Interior Design Tip #121
Posted on | November 26, 2008 at 5:06 pm | 6 Comments
Having your window shade repaired? Why not fill the vacant window space with lovely flattened cardboard boxes from Amazon and elsewhere. And to keep them in place, stick some unused shelves from home entertainment units up against the cardboard at the bottom. And place some thin strips of wood from who-knows-where in the window frame from the top to the bottom. It’s attractive and energy efficient!
Latre.
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6 Responses to “Interior Design Tip #121”
November 26th, 2008 @ 6:18 pm
Once I just printed off a bunch of sheets of paper with horizontal lines about 1″ apart, and taped them up so that it’d look like Venetian blinds from the outside… then behind that, I taped up black plastic trash bags for a light-proof barrier that didn’t make me look like a paranoid nut to the neighbors. (I worked nights and needed dark to sleep in)
Worked great, until I got marred, and SOMEone thought the windows should be able to open…
November 26th, 2008 @ 8:32 pm
heh, she sounds GREAT!
November 27th, 2008 @ 12:03 am
Is getting marred anything like getting married?
November 27th, 2008 @ 2:47 am
Nah, it’s way more expensive.
November 28th, 2008 @ 9:28 pm
Just parade around in full view of the neighborhood and don’t bother to cover the windows, like the folks in the McMansions with acres of windowpanes do so that we can see how nice their furnishings are. At least that’s what I think they’re doing. It helps that usually every light in all 10 rooms is on, too!
In Anchorage, AK, my solution was white poster board, backed up by aluminum foil, in order to be able to sleep during the long light summer nights. The posterboard was usually a requirement when renting as the landlords generally considered foil to be detrimental to the attractiveness of the property. After a couple of years I just got used to sleeping in the light.
November 29th, 2008 @ 9:29 pm
I thought I might achieve energy efficiency by stacking paperback books in the windows that I don’t need to look out. As you may have noticed neither the hubby nor I are much interested in decor, unless bachelor pad has taken its place with art deco and American colonial.