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curtains or blinds?

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coffee mate:
I have one of those thingy 'mi jigs that clean the venetian blinds. Five minutes and they're clean.  Ask my OH. Lol

oldsheep:
thank you ladies xxx

We went to JL today. They have the same fabric we can get from the online place at £13, for £28  :o
It is lovely...nice to see a whole roll of it, not just a fabric sample. It's a deep, rich velvety red (we have 5m high white ceilings and white walls and neutral carpet so can use strong colour) but OH is going with it as I love it. He says that when women hit menopause, they go for brighter colours (slapped him round the ears for that one).  ;D
We'd prefer a roller blind to a venetian we think. Then we can put a curtain on the other window, which is only about 3m away, but in the same room so needs to look similar. The only problem is if the fixing can be drilled into the steel lintel - will have to ring the builder to ask him.

I still wonder if a pencil pleat curtain (2 x 80cm widths, not very thick fabric; it's cotton-viscose) wouldn't draw back to under 10cms with a tieback so wouldn't block the sun?! JL's ready mades seem to pull back to quite small.

They are bog standard sash windows btw - 1m03 wide x about 1m30 long, so not v big. Classic period conversion top flat windows. The servants used to live in this bit, when the building was a grand old house. It's now 10 flats!

cubagirl:
I still wonder if a pencil pleat curtain (2 x 80cm widths, not very thick fabric; it's cotton-viscose) wouldn't draw back to under 10cms with a tieback so wouldn't block the sun?! JL's ready mades seem to pull back to quite small.

Oldsheep, it may be possible.  Tie backs would keep them tighter so to speak, if they were short enough.  I don't use tie backs so I'm not speaking from experience, but the ones I've seen often have very long tie backs, like a standard one size fits all, sort of thing.

Hyacinth:
Oldsheep, I don't really understand why you want anything at the window if you want sun and you are in a top flat where, presumably, no-one can see in at night time when you've got lights on?  If you're worried about that then you could have "crinkly" glass put in.

Living in a hot country we opted for horizontal blinds in a dark colour which do the opposite to what you want, keep the light (heat) out!

As Cubagirl and Morwenna point out though, they are murder to clean.  Tried a couple of times and they went smeary and horrible.

Coffeemate where did you get the cleaning thingy from?

oldsheep:
none of the venetians pulls up tight enough to go into the recess without blocking my sun, and they'd look a bit daft sited 15cm above the window. That's the lowest it can be because of the steel reinforced lintel, which we can't drill into. Or shouldn't  :o

We think the room looks stark without any curtains or blinds. One window has a slight line of sight (sorry about the slight sights  :D) to the neighbour's kitchen. We have 5m ceilings, all white wall. It's all a bit white.
At the weekend we decided on 1 curtain, for the south facing one with no restricted wall space either side, and 1 roller blind for the problem window with only 10cms either side.
Only to ring up and be told that the chosen fabric isn't suitable for a roller blind as can't be laminated!!
If only we had shutters in this country - proper wooden outside ones I mean. Love them.

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