Our recent road trip to see Katie and her amazing house gave us that tickle to get down to business when we got back home. You know how your DIY momentum is up and you’re moving right along ticking things off your to-do list and then the dust clears and you’re just spent and need a little break? Like, mehaps, a road trip? That seems to be the way it goes with us. When it comes to house progress, we tend to work in fits and starts. But then something sparks that get-back-to-business excitement and suddenly we’re done with our four-ish day Hammer And Paint Brush Hiatus and are refreshed and ready to go. Yeah, so that happened.
I guess being on the road produced that absence makes the heart grow fonder effect. Not that we were mad at our house, but we just weren’t raring to go when we left like we were when we got back. So the morning after our 9.5 hour drive I woke up early, sorted through a million (ok, a thousand) photos, wrote that shopping post that went up in the afternoon, caught up on comments/Facebook/Twitter/email, wrote this house crashing post for the next morning, and then it was dinner time. Then I up and made dining room curtains. And they might just be my favorite things in the whole darn house.
Seriously, I love them.
You guys know we’re into our hallway frame gallery a little too much (along with our giant bedroom light fixture and humongous gray sectional). And I adore my weird horse art and miscellaneous ceramic animal menagerie. But you’d think I carried these curtains for nine months and went through 48 hours of labor to bring them into this world – that’s how much I love them. And it only took me about an hour and a half – two tops – to make them. Wham, bam, thank you Katie (for the kick-in-the-pants inspiration that your gorgeous house provided).
Here’s how it all went down. We already mentioned snagging this deeply discounted Robert Allen curtain fabric from a local fabric outlet called U-Fab (for any non locals, here’s an affiliate link to the same fabric on amazon). It was fancy schmancy designer fabric that I’d been in love with forever, but it was marked down to $12.99 a yard (as opposed to the original cost of $40+ a yard!) thanks to a bit of an irregularity in the fabric (a white stripe that ran down one side, which I knew I could work around).
Since I wanted two 90-ish inch panels for either side of the big picture window in the dining room I calculated that five yards would do the trick, which factored out to $32 a panel (still not dirt cheap but a whole lot cheaper than the regular price of that fabric, which would have run me $100 a panel). Score.
We’re just not really curtain closing and opening folks (except in the nursery since we close the blinds and draw the curtains – anything for five more minutes of sleep) so we don’t plan to draw them shut (we add white faux wood blinds or bamboo shades when it comes to actually gaining privacy, although since we usually hang out in the back of the house when it’s dark enough to see into the windows, we’re not in any rush to add privacy blinds or shades just yet). But we do love hanging curtains high and wide to let the light stream in and add height and drama. Which means we didn’t have to worry about the width (since we’d need a lot more of that than what we had to cover the long picture window). And boy are these babies a fresh little slap in the face compared to the white Ikea Vivan curtains that we embraced in nearly every room of our last house.
But on to how I made them. First I rolled out the fabric on a 5 x 8′ rug in our office (one of my completely not patented ways to get straight cuts since you can line up the fabric with the corners/edges of the rug to be sure it’s square before snipping away). Then I just pulled out my tape measure to see how long I wanted them (90″ each before hem allowances, which would make them about 87″ long after hemming – but then I add ring hooks which make them 90″ again):
It was as simple as lining up the end of the fabric with the 90″ mark on my tape measure and then cutting the other edge against the rug at the 0″ inch mark, for a nice straight cut (sure enough, I was left with a nice 90″ long rectangular swatch of fabric).
When it comes to the width, I just usually go with the width that it comes right off the bolt (which is wider when you get upholster fabric like this- ours was 57″). But remember it had that defect running along one side of it, so I just cut three inches or so from that side (again I used the edge of the rug to get a straight cut). But I didn’t completely cut off the white part since I knew once I hemmed it, it would be completely invisible (even from the back). You can see the normal white edge that comes on fabric on the right of the swatch below and the irregular white defect on the bottom half of the left edge below:
So there I had one 90 x 54″ curtain panel cut out, and just needed one for the other side of the window. So I laid the freshly cut one on top of the uncut remnant of fabric and used it as a template to create another panel of exactly the same size:
Then I washed both curtain panels so they would be “pre-shrunk” and easy to launder from here on out (one of our main goals is to have as many “washable” surfaces in the kitchen and dining room as possible). Oh but it’s always smartest to preshrink fabric before you cut it, I just knew I only had enough fabric to make two panels of this size so whether I washed or cut it first (or cut and washed it later) I’d end up with the same sized panels in the end. I grabbed them fresh out of the dryer instead of letting them sit there to keep them wrinkle free for the most part.
