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Does anyone still use shades in their home?

Shorty2U — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 20:34:08 GMT

Does anyone use shades anymore? (I notice some of my neighbors still use them).

We have had colored mini blinds for years to match our rooms. I always loved them but I'm sick of cleaning them. I was soaking them in the tub and scrubbing them and hanging them to dry. (especially the downstairs ones which seem to get extra dirty from cooking).

So I am slowly switching one by one to shades (which are much cheaper) here at the Ace store where they cut them to size. So far we have room darkening shades in the bedroom and now we got shades for the living room yesterday. (We still have curtains and or drapes up of course too, along with the shades). Next I want to get shades for the kitchen too.

PS) At our back French doors we just have drapes. I would love Levolor blinds for that area, but our cats may damage them (not sure but they did wreck 2 pair of drapes..lol), so I never got them.

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Cakers1 — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 20:58:41 GMT

Shorty: Haven't used shades in years. We had half-shutters in my old home but in my condo we used white blinds (had to by HOA standards).

Now we use blinds again. I find shades not as pretty but there are some nice decorative ones today. Roman shades are very nice.

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Marienkaefer2 — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:04:33 GMT

We have cellular shades, the kind that can be closed/opened from top or bottom. They look nice and we got them in a color that really sets off the windows. But I prefer shutters. However, with all the windows we have and the size of them, shutters would have cost a small.fortune in this house. The shades were pretty expensive as it was. But I love the look of shutters. Before this, I've always had white wood blinds.

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Krimpette — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:06:27 GMT

I have an interior unit townhouse. I have plantation shutters in the front of the house and shades in the back, except for my sliders.

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Say Nay — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:06:40 GMT

On 11/2/2014 Cakers1 said:
Shorty: Haven't used shades in years. We had half-shutters in my old home but in my condo we used white blinds (had to by HOA standards).

Now we use blinds again. I find shades not as pretty but there are some nice decorative ones today. Roman shades are very nice.

I just went to a Victorian home decorated with Roman shades. They opened from the top and bottom and were so pretty.

Looked like this:

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brewhaha — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:07:24 GMT

I always remove my shades before I go in the house.

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foundinlv — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:07:53 GMT

Beautiful Gato!!

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Say Nay — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:08:40 GMT

On 11/2/2014 ILikeShade said:
Beautiful Gato!!

They were! I love that they opened from the top.

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Cakers1 — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:09:30 GMT

On 11/2/2014 MomTo2Dogs said:
On 11/2/2014 Cakers1 said:
Shorty: Haven't used shades in years. We had half-shutters in my old home but in my condo we used white blinds (had to by HOA standards).

Now we use blinds again. I find shades not as pretty but there are some nice decorative ones today. Roman shades are very nice.

I just went to a Victorian home decorated with Roman shades. They opened from the top and bottom and were so pretty.

Looked like this:

Gato: Those are lovely. I think they are worth the cost, too. I wouldn't get tired of looking at them. In fact, I wouldn't get tired of living in that house! lol

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Say Nay — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:14:21 GMT

Cakers if I had a place like that I wouldn't want to go anywhere.

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missy1 — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:15:42 GMT

prefer curtains

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colliegirls — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:18:52 GMT

We have wooden blinds and shutters now, haven't had any shades in decades.

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Cakers1 — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:24:08 GMT

On 11/2/2014 MomTo2Dogs said:
Cakers if I had a place like that I wouldn't want to go anywhere.

Gato: The only thing I would change would be to add lots and lots of plants including some indoor trees. The color scheme is lovely.

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Irshgrl31201 — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:26:17 GMT

We have huge windows all throughout our house similar to the ones above but we also have plantation shutters on many of them so we can control the sunlight if we need to. Sometimes it can get so bright you can't see a computer screen or tv so we need them.

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gidgetgh — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:26:44 GMT

Wood blinds for us. Not a curtain or drape in the house.

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ShowMe — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:32:15 GMT

On 11/2/2014 brewhaha said:
I always remove my shades before I go in the house.

I remove mine once I've entered my apartment.......LOL

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ROMARY — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 22:02:16 GMT

Gee, I haven't used them in ages, but, as I recall, they are very nice, and worked well. Just might use them in my kitchen. Sometimes 'way too much' sunshine/light in a certain window. Just might try the Roman light- filtering type, as in the above photo!

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OnlyShopsOnline — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 22:17:11 GMT

The only room where we have shades is in our bedroom. They are room darkening shades, and we NEED them in the winter when the leaves are off of the trees, because our windows face east. When the shades aren't in use, I roll them up and they are hidden behind the valance.

In our living room, we have Pella doors that have the fabric shades between the glass. In our hearth room, we have Pella doors with the mini-blinds built-in, and plantation shutters on the windows on each side of our fireplace.

On our front windows, we have wooden Levolor wide-slat blinds.

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reiki604 — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 22:20:37 GMT

I've been thinking of replacing verticals with a roman shade on a 90 inch window in the living room. I've just got to find someone reliable to measure, buy and have installation done. I've been thinking about Costco. Has anyone used them?

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hckynut — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:18:06 GMT

I have a shade in my computer room. Put it in when we moved into this home as I knew this was going to be our computer room and it is on the South side of our home. Lots of sun and drapes do little to nothing to block the sun, and besides I made our drapes out of a shower curtain left behind by the previous owner.

Took it out as soon as we move in and had shower doors installed. Can't stand a curtain in a shower, I'm a door man, something like that.