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We had horrible blinds in every window and we got rid of all of them finally in 2014.
We have cafe curtains in the kitchen and laundry room. We put wood blinds in the large front window which is in our office room. They seemed the best look for the front of the house.
We put shades in our two bedrooms and in the large back windows.
We have not put up drapes. We may do so eventually in the bedrooms.
2" white faux wood blinds on every window in the house, which I love. On the large slider I have verticals which I'm very ambivalent about. Wish I had a better option there but it does the job.
For decades, I had mini blinds. I have always liked them (except when my cat would chew the cord or broke one of the slats to get into the window-but that is another issue). Over the years I discovered how terrible they were to clean. When we bought this house, I decided that I wanted curtains. Curtains are must easier to clean-either throw them in the washer or take them to the cleaners. I am very happy with the curtains.
We built on a very wooded and private lot so we basically have nothing except "temporary" shades in the master which have been up 7 years! In the bedrooms facing the street upstairs we have nice shades and valances.
We have two cats with claws so I don't think curtains will work out but we are building a new house and I'm thinking about a combination of faux wood blinds and curtains. gain we won't need anything for privacy but more for aesthetics.
Black out cellular shades with valance curtains in the Master bedroom. Mini blinds and drawback drapes in guest bedrooms. Bottom up/top down light filtering cellulose shades on the front of the house with valance tops. Mini blinds on the back porch with valance tops, kitchen has mini blinds with valance tops, traditional traverse rod drapes for large 3 section sliding glass door from living room onto porch. I'm not completely happy with any of them and would love to find something that would work on all of the windows that would have the whole house the same. I hate cleaning mini blinds (I'd just as soon throw them away and buy new), I don't particularly like the window placement and shape (I've already changed the entire 45 feet width of porch windows and the kitchen window). The house doesn't have many windows so I don't get much light (plus this state has many gray days). Next project is taking down walls and possibly adding skylights to open up some quirky closed off areas and to "spread the light" to other rooms.
Most rooms have white wooden blinds, which were installed by the previous owners. I don't love them, but I don't dislike them enough to fund changing them. I've added some curtains to a few rooms.
Two inch wood blinds on every window except the transoms in the living room, which are bare. Curtains over the blinds in a couple of bedrooms for light control.
Plantation shutters throughout the house. In our main area with huge windows overlooking the yard we have cellular shades. That way they can be up all the way to bring in the light and view. I couldn't imagine having anything else due to the dust here in AZ. Shutters are easy to clean and I just vacuum the cellular shades.
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