Posted by Helen
When we bought our house just under four years ago, every single room had horrible wood effect curtain pelmets. Since then, with the help of assorted willing volunteers, we have been on a mission to remove them to a point where only one room remained – our new baby’s bedroom.
The project started before Joe’s arrival, so I was looking for bright unisex fabric. I’d seen a rug with a design of bright squares which had really taken my fancy, so off I waddled (I was 8 months pregnant at the time!) to the fabric shop.
In the end we went for a grey carpet and turquoise walls, so I wanted curtains to reflect the other colours. I found some bright spotty lightweight fabric which was just the right palette, but I wanted something thicker too to be warm in winter and keep out the light in summer. Of course, I couldn’t find exactly what I had in mind, so I decided to piece together a chequered design from plain cotton fabric.
They didn’t have pink, which is just as well as Joe arrived not long after, so I chose yellow; orange, brick red and turquoise, arranged in a repeating pattern of large squares with a central panel of smaller contrasting squares.
Of course this took even longer than running up straight curtains (um about nine months in total and thanks to some expert ironing from Nana :o)), but the result was worth it. Especially as this room is now both boys’ bedroom and anything that increases nap time is more than welcome.
these remind me of the mod/geometric stained glass windows with blocks of primary colors - i bet the light shining through is gorgeous! great job!
Posted by: mother★lode | June 11, 2010 at 09:21 AM
Thanks! They do look lovely (even if I do say so myself), but it made it really hard to get a photo!
Posted by: Helen | June 11, 2010 at 03:20 PM
Yes, the light through them looks really fab but at the same time they do make the room darker in daylight. Keep napping Joey! Nana
Posted by: Maggie Billings | June 13, 2010 at 09:06 PM