Curtain Updates
Our 112-year-old house comes with a fair number of unusual quirks. One of which is the windows. We have huge windows.
With our 9 foot ceilings, and 8 inch moldings, the length from the floor to the top of the window frames is about 89 inches. That makes it hard to fit store-bought curtains for the most part. Except at Ikea, which has been my curtain candy shop. And I see Target has some 95 inchers too. Thank goodness.
One of my home goals this year was to address the mostly nekked windows in our house. Most of the rooms have the former owner’s metal or plastic blinds on them. A problem I couldn’t wait to remedy.
I’ve been focused on the living room windows which I showed you here. I was on a long hunt for curtains so I could sew on some additional fabric and trim that I picked up. I knew I had to do that since no normal curtains fit and I wasn’t about to make my own.
After my long hunt I finally found what I could live with. Not 100% what I set out for but I was willing to give them a try. And then they sat in our living room for about 3 months. I also found a curtain rod, same deal. All these projects just wait for me to get to them!
Lo and behold one of the curtain panels that I searched for months for, went to the store 5 times just to find, was finally what I wanted was sewn wrong. I opened one panel once I put the rod up to see what it looked like. Of only I had opened the other package I would have know it was sewn wrong.
Grrr!
You can kind of see it in this photos {which is what 84 inch panels look like in my house, too short by a lot} the middle fabric is sewn wrong and it doesn’t hang right or line up.
Oh it gets better.
I go to the store to exchange my wrongly sewn panel and guess what? They’ve discontinued them. There are no more available.
These curtains are going to kill me!
Sigh.
Yea, so I can’t keep them, I have to sew other fabric to them anyway and it’s just not going to work.
I wasn’t 100% in love with the rod pocket top anyway. I didn’t want them since they slide down the rod and I know you can pin it all and but I just wasn’t feeling it.
The fabric is awesome, just what I wanted. Silk (well faux silk, the real ones are $100 each!) with a middle insulating panel and a lining.
Pure white too. That was hard enough to find.
But down they came.
The good news? The 346 foot long curtain rod is up at least and looks pretty smashing. That was a minor feat.
Do you know what it’s like to drill into 112 year old wood under plaster? I don’t have the guns for that! I mean muscles, you know, it’s hard! I’m up on the ladder trying to hold up the drill. I’m about to swear at the wall. It is not pretty let me tell you.
The lifelong curtain dilemma ….. to be continued!
Happy Friday 🙂
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