Next I had to decide between my trusty curtain-making method of using iron-on hem tape or the slightly scary idea of using Oh Brother (my new sewing machine) to attempt to do what I used to use hem tape for. After a decent amount of out-loud debate with myself, I decided to try my hand at sewing curtain panels- just to see if I could do it (but you can find full curtain making tutorials with hem tape here and here). Even without my hem-tape security blanket, I did break out the iron to make a half inch “seam” down one of the short sides of the curtain. It just seems like now whenever I dabble in sewing, I find myself trying to iron instead of pinning – just to see if it’ll work. Am I a rebel or what?
The ironed seam definitely stayed put while I dragged the giant fabric swatch back into the kitchen to sew the hem, so I happily skipped the pinning step and even boldly (well, maybe that adjective is a stretch) decided to try another hemming technique that some of you have commented to tell me about in previous I’m-a-shaky-little-sewing-novice posts. I took the ironed seam and folded it over one more time, then I sewed down the seam to create a nice finished looking hem (even from the back). That extra fold hid the raw cut edge of the fabric, if that makes sense. And even with my extra folding step, there was thankfully no pinning required. Sweet.
See, here’s what it looked like completely folded over as I sewed down the seam.
And this method surprisingly worked on all sides (I worried the long 90″ sides of the panels wouldn’t take to ironing and would need to be pinned, but it went just as well as the short sides). And as for the defect, you can see how when I folded the hem over one more time, it became invisible and I was once again left with a finished looking edge from both the front and the back.
Here’s how the back of a corner looked once I was done with my quickie ironing-then-folding-then-hemming technique:
Then I clipped seven oil-rubbed bronze ring clips to each panel (from Target) and slipped them onto a super long oil-rubbed bronze rod. Oh how I love not having to sew a rod pocket or anything complicated thanks to the magic of ring clips. I ended up getting the curtain rod from Lowe’s since the ones at Target weren’t long enough – I ended up needing 144″ of length (that’s what she said).
Our curtain hanging method (also not patented or even endorsed) is for one of us to then stand on a chair (in this case, John) while the other one steps back and looks at the length of the curtains and how they hit the floor while the chair-stander raises and lowers the rod ever so slightly until the floor-stander screams “perfect- don’t move an inch or I’ll kill you” and then runs up to hold a rod bracket under the perfectly held rod to measure the distance from the crown molding or ceiling that it should be hung to keep the rod right where it’s being held.
Of course this only deals with the height of the rod and not the width, but we typically like to go as wide as we can with the curtains so they drape in front of the wall instead of blocking light and hanging in front of the window. In this case we went as wide as our extra long rod allowed (19″ outside of the window molding on each side). See how the panel just kisses the window and blocks wall instead of light?
Oh and notice how the curtain also seems to just graze the floor ever so slightly? Poor John raised and lowered the curtain on that chair fifteen times until it was juuuust right. We’ve tried measuring the wall or the panel instead of doing the by-eye real-test (involving two people, a chair, and some serious arm strength and balancing skillz) but you just can’t beat the result. At least we can’t. So we keep going back to it. And I tell John he’s my Atlas when he’s up there holding the rod up. Gotta keep team morale up.
Here’s another rod shot for you. You can also see how the curtains just hang slightly in front of the window trim here as opposed to blocking the whole side window, which is only 20″ wide. Since we mentioned that we hung the panels 19″ wide on each side of the window trim, you can totally see how if they were hung flush with the trim they would block all but one inch of that 20″ side window. Which is definitely not what we were going for.
You’ll have to excuse all of the wide shots of the room in this post. Things like the curtains and the room in general are coming off greener/yellower than they are in real life (the green grass/trees/bushes outside were casting a yellow-green tint through the big light-filled window, and I was too lazy to photoshop it). John will definitely be in charge of photos of this room next time around. As for the true color of the curtains, it’s best depicted in the closer shots without a lot of window going on, like the ones above.
Actually this shot is probably the most accurate to what they look like in real life. I’d describe them as mostly blue with hits of green, chartreuse, white, and brown. Crazy busy but also crazy gorgeous if you’re me (and miracle of all miracles, John loves them too). Who ever would have thought that two white curtain fiends like us could branch out and embrace curtain color and pattern? I wonder if my mom will like these or they’ll finally be a choice that she won’t endorse. What say you, mom?
