Window Covering

Almost all our window covering were purchased or ordered at JC Penny. The ready made drapes are not wide enough for our big windows and we have to put multiple pieces together. In the family room above, we put 8 pieces all together. The khakei color drapes were used through out the house (see the master bedroom picture in the flooring entry), it looks simple and elegant. The tie-backs were purchased at Ross. Their prices are super good if you can find what you want.

The old style drapes or mini-blinds seemed to be replaced by some new material, as we looked into window coverings. We ended up getting drapes (not pinch-pleated, back-tabbed now) for the large windows in living room (12-ft x 4.5-ft), family room (12-ft x 6.5-ft and 8-ft x 6.5-ft, sliding doors), and master bedroom (6-ft x 6.5-ft, French door). For the other 5 windows (3 6-ft x 4-ft and 2 6-ft x 3-ft), we went with the cordless cellular shades. Two 35-in wide cellular shades go into the inside frame of a 6-ft window nicely. After some quite extensive search, we learned that super-long (anything wider than 7-ft) curtain rods could only be found from Home Depot. The place we usually go first, for building material, but in this case, the last place we looked, after JC Penny, Burlington Coat Factory, Ross, Wal-mart, and Target.