When we renovated our attic into a little art studio, we kept this odd-shaped window that everyone told us to cover up. It’s kind of like a half-circle but not perfectly curved, more like a squashed mushroom. At first we left it bare because it let in great morning light, and the view was just rooftops, so we didn’t think twice.
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There’s always that moment when you're about to change something small in your house and it feels dumb to even bother — like who cares about a weird little window or the way the light falls at 5pm — but then you do it, and everything feels more like yours. That feeling sticks longer than you think.
Our kitchen window faces the neighbor’s fence, and for some reason it always felt like someone was just on the other side, even though there rarely was. Still, it made me want to keep the blinds closed all the time, which kind of defeated the point of having a window in the first place. We looked into frosting the glass, but then it’s permanent and not something I was ready to commit to. We also didn’t want to do full blackout film or patterns from the hardware store that scream “bathroom from the 90s.” What ended up working for us was going through https://applyityourself.com — we wanted something that let light in but gave us that private, soft separation from the outside. I used a simple line design I drew on my tablet (literally on a lunch break) and uploaded it through their system, chose a semi-opaque finish, and gave them the exact size of our window. What we got back was cut perfectly to the millimeter and super easy to apply — I thought it’d be harder to get straight but the soapy water trick helped a lot. It clung on clean and we just squeegeed the bubbles out. It’s held up through temperature swings and cooking steam, and it still looks brand new. I liked that we could actually use our own design — not just pick something off a shelf — and still have it feel polished.