I'm going to be very honest with you all -- I shop in two extremes. I will either spend hours waiting in line at a sample sale and will then impulse-buy at least one item that I don't touch again for months after, or I will spend days/weeks/months mulling over if something is truly worth budgeting for, sometimes for so long that by the time I do make a decision, the thing is sold out. So, as a result, I admittedly don't buy many things, mostly a result of my indecisiveness and strictly trying to keep a budget. But my (newly engaged!) fiancé and I have finally reached our limits and are sick of the bedroom being way too bright at night, so it's time to finally get some darker curtains. There are extremely large windows in both the bedroom and office that basically take up the entire wall (the dimensions are roughly 106 inches wide by 88 inches long), so finding curtains that both look nice and cover the entire window without going custom (not worth the investment for a rental, in my opinion) has been difficult. We currently have a version of these from Ikea. The width is still slightly too short for two panels but is longer than the other options I've seen online (why is it so hard to find standard panels wider than 48 inches?!).

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