54 Window Treatment Ideas to Elevate Your Space in 2025

We love how these deep olive velvet curtains practically melt into this room’s curved walls (painted in Farrow and Ball’s Bancha, in case you were wondering). It creates a snug, immersive vibe that was core to this laid-back family home, designed by Clive Lonstein.

If you’re looking to bring a little sweetness into your home, why not pick a fruit-printed fabric? In this Italian apartment, the GP & J Baker curtain fabric brings in the sense of nature’s bounty ripening on the vine. Bonus: the pattern references the spotted wallhanging next to it.

If you head up a legendary fabric house, of course your home will boast the best window treatments for miles. Here, in the Provence home of Patrick Frey and his wife, Lorraine, the curtains in the sunroom are by—you guessed it!—Pierre Frey. We love how these golden floor-length drapes are positioned just above the doors to the patio, give the room additional height and marking an elegant transition to the outdoors.

This home, nestled into a centuries-old tower in Italy, leans into its historic pedigree with both elegance and whimsy. Here, floor-grazing silk curtains, in a Cesari stripe, pop against the grass green limewashed walls.

Dramatic drapes are the perfect way to add a sense of grandeur to a space, but when coupled with too many fancy decor items, they risk feeling froufrou. Never fear: Take a look at hospitality designer Eric Egan’s Milan apartment. Here, he incorporated floor-skimming drapes (in a golden vintage Etro fabric with complementary trim (we might add) but tempered them with modern elements like the chrome chair, dark floors, and a white-painted ceiling to lend a sense of airiness.

When choosing window treatments, it’s smart to ensure they complement the rest of your decor. In the case of this dramatic room by Jenna Chused, the roman shades actually match the rest of the decor. The same Christopher Farr fabric (in a pattern called Lost and Found) shows up on the custom sofa and the window treatments. That’s what we call twinning and winning!

Designer Nathan Turner liberally applied Nicholas Herbert’s floral Coromandel cotton to the walls and windows of this New York pied-à-terre to bring lightness to the room’s heavy, dark wood furnishings. After all, you can never have too much of a good thing.

Living rooms and bedrooms tend to get the majority of the window treatment love, but don’t forget about your kitchen curtains too! In this adorable example, designers Eric Hughes and Nathan Turner leaned into the vintage charm of their California ranch-style home with transclucent café curtains. The lemon-yellow hue introduces sunny vibes to the space, no matter the time of day.

If you’re looking for period drama, opt for a gorgeous draped valance and complementary Roman shade, as with this Midas-touched bedroom in (yes) a historic Italian tower.

This look, in a Tudor-style home sensitively reimagined by ELLE DECOR A-List designer Frances Merrill, could have easily gone over-the-top cottagecore. But funky silhouettes and neutral, floor-grazing curtains positioned high above the windows not only bring the look down to earth but flaunt those gorgeous timber ceilings.

In the media room of his New York City home, TV personality Thom Filicia dressed his windows in floor-length curtains patterned in the tiniest of gray-and-white checks, a move that—pro tip—not only gives the illusion of more generous windows, but also adds subtle texture to the largely neutral scheme.

If you’re stuck with tiny windows, use curtains to create the illusion of size. Here, in a 16th-century painterly Parisian pad, designer Eric Allart selected a longer curtain in a Simrane floral (the same textile that appears on the headboard and bedding) to move the eye around the maximalist space.