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Winterizing Tidbit - Curtains!
Feb. 25th, 2011 12:18 pmI had a new thought this winter -- curtains in doorways or hallways. This uses tension rods, so no screwing things into walls.
Depending on your layout, it might be useful to set one up in your hallway, far enough from the outer door that you can enter/exit easily, but that helps to form an "airlock" between the outside and the interior. Most regular tension curtain rods are too short, but they're also made as shower rods, which are longer and a bit heftier in construction. Obviously this only works in places that have a hallway...
Doorways I might consider using them on are if you have areas that don't have doors and that you don't go into very often but can't close off. I use one for the doorway into our unheated, north-facing pantry. The fabric I used here is just muslin because there's a window in the pantry and I wanted the light to come through, but it keeps the cool of the pantry out of the apt. and keeps the pantry itself cool enough to store our winter squash in.
If you have a funky deadend space/alcove somewhere, that mostly gets used for storing "stuff", and it has an outside wall, that space might be a candidate for a heavier weight curtain, to create a cool storage space. Weighting the bottom of the curtain is a good idea -- I haven't done that with my pantry curtain, but I'm thinking about it. Currently I've been rather lazy, and the muslin is literally just run over the top of the curtain rod and safety pinned to keep it from slipping down either side... This has the added advantages that you are now heating less space, and creating an additional layer of insulation of sorts.
Depending on your layout, it might be useful to set one up in your hallway, far enough from the outer door that you can enter/exit easily, but that helps to form an "airlock" between the outside and the interior. Most regular tension curtain rods are too short, but they're also made as shower rods, which are longer and a bit heftier in construction. Obviously this only works in places that have a hallway...
Doorways I might consider using them on are if you have areas that don't have doors and that you don't go into very often but can't close off. I use one for the doorway into our unheated, north-facing pantry. The fabric I used here is just muslin because there's a window in the pantry and I wanted the light to come through, but it keeps the cool of the pantry out of the apt. and keeps the pantry itself cool enough to store our winter squash in.
If you have a funky deadend space/alcove somewhere, that mostly gets used for storing "stuff", and it has an outside wall, that space might be a candidate for a heavier weight curtain, to create a cool storage space. Weighting the bottom of the curtain is a good idea -- I haven't done that with my pantry curtain, but I'm thinking about it. Currently I've been rather lazy, and the muslin is literally just run over the top of the curtain rod and safety pinned to keep it from slipping down either side... This has the added advantages that you are now heating less space, and creating an additional layer of insulation of sorts.
