Curtains – For something just hanging around it’s hard to choose.

Over the last couple of months I’ve been looking at the Curtains in my room. They are old, very old, Old as in I haven’t changed them since I was maybe 20.

It’s Sad I know, Having moved house since then I took the curtains and drapes with me from one house to another and really didn’t see the point in changing them.
Well now that I’m in my thirties my tastes have really changed since then(blue/gold suns, moons and stars) to something a little more Adult.

I have a fair idea of what the colour will be as I’ve been eying off this Chocolate brown colour for the last few months at the local hardware store, and it seems to match other things I’ve been interested in.

With some of the shades available at spotlight I thought I’d better go looking for some ideas and one company that looked pretty good was Hunter Douglas , their range was rather good looking and one of the woven wood shades looked really nice, and would suit the kitchen pretty well, as we have this whole country theme happening and the dark brown looks good in there.

One thing that always stumps me when choosing Blinds is what works better for colder climates, I know with drapes you have to make sure the material is lined with some sort of backing to keep the heat in and cold out, but with Window blinds is there anything like that as well?

I know in our first house I had these really funky Window blinds that kept the heat out and made my room really dark, but they had a bad habit of falling down or bending if I pulled them open too much, but in the city it didn’t get very cold, and now I live in the country I wonder if they have heavy duty Blinds that would keep the heat in and the cold out?

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