I’ll be starting this series in my basement and moving my way through my house up to my master bedroom (’master’ may be an over statement, but it does have a walk in closet). The guest room is one that gets used infrequently, it has a closet full of miscellaneous things that we keep for a sundry of reasons, but none of them involve daily use.

The guest room has an egress window at the head of the bed with some blinds in that window space. I’m going to find out what expense would be involved in creating an insulated window space covering for the times its not being used by guests. The window covering will reduce heat and cooling loss more efficiently than the blinds that are there currently. I expect that this will help reduce our heating and cooling costs as well. Using foil lined foam insulation backed trimmed with weather stripping and some sort of attractive MDF board facing the bedroom and painted white it should still maintain some sort of attractiveness and yet be very efficient.

I’m going to check the heating system register to make sure its facing into the room. This will help in the winter when it would otherwise be throwing hot air straight at the window when guests are using the room. We’ll close it the rest of the time so as to reduce the extra leaking of hot air into an unused room.

I’m going to replace the bulbs in the overhead light with CFL bulbs to reduce electrical use when the lights are on in that room.

The space is well insulated so that should keep the room rather neutral within the house - not too hot during the summer and not too cold in the winter - keeping it from causing other adjoining rooms a greater temperature fluctuation.

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