After we lived in our apartment, I discovered some wonderful cheap bamboo shades at Dwelling Depot. They may customise the width for me, and I additionally discovered that I may do it myself utilizing my miter noticed. In spite of everything, they have been wooden shades. These bamboo shades grew to become my go-to shades of alternative on all the home windows within the apartment (all 4 of them ? ), and I additionally used them once we moved into our home. Any time somebody I knew was searching for bamboo shades, I’d advocate them. Once I was adorning different individuals’s properties, I’d use these shades. I imply, that’s how a lot I cherished them.
After which Dwelling Depot stopped carrying them. Lowe’s had different bamboo shades, however they didn’t have something like my favourite ones. I searched and searched on-line, and by no means may discover any that have been precisely like my favorites. I discovered related ones, however I used to be all the time dissatisfied with them.
As I’ve been working my approach by the rooms of our home, I had one remaining shade from the apartment that will work on a window in the home, and that’s the window within the pantry. However after I used that one, and located that the opposite three that I had didn’t match any of the home windows in our home, I by no means may discover extra of these shades.
Properly, guess what I discovered! Sure, that’s proper. I discovered a supply for my favourite cheap bamboo shades!! I discovered them proper right here on Amazon. (It’s a small retailer referred to as Temper Retailer that sells on Amazon.)
I ordered one for the toilet window on September 8, and it arrived yesterday (September 19). They custom-made the width and the size to suit my window based mostly on the measurements I despatched to them, so it’s excellent!
And it solely price $90. I used to be so excited once I unpackaged it yesterday and noticed simply how excellent it was! The standard is nice, and whereas this shade isn’t lined, the bamboo items are positioned shut sufficient collectively in order that it gives semi-privacy. It’s not fairly the privateness that you simply’ll get from a shade lined with blackout lining (like all of our different shades are), however it does provide a very good quantity of privateness.
And I feel the value is nice contemplating that they’ll customise the size and width. I obtained the cordless shade within the colour Rustic Walnut.
These shades are so extremely straightforward to put in. As soon as I obtained every thing unpackaged, I feel this shade took me all of 10 minutes to put in, if that. (However I do have loads of expertise putting in these, in order that helps additionally.)
The shades are mounted on this wooden rail that has a slot on every finish…
And that is what the {hardware} seems to be like. They supply one in all these brackets for every slot. My shade had two slots, so it got here with two brackets. (I’ve seen shades which can be so large that they require a slot and a bracket within the center as effectively.)
As soon as the bracket is put in, the threaded put up on the bracket slides into the slot.
After which it’s secured on the opposite aspect with a washer and wingnut.
So I took a fast measurement to find out the place I needed my shade. I like my shades to be pulled ahead in order that they’re nearer to the room aspect of the window jambs moderately than being shoved additional again towards the window. So I measured, marked, and screwed the 2 brackets into place…
(Please kindly overlook my dust-covered home windows. ? ) After which I held the shade up with one hand, ensuring that the posts have been by the slots, and screwed the wingnuts into place with the opposite hand.
It’s so fast and simple! And I’m so excited that I’ve discovered a supply for these shades once more.
I like the shades that we have now in the remainder of our home, however these shades are lined with blackout lining, and so they’re additionally prime down/backside up shades. In different phrases, the value of a kind of shades is about 3 times the value of my favourite cheap shades.
I like having shades lined with white blackout lining on the home windows going through the road. And I additionally love the highest down/backside up characteristic for sure rooms. I can’t think about not having that characteristic in our bed room.
However for home windows that don’t face the road, I’m probably not involved with having lined shades. And for our lavatory, I additionally don’t want the highest down/backside up characteristic. So this room was an ideal candidate for the extra cheap shade.
I made a decision to go this course after getting all the wooden items completed. I like the darkish walnut wooden, however every thing felt very weighty and bottom-heavy on this wall. I made a decision that I wanted one thing to carry a few of that wealthy wooden colour up into the highest half of the wall, and a bamboo window shade was the right answer.
Anyway, for those who’re searching for cheap bamboo shades which can be lovely and a very good high quality, and also you don’t want all the flamboyant add-ons and options, I extremely counsel these shades! You’ll find them right here on the Temper Retailer on Amazon, and those I purchased are the Rustic Walnut colour. After measuring my window, I bought the scale that was the closest match, after which I despatched an e-mail to their customer support (which I discovered within the Q&A bit on the itemizing) with my precise window measurements (ensuring to impress upon them that these have been the precise measurements with no deductions) and requested them to customise the scale to suit. It match completely!
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