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Advice to cover unusual shaped window
kayl
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My daughter is now going to be sleeping in our attic - it is a full sized room, with a permanent staircase, and we used to use it as a study/guest room.
Hard to explain the set up, but I'll do my best! In one corner of the room is an area surrounding a lightwell,which allows natural light into the hall below. 2 sides of this are made up of a timber "wall" to waist height, with windows up to the ceiling, meaning that both the hall and the attic are relatively bright.
1 of the sides is simple to deal with as it is straight and I have curtains across it. The other side is the problem, as it is allowing a lot of light in, especially in the summer mornings. There are 2 panes of glass - the first is straight for about 18 inches, and then slopes off for another 18 ( following the line of the ceiling) ; the second slopes off for about 3 foot, so that by the end of it the glass is only a couples of inches high.
I can't think of any way to cover these areas at night, as obviously a curtain or blind wouldn't work. I just wondered whether anyone has any helpful suggestions?
Hard to explain the set up, but I'll do my best! In one corner of the room is an area surrounding a lightwell,which allows natural light into the hall below. 2 sides of this are made up of a timber "wall" to waist height, with windows up to the ceiling, meaning that both the hall and the attic are relatively bright.
1 of the sides is simple to deal with as it is straight and I have curtains across it. The other side is the problem, as it is allowing a lot of light in, especially in the summer mornings. There are 2 panes of glass - the first is straight for about 18 inches, and then slopes off for another 18 ( following the line of the ceiling) ; the second slopes off for about 3 foot, so that by the end of it the glass is only a couples of inches high.
I can't think of any way to cover these areas at night, as obviously a curtain or blind wouldn't work. I just wondered whether anyone has any helpful suggestions?
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Custom made shutters perhaps, would make a feature of it as well.
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What about flat panels of fabric (backed with black out lining fabric) fixed up with either cup hooks & eyes or velcro.
The other option is a roman type blind shaped to fit, but you'd have to be creative with how it's strung so they pull back fully!0 -
Something modeled on a fan that would radiate from the thinnest point with strings like on a roman blind to raise lower from the fat end?"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
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