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Bedroom makeover

Monday, January 26th, 2009

Things have been happening to the interior of the Brick House. I’ve been plugging away on the master bedroom – switching up the space plan, replacing the horrid mini blinds and getting rid of the curtains altogether.

Below is how the bedroom was…blah…

Here is a sneaky preview of how it is now.

Black and white makes it mysterious.
I bet you can’t wait for better images – I know I can’t! I need some daylight for picture taking…and work gets in the way.

There is still a bit more to be done. The big thing was replacing the gross mini blinds with all new Ikea ENJE roller shades after the curtains turned into a giant disaster. I love Ikea’s affordable roller blinds and have started installing them throughout the house for privacy and light filtering. I think I’m now in the camp of NO MORE WINDOW DRESSING. Stupid curtains – they get so fussy and dusty – I think I’m all about minimal windows.

More white EVERYWHERE – waaa ha ha ha.

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Bedroom Curtains…

Monday, September 8th, 2008

and I don’t mean the meaty kind.

I hated the curtain rods in the bedroom – above is an old shot. I started thinking about doing a turnbuckle curtain wire system…like these featured on Apartment Therapy – and I used these instructions.

Here are some of my supplies. I used the Apartment Therapy step by step to install the wire on the back wall and wrapped it around the corner using the eyelet thing below to cover the side wall.

Heres my corner eyelet thing.

Here is the turnbuckle with the wire clamped on…exciting!



Here (finally) is a small preview of the whole thing put together. I used those DIGNITET clips from Ikea and I’m still working out the kinks…more soon…

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Curtains

Friday, September 5th, 2008

Ugh.

I have to admit that I am a miserable failure with curtains. I wanted to test out the Ikea KVARTAL track system to use in the living room wall of curtains.

Here is the installed track – mounted to the ceiling – and here is the curtains attached 2 ways (since I like to try things both ways if you know what I mean…). I tried those funny little plastic gliders and curtain clips…both look like crap.

Heres a bit of a cropped view with the two hanging styles – gliders on the left, clips on the right. The whole thing looks rather LAME-O.

Plus the window is in a weird spot, shoved right into the corner, so I’m a little stumped on how to actually hang a curtain there. I’ve been looking for fun fabrics since I think white curtains are ever so boring in the den…but now I can’t decide on a fabric or color. Theres a lot of yellow and orange and warm wood tones in the den, so maybe something cooler or more neutral might be in order. I love the fabric over at Sew, Mama, Sew! and Reprodepot Fabrics and feel like I might want to get some fabric to make my own curtains.

Where do fancy designers go for textiles? I bet its pricey…and I bet its not Joann’s.

So I’m a failure – a FAILURE I say – at curtains and such. Poo.

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