Need Window Treatment Help!

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

Hi there!

I need some help!

We are looking to put some nice but kid friendly window treatments on our living room glass patio doors. They are sliding doors. I have sheers on them right now, just to put something there, because i HATED HATED HATED the vertical blinds. Just not my taste. I want something cute and fun. Any ideas? hahah! show me your sliding doors! MY living room is a light blue an dcherry wood coloring.

Thanks so much!

 

[RNMOM]

Hmmm. Kid friendly? Leaves out mini blinds and those honeycomb fabric shades. I too hate vertical blinds. Ewww.

Sheers are nice as a start. How about a valance or cornice above? Or, a shelf with some safe display stuff? You could use a denim fabric curtain on the outside of the sheers...

How much privacy are you looking for? Do you want the room to be able to be darkend for movie watching or for sleepovers? You could put a large roman shade to put down for privacy/darkness but keep it up all the rest of the time.

I am not a drapery person. I have no curtains or just valances on mine and always have. I just don't like drapes or curtains. When we redid our windows and doors, I had a Pella swinging door with the blinds inside the glass put in and I love it. Privacy and light control and all the beautiful wood shows.

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

ughh those pella doors seems like a dream!
we don't care much about privacy, i like what the sheers give us, but we do get a glare in the AM on the television, which is no big deal except for saturdays when DH insists on watching tv! haha!!

How about a valance or cornice above? [/QUOTE}

I do like this idea!!

We ATTEMPTED to do the really pretty finials at the end of the rod, BUT the wall is slanted since the doors are kind of in a BAYed area of the room...sooo there was no room for finials after the rod went up

 

[RNMOM]

A cornice might be best and if you really wanted to you could get roller shades (inexpensive at Lowes and such) and just pull them down on Sat. when DH needs his glare "relief". LOL

We hate glare here too. The house next door reflects the evening sun into our livingroom in the summer and you can't see a dang thing unless the blinds are pulled.

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

thanks i like that roller shade idea

 

[golfgal]

If you are looking to block the sun they have a roller shade that is a dark film, like tinted glass that would work. You can still see out and you have the protection from the sun. JC Penney carries them. You could put up a valance or cornice to cover up the roll.

Well, I can't get the link to work, go to JC Penny website and search for solar shades in their window treatments.

 

[1Prince2Princesses]

Hi Michelle!

I love roman shades. I'm going to put them in the girl's room soon. There are mini blinds in there now, and they destroy them wanting to look out the window. I'm going to be brave and try to make the shades. If I can remember how to use the sewing machine.

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

thanks guys!!!