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Anyone ever try this? I have wide wooden Levolor Venetian blinds in my bedroom, and the look is HARD  . Has anyone ever painted a scene or stenciled some flowers on blinds?
There are no other window treatments. There used to be blackout drapes, but I took them down the second we moved in. The house is very dark in general, but I thought I'd keep the blinds for the evening (this is nearly the city, you know  ).
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Blinds in the Bedroom?
Thought you were doing the kitchen?
Around here that is called project creep-
Avoid the urge! 
BTW, I can barely dust my blinds, the thought of the prep and painting is daunting to me.
If you do it how will you keep the edges that hit eachother form chipping?
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Ahhh, there's Viv. The voice of reason...I completely agree.
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Reason, hardly.
In this house i am not the reaasonalble one, just an automatic response that Rick has trained into my vocabulary after 23 years!
Look what happened last time he was not diligent--
he's fencing in the woods for 2 goats, after all they are great to rotate with the sheep...
farmhouse with no running water, one strand electric, falling down barn, rotted sillplate, no heat....
Poor guy has learned to be wary!
BTW could the room be viewed as spare/clean lined, simple?
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Elizabeth wrote:
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Don't ya know it !
I run alot of my home projects by Viv first. There was the kitchen.....the living room......the bedroom....
She knows her stuff.
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We had dark wood blinds in the bedroom for room darkening purposes. I was aiming for a British-Colonial-Carribbean feel and was going to drape some soft sheer cotton voile either as drapes themselves (sheers) or a casual valance. The rod itself can a bit decorative.
I like it bright during the day, but I want the light out at night and early morning.
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You could always "tag" them but that might not be the look you're going for...
Decoupage?
Leaving this thread in the nick of time...
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lilac hill wrote:
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Thanks for the voices of reason, all of you!
The style of the room? Hmmm. A mix of Lithuanian Rosary shrine and early 80s rummage sale.
Help (but I will wait until the kitchen is finished) !
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Lithuanian Rosary shrine??-religious icons in burnished gold and dark frames and pictures of your family grouped on off white walls, dark wood (keep those blinds ) dark , unpatterned comforter, worn deeply colored patterned area rugs.
Or am I completely off base?
When I am cleaning the barn my imagination has time to drift.
Now to figure out what this year's vegetable garden will look like, what flowering tree to replace the dead one int ehcottage garden with, and where to transplant the volunteer pyrancantha and Korean boxwood.
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