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 a variety of thought to privateness. Clearly, we’d like privateness in a bed room. However I all the time run into the identical drawback relating to areas that should be non-public. I like pure mild, and I hate blocking out pure mild. So how do you’ve got privateness with out blocking out pure mild.
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 possibly I’m stopping housebreaking that approach. A would-be burglar can look in our home windows, see that there’s nothing in there price 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’d do on our home windows and the door in our bed room. All three could have velvet curtains, which is fairly thick material. Plus, they’ll be lined with white lining in order that they’ll be white from the skin. I do know I’ve proven this a thousand occasions recently, 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’ve lined, top-down/bottom-up shades. Since our breakfast room has been our non permanent bed room throughout whereas I’m engaged on our bed room suite, these shades have been fairly superb. I wish to have the solar shine by means of the home windows because the solar comes up within the morning, so having that top-down operate 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 all the time maintain it within the top-down place in order that I can have pure mild and privateness. The one time I open it from the underside up is once I’m in there doing laundry.
However in different rooms (my studio, pantry, grasp lavatory, and bed room), I have these shades (affiliate hyperlink). I like these shades a lot. They’re so much cheaper than the lined, top-down/bottom-up shades since they solely open in a single course and so they’re not lined. They do provide fairly a little bit of privateness, however daylight additionally comes by means of 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 picture. 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” type of particular person. However I additionally don’t need to put privateness movie on the door as a result of I actually like with the ability to see out of that door once 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 fascinated with 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 mild we wish 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 fitness center.
I cherished these curtains a lot. They do let mild stream in, however they’re not fairly like sheers. They’re thicker than sheer curtains whereas additionally type of having that flowy, breezy, considerably sheer look to them. After I took every thing out of the house fitness center, they have been too good to do away with, so I stored them, hoping I might discover one other use for them. And I simply occur to have the correct variety of panels.
So I purchased double curtain rods for the home windows and the door. I can’t even keep 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 wished, however I lastly decided on this curtain rod (affiliate hyperlink). I actually appreciated the brackets, and I particularly appreciated 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 a lot better, it didn’t are available a double rod. However it is a shut second.
Like I mentioned, it’s not an adjustable rod, which I actually like. As an alternative, on the longer rods (like this 8-foot one I obtained for the door), the items screw collectively within the center.
So for the door, the velvet curtain panels will probably be 1 1/2 widths of cloth every, in order that will probably be lots for me to really shut the curtains at night time for privateness.
After which on the home windows, I believe the mix of the shades plus the sheer curtains will probably be sufficient for privateness whereas nonetheless permitting some daylight to return by means of within the morning. This room is the brightest room in the home within the early morning, so I’m actually hoping this can work out.
We’ll see the way it works out, however I’m excited in regards to the thought of reusing these sheer curtains once more. I additionally like the thought 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 deliver 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 all the trim achieved on Tuesday. UGH!!! I’m caught in a endless loop of engaged on trim day after day after day. However I’m so near being completed. I simply maintain reminding myself of that finish aim to maintain me centered. And I’m not solely centered on the tip aim, however on quick time period targets as effectively. As quickly as all the trim is painted, that implies that all the dusty and soiled tasks are achieved. And as quickly as that’s achieved, 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 can maintain me motivated. So I’m conserving my eye on each that short-term aim, in addition to that closing reward of a phenomenal, completed bed room.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and embellish the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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