Curtain question

Ok so the boys have trashed the curtains in the room they have... admittedly they are plain brown and not my taste anyway. So i am thinking about what i can have in there instead. I like the idea of roman blinds, but was wondering if you can put them with nets or would that look silly? I dont mind if we dont have nets, i had none in my last place except in the bedrooms that faced the road. But one of the windows in the boys room faces out to the driveway and the neighbours place and i dont think she would want to see my lot naked!
there are windows on two of the walls and the beds have to go by them so something that doesnt hang too low would be ideal i think.

you could always hang the nets from inside the window frame and then have the roman blind over the window....do you know what i mean?

You mean how when you have wooden blinds they sit within the frame nannyabbey? Huh. That could potentially work because you'd probably draw the nets for privacy when needed, otherwise you'd have a more traditional framed window look (the way they have big curtainy bunches at the top of the window and then the curtains hanging down the side).

Right, if you do that Bizzy, we're going to have to see pics

something i want to do is get some plain boring curtains (like plain calico type ones) and let DS paint them (obviously when he is a bit older) but if they get to paint on them before they get hung - maybe they wont trash them again because they 'made' them?


and I think net curtains would be fine if they were 'inside' the window - but i agree that they dont block out nearly as much sun as actual curtains.

hmmm i hadnt thought of romans not blocking out light.

what i really wanted was these really cool wooden shutters that sat within the window that i saw at the home show... but they would be way out of budget.
Might have to go to spotlight and have a look...

pudgy wrote: rachndean wrote: You can get screening roller blinds quite cheap from some sites on the net. They are fantastic, especially for kids as you can roll them all the way up and the kids cant get to them! You could hang one on the inside of the window frame, and put a roman blind on the outside? It would also mean if you had the roller blind up you wouldnt be able to see it from inside? We have these under all all our roman blinds, they are fantastic.

My parents have these at their place too and they block out lots of light (made with dark thermal backed curtains tho) it's great for making DS sleep longer

I wanted wooden ones but the thought of cleaning them put me off. We have thermal ones which are great in winter & I can not stand light in the kids rooms as they will get up too early. We don't have nets in their rooms but they don't face anyone & if they did I would put nets in.

I made my curtains, they are romans & I used heavy block out fabric. It is really dark in there.

I'll take a photo for you to see the light that does come in. I have short windows so had to mount outside the window frame but if you had taller windows & mounted inside that would would well.

I have roman (black out) blinds with a sunfilter thingy, its a pain in the butt because every time you raise them, the sun filter gets all scrunched up. We need it for privacy on that room though, as it faces out to the street