Here’s another wide shot where they look more yellow/green than they really do in real life (they’re more like a teal blue color when you glance at them from afar) but you get the idea. Oh and the dark rod ties into the other deep tones in the room (the chair legs and dark dining table, the deep color on the back of the built-ins, etc). So that’s why I chose it over stainless or white. I always think a dark rod hung high and wide is like eyeliner on a window.
Mmmm, here’s a good shot of my favorite detail in the fabric. See those smeary turquoise blobs? They tie so deliciously into the slightly darker teal on the back of the built-ins. Yummy. Even the little yellow-green knobs that we added to the base cabinets of the built-ins relate perfectly to the pops of bright yellowy-green chartreuse in the curtains. Hooray for happy accidents like that (we had no idea what curtain fabric we’d pick when we snagged those babies at Hobby Lobby).
Oh yeah and I had some fun setting the table. Not that anyone’s coming over today. Or tomorrow. I just wanted to pull out a runner and some plates and cups and clip some random branches from outside. Why? I don’t know. Why do birds sing? I guess the colorful curtains got me hot and bothered enough to break out Sue the Napkin (times seven) and add some fun to the big empty wood table.
And guess what? I’m leaving everything there tonight. Just because I’m weird and I can’t wait to wake up in and morning and pad in there and smile. Kind of like how I paint a room and the next morning I run in and look at it again. Just grinning at the wall like a fool.
Isn’t it amazing how much of a difference curtains can make? Well, that and some rich color on the back of those built-ins. Here’s a little flash back to the room as it looked when we moved in:
And here it is now (albeit a little side-heavy with that bare wall on the left- for now):
Thought I was done? Nope. One more thing. Here’s a terribly rendered depiction of the doorway that we can’t wait to add that will connect the dining room to the kitchen (we plan to mirror the size of the picture window so the whole room feels nice and balanced). And of course adding a big chandelier over our giant table will add a lot more function (the room doesn’t have any ceiling fixtures!):
It’s so funny to remember that this room was a formal living room when we toured this house (and the office was the dining room). In fact we dug up these old shots that we took during our first walk through:
Gosh, that feels like a million years ago and it was less than six months back. As soon as we walked in we were struck by three things: we reeeally wanted the house, we wanted to change up a few of the rooms, and we reeeeally wanted the house. Yup, we were sold upon entry. I don’t think we ever got into the specifics, but the sellers weren’t 99% sure they even wanted to sell. In fact the night after we walked through the house for the first time they took their stuff out of storage. A sure sign to the realtor that they might take it off the market. Thank goodness it all worked out and they ended up accepting our offer.
As for looking past the way a room looks when you’re house hunting to see “the real space” we just completely discount furnishings and wallpaper and paint color and even entire room functions. That’s how we could look past the dining table and the sofa to almost immediately proclaim that converting the dining room into an office and turning the living room into a big spacious dining room would work more for the way we live. You know, since we have a huge family that we couldn’t cram into the former dining room, a giant living room in the back of the house (no need for two), and a penchant for open living and big wiiiide doorways. We just can’t help ourselves. Anyway, have you guys made any curtains lately? Knocked down any walls? Set the table for nothing but kicks?
Pssst – Soooo not a sewing person? I wasn’t either. Here’s a tutorial for making no-sew curtains with iron-on hem tape (and here’s another one for good measure).
Update – Wanna know where we got something in our house or what paint color we used? Just click on this button:
Jasmin says
Oh…one more thing…with a window that size, you probably want at least a width and a half of fabric, perhaps even two widths.
YoungHouseLove says
That totally makes sense if we want to draw them! We just prefer to leave them open and use blinds or shades to block light instead! I think it’s just because we grew up in houses where curtains never moved and blinds did all the work. Haha.
xo,
s
Paige says
love the curtains…glad you did a step-by-step process. I’m on the curtain hunt right, and buying fabric might be my best bet…
can’t wait to see the light fixture that you guys pick!
Shannon says
I just read this post and had a big goofy happy smile on my face the whole time. I love the curtains, the table and chairs, the built ins with the teal, the knobs matching the curtains……Phew! It just looks great! I would really like to make my own curtains and for some reason it’s making me nervous. What do you go for when it comes to type, thickness, etc when you pick fabric out? I’m thinking you really need a thick decor fabric and nothing too light weight? You guys are the best!
