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[151949]

plantation shutters in every room or venetian blinds and a valance or curtain - or maybe just the venetian blind ? Also - are blinds with just a valance passe now or are they still doing that?

Also , if you had a sliding door out to a patio or lanai in your bedroom, would you put a curtain over that?

Are lace curtains passe ? 

 We looked at a model home yesterday that had 3 sliding glass doors out to the lanai - one in the LR - one in the bedroom and one in the den.I would put a honeycomb shade in the LR but probably a curtain on the other 2. Nice  honeycomb shades for sliding doors are at least $1000 each, so I thought a nice curtain in the bedroom & nothing in the den would be fine.

[hoosieroriginal]

Would all depend on the room and how much light the room gets.

[151949]

When you live in a plan of homes with neighbors close by you have to also consider privacy. I don't want people to be able to look into my bedroom.

Where we live now we have all plantation shutters and the top is independent of the bottom so we can close the bottom for privacy and open the top for light. However - to do a whole house with plantation shutters - nine windows and 3 sliding doors would be prohibitivly expensive.

[riley1]

I have the top down/bottom up honeycomb shades on my windows. Sun doesn't pour through the windows making it hot, however, it does let enough filtered light through so I don't feel like I'm in a cave.

I'm not big on drapes, curtains, etc. Can't do Plantation shutters as I would not be able to pull my windows in to clean them.

[Evie2004]

I know I am passé, but I love my 20 year old vertical blinds in our living room window wall..we keep then 1/2 open in the winter for light in our LR (don't use our sliders then) now, they are wide open..no dealing with curtains, drapes, etc..have thought about some white sheers to use when the blinds are open..

no lacy curtains for me!

[151949]

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@riley1 wrote:

I have the top down/bottom up honeycomb shades on my windows. Sun doesn't pour through the windows making it hot, however, it does let enough filtered light through so I don't feel like I'm in a cave.

I'm not big on drapes, curtains, etc. Can't do Plantation shutters as I would not be able to pull my windows in to clean them.

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OMG - we have these in our camper and the strings keep breaking and DH has to restring them. They have been terrible. Maybe the ones for in a house are made better but we've had them in 2 campers and hated them both times.

[151949]

The house we were looking at comes standard with a venetian blind on every window but nothing on the sliding doors.

[Azcowgirl]

I somehow always wind up with fabric in some form, at my windows because it softens and adds color to tie in the other fabrics and textures in the room. I love plantation shutters, my window covering budget was never enough to afford them however.So, a honeycomb shade with a cornice or valance is my  go to window treatment.

[Fressa]

First of all---what do you prefer? How much sun/light comes into each room? The one thing to remember about honeycomb blinds or mini blinds is that seem to hold the dust.(depending on the color). I'm not crazy about blinds or shutters but prefer sheers--volumes of sheers over the patio doors and larger windows that open to public areas-inside and out. I did scarf and ballon valances over the formal rooms. I found these beautiful large tassel and crystal tie backs for the windows/ doors so I could pull back the sheers as needed. That's just my preference. We have woods around us but I still wanted privacy at night and needed to shield some rooms from the sun during the day. I have Pella windows but still noticed a difference in temperature when some huge trees had to be removed. 

I won't worry about what was passe or not---go with what you like and works for your budget.  

[gidgetgh]

We put 2" white wooden blinds with a matching valence on all of our windows when we moved to out house 12 years ago. I'd do the same if we moved again. 

No curtains or drapes for me. 

But if you'd have sliding doors, I'd have to put something on them. I don't want anyone to be able to look in at night.