From Bathroom to Bedroom

Residing the house made a mess of the window sills around the Microcosm.  It was time to do something about the window treatments in the big bedroom.  Previously, a pair of black-out roman shades, handed down from the BFF were in use.  They were not quite long enough and also not finished at the top.  The accompanying valance stayed in its original home.  Trying to keep to a $0 budget is possible when there is some semblance of hoarding going on...

 

Three shower curtain panels were called in to use.  The one on top had been used in the old bathroom.  The darker one had been used at the old house.  There were two of the top panels but only one of the bottom.  The top panel would not suffice on it's own because it would not have blocked enough light at night.

The solution was to cut the single pannel in half.  It was threaded on the rod with both  backs facing.  It was not an exact pattern to skip and double up on holes for the larger curtain.  In fact, it took a couple of tries!

One window turned out better than the other on account of how the single panel was cut in half.  That's no big deal.  This room has yet to be "designed" and won't be a project for another couple of years.  It would be nice to have a "finished" master bedroom, but there are other priorities.

This is the second window -- the one which was a little harder to fit.  It still looks fine and it blocked out all of the outside light from the large lampposts on the street. 

This is the full effect.  Notice that there is patch job on the wall, and open storage in front of one window.  It doesn't seem worth it to splurge on drapes when a room is largely unfinished.  Unfortunately, this type of re-use helps feed the tendency to hoard.  Had these three pieces been purged, it would have been necessary to buy something else.  Also, the sheet on the bed covering the coverlet in order to protect it from dog hair dates back to years before when an employer used it as a back drop for a trade show seminar!

The windows also look better from the outside since a finished damask pattern faces out, rather than the unfinished backing of the old roman shade.

Using dark green was also intentional because that is the color of the bathroom shade.  Now all three top floor windows have curtains the same shade in them.  Does that seem overly obsessive?  Do you hang curtains with the exterior appearance in mind?

In any event, this was a win.  The result was good and the cost was zilch!