Hospital drapes. If you are like most people, upon hearing that term you immediately think of the drab institutional drapes that hang in many hospitals and other healthcare institutions. However, nowhere is it written in stone that hospital drapes have to be ugly. Unfortunately, however so many are. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be that way. When choosing drapes for your hospital or medical facility you have the option of choosing professional looking, custom-made drapes that add an air of beauty rather than a feeling of gloom to your space.
Psychologists have long touted the beneficial properties of the beautiful. Whether in art, nature, or our surroundings, when we experience beauty, we tend to feel better physically, emotionally, and psychologically. So, it only makes sense that when it comes to hospital drapes, we would want ones that move beyond the traditional institutional drab to ones that at least hint at the beautiful. And, while it is true that beauty is often in the eye of the beholder, there can be no doubt that there are some drapes that will appeal to the majority just as there are some drapes that the majority find drab, objectionable, or downright ugly.
Now is the time to bring a little beauty and elegance to your healthcare facility with hospital drapes that are up-scale and modern rather than looking as though they were installed nearly five decades ago. Whether you choose to install ripple-fold drapes, pinch pleat hospital drapes, or even stationary panels, you can make the interior of your hospital come a live with stately elegance, vibrant colors, or traditional lines that accent the colors of your walls or art pieces.
Regardless of what options your choose, it is nice to know that your beautiful, sleek, and low maintenance hospital drapes can contribute, even in a small way, to your patient’s overall sense of well-being. In addition, beautiful drapes may also help family members to experience something other than some drab, institutional reminder that their loved one is ill or recovering from surgery. If any place should seek to provide a décor that has the possibility of boosting spirits rather than dragging them down, it should be a hospital.
Though we cannot always control those things that will help patients to recover to the fullest extent possible, it is possible to control what kind of hospital drapes those patients have to look at. If you had the option between drab and beautiful, wouldn’t you choose beautiful every time? It’s likely that your patients would too.