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How to choose the best kitchen window treatments | Opinion
In a room as functional as a kitchen, window treatments provide one of the few elements of softness and decoration amid utilitarian appliances and hard surfaces. Curtains and shades can deliver a pop of color, pattern or texture that the room otherwise lacks, while boosting privacy and controlling natural light. Because you use this hardworking space every day, it’s important to employ kitchen window treatment ideas that suit your style and needs for daily use. Here are a few things to consider. 1. Use window treatments as decorations Window treatments serve as pretty accents in the kitchen. In areas outside the work core, such as breakfast nooks, consider hanging floor-length curtain…
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The lure and fashion of interior decoration – Opinion
Editor”s note: Four decades of reform and opening-up have not only turned China into the world’s second-largest economy but also changed its people’s way of life. Those changes include people’s attitude toward interior decoration, which a veteran journalist with China Daily tries to analyze. For more than two years, my wife and I have been deferring the decision to repair and redecorate our apartment. Fifteen years after the last decoration, the varnish on the wooden floor and the paint on the walls are peeling off and the drains get clogged now and then. It is definitely time to get things fixed. But every time we decide to redecorate our apartment,…
