Since our bed room is on the entrance of our home, with a door that goes proper to the entrance yard and two home windows that look out to the facet yard and our neighbor’s home, I’ve been giving plenty of thought to privateness. Clearly, we want privateness in a bed room. However I at all times run into the identical downside relating to areas that must be personal. I really like pure gentle, and I hate blocking out pure gentle. So how do you could have privateness with out blocking out pure gentle.
In the remainder of our home — the “non-private” areas — I by no means shut the window shades. Our home windows in our lounge keep open 24/7. I determine perhaps I’m stopping housebreaking that manner. A would-be burglar can look in our home windows, see that there’s nothing in there value stealing, and transfer on. 🤣 But in addition, it’s only a problem to open and shut the window shades, so I depart them open on a regular basis.
However clearly, a bed room wants privateness. So I’ve spent weeks considering what I might do on our home windows and the door in our bed room. All three could have velvet curtains, which is fairly thick cloth. Plus, they’ll be lined with white lining in order that they’ll be white from the surface. I do know I’ve proven this a thousand instances currently, however simply as a reminder, that is the general look that I’m going for…
In some rooms of our home (lounge, breakfast room) we now have lined, top-down/bottom-up shades. (You will discover the main points of these right here.) Since our breakfast room has been our momentary bed room throughout whereas I’m engaged on our bed room suite, these shades have been fairly superb. I prefer to have the solar shine via the home windows because the solar comes up within the morning, so having that top-down perform is ideal. It permits the daylight to stream into the room early within the morning whereas additionally giving us loads of privateness with the lined portion remaining closed on the underside.
That’s the identical shade that I’ve on the window in my walk-in closet, and I just about at all times preserve it within the top-down place in order that I can have pure gentle and privateness. The one time I open it from the underside up is after I’m in there doing laundry.
However in different rooms (my studio, pantry, grasp lavatory, and bed room), I’ve these shades (affiliate hyperlink). I really like these shades a lot. They’re rather a lot cheaper than the lined, top-down/bottom-up shades since they solely open in a single path they usually’re not lined. They do provide fairly a little bit of privateness, however daylight additionally comes via them within the morning, so I do know they don’t provide 100% privateness.
And whereas I used to have these on all three home windows within the bed room, now I solely have them on the 2 home windows and the door is absolutely see-through, providing no privateness in any respect. (Excuse the older photograph. I don’t have up to date photographs but.)
Anyway, I don’t need to put a shade on the door. I’m simply not a “shade on the door” sort of individual. However I additionally don’t need to put privateness movie on the door as a result of I actually like having the ability to see out of that door after I need to. I could go for privateness movie sooner or later, however for now, I need to see if we will go with out.
So I’ve been eager about my choices, and right here’s what I lastly determined. I’m going to make use of a layered method in order that I’ve choices relying on how a lot gentle we would like within the room at any given time. Right here’s what I imply.
I’m going to maintain the shades on the facet home windows. After which I’m going to reuse the sheer curtains that I utilized in right here when the room was a house health club.
I liked these curtains a lot. They do let gentle stream in, however they’re not fairly like sheers. They’re thicker than sheer curtains whereas additionally sort of having that flowy, breezy, considerably sheer look to them. Once I took all the pieces out of the house health club, they had been too good to eliminate, so I stored them, hoping I may discover one other use for them. And I simply occur to have the suitable variety of panels.
So I purchased double curtain rods for the home windows and the door. I can’t even bear in mind the final time I used double rods (if ever), or the final time I did a layered look with curtains (if ever), so that is new floor for me.
It took me some time to seek out precisely what I needed, however I lastly selected this curtain rod (affiliate hyperlink). I actually preferred the brackets, and I particularly preferred that the rods aren’t adjustable.
This curtain rod is similar to the one I’ve within the studio. And whereas I just like the one within the studio significantly better, it didn’t are available a double rod. However this can be a shut second.
Like I mentioned, it’s not an adjustable rod, which I actually like. As a substitute, on the longer rods (like this 8-foot one I received for the door), the items screw collectively within the center.
So for the door, the velvet curtain panels might be 1 1/2 widths of material every, in order that might be a lot for me to truly shut the curtains at evening for privateness.
After which on the home windows, I believe the mix of the shades plus the sheer curtains might be sufficient for privateness whereas nonetheless permitting some daylight to return via within the morning. This room is the brightest room in the home within the early morning, so I’m actually hoping it will work out.
We’ll see the way it works out, however I’m excited concerning the thought of reusing these sheer curtains once more. I additionally like the concept of bringing some white as much as the higher parts of the partitions in order that it’s not too teal-heavy on the higher partitions. I believe that little little bit of white sheer curtains displaying will convey some a lot wanted lightness up on the partitions to interrupt up all of that teal. So hopefully it really works out the best way I’m envisioning in my head.
I nonetheless didn’t get the entire trim carried out on Tuesday. UGH!!! I’m caught in a unending loop of engaged on trim day after day after day. However I’m so near being completed. I simply preserve reminding myself of that finish objective to maintain me targeted. And I’m not solely targeted on the top objective, however on brief time period objectives as nicely. As quickly as the entire trim is painted, that implies that the entire dusty and soiled initiatives are carried out. And as quickly as that’s carried out, I plan to reward myself by bringing within the space rug and bedside tables. I don’t need to herald an excessive amount of as a result of I nonetheless have to hold the grasscloth wallpaper, but when I can simply see a few objects in place, that may preserve me motivated. So I’m preserving my eye on each that short-term objective, in addition to that remaining reward of an exquisite, completed bed room.
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