using fleece blankets as curtains?
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Here is the idea - i have an old house that the front porch was enclosed and has a lot of old windows that have a very unique look to them. Anyway in the winter i want to have some kind of curtain that would extend to the floor to keep out the drafts. Wondering if i bought some fleece blankets and sewed them to make curtains if it would work to keep out the drafts and make the room warmer. thought of buying drapes but that would be astronomical in price and i really can't afford that - i figured what i would have in drapes i could probably replace a couple of the windows. last year I hung fleece blankets from the dining room to make it seem as if we weren't home when a certain person would stop by uninvited (that is a whole nother story!) and it seemed to keep the house warmer. I figured if I used fleece and it didn't work I have some material for sewing then, right :-P
Here is the idea - i have an old house that the front porch was enclosed and has a lot of old windows that have a very unique look to them. Anyway in the winter i want to have some kind of curtain that would extend to the floor to keep out the drafts. Wondering if i bought some fleece blankets and sewed them to make curtains if it would work to keep out the drafts and make the room warmer. thought of buying drapes but that would be astronomical in price and i really can't afford that - i figured what i would have in drapes i could probably replace a couple of the windows. last year I hung fleece blankets from the dining room to make it seem as if we weren't home when a certain person would stop by uninvited (that is a whole nother story!) and it seemed to keep the house warmer. I figured if I used fleece and it didn't work I have some material for sewing then, right :-P
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in an old house we used to live in i hung a fleece blanket over one of the upstairs windows in the winter- IT WORKED GREAT! for some reason it seemed to collect the sun and radiate the heat- when you walked past the stairs you could actually feel heat radiating down from that window- it cut our heating bill by alot!
then i got the bright idea to add a cotton (top) with a fleece back and actually made it a curtain- that was even better- seems the cotton on one side blocked the (heat) so it only went in one direction-
either way- i think it's a good idea- worked well for us :)
then i got the bright idea to add a cotton (top) with a fleece back and actually made it a curtain- that was even better- seems the cotton on one side blocked the (heat) so it only went in one direction-
either way- i think it's a good idea- worked well for us :)
#6
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Ashtabula County, Ohio NE Corner
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Hi, I used plastic Shower Curtain Liners to hang in front of the Sliding glass doors in the kitchen of house I used to live in.. that worked for a while and really cut the cold. then when winter hit I put foam insulation panels over the doors and then the plastic which I used Duck tape to hold the plastic tight to wall...it was dark but warm... inside the kitchen and the doors were on the NW side of the house.. and anything helps here in OHio
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