Hanging Some White Faux Wood Blinds In The Bedroom: a house log

We first brought home a pair of white faux wood blinds back when were decorating the nursery (since a pleasant dark room sounded like a good idea when it came to encouraging some serious pee-wee shut eye). The ironic thing is that literally for years we have been dying to bring them into our quite own bedroom. See, the window above the bed was never covered, and although the sun does not rise on that side of the house we knew it could certainly stand to get darker with the assist of some sort of rolling or slatted blind. Plus the other window in the room had the original plastic roller shade that came with the house (it quite well could have been 50+ years old- and it was yellowed and stained to prove it). Nasty.

But there was one strong thing about the grody old roller shade: it tucked up under our more eye-pleasing white roman shade from Ikea, so we got the benefit of some light blockage and privacy when it was pulled down, and during the day it was up and 100% invisible. However, as we mentioned, we hoped to cover that small window above the bed- simply for a darker night’s sleep. And we were also compelled to replace that crusty old roller shade on the other window while we were at it… which is where two more pairs of custom-cut-to-fit (it is a free service!) white faux wood blinds from Home Depot came in:

But let us rewind. Here is that crusty old pull-down roller shade that we mentioned (after we took out the fabric roman shade in order to work some blind-switcheroo magic):

And here is the window once we took out that nasty old shade and popped our new custom cut faux wood blind in its place:

But you might notice they are a bit too long for the window, and any extra slats can make raising and lowering it a bit cumbersome since they add unnecessary weight and bulk. So John simply followed the plain instructions that came with the blinds which indicated how to remove those extra slats for an even more custom fit:

And then he rehung our low-cost-o Ikea roman shade back in place (so we can pull up the faux wood blinds to fully hide them during the day and lower them at night for privacy and a darker night’s sleep).

So that is how we brought in a ton of quite welcome darkness to our bedroom that can be pulled up (and totally hidden) so no one’s the wiser. It feels a whole lot more adult of us than the dirty old roller shade did, and we like bringing in common elements throughout our house (especially when it comes to the windows). So we enjoy that we now have these babies in two out of three of our home’s bedrooms.

Oh and even though there is nothing that we can tuck the blinds behind on the smaller window behind the bed, we have found that when they are pulled up they are virtually undetectable since they are the same crisp white color as the molding around the window, so they truly blend in. And of course we enjoy how deliciously dark our bedroom is in the morning now. The difference truly is night and day.

So that is our latest compact tweak in the bedroom. Have you folks been doing anything to block light, dress windows, or otherwise add function to your sleeping spaces? Any other window makeovers that you are tackling around the house? Do tell.