Arch window and door window treatments or not?

5 months ago

Hello!! Please help!

This is our front door and next to it our dining room window. We are facing west so it the summer it is impossible to have dinner in the dining room because the Florida sun it hitting us real hard in the eyes and the temperature in the room is extremely hot!!

I love natural light and if I could I would have no window treatments but I have no choice. I would like to have thin curtain panels on the side of the window from the ceiling (not from below the arch). I don’t know if I can do the same for the door?

Also guys look at the top moulding and how the window is recessed… its really hard to out a pole there.. I am thinking of layering that with a roller shade?

I want to have the possibility of opening it in the morning but closing it in the afternoon

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Lidia Croteau
Original Author
5 months ago
This is the window right accross. Treatment on that will have to be cohesive.
Mrs. S
5 months ago
The first thing I would do is have window film installed. That will cut down a significant portion of the glare.
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A top down / bottom up shade might work actually....I have to look at it today with that in mind. All of the other windows have cellular blinds which are older and worn out and some are non-functioning or poorly functioning and one window definitely doesn't have a blind at all. I don't really like the idea of frosted film simply because we actually like to look out that window to check weather or look for daddy doing yard work or the neighborhood cat, etc. I feel like it would be a major loss if the window was obscured all the time. I agree that maybe painting the shutters white would look better. There is a lot of natural mid to dark wood throughout the house so its safe to say the previous owner really liked that look. We tend to go for lighter, brighter neutral with pops of color. I honestly had no idea about an ornamental leaded design......but I could see that possibly working after I searched some ideas. And yes, that is the stupidest place to put a bathroom. I have no idea what they were thinking. I think it would make a nice little office though, looking out on the front yard. I'd put built in shelves on the back wall so that's all you'd see when you looked in the window from the street.
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arcy_gw
5 months ago
Sooo many people are changing these semi circles to transom looking rectangles. I am not a fan. You may as well just take them out why fight the heat?
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JAN MOYER
5 months ago
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"I love natural light and if I could I would have no window treatments but I have no choice."

Well........ you do.

Get with a Hunter Douglas source in your area, and request a house visit.. Options abound, that will literally disappear when not needed. Yes, even for the transom.

NO....NO...... to curtain panels. Not enough room!

I see no reason to add a window treatment to the entry door at all. Perhaps a film on the glass, or change to a seeded less open glass. I see no reason for grilles on the window but you aren't showing exterior. There are no grilles on the back.
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
5 months ago
IMO the rched window gets a fized solar shade and the others get rollup ones you get to keep the view control the heat and UV rys and at night if you need privacy do drapes just on the lower windows in the DR
K Laurence
5 months ago
Have the glass tinted , it will cut down on the heat ( & damaging UV rays ) significantly . Then, follow Jan’s advice , call a window treatment company for suggestions.
chispa
5 months ago
You could certainly do Hunter Douglas Duette shades for sun/heat control. Have them inside mounted on the windows and you could probably do exterior mount on the doors. They also have solutions for curved windows.

I'm also in FL and my front windows face west and includes my dining room. I have HD Duettes that I close from about 2 pm onward and they do a great job of cutting sun/heat into the space. I have a 10 ft deep porch over the front entry which also helps with cutting back light coming in through my front door sidelites.
chispa
5 months ago
You don't really have much room for drape panels, unless you don't mind blocking quite a bit of your window glass area.
Lidia Croteau
Original Author
5 months ago
@chispa, do you mind sharing pictures?
chispa
5 months ago
Lots of photos of the Duette shades on the HD site, although it doesn't seem to be working correctly tonight!

https://www.hunterdouglas.com/window-treatments/shades/cellular-shades/duette

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