WTNH	Soft shades in the home WTNH In the window treatment industry soft shades refer to those made with fabric, while hard shades refer to things like wood blinds, honeycomb shades, miniblinds, solar shades, etc. I love to make soft shades. Their construction is very mechanical: you … and more »

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for the back windows of the first floor of my house? I have a long line of windows that extends from the dining room, which is a bay window, to the kitchen, and then to the family room. It’s an open floor plan so you can see the windows from one room to the next, and the windows treatments need to work together. The house faces west so the morning sun shines directly into these windows, so I need something that blocks or filters light, yet, my young children play on the deck outside the kitchen so I can’t obstruct the view. I am worried regular blinds will block the view from the kitchen too much. I need suggestions for blinds, shades or drapes. We have priced out plantation shutters and I’m not sure about them because of the cost and they may partially obstruct the view.

We are in the process of buying a house. It is a rehabbed house that is not currently lived-in and all the windows are bare — no curtains, no blinds, no shades. The house is in an urban area where houses are close together and there is heavy foot traffic on the sidewalk. Clearly, for security and privacy, we will need to put in some sort of window treatments.

We are a young couple, first-time home-buyers and in our “house-buying” budget we had not planned for buying window treatments right away.

What do you recommend? We are looking for something classic (won’t go out of style), practical, and (if possible) energy-efficient (a house we almost bought had energy efficient window treatments that we were really intrigued by).

What is the best all-around solution? We don’t want to buy ugly, cheap shades that will be a pain to install and that we will want to replace in a couple years. We’d like something that is relatively inexpensive, but will last us awhile.

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