I am not defending them now, only explaining how I came to think of them as quite all right.
xp
― Je55e, Monday, 6 May 2013 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
I just can't spend a whole lot of money right now, so I'm going with "make the best of what I have" at the moment.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 May 2013 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
Totally. carl won't mock you when we come visit.
― Je55e, Monday, 6 May 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
i blame the USA network's 1980s late night dramas that made us think that peering through miniblinds was sexy and dangerous
― a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (elmo argonaut), Monday, 6 May 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
You guys have got me side eyeing my (blue!) kitchen blinds now but I don't know if I can be bothered. Also the cord is frayed and the things don't work 100% correctly anymore. If I break them then the neighbours will see right in and then I won't feel free to prance around in underpants.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 6 May 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
nail up a sheet over the window, it's worth it
― a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (elmo argonaut), Monday, 6 May 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
I don't have any fabric that matches and is thick enough to hide us from the neighbours. Our windows are about three feet apart with the sinks underneath, it gets awkward. One day I'll go and buy some fabric just for this task.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 6 May 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
Get some textured clear window clings then, if u want light with privacy. Possibly even just put them on the bottom half of the window?
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Monday, 6 May 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
I would love plain old roller blinds and sheers but again, it's just kind of a nightmare trying to put my arms around getting it done.
this was me for the last 10 years. meanwhile, my blinds were getting grosser and grosser. to carl and io's credit, neither of them mocked me when they came over to my home. i just don't want to feel like this anymore!
textured clear window clingssome what?
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 6 May 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
oh, those are great! they are indispensible for 1st floor apartment dwellers
― a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (elmo argonaut), Monday, 6 May 2013 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
Removable plastic films with an embossed texture that you smooth onto windows to make them not transparent.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Monday, 6 May 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
i understand what the words mean, but what are they called? where do you get them?
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 6 May 2013 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
window clings, or window film -- you can get them at hardware stores, I think ikea even sells some
LL, like this kind of thing:http://www.notmartha.org/images/other/designsponge/windowfilm/strossel_geranium.jpg
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 May 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
not as twee obv
http://www.lighteffects.com/
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Monday, 6 May 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
ok see i have never seen such a thing! ty
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 6 May 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
those are pretty!!
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 6 May 2013 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
we just had plain frosted vinyl ones on the lower panes of our windows and they were really just indispensable especially since our apartment didn't get barely any light. we never had a bathroom curtain, on the 1st floor even! so i will vouch for their privacy.
― a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (elmo argonaut), Monday, 6 May 2013 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
Ftr I barely even noticed the blinds at your house, you crazy person, I was totally focused on hanging out with you. I was super jealous of all your sunlight though.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Monday, 6 May 2013 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
Uh that's to Lechera.
I hadn't thought of window clings! that would be a better solution for the bathroom come to think of it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 May 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
xp - but they were really gross, and i knew it :(
i'm totally gonna look into those -- do you cut to size? are they really totally removable? do they look chintzy? i swear people keep coming up with stuff that looks like 1000x better than i expect it to.
i grew up with curtains and had some ridiculous lacey ones in my childhood bedroom so i have this silly longstanding affection for lace curtains. i even made some when i first moved into my own apt long ago. i washed them and they were easy to care for.
we also don't have the peeper issue in our new place that we had in our old place. strangers on the train could look directly into my bedroom window if i hadn't had complete opacity. it's sad that i never knew about those clings before now -- could have saved lots of time and energy feeling shitzoid about my nasty blinds.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 6 May 2013 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
they are cut to size, yes. and they come right off with no film or residue. i can't speak for any of the patterened ones as i just had the frosted ones -- personally i would be suspect of the ones that have stained-glass affectations
― a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (elmo argonaut), Monday, 6 May 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that's why i asked if they were chintzy -- no offense to chintz, of course!
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 6 May 2013 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
i've becomed so accustomed to having them i think i should put them in the new bathroom, lest i become careless and give the neighbors an eyeful
― a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (elmo argonaut), Monday, 6 May 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
LL just make sure you get non-adhesive ones, like the kind in Orbit's link
there are adhesive ones also but def def not advised for renters as removal can be tricky
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 May 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i mean the last time i bought contact paper, it was hella sticky(it was also like 20 yrs ago)
in other news, i decided to line my fridge with plastic (like this little roll of thin plastic sheeting?) so that i could just clean that instead of stressing about getting stuff on my fridge.
