The room is very large as far as bedrooms go, and the wall of closets is awesome. Here it is today, after a few coats of paint, furniture rearrangement, and decorating:
I'm really happy with how the room turned out. The color is peaceful and relaxing. You can see where I chose to hang my embroidery hoop fabric collage, and I changed out the knobs on the closet doors.
About the curtains... There are a few utilitarian household items that I always think are overpriced - rugs, lamps, and curtains mainly. I really hate spending a lot on any of those things. So when I first moved in, I scoured the clearance bins in the curtain section of Bed Bath and Beyond and found two matching curtain scarves that were meant to be used as a decorative add-on to window treatments. They were made by Sound Asleep ("The Official Curtains of the National Sleep Foundation") - aka room darkening, which was a feature I was hoping for as the room gets a good amount of light. Premade Sound Asleep curtains would have cost at least $50 per panel, and my window is double-wide so I'm not even sure how many panels I would have needed. Instead I snagged these two scarves for $7.99 each and my mom and I customized them.
My mom was very eager to help me customize curtains, so we did some measuring and decided to optimize the room darkening qualities of the fabric by creating three layers. I couldn't decide how I wanted to finish them off, so she left them unhemmed. I hung them anyway for the past few months to block the light, and in the meantime I decided to make some crocheted edgings for each layer of the panels.
Miraculously, I found a package of six brand new skeins of yarn in the perfect color at a church rummage sale for fifty cents!! That yarn was probably worth about $40 truthfully. I found the crochet edging patterns in a free Kindle Ebook, and did them myself. When I finally finished crocheting the six edges, I took the curtains down and my mom hemmed them so that the edges would overlap slightly. I completed them by hand sewing the crocheted edges along the bottom, and rehung them this morning.
I used three different edge patterns from this Ebook: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00IUQ9A98?pc_redir=1404622940&robot_redir=1. It was free when I downloaded it, but it seems to be $2.99 now. Here's a close up of some of the work:
I think they came out beautifully, and because we customized them I was able to get exactly what I wanted. And it is very exciting to me that I have a pair of custom curtains for a total cost of about $16.50, plus the clips to hang them and the curtain rod (both of which were also on clearance).
What do you think?
Love it! There are so many things at World Market that would go in your place. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks!! I know right.... I could spend a lot of money in that store.
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