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I'm lost on window treatments. Help ... please!

wi-sailorgirl
13 years ago

I'm not a window treatment person. The only window treatments in our house are the nice roman shades in the kitchen that came with the house and the linen drapes I had in the old bedroom.

We're coming to the end of our renovation and it's time for me to start thinking seriously about window treatments for the master bedroom.

Please ignore the bedding (I haven't put the duvet cover on yet), the dirty windows (I haven't cleaned the construction dust off them), and the fact that I don't have the grills on the windows yet. Right now I'm just looking for ideas on what KIND of window treatments would be best ... I'll worry about colors later.

These windows face east. Privacy is not an issue. A moderate amount of light control would be nice. Key to this is to keep any disturbance of the view to a minimum ... we ripped half the house down and rebuilt it to get that view!

There won't be any furniture underneath those windows so drapes would be an option, but the windows are quite high off the floor so the drapes would be covering a lot of wall as well.

Here is the other window in the room (southern exposure). We're having built-ins built for basically the entire wall, around the window with a window seat below it, so about the only window treatment that will work here is a roman shade. Therefore, another option for the other windows would be the same roman shades to keep a uniform look.

Any thoughts?

Thank you in advance! I love having a place like this to go for brainstorming.

Comments (13)

  • loribee
    13 years ago

    Pretty room~ I would do the same roman shades.

  • CaroleOH
    13 years ago

    If you want the most unobstructed view, I think a roman or any type of shade would work, but you're still going to have some of your window covered up with the stacking of the blind.

    A roller shade would work too and would take up very little window view. Smith & Noble has some nice ones and some color options have a blackout or privacy liner. These are nice shades - not the crazy rollup ones for the 60's!
    This is a flat roller one
    This is a roman roller shade

    Here is a link that might be useful: Smith & Noble Roller Shades

  • bestyears
    13 years ago

    Are you sure you NEED window treatments? They are very pretty windows, you have a beautiful view, you like the light.... I would dress the rest of the room before deciding. I'm not certian you really need anything.

    btw, what is your BEAUTIFUL wall color?!??!

  • wi-sailorgirl
    Original Author
    13 years ago

    Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. Caroleah, those roller shades are quite nice looking. I had no idea you could get decent looking roller shades these days!

    Bestyears, I think we probably do need something. During the last full moon it was quite bright in there. It's not an emergency situation though so I can wait a bit to get a better idea.

    The wall color is the lovely BM Revere Pewter which I put in my kitchen and loved so much I put it in the new bedroom. All of the white in the room is BM Mascarpone.

  • DLM2000-GW
    13 years ago

    Beautiful! I'm a fan of pleated shades - not cellular, although that could work, too, but I find pleated to be a cleaner look and the stack is tiny so they disappear when fully open. They are light filtering, not room darkening but in general, anything that is room darkening has a larger stack because it's a thicker or doubled material.

    On your windows, because they are not very tall, if you hung pleated shades as an inside mount, the stack would probably not be more than the size of your window frame. In other words, none of the glass would be covered when they are open it would all be exposed to your view.

  • andee_gw
    13 years ago

    Our bedroom has both east and south facing windows. We wear eye masks.

  • bestyears
    13 years ago

    Oh I wondered if that was Revere Pewter! Thinking of trying it in the next room I paint. Just gorgeous, thanks!

    If it is mainly moonlight and morning sun, my vote is for a woven shade of some kind. The roller kind like caroleoh posted would obstruct your view the least. The Roman shade style would be a bit more of a statement and obstruct the view and natural daylight a bit more, even when up all the way. What is your bedding like?

  • User
    13 years ago

    Very pretty room. I was also wondering the wall color, thanks for the info!

    I also like idea of romans or roller shades.

    I know you said you weren't worried about color at this point, and you say you're not really a window treatment person, but I think light linen type curtain panels would look nice alone or paired with the blinds.

  • suero
    13 years ago

    If all you need is room darkening, consider (I know this sounds awful) routless mini blinds that keeps the light out. They can be down at night and pulled up all the way during the day. Mount them above the windows and they won't obscure the view at all when they're pulled up.

  • hoosiergirl
    13 years ago

    I love your room, and especially the ceiling! It's very cozy! Depending on what style you're going for, I'd either do outside-mount horizontal blinds (inside mount would take up about 5" or so when pulled all the way up) or a woven roller shade that rolls up tightly.

    Here's an example of the blinds: http://media.photobucket.com/image/outside%20mount%20white%20wood%20blinds/DiPiazza/Livingspaces009.jpg?t=1281100471

    And here's a woven shade: http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Woven-Sage-Roller-Shade-36-in.-x-72-in./3309184/product.html?rcmndsrc=2

  • Stacey Collins
    13 years ago

    We also have nice, woven roller shades. They add a bit of "organic" feeling, but are low-impact, un-fussy, and clean-lined. I got mine at a PierOne-type place called World Over Imports that unfortunately no longer exists. They have metal-ball-chain controls that are nice-looking.

  • WalnutCreek Zone 7b/8a
    13 years ago

    Solar roller shades might work. They don't obscure the view and you will have some light control.

  • wi-sailorgirl
    Original Author
    13 years ago

    Thanks for the input, everyone. What I think I'm hearing for sure is that drapes are not the right call. I'll look into the woven roller shades and the roman blinds!