Summer curtains

Can't sleep if it's light so have black out curtains all year. Bless your industry for changing the curtains. I will lie down and rest whilst I think about it.

We do the same Aka and it does open up the lounge for the summer doesn't it,I've just changed the bedroom ones as well as but the lighter morning doesn't effect the darkness in the room of a morning as I have roller blinds directly on the windows.

I can't sleep if it's very dark and have to have a little bit of light creeping through the curtains all year round. In winter it's from the street lights but from now onwards it's daylight. I was frightened of the dark as a child and had a little oil lamp lit to enable me to get to sleep. I have always read a lot and think my imagination was over active!

Don't have any curtains to change thankfully. We changed to blinds a few years ago

No, I don't. It's enough of a faff changing the duvets!

We used to but ran out of enthusiasm and also trying to declutter. Winter curtains take up quite a lot of storage space!

Stopped doing it after about three years of marriage. Mother in law did it religiously.

No.

Sadly my domestic goddess is Miss Havisham from Great Expectations.

POGS!

No, I don't!!

Sleep much better in ptich black but here in the mountains we do not have any light pollution, and we use the thick wooden shutters- so no curtains at all.

No, I don't but my mum used to have heavy velvets in the winter and florals in the summer. I think it was because they were so poor when she was a child and the velvets were a sort of 'ambition achieved'.

Thanks Ana you've reminded me to look out the summer duvets.

POGS nice one!

I have 15 tog duvets all year round and my curtains are the same also all year round. I do not have the time, energy or space apart from the minor problem that I cannot get up a small househiold ladder to change them.

15 tog charleygirl? I have a 7.5 through the winter and have now changed to our 4 tog. Even that will be too hot in a few weeks time!

Charleygirl I would roast under 15tog as our apartment is so warm anyway during the summer I sometimes replace lightweight quilt with just a top sheet.

It sounds very grand to have Summer and Winter curtains, maybe something I shall have to aspire to[though it's a bit on the late side now.]However, I don't have any really heavy curtains anyway, as we have a lot of blinds as well, so don't really need any more added thickness.What with central heating and cavity wall insulation, it's warm enough.It does sound to be a lot of work, but if the changeover gives pleasure and thoughts of Spring etc.

yogagran and glammanana I also take a hot water bottle to bed at night! In summer there has to be a heatwave before I part with any of my duvet and even then it is rarely off the entire night. I have always felt the cold and I was permanently frozen being brought up on the east coast of Scotland with no central heating.

Crumbs I've never heard this before! I'm afraid once ours are up, up they stay!

Phew charleygirl
In summer we have just a top sheet. If its really hot n humid I will throw even that off. I also have a fan on all night.

Can't be faffed to change curtains. We do rearrange the lounge furniture so we have better access to the patio doors. Haven't done it yet this year.

My dear Grandma had her two sets of curtains.....Bottle green velvet for winter and rose bedecked chintz for summer. She was so proud of those curtains and they were carefully adapted when she moved house......none of that throwing out business for her - a very classy lady.

I am blown away by the idea that some people have TWO sets of curtains! Affording one lot is bad enough! My DD, who has just moved house, is struggling to afford any at all! I am making them for her and will not charge her the full price of the material - she has no idea how much it costs so I hope to get away with it!