My husband has been complaining about a glare on his computer screen in his home office, which is in fact my kitchen/dining room area. I guess clients have commented that there’s a bright light coming in through the window behind him. Duh, that would be the sun folks!
I have sheer blue curtains over that window — it’s a dining area for goodness sake, no one cares if there’s sunlight coming in! It was never supposed to be a work place. He’s been sitting at my dining room table since mid-March, but I guess the glare has been annoying him for the past month, so last week we tried this out:
The ratty old bath towel clipped to my curtain rod wasn’t my first choice, but I wanted to see exactly where the light was coming in so I knew what kind of curtains I needed to buy. I thought this was a pretty creative solution — I used two chip clips to hang the towel! And it was never supposed to be a permanent solution, just a temporary fix. Well, my husband complained that the green towel didn’t match the blue curtains. There’s a critic in every crowd…
I finally made it to Target today on my lunch break to pick up two blackout curtains. (OK, so I actually went yesterday and bought one blackout curtain during lunch, I hung it up last night, realized one curtain was too small for the entire window space and had to go back again today to purchase another curtain. My work is never done.)
I think it looks good:
Wow, that picture looks a little crooked…
I decided to use this opportunity to wash the two sheer curtains and the valance, because I have absolutely no idea when I did that last… I washed them and hung everything back up this evening. The blackout curtains in the middle can be opened for light and closed when my husband has a meeting, and I hung the sheer curtains back up so they match the curtains on the other windows in the dining room.
I was pretty proud of my creation! My husband said the blues don’t match. I just can’t win…
Notes from a Self Quarantine 