So, I posted my mock-up of the nursery: (The rug is thrown in there at a crazy angle to obscure a brightly color bed spread.)
I originally showed floor-length curtains. I was thinking a velvety-gray. I know, I know, dark, but this is the look I'm going for here.
Two issues:.
- I forgot we have baseboard heat. It is just hot-water, but still. Fire Danger. I'm not comfortable putting anything on it especially in a nursery. So the curtains would be short, like the above (and how they are in the parlor.)
- I can't seem to find dark gray velvety curtains (or even make them) for a reasonable price.
Logic would say to just go with a roman shade here too. The issue with that is the light leakage. Franca's room has roman shades and until she was almost a year old, I had baby blankets strategically hung at the corner of each shade to block that sliver of light. It looked stupid.
I'm sensitive to light, so if I'm going to be sitting in this room for hours at night nursing while trying to not fully awake up, I need those slivers of light to not be there. So, curtains right? Right?!?
I have no idea why this issue feels like it is going to bring on the Apocalypse for me. (Oh, wait, yes I do. I'm 5 months pregnant, living in a dump of a house, nanny-less and trying to get 20 hours of work done per week, AND training to run 17 miles in three weeks.) So there is that.
Someone tell me what to do.
Short curtains?
Magic no-light-leakage roman shades?
Burn the house down?
This is why I am an architect and not an interior decorator. I can complete an Appendix B code analysis in my sleep. Selecting window treatments? Makes me lose it.
PSA: Interior Decorator does not equal Interior Designer. BIG BIG difference. I can't do the job of either.
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Buy this pair! They're not velvet but they're black out and have great reviews. And I bet shorter will look just fine.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Solid-Insulated-Thermal-Blackout-84-Curtain-Panel-Pair/2946005/product.html
Oh thanks!
DeleteSell your house to me! I want to live in Asheville so bad I can't stand it.
ReplyDeleteBut, back to the question at hand. Short curtains. Second the black out curtains idea.
Sarah - make sure to check back in April..... ;)
DeleteWhatever curtains you want with a blackout roller shade behind it!
ReplyDeleteReally good point Jessica. You got me thinking that I do really want dark curtains though. The room is pretty small, so I'd like the wall to read as one big "thing", not broken up as much.
DeleteStill, I could get dark curtains cheaper and the roller shade...
You can line most fabrics (gauzy ones probably wouldn't look good) with blackout lining (Joann's sells it for $10/yd, just use one of their 50% off coupons). My bf calls the room I put lined roman shades the "migraine room" for recuperation :-) Regarding the shorter curtains, my 2cents is that if you have floor-length curtains in other areas of your house, having these shorter might be irritating over time. Why can't you just outside mount the roman shades?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the blackout lining tip! I actually do want to create a "migraine" room, so I'm afraid even outside mounted the roman shades would leave a halo around the window.
DeleteGranted I live way north where it stays light till wayyyy after little people's bedtimes but even blackout curtains werent enough.
ReplyDeleteFor a while we rocked the aluminum foil on the windows, but eventually I got embarrassed and used blackout lining fabric and Velcro to make panels I could secure to the window frame. They are sealed all around so no light, and from the outsidethey just look like shades. From the inside you can cover them with whatever.
My favorite is the 'burn the house down' option. We just moved into a house with baseboard heat and I'm going nuts because all I know is floor-length curtains! I'm thinking roman shade with blackout liner because I have to do something stat! Every time someone drives down our street it shows right into my baby's room!
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