Baby Sleeping? Mother is Happy!
On a rainy afternoon it is hard to image the sun keeping your child awake. But the sun does come in your east windows early on summer mornings and it certainly is staying sunny later each day. It makes it hard to get young children to bed at their normal time.
I have a customer that has an arch window above her double window in what will be the baby’s room. This is her second child so she knows how important it is to keep the light out to encourage the baby to take naps during the day. It is seldom a privacy issue with these arch windows, but too much light is not good for baby, guests, or keeping the room cool in the summer.
There are three ways to solve the arch problem with two solutions being stationary, meaning the arch is always covered, and one solution that is moveable.
First you could gather a room darkening fabric – this could be a dark, heavy fabric or a fabric lined with a room darkening lining. We have arch rods that fit the shape of your arch and the fabric can be gathered on that rod. But these treatments don’t move so once it is installed, you can not easily move the fabric to look out the window.
A second solution is a pleated shade or a cellular shade both with a room darkening liner. These shades fan out over the arch like the gathered curtain does and are both stationary. It might be possible to take these treatments down on a seasonal basis but you would need to store them in a secure location.
The cellular shade also can be made so the cells are in the same horizontal direction as the shade below. This arch shade can be lowered or raised by moving a small cord. If the shade is too high to easily reach, a pole can be acquired to latch onto the pull and move it back and forth to move the shade.
Of course the moveable arch shade is the most expensive, but it does give you more flexibility in looking out the arch window when the sun is not a problem. It is always nice to have options.
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