Home interiors: Curtain trends for 2027 are all about luxury

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A trend about to unfurl in 2027 is called “effortless luxury”. I prefer the concept of intentional luxury, because we know we mortals on the typical industrial wage are making more than a little effort, hacking those hacks, exhausting our innate creativity, sweating out some decision-making to bend the budget and spending at least a little money on the impression of a chic lack of trying. Not everyone has an ancestral line that’s left the place littered with Georgian chest-on-chests or top-class mid-century loungers. One element that we can deploy to layer up some louche, lazy elegance is curtains, and I predict a move back from blinds/no-blinds to full, proper window dressings next year.

Do we need the swoop and sway of curtains when we have well-insulated windows? As emotional architecture and for aesthetic flourish — absolutely. Their comforting cloak, open or closed, speaks of the protection and privacy of home, and I personally just feel better with upholstered pillars of gorgeous textiles set at least some of the principal windows.