
No luck in the screen department. Panorama, Auchan, and SME do not sell ANY type of screens for windows. We were going to go to Leroy Merlin (like Home Depot) but it was a 20 minute walk across the autostrada in 95 degree weather. No thanks, I prefer mosquitoes. I did, however, buy Scrabble and 5 DVDs that were all on sale at SME. I accept and am well known for my horrible and corny taste in movies and this sale had a lot of old classics, so I indulged and purchased: "Splash", "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids", "The Incredible Journey", "Oscar", and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?". All excellent picks!!! Giuseppe, who is a huge film buff and can pretty much name the director of every film ever made laughed every time I chose a new DVD. He bought two old Woody Allen movies. Not withstanding his knowledge of films, he knows nothing of Hollywood gossip so I took it upon myself to inform him that Woody married the adopted daughter of his former lover, longtime girlfriend, and mother of his two children, Mia Farrow, here in Venice.
It has been so hot recently. Two days ago we went to the beach and the water felt like a lukewarm bathtub. This afternoon we are expecting thunderstorms, so some relief might be in the future.
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Are you looking for actual framed screens or just the screen material? I would suspect it'd be easier to find the material and build them yourself. A search for "window screen fabric" on Google yields tons of online sellers. Some even have do it yourself kits. :)
Good luck in the search!
Thanks for your help! That was very nice of you! I guess I would prefer and was looking for screens with frames, but at this point I would be willing to make them myself, and I don't think it would be too difficult. I will look into internet options!
good luck with those giant mosquitos! thats one thing I dont miss :-)
be sure to stay in touch so we can meet when I visit in October...
Screens are hard to find here, they sell these kits at hardware stores in most big italian cities which are basically screen material and double-sided tape but they don't work that well because the tape inevitably falls off. I had two real screens installed in my kitchen and they were not cheap. Then I had a carpenter friend make the me a wooden frame for the bathroom window and I just stapled the screen fabric on it...
If you want a really easy solution (but not 100% effective), get one of those tension rods and hang cheesecloth fabric from it for a makeshift screen!!
good luck.
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