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Why a One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Window Treatments Will Lead To Regrets 

Why a One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Window Treatments Will Lead To Regrets

If you are building or moving into a new home and need window treatments for the entire house, you may be tempted to select the same treatment for every room. It feels like the quickest and easiest option and at a time when you’re already dealing with so many other tasks, quick and easy sounds attractive.  However, this path will likely lead to big regrets down the road. Let us explain. 

Each room in a house serves a different purpose so it only makes sense that the lighting, privacy, and style needs would be different. For example, you likely don’t need as much privacy in the dining room as in your bathrooms. You would benefit from room-darkening capabilities in your bedrooms but not in your laundry room. You may want to make a style statement in your great room but need something solely functional in your garage. 

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When you slap in the same window treatment in each and every room, you’ll either waste money by adding functionality in rooms that don’t need it (i.e. room darkening in your laundry room) or miss out on functionality in rooms that could benefit from it (i.e. top-down bottom-up treatments in your bathrooms). 

When adding window treatments to multiple rooms in a home, consider the needs of each space and divide your budget accordingly. You can splurge for statement-making drapes or motorized shades in your two-story great room by choosing budget-friendly options in utilitarian spaces like your garage, closets, and laundry room. 

If you still want to keep the process easy but don’t want to have regrets down the road, schedule a free design consultation with a Gotcha Covered design consultant. Your consultant will help you determine the best treatments for each room based on how you will live in each space. They’ll help you spend your overall budget wisely — saving in some rooms so you can splurge in others. We are full-service from design to installation so you can relax knowing every detail will be handled by our team of experts.