living room shades.

Desperately needed blinds for the 4 living room windows. They face the west (one faces south) & the sun sets so fiercely in the evenings. Also, we live on Main Street & are sick of people at the stop lights being able to see in the windows at night (we live in an upstairs apartment). I ordered a shade of red (after going through several samples) from Steve's that are top down/bottom up pleated. We still want to let light in from above, we just don't want the neighbors/every person driving by to be able to see in. We measured & double measured... but I made a mistake/didn't read the directions carefully enough. So we weren't able to hang them correctly. Rather than $364 going out the window, he jimmy rigged them. You can't really tell & they're doing well so far. We're hoping to see an improvement on the electric bill!