new office snafus
It looks like I will have to eliminate the skylights in my atrium/office by covering them completely. I am trying to work and the sun is beating down so hard on me that my skin feels like it's starting to burn. I tried putting a shoji screen in here to block the light. But the window is 10 feet up in the air. A 5 foot screen is not going to cut it.
I can purchase about $20 worth of blackout paper blinds to cover them. But it won't be possible to open those blinds on rainy days or at night when I would like to enjoy the ceiling windows (it's that pesky gravity thing, the blinds will have to be taped down).
The other unexpected thing I've encountered is the echo in here. When I make business calls, people can here my voice echo. What can I say? My office is extra big with vaulted ceilings and skylights. I can live with the echo though.
I can purchase about $20 worth of blackout paper blinds to cover them. But it won't be possible to open those blinds on rainy days or at night when I would like to enjoy the ceiling windows (it's that pesky gravity thing, the blinds will have to be taped down).
The other unexpected thing I've encountered is the echo in here. When I make business calls, people can here my voice echo. What can I say? My office is extra big with vaulted ceilings and skylights. I can live with the echo though.
And there are blinds you can buy for skylights, that have a rotating arm that you can open and close them with, I'll have to dig around and find a link for you.
*edit* http://www.islandblinds.com/category-skylight-shades.html
Edited at 2008-09-04 08:34 pm (UTC)
Please feel free to suggest some more financially reasonable solutions though. So far $20 paper blinds is the only suggestion that seems to fit that.
Paper blinds will be great for now, but eventually you'll want something a bit more permanent and substantial.
And you can always just go to eBay with the name of those blinds and get them much cheaper than from a retailer.