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Posted by suzienj (My Page) on Sat, Jan 30, 10 at 19:09
| We have moved into our new home-- what window treatments did you put in your family room/greatroom? We are struggling..
Right now we are down to -faux wood (creamy ivory white color or cellular opaque) we get LOTs of sun---and the larger windows are over 70 inches wide-- We would appreciate any feedback on Faux wood window treatments-- we are leaning towards that--
Heres some of our new house pics!
Foyer
Dining room
Office
Family room- twins play room lol-- this is the room i'm struggling with- i want something on the inside and then panels on the outside- but need to get the inside done first
Panels drawn on
Faux wood i'm leaning towards
Kitchen
Kitchen chair style we are considering- going to go look again at it tomorrow- will be in this darker wood color
Thinking about these wood round stools
Powder Room
Guest room- in progress- finished the bedding and pillows- looking for traditional style wood set
Guest Bathroom
Kids bathroom
Daughters Room
Sons Room
Master Bath
Upstairs Foyer
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RE: House Completed lots of pics!= family room Blinds
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| What a lovely, lovely house. I do miss the eastern traditional look since moving to the Southwest. I have no suggestions other than you will find so much wood flooring to be noisey. We put in lots of wood flooring here after the kids left home after college, and they all comment how much more noise carries, especially to the bedrooms upstairs, with the downstairs wood floors. |
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| Beautiful home! Really nice. I got excited when I saw your kids' bath because I've picked those same faucets! Anyway, we are still mid-build so I don't know what we'll do for our windows but in our current house we have the faux wood painted blinds. I like how they look but they sure get dusty! I don't know how the cellular would compare in that regard. Same amount of dust but not as noticeable? Good luck with your choice, though. |
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| I bit the bullet and ordered them today- went with faux wood- hopefully the lighter color wont look too dusty. I didn't go with stark white when with a creamier color- i was afraid the stark white would be too Bright- |
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| What is the paint color of the office? I also like your powder room wallpaper. Nice job. |
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| We had our entire house done in the faux wood blinds in cream from Home Depot. They were just as dusty as any other window treatment, I guess. I liked that I could turn them so that I could see out some without feeling like the whole world could see in... that way I didn't have to fiddle with them every day at every window. Beautiful house! Love the cabinet in the guest bath, the chandelier in the kitchen, and all the other little details like that. :) |
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| I'm loving your daughter's room (I'm assuming!)...the purple is so pretty! And, the staircase is very pretty...opening it up at the bottom was a nice touch! We have zero window treatments yet, but we plan on cafe plantation shutters (real wood) on our great room first floor windows and nothing on the upper windows. We had the faux wood plantation shutters at our old house, and they held up very well and unless you touched them...you wouldn't know they were faux. :) |
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Beautiful House! I like the faux wood blinds best. Just a more traditional rich style.
Congrats on such a beautiful house- I'm sure you'll love it for years & years ! |
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| This may be obvious, but I didn't think of it til a cleaning lady showed me... the round soft brush attachment for the vac. cleaner cleans the wide-slat blinds quickly. You close them flat & vac, then open/close them the other direction and repeat. I think if they are cleaned this way monthly or so, they stay pretty good. We've had them for years and I've been very happy with them. Also, in our area, Budget Blinds was a great price. |
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Thank you all--
I loooove my daughters room- i could sleep in there lol We ordered the faux wood-- ivory color-- hopefully they look great-- |
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I love your kitchen! It is the same look I want in my new kitchen. We just started building a couple of weeks ago. Could you please tell me if your cabinets are custom? If so, what is the brand/color of paint used on the cabinets and the glaze color? I also really like the granite colors used. Could you share what they are? I am also going to do the island in a pretty dark stain with a hang over just like yours. Also, in the bathrooms, did you use granite or is it something else?
Thanks!
Congratulations on your beautiful new home! |
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| Kristi-- hi-- GOOD LUCK THROUGH THE PROCESS_ remember to breath during the ups and downs.... now that i'm in and living it here's my 2cents. I looove my cabinets Shiloh Soft White with brown glaze... Shiloh Cherry island-- The white cabinets have granite on top (Giallo Ornimental)... I LOOOOOVE the granite so much. Now for the island-- uggg. Honestly if i could do it again i would do the GO on the island-- yes the contrast is nice but the ceasarstone - espresso shows a lot of mess and streaks (we have a lot of sun light) but when i cook (i'm a messy cook) the GO hides everything-- the ceasarstone- dark color shows every crumb.... so think about practicality. As for what we used in our bathrooms-- we used silestone/granite and corian--- (the corian already shows scratches- so dont use that!) I loooove silestone- no maintance- looks great!! We used a few different silestone colors-- GOOD LUCK! |
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| GORGEOUS!!! Thanks for the tip about the Ceasarstone! I liked the Espresso color but will now look at something else. Or maybe it will make me be a bit neater????? lol But I want to know how you uploaded your pics??? Haven't been able to figure out how to do that on here yet. Oh, and I REALY love the hardwoods. My last house I had NO carpet anywhere, it was all hardwoods. Yea, it could be a bit noisy sometimes, but throw some runners and area rugs down and its not so bad. I can't stand the maintenance of carpet. |
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| IMwonder- Thank you! Honestly the ceasarstone contrast looks so nice- but for the long term i think the lighter colors that have textured hide soooo much more! Upload-- go to photobucket.com-- create an account, upload your pictures to there... Then click on your albulm to open all the pictures you uploaded-- Find the picture you want to put into garden web- use your mouse and click on the HTML Code- highlight that code (it starts with a Good luck! |
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| Just gorgeous! Congratulations! I love the paint color in the entryway by your stairs. Do you happen to remember what it's called? |
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| Mrs Egg- sure do-- its SW Blonde- i love it- its a very nice entry color- makes me smile every time! Its a golden yellow... very rich.... good luck! |
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