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Seeing the Light: Frost Your Windows
Graphic designer Anne Murdock could deal with a small bathroom. But a dark bathroom? "I hated it,"says the mother of two, recalling the days before she refurbished her family's busy bathroom — the one with the shade perpetually pulled down. "It's a bathroom, so you need your privacy. And I wasn't about to pull the shade up and down every time one of us walked in or out."So the shade stayed down, and the room stayed dark.
Anne's initial solution was to get rid of the shade and affix a sheet of filmy, translucent vinyl to the window. That brought in more sunlight, she says, "but it looked obviously fake."Which is to say it was not up to her stylish standards, especially once the corners started coming up.
So she peeled the whole thing off and turned to Krylon Frosted Glass Finish ($8, allartsupplies .com), which is essentially a can of instant window treatment. In one afternoon, she'd given her bathroom a whole lot of sunlight without sacrificing privacy, simply by following a few easy steps.
Instructions:
- Apply round stickers, the kind you'd use as tags at a garage sale, such as Avery 1/2-inch removable dot labels ($3, buyonlinenow.com). Where you place them depends on the size of your window; Anne placed hers 4 inches apart.
- Spray the glass with a thin, even coat.
- Step out of the room for 15 minutes while the frosting dries.
- Repeat steps 3 and 4 until your window has the translucence you desire.
- Once the window is thoroughly dry, peel off the stickers.
These holes are too small for the neighborhood to see in, but plenty big enough to peek out and spot who's coming up the driveway. "The kids love standing by the holes and peering outside," says Anne. "And I think the dots make the window visually interesting."
What more can you ask of a window than to be visually interesting?
