365 True Things: 320/Windows

Sometimes I can be ridiculously slow about making improvements. But today, I am happy to say, my studio/office and upstairs sleeping room were hugely improved, to the tune of new French shades!

This, mind you, only three years since we built the house.

See? Slow.

(When we first moved back in, the need for window coverings in the bedroom became immediately apparent, since there was nothing to keep people walking in the street from peering up at us as we lounged in bed, so I did at least take care of that immediately. I'm not hopeless.)

Back in November, I wrote about reclaiming my creative space. Once I started working here in earnest, it became clear that I needed something for the windows: especially in the winter months, the sun can be a big problem as it stays low in the sky and outside my south-facing windows all day long.

Not that I'm complaining about sunshine. Just, sometimes I can't make out what's on the computer screen what with the glare.

A tacked-up towel helped in the afternoons. I found something else to do between 8 and 9 in the morning.

But now I am sitting in my computer room with the shades cozily drawn—beautiful patterned red-orange/creamy yellow fabric on the front windows, and plain red-orange on the side windows. Ready for tomorrow and a glareless computer screen! Upstairs, which is violated nightly by an annoyingly bright streetlight up the hill, the shades are an elegant gray.

The sun—and that damn streetlight—will bedevil me no longer!

Next and last project: the living room windows. Maybe in 2022—tenth anniversary of the new house? There's absolutely no rush there . . .