the curtains, the worse the light transmission, the stronger the effect of sight obstruction, and the better the heat insulation and noise reduction effect.
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