SHADES OF WHITE LINEN

Hello Everyone!

 

I hope that you all had a very nice

Halloween!

I am sure that all of the little

witches, ghosts and goblins got

their fill of candy.

Yum, yum.

 

You know - you have to be able to

live in your home. My home is little

and we like it. We do not want or need

to move. A home has to grow and

change with you because after all that

is what you do. Every year you change.

Your clothes change. Your habits change.

Your food changes - so why not your

home! Make it work for you.

 

Everyone has seen my dining room.

And you know that my rooms change LOTS

AND LOTS!!

 

Well it is getting ready to

change again and this time it will be all my rooms

except for the master bedroom and bathrooms.

I cannot move my kitchen, if I could I would.

I need space and this time many of my rooms

are going to get an over-haul!!

I hope that you are here to witness the transformation.

They will be simple but I hope to clear out

the clutter or at least manage it.

Can you manage clutter?

Is there such a thing?

I do not know but I guess I am going to

find out or I am going to get rid of some

more things.

 

Just before I got sick with that virus that is going around

I told my hubby what I was planning on doing. He liked

the idea and he began taking measurements.

So therefore our plan has already begun and been in

effect now for about 2 months.

 

My nice dining room is getting ready to become

my new living room! My hubby has already installed

a jack for the TV.  So that part is done.

The green will stay on the walls. My curtains will

stay also.

Whereas this room has always had

plenty of light coming in, just the opposite will

happen now. I made white linen shades to go behind

my cotton lace curtains.

 

To get a good photo - I have had

to turn the lights on!

It did not take me long to

make the shades because they will never be opened. This

room is in the front of the house and I needed

privacy so we could sit in here at night. I really

do not like blinds. They get dusty quickly.

With my allergy's, I am not even suppose to

have curtains or cloth furniture, but I cannot

live in a bubble either. So I deal with all

of it.

 

I wish that I had photos to show you of when

I was making the shades, but somehow

I forgot to take the pixs. However

the shades were super easy to make so

I will tell you how I made them.

 

I measured the windows and as you can see this is

a bay window. The side windows are much smaller

than the middle part of the window.

 

I will talk about the middle panel and you will

know how to do the side shades if you wish to

make these.

I measured my fabric the width and length needed and added

4 extra inches to the sides, tops and bottoms to allow for

hems and any mistakes. Each shade is 2 pieces, one for

the back and one for the front. I cut out my size needed.

And I sewed the front & back together like a giant pillowcase.

Left open one end. Turned the fabric right sides out.

Pressed the seams - yea with an iron!

We took down the valance and I cleaned the glass

doorknobs.

 

We took the shade and tacked it over the wood molding

with tiny nails. I did not even hem it!

We just let the shade hang down.

Then we replaced the valance up on top. You cannot

see how the shades are attached unless you go look.

Which I doubt if anyone does.

 

Each shade only took about 15 minutes to complete.

They have no ribbons or anything to raise them. And

if I do decide later that I want to raise them. Then I

will add ribbons to roll them up. But for now this is

what was needed.

A privacy window!

 

 

My hubby got a pinched nerve and it set us back

about a week. This table and chairs will be moved

out of here. The chandelier will come down soon I

hope! In its place will be a ceiling fan. Then I

will clean up the room and we will move in our

living room furniture. I am hoping that this

will only take us about a couple of weekends.

Then I will post more pictures of the room.

 

Thank you for visiting me. Come again soon!

Hopblogger