We were discussing heat, the oven in the kitchen, direction
of windows in my house last week when I was commenting on
scalloped potatoes in the oven. I had mentioned my kitchen
is on the west side of the house and the room darkening
shade over the large window that does an exceptional job
of keeping the sun at bay. My bathroom as well as one
window in my bedroom faces west also.
All east and west facing windows have room darkening shades
plus window tint. The bathroom being the exception as I want
'true' sunlight in that room for putting on makeup. The shade
in the bedroom decided it had had enough of me and decided
to tear up in late April, early May. So off I headed to
the store for a replacement. I bought a 'room darkening'
shade at Target, and it was easy to size to my window,
well-made, and raised and lowered with ease. But it was
definitely not a room darkening one and I'd been unhappy
with it ever since. The bedroom was noticeably hot in
the afternoon up until dusk.
Monday I chose another 'room darkening' shade from
another store, sized it this morning and hung it.
When slipping it out of the packaging I was careful
not to damage the plastic sleeve it came in just in
case it was not a true darkening shade as the other
one. I'm happy to report it is as advertised. It
is easily 10° cooler in that room now. Now you know
what an exciting shopping day I had Monday and aren't
you glad I shared this exciting news with you.
We were discussing heat, the oven in the kitchen, direction
of windows in my house last week when I was commenting on
scalloped potatoes in the oven. I had mentioned my kitchen
is on the west side of the house and the room darkening
shade over the large window that does an exceptional job
of keeping the sun at bay. My bathroom as well as one
window in my bedroom faces west also.
All east and west facing windows have room darkening shades
plus window tint. The bathroom being the exception as I want
'true' sunlight in that room for putting on makeup. The shade
in the bedroom decided it had had enough of me and decided
to tear up in late April, early May. So off I headed to
the store for a replacement. I bought a 'room darkening'
shade at Target, and it was easy to size to my window,
well-made, and raised and lowered with ease. But it was
definitely not a room darkening one and I'd been unhappy
with it ever since. The bedroom was noticeably hot in
the afternoon up until dusk.
Monday I chose another 'room darkening' shade from
another store, sized it this morning and hung it.
When slipping it out of the packaging I was careful
not to damage the plastic sleeve it came in just in
case it was not a true darkening shade as the other
one. I'm happy to report it is as advertised. It
is easily 10° cooler in that room now. Now you know
what an exciting shopping day I had Monday and aren't
you glad I shared this exciting news with you.
On 2025-07-15 6:31 p.m., ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:
We were discussing heat, the oven in the kitchen, direction
of windows in my house last week when I was commenting on
scalloped potatoes in the oven. I had mentioned my kitchen
is on the west side of the house and the room darkening
shade over the large window that does an exceptional job
of keeping the sun at bay. My bathroom as well as one
window in my bedroom faces west also.
All east and west facing windows have room darkening shades
plus window tint. The bathroom being the exception as I want
'true' sunlight in that room for putting on makeup. The shade
in the bedroom decided it had had enough of me and decided
to tear up in late April, early May. So off I headed to
the store for a replacement. I bought a 'room darkening'
shade at Target, and it was easy to size to my window,
well-made, and raised and lowered with ease. But it was
definitely not a room darkening one and I'd been unhappy
with it ever since. The bedroom was noticeably hot in
the afternoon up until dusk.
Monday I chose another 'room darkening' shade from
another store, sized it this morning and hung it.
When slipping it out of the packaging I was careful
not to damage the plastic sleeve it came in just in
case it was not a true darkening shade as the other
one. I'm happy to report it is as advertised. It
is easily 10° cooler in that room now. Now you know
what an exciting shopping day I had Monday and aren't
you glad I shared this exciting news with you.
We have sunblocker blinds in our bedroom. We got them when I was working >shifts. They worked like a charm because once we had them installed I
almost never again had to work midnight shifts.
We just have regular lined curtains in the east facing kitchen window
and drawing them keeps out a lot of heat. The east facing spare bedrooms >upstairs and down both have blinds and heavy curtains that we close to
keep the morning sun out. We use the sunblocker shades in out bedroom
and pull the lined curtains The corner south and west facing windows in
the corner of our living room are pretty well shaded from the hot son so
we usually keep those curtains open.
ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote on 7/15/2025 5:31 PM:
Monday I chose another 'room darkening' shade from
another store, sized it this morning and hung it.
When slipping it out of the packaging I was careful
not to damage the plastic sleeve it came in just in
case it was not a true darkening shade as the other
one. I'm happy to report it is as advertised. It
is easily 10° cooler in that room now. Now you know
what an exciting shopping day I had Monday and aren't
you glad I shared this exciting news with you.
It's right up there with ed's suppository adventure!
Monday I chose another 'room darkening' shade from
another store, sized it this morning and hung it.
When slipping it out of the packaging I was careful
not to damage the plastic sleeve it came in just in
case it was not a true darkening shade as the other
one. I'm happy to report it is as advertised. It
is easily 10° cooler in that room now. Now you know
what an exciting shopping day I had Monday and aren't
you glad I shared this exciting news with you.
On 2025-07-15, ItsJoanNotJoAnn <ItsJoanNotJoAnn@webtv.net> wrote:
Monday I chose another 'room darkening' shade from
another store, sized it this morning and hung it.
When slipping it out of the packaging I was careful
not to damage the plastic sleeve it came in just in
case it was not a true darkening shade as the other
one. I'm happy to report it is as advertised. It
is easily 10° cooler in that room now. Now you know
what an exciting shopping day I had Monday and aren't
you glad I shared this exciting news with you.
Yes. And Summer sucks. I can't strip off enough clothes. Here, by
August, the days suck, but the nights are cooler, and the coolness comes sooner. That makes a big difference.
We only get few weeks of really hot summer weather and the heat is
usually accompanied by high humidity. Most of the rest of summer is very pleasant.
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