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Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, February 16, 2007 - 5:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Yankee, how bout either of these





Vee
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02-23-2004

Friday, February 16, 2007 - 5:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
*Roman Shades* perhaps?

ETA: Oops, I missed the height of your windows...RS probably not an option.

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Friday, February 16, 2007 - 5:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
here is an example of one of the windows in my house -- they are like this in every room -- floor to ceiling. There is no wall above the window, nor in most cases on either side -- the entire wall is glass. The vertical blinds are attached to the ceiling.

livingroom

To make matters more complicated, the top of the glass wall is slanted in my bedroom (it cuts off so not sure if you can see how it slants here):
bed

I could do custom blinds like those, but they would cost me a fortune -- upwards of 10K.

I think I'm stuck with the vertical blinds.

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Friday, February 16, 2007 - 5:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
I guess this brings me around to my original point -- I wish I had windows where I could have shutters. LOL

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Friday, February 16, 2007 - 6:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Yankee, you could not take a magazine-like photo if you tried!

Here is a pic of my kitchen. I like your idea Annie, especially cuz if i put some stuff on the shelf, it would also help block some off the blinding sunlight that hits through that transom window about 5pm. Anyways, I just think drapes would not look right. Any ideas? Or would drapes look okay?

One other thing, any suggestions for (preferably) matching light fixtures?? (post a photo or a link....)



Skootz
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07-23-2003

Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 7:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
Julie my mom has a nice set of sheers on her patio doors and then has a nice short topper on the top which adds the colour. In her kitchen she has the same topper. When you want the light in just pull the sheers to the one side and then have a nice way to drape them to one side. The topper would add colour to your kitchen too. I really like Annie's kitchen colour for your kitchen too. I think it would finish it off so nicely. If you are thinking of doing that and getting a topper or something for the patio door, get that first and match the wall colouring from that.

For the transom, if you are really wanting to cover it up a bit, get some lace, I would just leave it open.
Here is a sample of the lace you could use if you wanted some ideas.



Here are some pictures of what I mean...
This is the shear you can use and hardware you can use to quickly pull it back out to the way when you want to use the door.



this is a topper sample you can use (ignore colours lol)


this is a cool blind/shear treatment you can do for the doors too


I hope this gives you some help.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 8:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Yankee? is that your home? it's gorgeous!! love all the windows, but i can see your problem. you could do some type of inset roman shade on the lower ones in your den and then leave the top ones open if you want.
i think i like the verticals in your bedroom, they give a nice contemporary line that matches your furniture style.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 10:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Skootz, where did you get that last photo? Are those vertical blinds or shears? Thanks for your input!!! :-)

Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000

Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 10:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yankee_in_ca a private message Print Post    
Yes, Texannie, it's my humble city abode. Funny re: the bedroom -- while the furniture does look contemporary, the two pieces visible in that photo are actually more traditional pieces. As you can probably see in my living room, I like to mix and match contemporary and classic. It's the screen, the bedding and the pic that makes it look contemporary, I think. I may go in there and try to take a better pic. The room is small (as most city apartments tend to be), but the ceiling is high, so it's hard to get the height of the ceiling in a photo.

Hypermom
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08-13-2001

Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 10:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hypermom a private message Print Post    
I don't have a photo, but in my last home, I had floor to ceiling windows. I had soft sheers with a lining to block out the light. They were installed on a track with a long pole that I could just move across to open and close.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 10:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Yankee, i love a mix of furniture styles. i hate matchy matchy stuff!!



Texannie
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07-16-2001

Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 10:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Julie,
go to this site http://www.hunterdouglas.com/index.jsp?graw=shutters&matchtype=Phrase&category=New2Brand

click on family room/den and look at 19, 24, & 29-32 and then living room, 4
for some good ideas.


what about something like this for the transom?




Vee
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02-23-2004

Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 12:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
Julie, you're making me nervous. I am about to have a patio door with a transom window installed this Monday. May I ask from which direction the sun comes in? East? South? West?

Yankee, I love your living room. Like Texannie, I don't like matchy matchy either, but even more than that, I love that you are floating furniture away from the walls. Would you prefer to do without the beautiful windows and gain privacy or would you prefer the windows and lose a little privacy? Just wondering...may help me determine what else is going in my new wall.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 12:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Vee, the door/transom faces northwest. You'd think I'd be fine cuz i am not directly west, but nooo. I tell you at about 5 pm, especially in the summer, that sun burns through with a lazerlike intensity. It really stinks, cuz it happens every night as I start to fix dinner... And the angle it comes in hits the stove/island area...

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 12:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Vee, here is an actual aerial shot of our house with N/S/E/W so you can see the exact placement. The sun for sure comes in directly from the west. The back of the house is where the kitchen is/sun comes through....



Oh, our house is on the northwest side of the street. I so wish it were on the southeast!!!

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 12:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Annie, thanks for that link... off to look!

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 1:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Vea, you are so right about floating the furniture! I can't do much of it in my den and i keep trying LOL

oh, btw. I got a new (to me) couch yesterday. A friend of mine was getting a new sofa and I asked what she was going to do with hers, offering to buy it and she GAVE it to me!!!
It's a gorgeous maroon camelback leather sofa! It looks so much better than our 1945 blue sofa!

Vee
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02-23-2004

Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 8:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Julie! My transom will be in a south window, but...it is quite wooded so I am keeping my fingers crossed that I won't have the same troubles that you are having. I'd hate the "lazerlike intensity" that you describe. LOL!

Annie, I know what you mean. Some rooms are such a challenge for furniture arrangement. BTW, I know that I've told you this before, but I think your dining room is beautiful...such a soothing wall color and the furniture is lovely.

Congrats on the new to you sofa. Sounds great!

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 8:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Vee, the photo below will explain to you why the sun is so lazerlike. You see I am surrounded by farmland!!! No big trees, no big buildings to provide any shade...

(The star is still my house)



Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 10:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
Thanks Vee!

Julie, it must be the city gal in me, but my first reaction to your satellite photo was 'they live out in the middle of a field! LOL I just can't fathom that much bare land around me.



Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 12:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Annie, it does look like we are in the middle of a field, but we really are not in a farm community. There is plenty of congestion and stuff not too far away. And they are slowly but surely selling off all the farmland. Before 10 years, i bet the satellite photo will look vastly different... :-(

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 1:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
trust me, you don't know congested! LOL

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 2:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
here's my new (to me) sofa.




Serate
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08-21-2001

Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 3:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
VERY pretty!

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 3:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
even prettier cause it was FREE!!! LOL