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 6 May 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
i saw some one direction duct tapemaybe i'll just cover the windows with that
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 6 May 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
If I were doing a room with a sort of gypsy/romantic feel I would buy a 2nd hand table cloth with the deepest crocheted lace edge I could find, fold it in half diagonally, and drape it over an iron rod as a drapery with the crochet hanging all along the edge in deep folds. And then pin or baste it into position at the backs of the folds where it was hidden.
That is for the dept of interior design thread tho.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Monday, 6 May 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
i think part of my prob with all of this is that i need pictureswords aren't really helping me
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 6 May 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
ilx is the best place for these discussions! i'm already inspired!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 May 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
This is not what I had in mind but I don't hate it:https://pinterest.com/pin/19984792068131459/
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Monday, 6 May 2013 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
Actually I'm going to go a little drape crazy in the dept int thread, if that's okay? And get it out of Cleaning.
I didn't know about window clings either! Cool suggestion, thanks L. We are lucky in that we have a screen at the base of the widow so the bottom is at least a little private.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 6 May 2013 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
That's good for dusting, but there's a point when they get beyond dusty into straight up grimy. I don't think that thing would take care of that.― carl agatha, Monday, May 6, 2013 2:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― carl agatha, Monday, May 6, 2013 2:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
These are Grimy as hell. They're . . . they're grey. :( I don't think any sort of duster thing would work. Maybe I will just wait a month until I have more $ and put up some curtains. The ones in my bedroom are new and totally fine but there are four huge windows in the living room and those are all really gross. I tried cleaning them with like windex and a rag and after it took me 10 mins to clean two individual little rows I was like FUCK THIS.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 6 May 2013 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
Don't clean them if you don't want to, but if you do want to, I repeat: Put to soak in hot water and ammonia. The greasy black stuff will wipe off.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Monday, 6 May 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
OK. I might try it out next weekend with one of them just to see how much of a production it is. Will use your tips. :)
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 6 May 2013 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
Why does no one understand that that gadget is NOT a duster? It's a scrubber. You soak it with hot soapy (ammonia-y) water and scrub several slats at a time.
― Je55e, Monday, 6 May 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
I just think a duster like that won't work well for scrubbing, sorry.
― carl agatha, Monday, 6 May 2013 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
I can't see hosted images at work so I just saw someone else say it was a duster and went with that. :( I'll look later from home.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, 6 May 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
lol carl
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 May 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
I can't tell if you're joking.
― Je55e, Monday, 6 May 2013 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
1. I own a similar gadget2. My apartment has miniblinds3. I am a filthy, filthy slob4. The miniblinds have, at times, become filthy, filthy, and greasy5. I used the gadget to scrub the filthy, filthy, greasy miniblinds6. The blinds ceased to be filthy, and became clean
Wherefore, I entreaty you to GFY
― Je55e, Monday, 6 May 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
go filth yourself
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 May 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
ENBB I think what you really need is a scrubber, maybe one that you can use to clean three or four of the individual blinds at once, not a duster like Jesse has.
― carl agatha, Monday, 6 May 2013 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
Like this one:
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/5104/cleaningblinds.jpg
― carl agatha, Monday, 6 May 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
like a fluffy wolverine
― kinder, Monday, 6 May 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
hahahaa omg dying
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 May 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
I have a set of blinds that are vertical and about 15ft long, cover a french window/ unopenable room height windows. Haven't cleaned them since I moved in here several years ago and really don't know how you would. Would love a better system there and openable windows during the summer. Plus once it gets light in th evening I haven't worked out how you control the glare on th etv screen. Maybe I just need something like a chinese screen or something. But that was a feature on a place I was offered and not something I had any choice about. Does mean ventilation in this place isn't great during the summer or any other time really.
― Stevolende, Monday, 6 May 2013 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
This thread inspired me to vinegar my windows & wipe my bookshelves today! Grimy blinds remain grimy however.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Monday, 6 May 2013 22:56 (eleven years ago) link