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One area of interior decorating that usually produces high anxiety in most all people is the dreaded window treatment. People think they have to spend an enormous amount of money to have their windows look nice. And let's face it, custom draperies and other treatments can be expensive if it is a luxurious look you desire. Billowing draperies made of silk, linen, or taffeta are beautiful, and while I love to work with those fabrics and create high end looks for my clients, the creative part of me also tries to talk them into trying something unique and fun ever once in awhile. This blog post will show you some simple, inexpensive window treatments that are still lovely and unique and will create that "wow" factor for you. Most of these you can make yourself and even the ones you can't will only require a small amount of help. I hope this will help you find an answer to your window dilemma. Try and have some FUN decorating your home! This is the perfect window treatment for a beach or lake home. It is fun and right on theme. Tiebacks are perfect the perfect way to bring that "wow" factor to even simple curtains. These are simple, using only rope and a starfish. You could use ANTHING in the beach or nautical line. Who would have thought an old wooden hanger would have been such a cute curtain rod!! You hang it in the middle to cover your window, and just slide it over to let in the light. This would be really cute on both sides of a window I love this these wonderful straw hats used as a valence. Put yourself up a peg board and start collecting cute hats. Vintage would be my choice but new ones would be fine too. You can really customize this look. This is clever if country is your decorating style of choice. You could do several things with this idea such as using old aprons. You come up with some great ideas!! I think using old lace dresses..... or vintage party dresses......or old tutus and other ballet costumes would be lovely to use if you wanted a more vintage "girlie"look!! Stenciling a window is another charming idea. I love this lacy look! Another fun tieback. To see how to drill a hole in porcelain, check out this link. You will learn how to make a cool lamp as well. http://www.twiggstudios.com/2012/02/diy-tea-cup-lamp-tutorial.html Lovely lace runners stitched together make a wonderful window treatment. Add vintage doilies to a sheer for a bit of interest!! Consider vintage jewelry as a drapery tieback. Can you envision this with a pretty cream silk panel? Simple, fun idea for window treatments in a child's room. Here is another place you can get really creative by adding other things. Can you imagine bunnies with fun stuffed carrots as finals for your rod? Or monkeys with tropical leaves and bananas as your finals. Very easy. A rectangle of fabric tied up over the rod with ribbon, rope, a leather belt, a scarf, beads, the list goes on and on . It depends on YOUR style!! These are very simple window treatments I had made for a client . You simply make a long runner with different coordinating fabrics (these are black/black and white stripes) on either side. Flip the "curtain" over the rod and pull it 3/4 of the way down so the reverse side can sow a bit. I had a gorgeous tassel attached to finish it off. You can really customize with this idea!! I wish I had a better picture of them but think you can get the idea. Such a pretty tieback. You can make something that is equally pretty by finding an interesting branch and hot gluing your birds on and maybe some silk leaves. You can leave your branch natural or paint it with a clear sealer to give it some shine. Just be creative. An awning is always classic and very simple to do. This is a treatment I did for myself for a small room where I just "hang out" It is a reverse awning. I had two large pieces of fabric I had bought just because I liked them so decided to make a window treatment from them. I split the pieces of fabric and finished off the edges. I brought the rods (suspended by tasseled drapery tiebacks) out from the wall approximately two and a half feet, attached them to the ceiling and then used beautiful hammered brass nail heads to pin the fabric to the wall. I then laid the top of the fabric over the rod and let it hang down about a 18 inches. Three easy ways to dress up your windows. I love being different by attaching to the ceiling instead of the wall. These would be great as side panels for sheers, blinds, shutters or what ever you decided to use as window coverings. The third one is simple rolled up and tied with a ribbon. Reversible coordinated fabric would be great for this. What could be better for a country kitchen or laundry room? A vintage spoon makes a wonderful vintage drapery tieback. You could get really creative with customizing this idea of using scarves or vintage handkerchiefs as tiebacks. Lovely window treatment when used in a Bohemian style room. Imagine a window covered with alot of these colored paper chip and string lengths. Boho perfection!! Think outside the box...you don't always need rods!!! For a rustic room, antlers make great curtain tiebacks. Branches are always fun curtain rods! Just remember there is nothing wrong with a touch of whimsy in your decorating.
