“I never get tired of the blue sky.”
-Vincent van Gogh
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We installed cordless shades in Sweet P’s bedroom this morning. It was time. We’ve been sporting paper privacy shades on all of our windows since we moved in almost a year and half ago, so it was fun to finally put up something a little more durable less paper-y on two of them. 😀
I gathered up tools while Kevin tried to make sense of Ikea’s not-incredibly-descriptive instructions.
They go by the name Bruddans, and I *think* they’re only available in Ikea stores…not online. They were $29.99 each for the 30″ wide size we needed, and they did have narrower and wider sizes that were priced a little less and a little more.
Luckily, they went up pretty quickly. Just a couple of brackets, and then POP! In goes the shade…
…and if you’re anything like Kevin, POP! Out goes the tongue! 😛
I grew up in a two-story house, but somewhere along the way I forgot how much sky you can see through the windows of a second-story bedroom like this. I love daydreaming out these windows on days it’s especially blue, and I’ve been on the hunt for something affordable, cordless, and that would stack all the way up (and completely out of the way!) ever since we moved in.
We’re using white, bi-fold plantation shutters on the bottom half of these (and eventually all of our) windows, but the Bruddans will be great for full, pull-down privacy on the upper halves at night.
The shade part on these is made of some kind of “cellular” material and I love the way it diffuses light.
We’ll finish dressing Sweet P’s windows with matching pairs of light-blocking drapes later this month.
And for those who are wondering why we’re not just using the Bruddans to cover the whole window from top to bottom- our house sits up pretty high off the street (especially the second floor), so we really only need privacy on the lower halves of our windows.
It’s only every once in a while that we feel like we need to cover up the upper halves of our windows, so these pull-down shades will do just the trick when (and if) we decide to pull them down. Also, I just wanted to mention that although the package says they’ll extend down 64″, we found that you reeeeally have to pull on them to get them to go down that far. It almost felt like they weren’t meant to go down quite that far. They sort of worked themselves back up to about 53″ and stayed at that height til we pushed them back up. I hope that makes sense.
I shot this super short video that shows how they move up and down yesterday because I’m completely fascinated by how they work, and thought you might be, too- ha! 😀 #homies
Before I sign off, I wanted to also mention how touched we were by all the responses to Monday’s post. Y’all were so kind to leave us so much Love! Thank you!!! 😀