Mid Century Window Coverings

When we moved in two years ago the only item of "decor" in the whole house was unworking vertical blinds covering our large front room windows. Those came down when we redid the windows and then we lost the blinds. Not really, but we remembered how awesome it is to look out those windows so we left them off. Sorry neighbors.

 

In my mind the perfect combination for these windows would be solar roller shades combined with thick drapes. This would give us privacy with some warmth as well. Inspiration:

 combined with this (link)

love those pretty yellow heavy drapes. (link)

Those two pictures are a pretty good indicator of the design battle going on in my head.

This week we got the roller blinds installed. They look beautiful. They take out the glare so I can binge watch Friday Night Lights at any hour of the day. But I can still see the mountains through them. There is not quite the privacy at night that I was hoping for, but that is where the drapes will come in at some point. I'm going to live with it like this for a while but I think this room is really needing some color.

Blinds are from blinds.com, the Bali collection.