I'm not a window covering fan either. On our sunporch I put wood blinds cause I can shove them way up but close them at night. It's 8 windows and I didn't want drapes. My dining room has the same thing with a topper, it's a southern exposure so I had to have something that blocked the sun well in the summer. My living room is a bow window but I only have a valance. We have so little traffic and I don't tend to run around naked so...I have tried covering that window and just hate the light it blocks. I have curtains in my bedroom but the spare room is a valance and shade (It's Goldies room and she lives in the window and I don't need to clean hairy curtains. I need new ones for the bathroom, just a shade right now. When I was younger I loved changing curtains and colors.... -- Piggy's Pad

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Date Posted: 3:16:14 pm, Wed, 11/07/07
Author: Denise
Subject: I'm not a window covering fan either. On our sunporch I put wood blinds cause I can shove them way up but close them at night. It's 8 windows and I didn't want drapes. My dining room has the same thing with a topper, it's a southern exposure so I had to have something that blocked the sun well in the summer. My living room is a bow window but I only have a valance. We have so little traffic and I don't tend to run around naked so...I have tried covering that window and just hate the light it blocks. I have curtains in my bedroom but the spare room is a valance and shade (It's Goldies room and she lives in the window and I don't need to clean hairy curtains. I need new ones for the bathroom, just a shade right now. When I was younger I loved changing curtains and colors....
In reply to: Ramona 's message, "You know, I am going through the same thing. I am so tired of the normal window look not to mention the laundry chores of having curtains and a smoker in the house. I can't seem to come up with anything, but would love some ideas myself!" on 1:23:18 pm, Wed, 11/07/07

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I'm lazier now ! I've lived in places where I've done what you have, the curtain rings clipped to something other than curtains. I found cloth napkins once that matched placemats and used them for a valance. The blinds are nice but awful to keep clean too but cloth gets hairy and snagged...all this and didn't give you any ideas! LOL (NT) -- D, 3:16:51 pm, Wed, 11/07/07
Heck, Denise, we've even thought about the wood or faux wood blinds. The problem is that our living room and bedroom windows are doubles. To get that width is horribly expensive and also heavy. I've been using the quilts and shams because they were pretty, fairly inexpensive and very easy to toss in the washer when the edges became cathairlogged from the kitties poking their faces around the edges. (NT) -- Sandy, 4:39:23 pm, Wed, 11/07/07
Not cheap but Leon always wanted the wood blinds and we were spending so much money at the time for the room itself that we thought 'what the heck'! I also wouldn't have regular blinds, I found these cordless blinds cause I knew some of the cats were prone to chew on the cords. If we could just do awya with dust it would help! (NT) -- D., 9:09:34 pm, Wed, 11/07/07

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