After spending years living where I am and dealing with some glare on my computer screen, I finally got around to doing something about it by getting some bedroom curtains.
The bedroom windows are interesting in that the previous owner decided to weld his own curtain hanging frame out of small copper piping. I don't know why, but that's what he did. This also presents an interesting challenge because many of the conventional curtains out there would not work.
It just happens so that I also have a set of leftover shower curtain hooks that is collecting dust in my closet. Put two and two together, and you've got another mad-cap, zany idea brewing in my head.
Yes, I thought, "Hey, what about shower curtains? Why not?" I've tried stranger things before, so why not indeed! I headed over to Bed Bath and Beyond to take a look at what my options are out there.
You know, I never realized until now that there are some very plush shower curtains out there! The one I settled on is made out of 100% polyester, but it feels unnaturally good! Very fabricky, not plasticky!
I bought it, gave it a try and lo and behold, it worked out great! It blocks out just enough light to not cause a glare problem, and yet, still lets enough sunlight into the room to make a very distinctive "warm glow" that I find very soothing!
Yeah, so the idea is crazy, but I really love how it turned out! (Either that, or I'm just easy like Sunday morning.) Of course, I can't simply describe this with just words alone, so here's a quick picture of my room (taken at night).
Here's the curtain pattern that I selected.
Oh yeah, and here are the leftover hooks that I used.
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Nice soft appearance.
Curtains in my son's old room are hung with shower curtain rings coupled with clip-on cafe rings. At my insistence, he sewed the curtains himself from $1/yard fabric. That was how he learned to use the sewing machine at age 10. All he needed to do was sew some huge flat rectangles. He has a wall of windows and at the time there was no other way we could have afforded curtains. IIRC, it took 16 yards.
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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that part of the reason why I picked this pattern was because it also costed less than other ones. This is still a personal finance blog!
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Yours looks nice BA!
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Here's to improv~!