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My husband and I were not a couple when he bought our condo.

Why he bought it, I don’t know. The people who lived here before us had no concept of interior design.

Now I admit I’ve watched endless amounts of home decorating shows and I’ve consistently said that everyone has their own tastes in decor. However, I think most people would agree that decorating a kitchen with mauve coloured cabinets, yellow back splash tiles and completing the look with white and green laminate flooring is reprehensible!

Were the previous home owners colour blind or did they just have a fascination with Easter colours? I kid you not… this kitchen made my head spin.

A couple years ago, my husband and I completely renovated the condo. We tore out the kitchen, we removed the eight different types of flooring from all the rooms and installed hardwood throughout. It was a huge task and we’re still not done all of our projects but overall, we have decorated our condo to our liking.

Yet there is another decorating obstacle which we now must overcome.

Our condo has three bedrooms; a master bedroom and two smaller bedrooms.

The two bedrooms share a wall which (brace yourself for this one) has a glass block “window” that is 40″ tall by 54″ wide. You guessed it, the previous owners installed it. Why did they put a glass block window between two bedrooms? Your guess is as good as mine. What were they thinking???

We currently use one bedroom for my daughter and the other bedroom as an office. However, in about four months the office will need to be a baby’s room and we can’t have light shining from one room into another.

Our present solution is a large room darkening blind installed on the office side. This solution won’t work anymore because it is the wall where the crib will need to go (and my thoughts are that blinds and babies don’t mix).

My husband and I have contemplated moving the blind into my daughter’s room but quite frankly that’s a joke. We both know that within no time she will rip that blind off the wall.

So here are some of our thoughts:

CORK BOARD

Mount a large fabric-covered cork board over the opening. The cork board can then be used to display artwork and pictures. The downside… the cork board we would require to cover the opening costs about $150.

A MURAL

Paint a huge mural on canvas and cover the opening. The cost would also be about $150 (and my husband and I would have to fine tune our artistic skills in order to pull off this project).

PEEL AND STICK PAPER

Another thought is to cover the blocks with a peel and stick paper. Then mount small wood strips to create a built-in book display shelf. We’re not really sure how the wood strips would be mounted but this would be a very affordable solution.

PAINT

Paint over the blocks with wall paint? Although affordable, I’m not sure if paint would stick to the glass blocks and this solution may pose a problem if we had to resell the condo. If we find a paint that sticks, I’m not sure how easy it would be to strip it from glass blocks.

That’s all of our ideas for now, but we would love to hear your ideas and/or suggestions.



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Jennifer Bly
Author of My Kitchen, My Classroom: An Introduction to Homeschool and creator of The Deliberate Mom. Jennifer writes about parenting, homeschooling, her faith, and life with her husband and two girls. Jennifer has a Bachelor of Applied Human Service Administration Degree with a specialization in Early Learning in Child Care.



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