What are the Differences Between Window Treatments and Window Coverings?
I just want some clarity. I'm the type of person who is bothered by imprecise language, especially when in my own industry. You see, it's my job to write about the shutters and shades and the conditions, window treatments and coverings to tease all the time with little regard for their real meaning.
I have decided to do some research and get a definitive answer, which I share with the public. I do not expect is to create a kind of revolution onlyto a certain light on some pretty nebulous words.
First I went to the Merriam-Webster's online dictionary and found nothing, no definition for either word. How can this be? These terms are widely used. This is confusing for me. I use an online tool in my work, which tells me how many times per day in any public Internet using keywords. The word window treatments around 2600 per day and get used the word gets around windows coverings used 625 per day. And yet, these wordsare not clearly defined. I sense a conspiracy – just kidding.
My next resource is Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written, with descriptions and explanations of ordinary people. I found the following information:
A window for material to be reduced to a window to cover the sun to provide additional weather protection or the protection of privacy. Curtains are usually on the inside of the window, but may be on the road in some situations. Roofinginclude: curtains, drapes, blinds, including: blinds, mini blinds, shutters, different types of boarding, nailed and screwed to the window casing, can be used as a temporary window.
Placed in interior decoration, a window treatment can be based on any of the following items on or around a window: drapes or curtains, including curtains, blinds, shutters, used including a valance, tiebacks to hold curtains. It may also include treatmentdirectly onto the glass, including applied: frosted glass (by acid etching, sandblasting or plastic films or plates), distorted view of how wavy glass, stained glass panels or ornaments.
It seems to me, on the basis of these two messages, that is hardly any difference between their meanings. Both include window blinds, curtains and blinds (an old term for what is now commonly referred to as mini-blinds). Where they seem to be removed, at least according to theseDescriptions is that window coverings shutters (in this case, plantation shutters), and window treatments to treatments that are self-contained glass.
Both are decorated with the essential character of something or to cover a window to emphasize the privacy and light control (room darkening) and the establishment of a room. So, essentially what we have here are two ill-defined words, which have virtually the same meaning. So, I want to make a personal decision on this issue and say thatWindow treatments should be treated: curtains, blinds and shades on the inside (inside) part of a window, window coverings during each treatment: shutters, storm shutters should be, and awnings to the outside of the window. That seems clear to me. Does not mean that all will suddenly jump up on my definition train, but I can hope.
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