Curtain call: How to choose window treatments

Blinds or curtains? Three experts tell us how to choose depending on the design scheme and room function

Curtains or blinds?

An Instagram algorithm decided last weekend I ought to follow Boris Johnson’s missus Carrie who is now an interiors influencer based on her headline-grabbing revamp of the prime ministerial flat in London and a recent visit to Ikea after which she gushed to her followers “they have everything”, and how much she "loved” it.

Carrie also reveals a new love of car boot sales which is some way from her £200,000 (€234,746) splurge of public dosh on the Downing Street pad, including a whopping £21k (€24,600) spent on curtains alone.