YoungHouseLove says
Yes, we always look for upholstery grade fabric (unless we’re doing sheers) since thinner cotton can look a little lightweight sometimes. Upholstery fabric is usually sold on wider bolts so it’s easy enough to spot, but asking the fabric folks can clarify things too. Good luck!
xo,
s
bhh says
Beautiful curtains!
A question that has always perplexed me: when figuring out how much yardage to buy, how do you account for pattern repeat? I realize that when you go to cut your second panel, the pattern has to match up in order to get two identical curtains, so do you just add the repeat to the total length? or is it repeat times two?
I realize this isn’t upper level math but your answer would really be helpful in avoiding disaster for an upcoming project — fabric will be expensive so I don’t want to ridiculously “overbuy” — but mismatched panels would be horrible! Thanks!
YoungHouseLove says
We just got five yards and cut it in half. Didn’t pay any mind to the pattern repeat or anything. They look great since it’s not an obvious pattern like big circles or anything. Not sure how we would deal with that (probably would need extra yardage to account for lining things up).
xo,
s
Rebekah says
First of all, I loooove these. You did such a nice job, and the colors work perfectly in your house. I can’t even stand how nicely everything looks. It makes me happy! So happy, in fact, I’m considering this same fabric for a project in my home. Without having seen the fabric in real life, I’m wondering if that “chartreuse” has yellow tones in it that could pass for yellow. Actually, I have those yellow dot Dwell Studio pillows as one of the colors in my room. I need your advice! Do you think it would pass or clash? Thanks!
YoungHouseLove says
Oh yeah- I just ran into the guest bedroom and got a pillow and held it up to the curtains. In our lighting it totally works! Good luck!
xo,
s
Morgan @ PepperDesignBlog.com says
So beautiful! They look great, Sherry! Love love that fabric and love that you’ve pulled out the sewing machine for this one. I’m at the ‘novice’ level, too. Can’t wait to see the finished room!
Christy says
Hi Sherry,
Are those glassybaby candleholders on your table?
YoungHouseLove says
You’re the second one to ask (I didn’t even know what glassbaby was!) but they’re actually clearance votives from West Elm (they were about $3 a pop).
xo,
s
Michelle Lepak says
fabricguru.com has the fabric for $10.95/yd with $4.99 shipping on any amount of fabric purchased. I looked for a promo code, but came up empty. I still thought it was a good price for the fabric at $15.94.
YoungHouseLove says
Yeah that’s a great price!
xo,
s
Sophia says
just wanted to say thanks for this post. today, i made my very first set of curtains, sewn. i’d never used a machine before and had some help from my neighbor. but if it weren’t for this post, i probably would have never gone for it. i’m happy i did! thank you!
YoungHouseLove says
Aw that makes my day. Congrats!
xo,
s
kristin says
Whoa! This fabric (which I love) is used on an Urban Outfitters chair: http://tinyurl.com/6d4exj9. But now that you’ve posted the name of the fabric, I can find it and recover a chair on my own. Woo!
YoungHouseLove says
Too funny! What a small world!
xo,
s
Meagan says
OMG! These curtains are the same as on this chair from urban! I was looking though their furniture and saw this chair (that I loved) but that felt really familiar.. it took me a while to place it but I’m sure it’s the same!
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?itemdescription=true&itemCount=80&startValue=1&selectedProductColor=&sortby=&id=17995671&parentid=A_FURN_FURNITURE&sortProperties=+subCategoryPosition,price&navCount=10&navAction=jump&color=&pushId=A_FURN_FURNITURE&popId=APARTMENT&prepushId=&selectedProductSize=
YoungHouseLove says
Isn’t that funny? It’s such a small world.
xo,
s
Ali says
Isn’t this your curtain fabric???
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?itemdescription=true&itemCount=80&startValue=1&selectedProductColor=&sortby=&id=17995671&parentid=A_FURN_FURNITURE_SOFAS&sortProperties=+subCategoryPosition,+product.marketingPriority&navCount=30&navAction=poppushpush&color=&pushId=A_FURN_FURNITURE_SOFAS&popId=A_FURN_FURNITURE&prepushId=&selectedProductSize=&isSoldOut=
YoungHouseLove says
Yes- isn’t that funny? Small world!
xo
s
Lucia says
I’ve recently gotten hooked on your blog, and just having moved into a new place, I finally have a chance to test out my own decorating/DIY skills!
