On Jan 23, 5:59 pm, jtpr wrote:
On Jan 23, 10:27 am, Pat wrote:



On Jan 23, 10:00 am, jtpr wrote:

We have a utility/laundry/storage room in our new house. I built
shelves along one wall that are about 10' hight by 10' long and 16"
deep. My wife doesn't like to look at all the boxes and such and
wants to cover them up. I don't really want to build a lot of doors
on them because of the general layout of the room and accessibility to
the shelf space. So, I'm looking for suggestions on what would be a
good solution. She has suggested a series of curtains, but finding
10' high curtains without being custom made is tough.

Thanks,
Jim

The correct answer is "yes, dear".

So here's your evil plan. Agree with your wife !!! Tell her that
you'll go get a curtain rod and put it up and pick up some nice fabric
along the way. All she needs to do is sew a quick sleave and a hem
and it's done. NBD.

Go do your part and you're done. Then she'll either be quiet because
she makes the curtains and the project is done or (b) she won't do it
but at least she'll stop complaining because it's waiting for her to
do her part.

Yeah, I tried that. Let me state we have been married 28 years,
together for 31. She doesn't have a sewing machine right now (old one
broke, can't afford another at the moment). But I'm going to push
that idea bit more. ...

But I bet I could find somebody around here with a sewing machine to
knock off some curtains. I'll look into it.

Put up two rods curtains, one at the ceiling, the other halfway up.
Offset the top one a few inches out from the shelves so the top
curtain can overlap the bottom one aby a couple of inches.

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FF