window treatment for windows with transom above?
hi, helpful gardenwebbers! we are moving to a northern coastal florida home (YAYYYY!) w/ several sets of windows like the one below. Home is being purchased and given a much-needed makeover with new windows, medium-toned european oak engineered hardwoods and, ahem, new light fixtures .
Was wondering if you have any window treatment recommendations?
I do love a woven wood shade/ fabric roman shade (esp in a coastal home!) but think only using on lower windows will make the space feel weighed down and out of balance....
Soooo....
maybe plantation shutters throughout all the windows (like below) is a good choice? Then it will keep things neat and tidy and repetitious?!?
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megan
5 years agoRelated Discussions
Window Treatments and Transoms
Comments (4)It really depends on what you want to do. Usually people don't want to cover up the transoms after they've spent alot of money for them! I generally see blinds in the lower windows leaving the transoms open because of the trim that separates the 2. When I do drapery treatments for windows with transoms, I personally like to treat the entire window going above the transom; otherwise the window tends to look squatty and cut off. But, sometimes people want to treat the lower window only. Why don't you live in your home for a bit and see what kind of glare/sunlight you'll get and then decide what to do....See Moretransom window treatments
Comments (8)My experience is most people go over them to add height and block out the sun. But I have installed many below leaving transom open. After about a year or two,I am back at a good percentage of those people homes switching to a new treatment to cover them to block out the sun. Here is a link that might be useful: Panel Track With Transom Open...See More8ft ceiling... transom window above front door possible?
Comments (10)I have transoms above every door on the first floor of my 1965 house. However the divider at the tops of the doors is very narrow. In the living room the effect is floor-to-ceiling and nearly wall-to-wall glass. They are standard 6'8" doors and the transoms have a glass area of about 11" high. Some antique houses here have fanlights as in your photo and eight foot ceilings although those doors are usually about 6'6" instead of the modern 6'8". So in my experience, yes, you can have transoms with 8' ceilings and a reasonable appearance....See MoreTransom window light blocking treatment to match....
Comments (3)For the narrow height of them, I'd use window film. It will diffuse the light coming in, but not block it, unless you get a patterned design. Here's a Pinterest page showing some ideas with window film. https://www.pinterest.com/explore/window-film/?lp=true...See More
Lil S
5 years ago
PROFenstermann LLC
5 years agoHey There: You have so much beautiful light coming into your room and the surface of the windows is bigger than the walls...so you gotta pick carefully. Do not cover the transom - you don't need it for privacy and it would also cover the beautiful window trim. Opt for an inside mount window treatment - such as double roller shades for example. They are available in 170 different fabrics in print, different thickness of lines or custom shape...
Judy Mishkin
5 years agoi get privacy-neurotic spouses... are there neighbors windows that can look down through the transom, or is this 'there might be a drone' kind of issue? and its one issue in a bedroom and another in a dining room.
i went with curtains below and drapes full height but pretty much never close the drapes unless its reallly reallly cold and blowy outside then it makes the room snug. you wont have that issue in florida tho. but he might learn to not need the drapes closed after dark and meanwhile in day time it would look much much better.
its a southern exposure so i do like the filmy curtains closed on sunday mornings when we are reading the papers in our jammies, and at night so its not big black holes of windows.
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Lil S