Question about window treatments

IdigDirt · April 2011

If you get a curtain are you also supposed to have blinds? Sorry I am decor challenged. Also what are you doing for yours, curtains or a valance with blinds?

jlsimon56 · April 2011

My mom is making ours (the nursery has 3 windows - one is regular sized but the other two are transome (sp?) windows). She is going to do roman shades and back the fabric with light-block fabric. It's the best of both worlds, haha. My husband is not a fan of roman shades, but they are the only kind I can think of that will tie the 3 windows together and not look hodge-podge.

If you do curtains that will stay tied back, then you probably should do blinds too. But if you plan to use the curtains, then you don't need blinds too. If you do a valance, you will need blinds or something to block the light.

MommaG123 · April 2011

I don't know what you're supposed to do but in LO's room we have blinds, are using sheer curtains, and have a valance. LOL

In other rooms in our house we have blinds and curtains, mainly because the blinds don't block a whole lot of light and sometimes it's nice to have it blocked more.

kimbo1216 · April 2011

It's a personal decision. You don't have to have blinds, but we do so we can block out extra light or have a little more privacy when we want. We have curtains because they just look nicer that way.

As for the baby's room..we have a trifold there. Put put curtains up in front of the plain white blinds. Then behind the blinds, we recently added a black out shade. I've been told by a number of sources that black out shade is a must in order to help baby sleep better.

FYI...ours came from Home Depot. You just measure dry wall to drywall. Tell the person in the blinds section what it is, and they'll cut to that exact measurement. It works out perfect!

IdigDirt · April 2011

We have just normal ugly white blinds in there, I think we will just replace those with new white blinds then put a black out curtain in front. It is pretty much the last thing I have to do before nursery is complete!

soontobe05 · April 2011

We have white wood blinds in our windows. I bought black out curtains for DS' room that I need to put up. My DD sleeps in any sort of light so I don't worry about her.

Pockety · April 2011

We have white wood blinds in every window of our condo (floor-to-ceiling windows and lots of them - but the wood blinds look so much nicer!). They block enough light for us for our bedroom, but we bought curtains in addition for LO's room, since he'll be sleeping during the day in there. We just bought some basic curtains and a tension rod from Bed Bath & Beyond. They're dark-colored, but not blackout; if it turns out we need blackout, we'll hang them behind the curtain that we already have up there.

tesary · April 2011

I bought new blinds for our nursery to reduce the light coming in. Dh's grandma is making curtains for her room also.

SarahAndBen09 · April 2011

Good question. I've always wondered this too.

We're doing shades and valances for the nursery. We aren't doing curtains because the room is small and I feel like that would be too much on the windows and I want to keep it light and airy. Plus, I've heard once the baby is a toddler, toddlers want to walk around and pull on everything so curtains would be one more thing that could be pulled down.

CarlaAndJames · April 2011

We have blinds in all rooms, and we've added curtains or shades in some rooms for looks (and in our bedroom because of the way it faces we get a ton of light in the morning!)

We're putting up a valance in the nursery for starters. If we find that we're having trouble getting her to nap in there with just the blinds then we may add blackout curtains. I'd rather her be able to sleep on the daylight though, so I'm not going to start her out training her that way.

SarahAndBen09 · April 2011

CarlaAndJames:
We have blinds in all rooms, and we've added curtains or shades in some rooms for looks (and in our bedroom because of the way it faces we get a ton of light in the morning!)

We're putting up a valance in the nursery for starters. If we find that we're having trouble getting her to nap in there with just the blinds then we may add blackout curtains. I'd rather her be able to sleep on the daylight though, so I'm not going to start her out training her that way.

I agree with this. We're going to see how just shades go as well. I'd rather not start out trying to make things as dark as possible if we don't have to. We'll see!

cvl105 · April 2011

We have floor length curtains and blinds. You'll want blinds to make the room somewhat dark....unless you have curtains that will do that if you close them. The curtains we got are thin and don't block light really.

SarahKate31 · April 2011

There is one window in LO's room and it will have blinds and a curtain. We may add a blackout liner to the curtain if we find it's not dark enough.

wootownlady · April 2011

I'll be the annoying voice of safety on this thread -- the recommendation from the "experts" (not me) is that no window treatments have cords that hang and could present a strangulation hazard for infants/babies. I think most miniblinds have these cords. I don't have ANY window treatments yet but am looking for the duet shade that can be pulled down by hand without any cords/strings, etc. For what it's worth ...

cvl105 · April 2011

wootownlady:
I'll be the annoying voice of safety on this thread -- the recommendation from the "experts" (not me) is that no window treatments have cords that hang and could present a strangulation hazard for infants/babies. I think most miniblinds have these cords. I don't have ANY window treatments yet but am looking for the duet shade that can be pulled down by hand without any cords/strings, etc. For what it's worth ...

If they aren't near the crib, the baby won't be able to reach them. There are also "tools" out there to hold cords and what not.

SarahKate31 · April 2011

cvl105:
wootownlady:
I'll be the annoying voice of safety on this thread -- the recommendation from the "experts" (not me) is that no window treatments have cords that hang and could present a strangulation hazard for infants/babies. I think most miniblinds have these cords. I don't have ANY window treatments yet but am looking for the duet shade that can be pulled down by hand without any cords/strings, etc. For what it's worth ...
If they aren't near the crib, the baby won't be able to reach them. There are also "tools" out there to hold cords and what not.

My DH had this same concern but I was able to find a safety thing that keeps the cord contained and out of reach so it's not a hazard.

wootownlady · April 2011

cvl105:

wootownlady:
I'll be the annoying voice of safety on this thread -- the recommendation from the "experts" (not me) is that no window treatments have cords that hang and could present a strangulation hazard for infants/babies. I think most miniblinds have these cords. I don't have ANY window treatments yet but am looking for the duet shade that can be pulled down by hand without any cords/strings, etc. For what it's worth ...

If they aren't near the crib, the baby won't be able to reach them. There are also "tools" out there to hold cords and what not.

TRUE, but the babies will eventually not be in their cribs all the time and be active, mobile, crawling and toddling little people ... that's all.

DramaMama06 · April 2011

the do make shades that don't have the cords. i'm still looking but i'm thinking that these are what i'm getting and then we're doing valances. it's a small room and i didn't want to have too much fabric

gymnst1013 · April 2011

We will be having both. The curtains I want are sheer so don't really block out the morning sun.

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