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I've had to do something I really didn't want to and that is enable comment moderation on my blog. There has been increasing levels of spam. So there will be a delay between you commenting and it appearing in public. Your comments mean the world to me; they show me I'm not just talking to myself so are a vital part of writing a blog. I'm really sorry about this. 😞 A change is afoot! The season is turning. It is still August but the evenings are closing in that little bit sooner each day. On one of our gloomy, thunderstorm days, it was very noticeable. Overnight temperatures are dipping down as well so while I try hard to stay in the moment, a part of me is panicking that this loveliest of seasons will soon be over. Meanwhile, about eight thousand miles away, my Australian friends are welcoming early opening spring blooms while our late summer flowers are in bloom. I always use a few of those seed packets to try growing a couple annuals in pots. This year I grew petunias which last all summer as long as they are deadheaded. And white periwinkle that I wish could be a perennial, I like it so much. I worked on the collating of my photos on the weekend. More to be done but I will chip away at it a bit here and there. Veranda stitching this week involved concentrating on my medallion piece. Those small little triangles were so fiddly, I almost chucked it. But didn't. When I went back to the site, I saw several folks had omitted this round or substituted another row like number three. I didn't even think of doing that and after investing so much time, I'm not changing it now. One more row to go-wish me luck! I think I will try it on the machine this time. The best thing about the Solidarity SAL is the opportunity to try new methods. Like this one involving a little bit of fussy cutting. Here is the back with its freezer paper pieces. And the front where you can see I'm still not completely sold on this method. Hate to waste good fabric. Loved piecing the dresdens, of course, and working with a large hexagon. This one is almost all sewn down now. Update, finished. The late summer Japanese Anemones are in bloom. So lucky to have four patches of this hardy perennial around the house. I stared at one that had popped up in a window well -hardy as I mentioned, and then noticed the little critter there which I rescued. I hadn't noticed before how pretty the leaves are. I'm happy with two of my bird captures this week. I finally got a good shot of a Mourning Dove as they are not plentiful here like back at the farm where a few visited from time to time. And the Brown Thrasher, whose rufous colouring on the back is beautiful. It's spots are very pretty as well. Hope your week has been going well and the weekend will be even better. So glad to link with Not Afraid of Color, Viewing Nature With Eileen, Kathy's Quilts, I'd Rather B Birdin', Paying Ready Attention, Our World Tuesday and It's a Small Town Life.
Throwback Thursday’s Box Beds I’ve been racking my brain trying to remember where I was here in The Netherlands where I first saw a Box Bed. It was a castle or an old house that I toured but I remember quite clearly falling in love with the little Box Bed. Rembrandt's Box Bed A Box Bed is a bed that is set into the wall, part of a cupboard or furniture. It’s surrounded by the three walls and usually had a door or curtain to enter and exit at the front. Here in The Netherlands, closet beds or bedsteads were common in the 19th century especially in farm homes. Guest bed in Rembrandt's home Using this kind of bed was popular because you then didn’t have to have a separate room for the bed. Also the close proximity of the walls would keep the occupants nice and warm at night due to body heat. This allowed the family to turn off the fire at night. Dutch Box Bed Many Box Beds held more than one person. Sometimes up to four people would share a bed. During the 16th and 17th century the beds were not very long because the people were a little shorter back then and also it was believed that lying down was associated with death. People would sleep partially sitting up. Very often there were drawers or rolkoetsens that pulled out. This is where children would sleep. Nice and cozy in their drawer. French Box Bed My husband’s grandmother, “Grandma Hoff” was the only surviving child of a set of triplets. She was born in Germany and slept in a drawer. Now I’m wondering if it was a Box Bed. I’ve always loved window seats but would love to have this in my home now instead. There were ten in the bed and the little one said “Roll Over”
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