Ideas for curtains and window treatments

Tim, I use textured paper from Hobby Lobby and white glue they have tons of colors and textures----Mark

Go into any curtail and blind store and ask for a catalog, I cut out applicable images and past them on the window.

Les Lewis,  

Paper coasters can be found in lace patterns.

These are all really great ideas. I'm in hobby lobby to often anyway.

Tim

What you do not describe here in looking for window treatment is Are you expecting to look into the window at interior scenes?

Well, I have done all of the following: In all cases I make my windows out of think clear plastic, taken from packaging or made from transparency plastic.  

Here, I paint curtains on the "inside" side of the window, and once that is dry, paint over it with black paint, or is some cases paint stuff like a vase and flowers seen through the window between the curtains, etc., and then paint the black.  

Here, I simply applied masking tape to the inside side of the windows after they were installed. 

This is reinforced tape as used for packaging . . . 

Here, I painted some windows and masking-taped others.  

Lee; what great detail.

For pull-down window shades, I used tissue paper wrapped around a bit of wire, and thin wire pulls:

all of these are excellent ideas and I have tried variants of them with great results.  the only thing new I can add are

Use scribed styrene sheet (with groves highlighted by a black wash) to simulate window shades

And use tissue paper to give the effect of curtains blowing out in the wind

I have used corrugated coffee hot cup sleeves as a template to make curtains.  A piece of fabric is pressed into the wells of the corrugated sleeve and held in place using toothpicks.   The fabric is then sprayed with hairspray.   After drying, the fabric holds the shape of the corrugated sleeve.

The third floor windows of this building contain the cloth curtains.

That is a nice idea to bend the folds of drapes realistically.  

I use paint swatches from home depot or lowes.  Multitude of colors and free.  If you want blowing curtains hanging out the window, use foil such as was included in cigarette packs.  you can shape them and they will hold paint.  Every time I go into lowes or home depot, I take paint samples, now I have a multitude of colors to choose from.

I don't think I be decorating the inside. At least not all of it. You have all provided some great ideas. I can see myself trying all of them. I actually have two Victorian houses. The second one I plan to cut in half and make two fronts. Thank you.

Builders in Scale has Venetian blinds at a very reasonable price. 

That reminds me, wallpaper samples! I used some for the walls in a 1970's Shaggin' Wagon van model. Have to love that carpet.

While I have used some of the techniques above, one other thing that I did not yet mentioned is this: To simulate Venetian Blinds, I created a WORD document and drew lines across the page.  I created 6 or 7 versions by changing the spacing between the lines, the thickness of the lines, and the darkness of the lines.  After printing I used the pattern that looked best on the model.

I did this because I didn't model the interior and didn't want 'see thru' windows.

- walt

Could do the same with pictures of curtains and drapes inserted into Word or Powerpoint (or your favorite picture manipulating software) and resized to whatever is needed.