[lindaz]

Ladies,
I am so excited I just had to post!!!! I found a replacement for the vertical blinds on my sliding glass doors. These look like sheer curtains from the front and act like opaque blinds from the back. They are new from Hunter-Douglas. The choices of colors and fabrics are awesome. The look is fabulous. I had just purchased some plantation shutters from Joy's Blinds in Wildwood on 301. I went into the showroom and they demonstrated these new blinds. I thought they were sheers at first, but they have pockets and the denser fabric is in between. They are not inexpensive, but they are beautiful! I am saving up to do all 3 of my sliding glass doors.
Highly recommend looking at them. Take your Dear Husband as the showroom is right next to a motorcycle store. Could not have worked better for me.
I can vouch for the quality and installation as they did such a great job on my shutters. I am excited!! :bigthumbsup:

[graciegirl]

That is great to hear because we didn't order blinds for the triple wide sliding door in our great room. Stock blinds wouldn't fit it the 100" width and I am not really crazy about verticals period. I made offwhite drapes and put them on traverse rods with a valance for now. I am always changing things so who knows what I will do next.

Speaking of decorating. I live in Cincinnati where FrontGate, (the magazine you see on airplanes) has it's national distribution center. Today they had their annual sale and I found two or three things that were just what I wanted and a lot less than the exorbitant prices they usually go for.

I love fixing up houses!

[jojo]

Gracie,

Are you for hire? I have problems visualizing furniture placement and am not sure I'm ready for all the decorating decisions that will need to be made when we move in. Since it is a resale, I'll live with the window treatments. In earlier days, I did sew but I've long since given that up. Sounds like your place will be a showcase for your talents. We'll have to get together when you come back.

[graciegirl]

You give me too much credit. I sew curtains only because I can sew a straight line. Every other sewing project causes extremely bad language to emerge from my mouth. I just love putting a house together. It is like a huge blank canvas for me. I impose on myself price restrictions, (I am SO tight) and for this project it MUST be COMFORTABLE, CHEAP, CASUAL and my granddaughter inserted COOL, to keep up with the "C" theme. I am trying to think of the best lines to buy from WALLWORDS. Should it be profound, witty, ribald, funny or what?

Oh this whole thing is so much fun!!! JOJO. You can be my partner in crime. I will come and cheer you on in your decorating efforts. AND you must promise to lie if you don't like my efforts.

I can't wait until the fall. By the way JOJO. Kroger has some great looking 7' artificial palms and bamboo trees for a $59 in their MarketPlace stores. At stores near TV they are asking well over a hundred bucks and they don't near as good. Of course we have to rent another trailer now. Cheaper than the COMPANY STORE.

[lindaz]

I am glad to commisurate with other decorators. I really do not care for the verticals or the mini blinds. The mini blinds went first and those plantation shutters are just the ticket. I was really excited to find just the right thing to replace those verticals. I wanted a softer look, but still needed the privacy. Hats off to the sewers, however, I am sure I could not do a straight line for any reason. I am doomed to pay for someone else's talents.

Thanks for the info.

[PJ]

Hi lindaz,

I'd like to find some curtains like that, so I checked Hunter-Douglas site, and didn't see what you mentioned. Can you please tell us the name of these curtains that are sheer but opaque? They have so many kinds on their site, so the name would help.

Thanks!

[lindaz]

PJ,
So sorry I did not get the name. Joy's has a really nice display over on 301. I would suggest you look over there and then you can price out what you like on line. They had many many fabric choices and other brands. I just liked the Hunter-Douglas the best. They are really cool to see in person as I have not seen these anywhere else. As you can tell I was really excited to see those verticals go and have such a soft beautiful solution.

I am sorry. I will ask for a name the next time I talk to them.

[PJ]

Thanks lindaz!!

[maxine8]

Ladies - I 'd like to recommend my dear friend Mrs. Corrine Wasicek for all your decorating needs. She specializes in sewing... Cornices, Valance boards, Curtains, Pillows, etc... ! and she's just south of 466. Her phone number is: (352)751-4625.

I can understand your furniture placement problems if any... A flair we're not all born with! She knows of a wonderful lady that is a Furniture & Accessory specialist... (I can't think of her name). She has wonderful ideas on furniture location and practical ways to arrange them. She's also familiar with what works best in many of the models in the Villages. I'm pleased with what she did in my parents home in TV.

