Choices and orders

The options considered for each window, the one chosen and why, and every order with its size checked against the survey, its dates and its return terms.

For a first window, the options sheet is essential: it is where a shortlist from Curtains, shades, blinds and shutters becomes one choice with a reason. The orders sheet is essential once you order anything custom, because it holds the size you checked against the window survey, the dates and the return terms; for a ready-made item bought and hung the same day it can wait.

Options for each window

Two or three rows per window, one per option on its shortlist. Tick Sample seen once you have looked at a sample at the window by day and after dark, and Chosen for the one you pick.

Orders

One row per item ordered. A blank price means you have not entered it, not that it was free; 0 means it cost nothing. Tick Checked against survey only after you have compared the size line by line with the window survey.

How to use these sheets

• One row per option, two or three per window. Write why each is on the list in plain words; the reason is what you check a sample against.
• See the sample at the window. Tick Sample seen only after looking at it in daylight and after dark with the lamps on, from inside and, for privacy, from outside.
• One row per item ordered. Tick Checked against survey only after comparing the size line by line with the window survey. A blank price means not entered; 0 means it cost nothing.
• Keep the terms. Return and remake terms are the maker's or seller's; copy them in your own words with where you read them. Buying, ordering or making covers what to check before ordering.