I have nekked windows. My desire to clothe my nekked windows is intense.
Here is the living room with French doors and bamboo shades. My plan is to install a traverse rod just below the molding. The draperies will have pinch pleats at the top and they will open in the center. Most of the time, the draperies will hang all the way open on each side of the door /windows, leaving them completely free for normal use.
Here is the living room with French doors and bamboo shades. My plan is to install a traverse rod just below the molding. The draperies will have pinch pleats at the top and they will open in the center. Most of the time, the draperies will hang all the way open on each side of the door /windows, leaving them completely free for normal use.
But when we want to watch a movie in the living room, we can close the draperies and eliminate glare on the TV screen. Plus, I just want to lighten up this space a bit.
Now here are swatches of my choices. The multi-colored piece is a gorgeous silk plaid (you can't see the entire plaid on this swatch). This fabric would have be unbelievably perfect and designer-like. And it cost a whopping $45.95/yard. Yes. Still, I coveted it and went back to G Street during their Memorial Day sale (coupon clutched in my sweaty hand). Thank God it was gone! I really cannot spend that kind of money on draperies! I mean, I can, but I shouldn't!
All of the solid swatches came from Michael's Fabrics, where they are currently having a blowout sale. Can you believe how perfect all of these colors are?? Seriously, each one would work beautifully. They have been thumb-tacked in the living room and each one looks nice.I have chosen the 2nd from the left- it has a lovely drape to it. And since they work so well together, I think I will grab a few yards of the one on the far left.
Our cats have destroyed the sofa I lovingly selected when we bought this house. Errgh. So there are slipcovers in the future. Washable neutral slipcovers. Oh well. That's why they have sewing machines, eh?
Look at that!! When did these cats do that damage? I guess they jump up there as soon as we leave the house and go wild.
OK, it is SATURDAY, one of the better days in the week, IMHO. The kids are coming over to eat fish caught by DH. Oh yeah, he da man.... he da fishing man! (The tall handsome one is my DH)
8 comments:
I was a little confused at first, thinking that you'd already painted your condo! I love the taupe walls in the living room--my bedroom walls are a similar shade.
Is the couch chintz? I discovered that cats don't have to do much to destroy it. So although I like the way it looks, I have to have couches with heavier fabrics.
THe G Street Memorial Day sale!! You just made me so homesick for the US. I used to go to visit my sister every year on Memorial Day just to go to G Street.
I admire your determination to make draperies. I can't ever motivate myself to do any home dec sewing.
Your living room is very inviting - love the colours and the drapes will be perfect.
Nancy, I have the dark cozy cave in Rockville and the tiny bright condo in Baltimore. And nekked windows at both places!
Claudine, you poor dear! G Street is the BEST.
Vicki, thank you! I need a rug in there, too.
Just visiting from across the pond . . .
All your efforts make me want to reconnect with my inner seamstress (I come from a long line of them). I still have my late grandma's sewing machine (and it still works) and granny was born in 1879!
Interestingly, the rapidly rising cost of everything in recent months here in the UK - just like the US - has boosted sales of sewing machines by 500 per cent, as people discover not just the joy but the necessity of making and repairing things themselves. Anyway, just off to dust down the Singer.
do you really want that plaid? I know where there are bolts of it and very similar plaids - in fact, have you seen a pic of my living room (I'll email you) my LR swags are of a silk taffeta very similar.
Your space looks so inviting and cozy.
That's a really cool idea to do curtains all the way across the space like that. My first thought would have been to mount a rod just over the doors, but I like the idea of running them all the way across better.
Your story about the designer plaid made me laugh. In my girls bedroom, there are beautiful curtains(if I do say so myself)made of $50 per metre fabric.This is the most ridiculous price for home dec fabric, and it is not even silk, but it was the only one I liked, and because I loathe home dec sewing, I was not going to sew fabric I wasn't in love with! It was still much less expensive than having them made. It is good to be able to sew. Your living room is looking very inviting.
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