New Drapes: A Work In Progress

You might remember from this post here that we're in the market for new bedroom drapes since I moved my treasured chevron ones into the man cave.    

       

(A Well Dressed Home)

Can you tell by the picture which "look" we decided to go for?

Gold it was!  These (as you can probably tell) are store-bought, clearanced-out from Marshalls.  When I compared the price, it was WAY cheaper to buy them than make them myself.

I'm so happy with the color!  The shimmery gold really worked nicely to tie the mixture of whites and creams together.



Currently, they're a bit short.  The plan is to add a white or creamy bit of fabric to the bottom to give more length and heft so they'll lay better. 

If I happen to find more on my next Marshall's excursion, I might think about getting more and sewing a couple panels together to make them more substantial.  If not, c'est la vie, I'm fine with the way they are now too.

Fun Fabrics

On my quest for new drapery fabrics, I've run across some really neat stuff on Fabric.com, which is awesome for a variety of fabrics to choose from.

Remember this is what the bedroom looked like until I relocated the drapes to the man cave, which I talked about here.

        

This is what the bedroom currently looks like (nekked and all.)

And this is the headboard fabric (Dwell Studio Botany Floral Taupe), which I'd like to keep.

                   

There's this one by Swavelle/Mill Creek (probably wouldn't go with the pink, but isn't it cool?!)

                                          

These by Claridge:

                                     

Premier Prints (also the cheapest of all the selections!)

    

And the champagnesque, iridescent Dupioni fabric that I originally had in mind.  My only concern is that I've never worked with silk before...

     

Inspiration pic via A Well Dressed Home. The colors are *slightly* reminiscent of the bedroom.

I'm still on the look out for other options, but drop me a line and let me know what you think :0)

Important Things To Do=Self Induced Headaches

Uh I'm doing such a mental head slap right now. 

Last night, I started looking for cool new therapy materials and organization tips for my classroom.  I was so excited about all the neat stuff I found so planned to go out and get the things I needed to start those projects early the next morning.

Did I start any of the projects today? 

Nope.

Did I go out to buy the materials?

Sure didn't.

What did I do with myself then?

Create more headaches for myself. 

To be fair, we actually had moved the furniture the other day.  I like that the sectional seems to fit the space a little better this way.  (The pictures were moved today.)

This change got me thinking about the drapes.  "They're a little dark" I thought to myself.  "I'm just not sure I'm a paisley person plus I'm over the blue and brown business."

Wow don't the drapes really transition well on to the patio?!?!  (Never mind the plastic orange tablecloth off to the side, it won't be staying long.)

Unfortunately, I LOVED the look.  I say unfortunately because look what happened to the bedroom.

It's nekked.

This change also caused me to wonder other wacky thoughts like "hey, I think it would be really cool to have a flying-themed guest room!"  Yes.  All the stuff my husband accuses me of hiding away, right there in full view for all our guests!

But hey, jungle drapes just won't do in a flying room.  I'm not sure paisley is right for it either.  Wouldn't a white and orange trellis pattern be cool?!? (Yes and probably VERY expensive.)

So now I'm left with a mess and a dilemma.  Probably I'm going to put everything back, except the man cave drapes.  But then I need to find and buy fabric for bedroom curtains.  And sew them.  How many weeks til school starts?!

And I still haven't gotten to any of the speech projects.   

Ugh!

Shade-y Business

We've made a little progress in the mancave!  After painting the paneling, one of the items on the to-do list included new window treatments.  While I'll say we're not completely finished, major headway has been made.

Here's something I'm using for inspiration on Pinterest:

Don't expect too much here, our's isn't nearly as fancy.  Also since we already had some patterned drapes for our large window, I went with crisp white shades from Lowes.  (I haven't gotten to the long drapes part just yet!)

They almost blend into the wall color here, but in person you can tell a difference, I promise!  Here's the open position.

You might remember that I was trying to hide the ugly window AC unit that had been built into the wall.

It's not a huge difference, but a big improvement in my book!

I'm still debating using the same pattern for our small window drapes as the large window.

By the way, I got tired of having blank space in the back of the room and decided to pull the card table out and make a desk of sorts.  It's been a nice place for the laptops to go rather than the kitchen island!