W sent me some shawls from Afghanistan. The type women wear to cover their heads (see pic. for an example). They have all sorts of cool patterns, fabric, etc. I tried making one into a skirt and that was a terrible failure. However, I took 4 matching one's and made them into panel curtains! LOVE them. We really like having meaningful pieces in our house (furniture from Korea, artwork from Thailand, self-created paintings, etc.) So, the new curtains just add to us creating our home in our style.Below are some before and after pictures. I still have to patch and paint the wall from where I (with my dad's help) took down the vertical blinds. Maybe I'll get to that when I get out some paint and do the garage/laundry room door and some baseboards that I've intended to do for about a month now. :-)
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AFTER:
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..and since I'm pretty sure most of you could care less about my curtains and dislike for vertical blinds...I'll try to post some pic's of the kiddo's soon.
4 comments:
Wow! Those look AWESOME! Great idea!
Oh... and if Jake ends up in Afghanistan on his next deployment (which is a high probability) I might just have to steal your idea... or copy it, at least. Imitation is a form of flattery, right? ;)
I LOVE the curtains! I too have a major aversion to vertical blinds - I even got in trouble in college for taking them down in my dorm room in order to hang curtains (I saved the blinds under my bed and was going to put them back up at the end of the year, but the school made no allowances for decorative flair and I had to put them back up right away). Anyway, the fabric looks beautiful - your idea was a great one!
that material is beautiful! perfect for that room, 100x better than vertical blinds!
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