While you can have pleated window treatments where the pleats are gathered, pinch pleated window treatments are a better choice for most traditional homes. Pinch pleated window treatments have the benefit of their neat pleats which can be as wide or as narrow as you like and in any fabric, color, or pattern you like. We might all have different reasons for preferring pinch pleats. Here are some of my favorite reasons for choosing them:
1. Pinch pleated window treatments can create a room all by themselves. You can use rods, colors, and fabric to make a statement and the drapes can set the entire scene for the room so that even the most blah furniture basks in the aura set by the windows treatments.
2. Pinch pleats work with all windows and all sizes of windows. You can even out a room that has mismatched windows by creating window treatments that are either identical in size and yet cover a variety of window sizes or that are perfectly proportional and set a harmonious stage for balancing the room.
3. Pinch pleated window treatments are perfect solutions for wide windows. The construction of pinch pleated drapes involved the sturdy addition of buckram that sets the pinch pleated design that is following perfectly from the top to the bottom of the window treatment. The pleats hold their shape for the entire length and provide an orderly and peaceful appearance to the entire window area.
4. Pinch pleated window draperies can also be echoed in the furniture. One of the neatest and most attractive rooms I have seen involved sea green pinch pleats on the windows with a matching creation that covered a small rectangular table and a desk with pinch pleated material that draped to the floor. The table was covered with a piece of custom cut glass so that the fabric also covered the top of the table but allowed it to be useable as a place to showcase pottery. The desk was similarly topped with glass so it could be used as a desk. The actual pieces of furniture were less than attractive but the sleek covers made them accentuate the room.