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4 Tips to Choosing Window Dressings for Nurseries

Safety, light control are the two key features which need to be considered when choosing window dressings for nurseries; closely followed by style and relevance. Let’s take a look at these key features one at a time to help you choose the most suitable window dressing for your nursery.

1. Safety:
Safety must come first when choosing a nursery’s window dressing. Full length curtains may look stylish however, once your child is crawling floor length curtains make the ideal thing to grab hold of to help pull them to standing or walk – the curtains are not designed to withstand this type of treatment and can easily be pulled down.

If you have any type if cord system for opening and closing children’s bedroom curtains or blinds they need to be kept well out of reach at all times. Newer styles of blinds have wand operating systems or cords which snap and come off if pulled too hard, however, it’s better not to let your toddler put this to the test.
Don’t choose curtains, tie-backs or blinds which have beads as these can be pulled off and swallowed.

Please don’t place your cot or bed under the window as the temptation to climb out and onto the window sill is very tempting for little ones that what to explore.

2. Light and Dark:
Although you want the nursery to be a bright and cheery place you’ll also need to choose a window dressing which puts you in control of the amount of light entering the room, especially when you baby or toddler still needs afternoon naps and early bedtimes and you don’t want to be woken by your child at the crack of dawn! Blackout linings for curtains is the ideal solution, especially if you don’t want to use blackout roller blinds.

3. Style:
It goes without saying that you want a stylish window dressing for your nursery. Look at the ranges of ready made curtains available and if you don’t find the colour or style you require opt for made to measure curtains – they’re actually more affordable than you might think.

4. Relevance:
This may not be something that you’ve considered, however, relevance captures the above 3 points along with the design or pattern you may choose. Children’s curtain fabrics are exciting and educational so use them to your advantage! They can inspire stories and songs as well as helping toddlers to recognise letters and numbers.

As you can see there’s more than practicality when it comes to choosing an appropriate window dressing for a nursery.