When we got married, I had some serious decorating issues. But then again, who doesn't? You're caught in limbo, trying to merge her style and hers, combined with your mom's style. , because that's what you grew up with. Add a bunch of used furniture and it's a disaster.
Problem A: I wanted everything black (furniture, bedspread…), and I didn't think black and brown matched at all. Although it wasn't possible at the time, I wanted all of our furniture matched. And when they didn't, I just painted it black.
Fortunately, I now see the error of my ways. I'm not a fantastic decorator, but I try to reflect our family's personality throughout our home. Now I've realized that mixing and matching furniture is very well. We have pieces from Target, Ikea, furniture warehouses and some vintage pieces as well. And somehow it works.
Enter problem B: I went through a red phase, where everything was red, black, and white (like our wedding colors were). Then I quickly got tired of red and turned to my favorite color lime. Guys, I had a lime green bedroom door in college. It's MY color.
But as a result, everything (and I mean everything – pillows, blankets, lampshades, artwork, curtains) was the same shade of lime. Black and lime. Then when we got leather sofas brown, it turned black, brown and lime.
A year ago I finally tried to fix it by adding royal blue, along with touches of mustard yellow. It really didn't look that bad at all. But in this house, with everything what was going on, I knew it needed color to liven things up. It works so well and makes me smile. (When we ship our orange and white herringbone rug soon, I'll show you around the house.)
But alas, the thing is, I tend to gravitate towards lime green. (Remember our dining room chairs? The rocking chair I reupholstered? Our couch pillows? ) So for three and a half years we've had these not quite lime green curtains adorning our living room. They're hideous and I can't stand looking at the color anymore. I thought about dyeing them for a while, but I can't because they are 100% polyester. At the moment they have found their home in Jack's bedroom, where they fit perfectly.
So that left our bedroom curtains hanging in the living room. I like the way they look (they're crisp white, with hand-drawn geometric diamonds), but now our bedroom had no curtains and felt austere. Enter the target. After disappointingly wandering around curtain island for a good ten or fifteen minutes, I met Tyler in bath island. They have a much wider choice of patterns in their shower curtains , then the idea came to me: I can simply turn a shower curtain into a window curtain by cutting it in half! We already have blinds, so the curtains will only be used to frame the window anyway. Idea genius, right? (And much cheaper than curtain panels, by the way, and really, really easy.)
DIY shower curtain to window curtain
Step one: Put up your shower curtain. (If you're my mom, you would have washed and ironed it, but if you're like me, you're too lazy to do that.)
Step two: cut it in half. It was really easy and didn't even require folding as the wrinkles were still there after being wrapped. One point for the laziness mentioned above!
Step three: Hem the raw edge. If you're my mom, you'll probably iron the edge and pin it. If you're like me, just look at it.
Fourth step: do not forget to stitch backwards at the beginning and at the end.
Step Five: Hang 'em up and you're done! I just threaded mine through the loops at the top (had to cut them a little wider) but you can also use jump rings to hang them up. We love the pattern and the warmth it adds to the room for far less than buying individual panels.
