How have you dressed your bedroom windows?

8 years ago

last modified: 8 years ago

During certain times of the year, we all want as much light as possible in our homes, but during summer, it's usually shade we long for.

How have you dressed the windows in your bedroom to cater for the different seasons?

Do you have shutters or your prefer to have the possibility to play with colours and different styles using curtains? Or you love so much light, you refuse to have anything to cover the windows?

Vote and let us know in the comments below! (Pictures are welcome!)

Shutters (interior & exterior)

Curtain/drapes

Roman or roller blinds

Venetian blinds

Nothing

Other

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Gioenne Rapisarda
8 years ago
What a timely poll! When my partner and I moved into our apartment everything was great... Until we turned off the lights to go to bed! It was so bright in our room you could have left the light on! All bedroom windows in the building face out into the common open hallways, and at night, the lights don't turn off. No one else seems to have a problem but we've since come up with a temporary solution - velcro and builders roll plastic! Now you can't see anything :)
User
8 years ago
The master bedroom in my previous home faced north. Floor to ceiling window getting full sun during the day, and a street light directly outside at night. So, an exterior shutter, internal blind and curtains allowed light and heat control for various times of day and season. The master bedroom in my current home also faces north with a floor to ceiling window, but no street light. On full moon nights though, it shines right in. Once again an external blind controls light and heat, and interior blind and curtain gives me options for different times of day and season, eg. we love the sun coming in during winter, but not summer.
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christaline
8 years ago
We have full length blackout curtains - they're great in winter especially. I don't like shutters as they are very final and sterile - not to mention the cost (and gather the dust). Roman blinds on a high stud look good, but if you have multiple windows you can get shafts of light coming in between them. Mind you, to be fare I'm in NZ so we don't get the heat quite so much.
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Vy
8 years ago
our bedroom looks out to our courtyard which is also our corridor ummm I wasn't going to have blinds at all so we can see the view..problem was no privacy and since I hang clothes out there now it's not a nice view anymore lol so full blinds as I like my naps during the day and need a total block out
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