Give her a call, I'm sure You'll be pleased.. and she's very affordable!

P.S. I believe Corrine is away for the summer till August 15th, 2008. If you prefer you can pms me for more details.

[scottke]

Has anyone heard of string curtains and if so do you know where you can get them. You just cut the bottoms to the length you want.

[Muncle]

Okay, I'm a straight guy, so I'm not really in to decorating. I know your basic colors, there's about 6-8 of them, and everything else is foo foo BS. When I bought my blinds, er, sorry, window treatments, the lady had about 20 pieces of white material. She and my sister, who thank God was here to help me move in, discussed in detail all the slight nuances between the egg shell, the ivory, the buff, the cream, and god only know what else. THEY WERE ALL WHITE!

Well, I tell you that to just reinforce that I ain't no decorator. I have a few pans and skillets that I use regularly, I wash 'em and probably put them back on the stove. I leave my toaster out since it seems silly to keep puttting it away and getting it back out if I use it a few times a week. I've got an el cheapo bookshelf stuck under the breakfast bar, behind the dining table, because I do much of my reading there and the bookshelf holds many reference books -- you never know when you might want to know who the Empress Maud was and whether she had a right to the throne or who the guy was who hung around Thalia Menninger. That's the way a guy lives. I've got all my Volksmarch mugs above the kitchen, my Homer Winslow(?) picture that I got at a deadpeople sale above my computer, and my centerpiece painting is a neat landscape I bought 30 years ago at a shopping center art show. I just had it re-framed at one of those fancy schmancy places and paid 4 times as much for the frame as I paid for the picture.

All the above rambling is to build my creds. Now down to the nitty gritty. Does anyone read the feature in the Saturday paper by the cute blonde (Dyer/Dwyer -- something like that maybe). I really like her columns, very readable and normally interesting and pertinent. I remember she says that she's available to speak to neighborhood clubs and the like and I expect she does private work. Anyone dealt with here? Is she as good in person as on paper? And no, I'm not stalking her.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by Muncle

Okay, I'm a straight guy, so I'm not really in to decorating. I know your basic colors, there's about 6-8 of them, and everything else is foo foo BS. When I bought my blinds, er, sorry, window treatments, the lady had about 20 pieces of white material. She and my sister, who thank God was here to help me move in, discussed in detail all the slight nuances between the egg shell, the ivory, the buff, the cream, and god only know what else. THEY WERE ALL WHITE!

Well, I tell you that to just reinforce that I ain't no decorator. I have a few pans and skillets that I use regularly, I wash 'em and probably put them back on the stove. I leave my toaster out since it seems silly to keep puttting it away and getting it back out if I use it a few times a week. I've got an el cheapo bookshelf stuck under the breakfast bar, behind the dining table, because I do much of my reading there and the bookshelf holds many reference books -- you never know when you might want to know who the Empress Maud was and whether she had a right to the throne or who the guy was who hung around Thalia Menninger. That's the way a guy lives. I've got all my Volksmarch mugs above the kitchen, my Homer Winslow(?) picture that I got at a deadpeople sale above my computer, and my centerpiece painting is a neat landscape I bought 30 years ago at a shopping center art show. I just had it re-framed at one of those fancy schmancy places and paid 4 times as much for the frame as I paid for the picture.

All the above rambling is to build my creds. Now down to the nitty gritty. Does anyone read the feature in the Saturday paper by the cute blonde (Dyer/Dwyer -- something like that maybe). I really like her columns, very readable and normally interesting and pertinent. I remember she says that she's available to speak to neighborhood clubs and the like and I expect she does private work. Anyone dealt with here? Is she as good in person as on paper? And no, I'm not stalking her.

Muncle.

You are something.

If only I could write like you.

[dreamweaver]

Muncle,
You sound like Andy Rooney. Are you related?

[maxine8]

scottke - I found an interesting web page on string curtains!

http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/my_w..._curtains.html

They are beautiful... INDEED

[lindaz]

I could not use the string curtains. Although they have a wonderful light look, I need the privacy of being able to close the drapes and block out the view.

That is why I was excited about the new sheer verticals.