The window coverings our new bedroom came with allow the day to come in when ever it is good and ready.
I don’t like that. I am not a morning person. After months of trying to move pillows to block that morning sun I am so glad to finally be at MCD Innovations in McKinney, Texas, where our new window coverings are to be manufactured and installed.
On Monday a crew came in and measured our windows. Sorry, I forgot to take pictures of that which is too bad because they have a neat trick. The put an adjustable bar inside the window framing, tighten and remove it, then measure the stick. That’s sure a lot easier than trying to contort your body in such a way as to be able to see the measuring tape with it buried inside the window framing.
Tuesday they spent manufacturing the new shades with the install scheduled for Wednesday. They said the install would probably take most of a day so we saved up a bunch of stuff to go do on Wednesday so as to be out of their way.
Which didn’t happen, of course. They got ahead of schedule so they came late Tuesday afternoon to begin installing. So, we were home to take pictures of them crawling around our furniture trying to figure out the best access to the insides of the framing.
Now we have the option of no shade down, the solar blocking shade down, or the night shade down.
And our bedroom is now so dark…
…that Dave had to turn the light on to get you a picture of it.
Now I should be able to sleep in mornings again. Which makes me wonder how we will ever get out of campgrounds by their deadlines now. And when we’ll do the errands we had saved up for today.
TTYL,
Linda
Thanks for the suggestion. It looks like a superior product. And it can be self-installed. Nice. 😎
To install one above the couch, you sit on the couch normally, tilt your head way back, look up at the inside of the framing, and swear at your bifocals. At least, that’s the way Dave said he’d do it; our installer didn’t wear glasses. 🙂
We’ve had to restring two of our shades when the little round plastic tie-down thingys break. Tell Dave you don’t just swear at your bifocals (which I also wear) but at almost everything else involved in the process. The bottom of the frame has to be unscrewed, the string corrected, and the whole thing put back together. Lots of fun for two people, who will hopefully still be married when the occasion is finished. 😎