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Cover for high and skinny window

12 years ago
I am confuse what kind of window covering works to this very high and skinny windows.Please help the pattern and colors also.My surroinding wall is brown tones. Please ignore the existing wallpaper, I will remove it.
Thank you for help

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  • 12 years ago
    Do you want the view? If not how about some kind of stained glass. Or you could tint it. What are you going to do with the wall? Wallpaper again?
  • 12 years ago
    Angel, I need a kind of curtain, blind for the window, and for the wall, yess wallpaper again...
  • PRO
    12 years ago
    last modified: 12 years ago
    Just a great window film and no wallpaper. Let the window become a piece of art.
    https://www.houzz.com/photos/64-coachwood-road-contemporary-hall-calgary-phvw-vp~1767596
  • 12 years ago
    I do like that idea on the right, make it look like a piece of art on the wall. Do a very neutral wallpaper.
    Maybe put some wider trim around the window and make it look a little bigger. Or a roman blind to co-ordinate with the wallpaper you choose.
  • 12 years ago
    iplay, what is the material of the second picture?
  • 12 years ago
    dear angel, what kind of wider trim?
  • 12 years ago
    My first thought was a window decal too, it could look so beautiful. Otherwise, you should choose your wallpaper first, and then pick a simple, easy-to-use plain blind in a colour that blends with the wallpaper. Let the paper be the star of the show.

    If you're not fixed on using patterned wallpaper and blind or drape, then I think nothing could look better than iplay's second picture. That would be my choice, even if it makes the stairwell a bit darker.
  • 12 years ago
    Yes Rina, I hope I would fine a nice wallpaper to this wall, but is your opinion, stripe or floral or others? my surrounding wall is in brown tones, please advice me the color for this stairwall..and then I would go to find the plain blind.....
  • 12 years ago
    The surrounding wall could be a very soft, very light beige. You could also go crazy with a really strong, deep colour -- peacock blue? -- but I suspect that's not your style. A light smoky blue would be lovely.

    For the wallpaper, I'm assuming a light beige or creamy wall on my picks below. Not stripes -- vertical would make the space seem unnecessarily high and horizontal would look as though you're trying desperately to cut it down. Big pattern, and you can go quite dramatic. The metallic shine in the top two posted below would add some light reflection to the space (not a lot, though, unless there are windows opposite the stairs with light filtering up and down). I think you could get a silverish or light gold in a blind to match -- not too shiny -- but you should check first if you like this idea. I love the bottom left one for this wall, it manages to be dramatic and subtle and the same time. Dead easy to match the blind to the background colour. The actual flowers in the fourth one are probably too small for such a big space, though I think there's quite a big, spacious 'repeat' in the pattern, but I have the feeling it could bring a lightness and brightness to the space with its femininity. Again, no problem matching a shade with a pattern like this, whether you want to use the background or one of the colours.

    The other possibility, which could look really good, would be a diamond pattern -- but not black, like the one below. It was all I could find with the right pattern, but in your space it would make you feel as though you're living in a coal mine.

    All these are from www.grahambrown.com
  • 12 years ago
    With blue or cream walls ...
  • 12 years ago
    Must go shopping now. I'll check in later.
  • 12 years ago
    Nice window! don´t make it so confused with busy wall covering. just put some neutral color wallcovering. and then, if you can, install a Kind of chandelier with Long drop.
  • 12 years ago
    I agree with Angel18432 beef up the trim around the window something around 3 1/2 inches wide. I think it would give the window a bit more weight and appear larger.
  • PRO
    12 years ago
    It is a solar shade, Marlins…
    http://www.deliashades.com/
  • 12 years ago
    Stained glass or window stick-on that mimics stained glass look!!
  • 12 years ago
    here's a nice example of a simple geometrical peice
  • 12 years ago
    kcar : thats looks great...I dont need anything else around window, just it. the above picture similar with the glass at church's window, isn't it ?
  • 12 years ago
    There are some stained glass kits out there that use liquid lead & paints & aren't very hard to do (this is a cost saving way) or go to a stained glass shop & they can make to order---maybe hanging ones that you could switch out for the seasons & or your mood!!
  • PRO
    12 years ago
    Go with a Hunter Douglas roller shade.
  • 12 years ago
    Yes Marlins, that is the kind of thing they have in church window.
  • 12 years ago
    HI -- This window could be a great feature for the house . I would use panels of an Indian fret -work folding decorative wood screen, framed if needed to fit the window . If the panels are wider I would just install over top . You can also get laser cut metal or wood panels also. Or get a semi -sheer printed fabric or a lace ,- stretched over a frame to cover the window , this would be the cheapest to do ,I think . There are also window vinyl's that can have an image /pattern printed on and applied to the glass . There is also plantation shutters - but that would block a lot of light . Not so sure about the wall paper , that would depend on what you do with the window covering I guess . I would just paint .