Window Coverings!

This weekend was more of the same...adding what seems like an endless number finishing touches. Moving boxes in from the room above the garage, unpacking to see what "treasures" are uncovered and figuring out where it can all go.

Yesterday the carpenter came to finish adding the last two cabinet doors in the kitchen. These were last additions to fill the 8" gaps between the ends of the cabinets and the wall (Ikea doesn't sell them in this size). This means the kitchen is done! Here is a video clip I took of the finished kitchen:



Window coverings went up in the bedroom finally! Down came the paper coverings and up went bamboo shades.

And in the dining room! It was a long, hard search for the right color and the fabric, but I ended up with this blue-ish, silvery gray. It complements the tan of the walls really well!

These just went up tonight for a fit check; I haven't ironed them all or cleaned up the room yet, as you can tell. The front window will get a third panel (right now it has two) so that it doesn't look so much like a sheet hanging up. As you can tell, it looks like it's missing some pleating next to the other windows, which look more full.

One problem we encountered was that the ceiling and floor aren't exactly parallel with the window frame. Surprise! So in comes lessons from HGTV (where else) -- align the window treatments to align to the window so that the eye follows the lines that are parallel and won't look crooked.

We did this for the front window (the one with two panels). If we were to have leveled the drapery with gravity, the right side of the curtain would have looked 5/8" higher. So, we just raised the right side by that amount and tadah! it looks even. Thank you, HGTV!


Here's a video of the bathroom. It'll get a couple more cabinets matching the tall one...eventually.