DOOR CURTAINS

We also have a curtain for the front door. We have secondary glazing on the windows because the windows have diamond paned leaded lights which were put in when the house was built in 1930s and I wouldn't change them for a king's ransom. The pretend ones don't twinkle!

We have shutters on our house and the difference in temperature outside and that within the shutter to window space is 6 degrees. I have checked this both in cold weather and hot - so we use them in the winter for warmth and summer for keeping the heat out some of the day at least. We fitted French doors to a south facing room we created and installed a roller shutter there - although quite thin it is insulated and the difference in temperature when the sun is at it height is quite amazing - it has little slits in the shutter too so that a little light penetrates.

I have recently used lining which has interlining incorporated with it making it much thicker. It is easy to use and warmer but does make the curtains a bit stiff.

Some confusion here isn't there because those of you on the continent have shutters outside. Georgian houses in UK sometimes have shutters which are on the inside. I guess wandering round to close outside shutters on a winter's evening would cool one down in the UK - or you would have to open the windows and make the house chilly to do so.

Yes Jess and most of the time, I don't shut them as we have high quality double glazing. However in prolonged spells of hot or cold weather, they make a big difference and I leave the ones on the windows shut all the time.

I put up a curtain inside my front door when I moved in 14 years ago, but have yet to feel the need to close it. One day I shall get rid of it because it gathers dust and spiders. The door is single glazed but has a stained glass panel which matches others in the row, so I am loathe to change it.

We have always called my mother the gadget Queen, but I think her choice of windows stunned us all. She chose shutters the like of which I have never come across anywhere else. The windows are double glazed, but with a really big gap between the two layers of glass. The cream metal louvred shutters then descend in the gap when they are operated. I can't say I like them, but they are supposedly not only very good at keeping heat and every scrap of light in and out as necessary, but at keeping burglars out too.

However OH says that the house is so badly built that a wise burglar would just knock a hole through the wall.

I bought some super door curtains on ebay which weren't at all expensive and do the job. I certainly pull them in winter ie now! The only downside is that the little ones love hiding behind them I could certainly do with some in our sitting room which has doors to the outside on 2 of the walls! They're meant to be double glazed but I don't think they fit well

I've always had curtains across the inner glass doors to the hall, but after having the hall decorated they didn't match the new colour scheme. In the meantime, Mr G died and I lost heart - I had seen the material I wanted but it was working out at a ridiculous price ( expensive Moon wool fabric) so at last I have just purchase 3 grey wool rugs at a fraction of the price and, to make each curtain long enough, I am going to cut one in half and attach each half to the top of the others and have the fringe bit hanging down over the join at the top..... hope it works

Sounds lovely, Gally. I think it'll look very nice indeed!

Gally sounds like a good plan. {smile]