Velvet Curtains - Luxury In Your Home

Since ages velvet has been used to create a dramatic effect in rooms around the world. This luxurious material is considered to be one of the finest that one can have. Most often you’ll find velvet in rich colors of royal red, deep purple and burgundy. For centuries the royalty and the wealthy effectively used it to demonstrate their wealth and status and till date people continue to regard it as a regal material.

From the functional point of view, velvet is a very heavy material for being used for curtains. That has its plus and minus points. Its weight pulls down the curtain to create a superb fall that provides a sense of intimacy. The negative point is that opening or closing of such curtains becomes quite an effort. It implies that it will not be a right choice of curtains if you have elderly person at home, and the curtains need to be adjusted frequently.



Velvet is made by weaving material on a loom of specific kind, which would weave a few pieces of material. Silk yields the best velvet, but then being the best means the most expensive and may cost you a fortune, particularly when you require large lengths for an item like curtains. It may be worthwhile to opt for a good quality of velvet derived from cheaper materials like cotton or polyester that would not be exorbitantly priced.

The features of a velvet curtain are not limited to providing a luxurious look to your bedroom. Velvet being a very thick material acts like a great blackout curtain. It almost blocks the incoming light totally. Another advantage of thick curtains is that it absorbs a lot of sound, thus keeping you insulated from the noise in the street.

Probably kitchens and bathrooms are the two places in your house where you can’t have velvet curtains. You will find them often in bedrooms and lounges where they contribute to added warmth and comfort with a feeling of intimacy. The provision of velvet curtains even in an ordinary room will give it grand looks. Lest it should escape your mind, it may be added here that velvet being heavy and available in darker shades would make any room appear smaller than its actual size. That means it may not be the perfect choice to have velvet curtains in a small living room or bedroom.

It’s almost customary to have velvet curtains in theaters and just before the start of the show the big red or blue colored curtains are drawn out to reveal the big stage. And now that we have home theaters, there are many who make use of similar curtains to get the desired ambience at home while watching a movie. Of course that added advantage of keeping light out and dampening if noise is there, apart from the other effects.



The most scintillating feature of velvet is how playfully the light reacts to it. The weave of the fabric is such that you get to see all the different shades of light and dark all along its surface area, with the exception of velvet in black color. They naturally attract all the attention, leaving everything else in the background. That should specifically be kept in mind while having these curtains in one your rooms. For, if you are trying to highlight some other item in the same room, the curtains withhold the attention of the viewer and tend to be the focal point of the room, thereby making your intended item of display take a back seat.