drapes, blinds, shades?

I love the look of blinds, but they are definitely not an option in our house. We have two dogs and two cats that would love to ruin some blinds. I know, because I had that happen at another house (with other animals). So for us, it's curtains and drapes only.

In the little house that I rent, there are blinds, curtains that I made, and drapes over the picture window. The blinds were here already. At least I didn't have to worry about the expense of those! I made the curtains for the bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen from fabric that I already had. I was going to use the fabric for the windows in the apartment that I previously rented, but I had a chance to move back to my hometown, so I used it here.

Right now we have blinds in every room. This apartment came with really nice wood blinds, no need to cover them up. My son does have curtains up in his room because my mom made him some to go with everything else in his room.

We can't see the neighbors from he and they can't see us so i'll have the luxury of doing whatever I want. At the moment the living room just has 3 lace valances, and the back bedroom has full length room darkening curtains. All the other windows are currently naked. I'm not so fond of blinds or shades. I'd rather just use curtains. I haven't thought much about what I'll do here although I have formed a partial color scheme/design. I might try using natural elements since we're surrounded by trees and weeds.

I am fortunate in that I never had to even make this decision when I moved into the apartment I am in now! Every window has those wooden plantain type shutters already there. If I had of needed to buy window dressings though I probably would have gone for blinds too. Much cheaper and pretty easy to put up! Drapes can sometimes be better in a bedroom though because they block more side light.

Well I too have blinds all through my house, but to me the house looked to bare because I too was used to always having curtains in all of my other houses, so I also have curtains on my windows too along with the blinds, but I have them tied back at all times.