My husband and spent a lot of money building a super insulated home with foot thick insulated concrete walls. Kudos for us, right? Well not so fast. Because our water front view is to the north we have large windows that need a highly insulated covering for winter evenings.
I have driven the man of the house to distraction with my wild ideas about fabric covered, hand painted styrofoam accodion shutters, Roman shades with those space blankets as a backing, and a number of other wild ideas.
After searching the internet, I am still looking for some great ideas for my windows that will close the "barn door" sized holes in my wonderful superinsulated walls.
The honeycomb cell blinds, window quilts and treated films are just not heavy duty enough to do what I want to accomplish. (besides, I am cheap and don't have a fortune to spend on this project)
The six windows that I want to cover are three foot twins twins. Each of them measure five feet in height and six feet in width. I have plenty of space to work with since the sills have a full 10 inches of clearance from pane to face frame.
So help me out here. What am I going to do that will be easy to push aside or lift on the days that I want to see the river, but will keep us snug as a bug on the most blustery winter night?
That shrink wrap plastic wrap was great for my little river shack, but is just not going to cut it in my brand new home!
Eileen's Green Team at Gateway
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