Home improvements – dreaming of blinds – Mummascribbles

At the moment around our house, we have some curtains that I simply would not have chosen. They were given to us when we moved in and on the basis that we had no money to buy anything new, they have come in very handy and I of course was very thankful for them. However, I am not massively keen on them and they are upstairs and downstairs. They are so bright, so thick and so big. They are just not what I would have chosen and one day we will replace them with something that we have chosen ourselves, that matches whatever décor we decide to go with and that I look at and think, oh I love that.

Where we used to live in our little rented flat, within walking distance was a road that had some very lovely houses on them. Nothing majorly special about them, they looked beautiful on the outside and I could but only dream of having such a house (to be honest that is still the case as they are stupidly expensive being in London). When I was on maternity leave, I used to wander round to this road to get Zach to sleep and to enjoy a nice little walk myself before going home and gorging on cake! There were so many houses that had beautiful blinds in every window and I fell in love with the idea of having them myself. These houses had big bay windows, so much light going in and the beautiful, beautiful blinds. They just added so much character to the overall picture and it was the main reason I loved these houses so much.

Ever since this time, I dream of having them in my own house, and now that we have our own house, I guess that dream is a little bit nearer. So much so that I have been having a little look at VELUX venetian blinds.

Photo credit: www.roofblinds.co.uk

We have quite small windows to be honest. Upstairs in our bedroom we have two windows side by side (with a bit of wall separating them), and downstairs there are two windows, one at each end of the through lounge. I’d initially thought that these blinds would keep the light out but upon doing a little bit of research, I discovered that actually, since you can control how open or closed they are, you can control just how much light comes streaming through the windows – something that you just can’t do with curtains. Most excitingly, you can get electrically operated ones! How cool would that be to be sitting on the sofa and being able to use a remote control to move the blinds around?!

I don’t have a complete aversion to curtains but I started to think that maybe blinds would be far easier. I mean, who hasn’t spent hours overthinking the design of curtain -, whether they go with the colour scheme, whether they have too much design, or not enough and are too plain?

Then there is the cleaning element.

We used to have a cat. Said cat used to enjoy sitting on the window frame, quite often behind the curtains. Said curtains were covered in cat hair that would be a nightmare to remove.

We now have a toddler. Said toddler likes to walk around with a pen in his hand occasionally. Said toddler likes to spill drinks, sometimes at a distinctly high level. Washing curtains is a nightmare. Surely with blinds it’s just a matter of a feather duster? And there is nothing cooler right, than a bright pink feather duster and a drop of cleaner?!

Having overthought this way too much (considering we aren’t in a position to actually make this home improvement just yet), I will keep on dreaming about beautiful blinds that would transform not only the inside of our house but the outside too. Maybe someone would walk along, like I did back on maternity leave, and ogle at my VELUX blinds while they are getting their child to sleep and dreaming of cake and a hot cup of tea!

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