Saturday, January 22, 2005

Kudos to Levelor

We finally got around to putting up room-darkening blinds in our bedroom. Now that Kev will be working that awful schedule, he'll have to sleep during daylight hours. He's not had to do that on a regular basis in years and years. So to make the transition remotely possible, we've put away 11 years of just talking about it and actually did it yesterday. And those Levelor room-darkening cellular blinds really are great.

We have 4 windows in our bedroom, 2 facing East and 2 North. Each window is 36" x 62". I started out doing an Internet search, then called a local retailer. The Blind Guys. Cute name, right. They sell only 1 brand of blinds, and I can't remember the name, but it isn't Levelor. And they do only custom blinds. $243. Per Window. Times 4 is way more than I've got to spend. Plus minimum 2 weeks wait.

Yeah, right. Off to Lowe's. Where, for less than $243 total, I purchased 4 wonderful, easy-to-install, totally-do-what-they-say-they-will room darkening blinds. They're awesome. They really do the job. It was like nighttime in the middle of the day. Even better because now, at nighttime, our outside mercury yard light doesn't beam straight onto my pillow through little holes in the blinds (since there aren't any little holes running down these blinds). Very nice. And they look beautiful.

Even a blind guy could see that was a good deal. Ha!

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