by Kevin Collinsworth
If you are having trouble picking out the right kitchen curtains for your kitchen then you should learn how to determine the right style. There are all kinds of kitchen curtains but choosing the right ones for you isn't as simple. First and foremost, you have to find out if you need privacy or not. Because if you don't then the options are unlimited but if you do then you can rule out some of the options. For the kitchen you might want a valance, a tier or both.
There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
Let's say that privacy is not an issue but you wan to have a little dressing on your windows. The option for you would be a valance or valance swag. A valance is rectangular and covers only the upper part of the window. If you like to have a little more then you can have hanging valance swag. The additional swag is part of the valance that hangs from the sides but still does not provide any privacy. This can be very beautiful especially if you pick some nice curtain rods to complement it. It is very simple and you have a nice view of outside.
Sometime you see curtains hanging from a curtain rod from the center of the window to the sill. This is the tier and the style for it is called cafe style kitchen curtains. Sometimes you notice them at cafes or other restaurants. They put them up to give the place a little style and also to give their customers some privacy from passersby while they have their meal. This will do the same for you at home; they will give you the privacy you need while you are inside your kitchen even with the top part bare.
The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats. It was not always dry land where we dwell. I see far inland the banks which the stream anciently washed, before science began to record its freshets. Every one has heard the story which has gone the rounds of New England, of a strong and beautiful bug which came out of the dry leaf of an old table of apple-tree wood, which had stood in a farmer’s kitchen for sixty years, first in Connecticut, and afterward in Massachusetts,—from an egg deposited in the living tree many years earlier still, as appeared by counting the annual layers beyond it; which was heard gnawing out for several weeks, hatched perchance by the heat of an urn. Who does not feel his faith in a resurrection and immortality strengthened by hearing of this? Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concentric layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society, deposited at first in the alburnum of the green and living tree, which has been gradually converted into the semblance of its well-seasoned tomb,—heard perchance gnawing out now for years by the astonished family of man, as they sat round the festal board,—may unexpectedly come forth from amidst society’s most trivial and handselled furniture, to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!
I do not say that John or Jonathan will realize all this; but such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn. The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
You can have either of the top that I have mentions in beautiful country patterns or you can put them both together. That way you have the top piece, or the valance, hanging from its own rod and you also have the bottom piece, or the tier, also hanging from its own rod. Both put together as a matching set is originally have kitchen curtains were meant to be.
These are three different styles you can get for your window. The options are not limited though, besides the valance and the tier you can use your own creativity. I know some people who just have two panels with ruffled tie backs and they look very pleasing. So whatever you choose as kitchen curtains just make sure you are comfortable with it. Check out Gingham Curtains and see what white kitchen cabinets can look like in a kitchen.