For weeks (well even months now since we’ve been living here two months already) we have been talking about getting curtains to put back in the bathroom downstairs. There were once lace curtains which hung on the window itself so they wouldn’t interfere when the window needs to be opened. We took the curtains down to wash them and never put them back up because it would have been more hassle than I wanted, especially since I wasn’t very fond of them to begin with. They had old fashioned clips on them which we had to take off to wash them…and then would have need to put back on to rehang them…and I just wasn’t feeling it. Plus we seem to have lost one of the rods somewhere along the way so that only further complicated things.
Since we’ve moved in, we’ve had a flattened moving box taped into the window. It didn’t look pretty but it kept the neighbors from seeing something they didn’t want to see…or that we didn’t want them to see. This was especially important our first few weeks here since we were using this as our primary bathroom and some of our older neighbors might have called the cops on us if they’d seen us in the shower, thinking we were trying to make trouble when in fact we were trying to shower as quickly as possible to prevent from freezing since the heater doesn’t work in there (a topic I will not discuss at this time because it’s STILL NOT FIXED – stupid Macky).
When one is sitting on the toilet, this is actually the view you have of the neighbors house…so anyone leaning out a window would certainly be able to see you…which happens more often than you might think.
And here’s another neighbor’s yard which you can see if you lean forward a bit or stand…so they basically could get an eyeful, especially if hubby is peeing or anything else is happening in the bathroom. They can also see into the bathroom from their front door and the entire corner of their house. Not good.
So of course we’ve been thinking and planning and trying to figure out what we should do in this bathroom for window coverings. And then I remembered that we bought some frosted window foil from IKEA to put up in our bedroom window at the old rental house (which was impossible to find a curtain for since the top of it was at an angle). In the end, we had plenty of the foil left over and actually packed an entire roll when we moved. But finding it was the real challenge.
I didn’t really realize just how many boxes we still have lingering here in various places around the farm. But I thankfully did remember that the extra roll of foil had been in the garage when I packed it…which meant it could only be in so many places – barn, storage room a or b, extra room, mudroom. I basically went from place to place and then back to a few of them when I wasn’t successful in the barn. It turned up in a box on a shelf in storage room b which was basically my last resort. So here I sit with the roll of Amorf Frost foil (love the name, right?) and I’m considering taking on this project this afternoon so it will be done with. We are also planning a trip to IKEA this weekend (which I will discuss in another post) so at least then I’d know if we need to buy more.
I’m also considering putting the foil in our office windows which are the same style. The previous curtains were half coverings with chickens or something on them. They are long gone with one of the many containers so I would need to come up with something new there anyway. But the frost covering at least lets in a lot of light still and would prevent anyone from seeing all the equipment in the office which would be very nice. Granted, these windows are a good 6 feet (2 meters) off the ground but you can still easily glance in them when walking down the street or driving.
