New Curtains

Another wonderful thing that my house came with was curtains on every window. We enjoy complete privacy, but as you will see in the pictures below some are not there for visual appeal at all. These curtains cover almost all of two adjacent walls.

I took it upon myself to make new curtains for all of the windows in our family room. There are five windows in this room. Two are sliding glass doors. I combined some ikea curtains to make wider panels and hung them on a rod for these two doors.

On the remaining 3 windows are Roman Shades that I made from panels of the ikea curtains. In a following post I'll give a tutorial for making them. They're easy and so much cheaper than buying custom made Roman shades from a store.

Here's an individual shot so you can see more detail.

By changing these curtains the room has changed drastically. With adding some color in it feels like there is more life in the room.

Here's a before and after comparison

I'm linking this to Remodelaholic Anonymous and Frugal Fridays