Archive for July 14th, 2009

it’s curtains for you… er, for us…

July 14th, 2009 -- Posted in domestic engineering, hill to haven, house to home | Comments Off

It’s window treatment time, and wow have blinds and curtains changed since the last time I moved into a new place (so like 8 years). There are so many neat options now when it comes to dressing your windows, whether you’re looking for light-filtering or privacy or room-darkening. There are even cool temporary blinds that have self-stick adhesive on them – you just cut the paper to size and stick ‘em up there.

So for the most part, we’ve gone with curtains. Just simple ones (that are like $25 for a pair instead of $50 per panel – yikes!). For the family room, we went with some neat woven roller blinds. The kitchen patio doors will probably require some neat custom option, but we’ll wait on those for now.

Here are some pics…
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