{"id":33206,"date":"2021-02-06T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T08:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=33206"},"modified":"2021-02-06T00:01:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T08:01:37","slug":"honeycomb-shades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/honeycomb-shades\/","title":{"rendered":"Our New Honeycomb Shades: Out of Sight. Out of Mind. Sheltering at Home Week 47"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vertical honeycomb shades block — and filter — the afternoon sun in our dining room. We like the way our dark bronze aluminum windows frame our view; we didn’t want to cover them up. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our Honeycomb Shades Are Here. Sheltering at Home Week 47.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our living room-dining room remodel has been done for months, and now, finally the job is complete: our new window treatments are in place.<\/p>\n

And you can barely see them.<\/p>\n

For decades, our living room windows were framed by — and partially covered by — lush, creamy draperies.<\/p>\n

The draperies were pretty. But the view they obscured was even prettier.<\/p>\n

A Minimalist Window Treatment This Time<\/strong><\/h5>\n

So this time around, we went minimalist with our window treatment. Instead of draperies (which are quite costly these days — so much of the fabric comes from China), we chose honeycomb shades, also known as cellular shades.<\/p>\n

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To block the view of our neighbors’ window we can adjust this top down bottom up honeycomb shade. Next to the large, eight-foot window at left, you can see how little space the vertical retracted shade takes up — less than seven inches. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the new shades are retracted, you can hardly tell they are there.<\/p>\n

And that’s the way we like it. It’s our woodsy view we want to see when we sit down to dinner. We want to see our cypress tree. And through its branches, the fog rolling in across the San Francisco Bay.<\/p>\n

Honeycomb Shades — They Get Small<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The honeycomb material is so thin that eight feet of vertical shade collapses into a discrete, seven-inch space at one end of each slider.<\/p>\n

And so, unless the afternoon sun happens to be blasting at us through the dining room window, that’s where our new window treatments stay — out of sight.<\/p>\n

More about our remodel at “Hey, HGTV Fans. Take a Look at Our Remodel.”<\/a>\u00a0 As for installing draperies, read about that at “Window Treatment Stick Shock.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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I went out onto the street after dark the other day to see whether it’s possible to see into our living room from the street at night. It is. Now that our new can lights give us enough light to read in the living room in the evening, I’ll probably be pulling these horizontal cellular shades down from time to time so I can read in private. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Our lush draperies are gone — replaced by minimalist honeycomb shades that stay out of sight when retracted. That’s the way we like it.\u00a0 Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41],"tags":[2304,2437,34,2384,2438,1188,2182,2439,2440],"class_list":["post-33206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","category-sheltering-at-home-chronicles","tag-blomberg-windows","tag-cellular-shades","tag-dont-miss","tag-home-decor","tag-honeycomb-shades","tag-house","tag-remodel","tag-window-treatments","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}