Our living room has this giant trapezoid window up high that looked super cool when we bought the place, but it ended up being a total pain. During the summer, light beams right through it and blinds obviously aren’t an option with that shape unless you want to pay a small fortune.
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Sometimes the smallest design choices feel like bets — like you're putting effort into something that could totally flop, but when it lands just right, it makes everything around it make more sense. It’s weird how one tiny detail can shift your whole perspective on a space.
We had a long horizontal window in our hallway that felt impossible to deal with — it’s too narrow for curtains, and every ready-made film we tried left these awkward gaps at the edges or started to bubble after a couple months. Honestly, I kind of gave up on it for a while until I saw someone on a home reno subreddit mention https://applyityourself.com. It sounded too good to be true at first, but then I realized you could literally upload a custom design and tell them the exact dimensions of your window — even if it’s a weird shape — and they cut it exactly for you. That was huge for me because our window has these tiny curves on the corners and every other option just ended up looking off. I sketched a minimal line pattern in Photoshop and uploaded it, chose the matte translucent finish so we’d still get light without being fully visible from the outside, and they sent it back in this sturdy roll that was already pre-cut. Install took maybe twenty minutes — my partner sprayed the window while I lined it up, and then we both squeegeed it slowly from the middle out. It was honestly kind of fun? Plus no residue, so if we ever want to swap it, no problem. It’s held up perfectly through winter and summer, which is saying something because we get serious humidity.