Living Room With Bay Window Decorating Ideas

Living Room With Bay Window Decorating Ideas

What is it about bay windows that we love so much? Generally found in Victorian houses, they originally came about because of a change in building regulations, which the Victorians took advantage of as the design allows more light to come into a room. But they can be a tricky shape to work with when you first encounter one. Do you opt for blinds, curtains, shutters or some combination of the three? It can take some trial and error to work out what to do with the extra, slightly awkwardly shaped space that a bay window creates. First things first, you can get curved curtain poles from John Lewis that are a godsend for bay windows. They offer made-to-measure options, bay bends for working straight poles together for a bay window and entire off-the-shelf bay window curtain kits. All you need now are some ready-made curtains.

Here below, ten examples from the House & Garden archive of what to do with a bay window, whether it's in a living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom or even bathroom.

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  Michael Sinclair

  A bay window can become the focal point of a room, as this glamorous and dramatic curtain decoration by Maddux Creative proves. Curved furniture and voluminous curtains in a Bruno Triplet taffeta reflect the curved shape of the window and ornate architraves and make the window a statement feature. The unique shape of the sofa works brilliantly as it eliminates any dead space between its back and the window.

• Simon Upton

  One obvious use for the sometimes awkward blank space that a bay window can leave is to turn it into a window seat. Here, during the conversion of this Victorian terrace in west London, designer Sarah Delaney retained the period features in the living room and created an upholstered window seat so the family could look out over the communal gardens. It acts almost as another sofa, meaning there is ample seating in the room and no need to block the window with another armchair.

• Paul Massey

  Fiona Golfar also used a bay window for a seating area in her Cornish house, filling it with a pile of cushions with varying covers and in all different sizes to create a cosy, separate space from the rest of the room.

Living Room With Bay Window Decorating Ideas

Source: https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/what-to-do-with-a-bay-window