I’m working on making curtains for our living room, and I have two questions related to them. I saw that for these curtains and the grey leafy ones in the living room you used the ring clips. Have you ever had any problems with just clipping rings to the fabric rather than sewing/making holes in the fabric for rings? Do any baby/puppy tugs on the curtains pull the fabric from the clips?
Also, we have several sets of windows on two (opposite facing) walls of our open living-dining area and then a glass sliding door on a third wall of the room (all need curtains). Would you go with the same fabric for all windows/door or would you vary between a pattern and a coordinating solid?
Thanks, and love your work! Keep it up!!
YoungHouseLove says
Never had any issues with the ring clips! We love them. If we hang on the curtains with all of our might we can pull them off, but no dog or babies have ever done it to date. As for all those windows and doors that are adjoining, I’d go with the same fabric on all of them for balance (hung at the same height so nothing feels off kilter). Good luck!
xo,
s
Whitney says
Hey! I know you posted this a while ago but I was just watching “Candice Tells All”on HGTV and she is using your fabric! I had mad respect for your design style and DIY know how already and the fact that my all time favorite designer is using the same fabric you did makes you guys official experts!!!! I cant wait to see whats next!
YoungHouseLove says
Isn’t that so funny? What a small world!
xo,
s
Stefanie says
I have your same pillow obsession…but in a window-shopping kinda way. Sad face. Until I found etsy. Our new couch came with 8 (!) pillows so I have been etsy-obsessed looking for fun pillow covers – and I found your curtains in a pillow! Just had to tell you.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/65949404/decorative-throw-pillow-cover-spa-blue?ref=sr_gallery_33&ga_search_query=18×18+pillow+covers&ga_page=44&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_facet=handmade
Enjoy!
YoungHouseLove says
So pretty! I love it!
xo,
s
Lindsay says
I love your website!!! My husband and I are going to try your curtain making method. How high would you recommend hanging them? My window kinda sits close to the floor and I have a vaulted ceiling. But the top of the window to the top of the ceiling is about 36 inches (making that part of our ceiling 8 ft) how high would you hang them?
YoungHouseLove says
I’d go about 14″ above the window trim so they don’t feel low and the windows look airy. Good luck!
xo,
s
Chelsea says
Random comment: I was shopping online and I saw a chair at Urban Outfitters that is the same fabric as your curtains! http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?itemdescription=true&itemCount=80&startValue=1&selectedProductColor=&sortby=&id=17995671&parentid=A_FURN_FURNITURE&sortProperties=+subCategoryPosition,+product.marketingPriority&navCount=15&navAction=jump&color=&pushId=A_FURN_FURNITURE&popId=APARTMENT&prepushId=&selectedProductSize=
(ahhh- huge link address!)
YoungHouseLove says
Isn’t that so funny? Such a small world.
xo,
s
Kate says
I saw this today and though of your curtains! Have you seen this yet? http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?itemdescription=true&itemCount=80&startValue=1&selectedProductColor=&sortby=&id=17995671&parentid=A_FURN_FURNITURE_SOFAS&sortProperties=+subCategoryPosition,+product.marketingPriority&navCount=15&navAction=poppushpush&color=&pushId=A_FURN_FURNITURE_SOFAS&popId=A_FURN_FURNITURE&prepushId=&selectedProductSize=
Kate says
Never mind! :)
YoungHouseLove says
Isn’t that so funny?
xo,
s
Marissa says
Your curtains have a twin! I just stumbled upon this blog and thought I was seeing double:
http://theweekendhomemaker.com/no-sew-no-problem
YoungHouseLove says
No way! That’s so funny!
xo,
s
Aida L. says
When I first saw this post, I LOVED the curtains. Now I realize why they looked so familiar in the first place!
This chair from Urban Outfitters uses the same fabric!
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=17995671&color=045&itemdescription=true&navAction=jump&search=true&isProduct=true&parentid=A_FURN_FURNITURE_CHAIR
YoungHouseLove says
Isn’t that funny? Such a small world!
xo,
s
Mandy says
Look at this http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=17995671&color=045&itemdescription=true&navAction=jump&search=true&isProduct=true&parentid=A_FURN_FURNITURE… the same fabric.
YoungHouseLove says
Isn’t that funny? Love it!
xo,
s
Maggie says
I think Urban Outfitters uses this exact same fabric on a chair!
http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=17995671&color=045&itemdescription=true&navAction=jump&search=true&isProduct=true&parentid=A_FURN_FURNITURE
Maggie says
woops didn’t mean to repeat what you already knew!
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, no worries. Isn’t that funny?!
xo,
s
Hillary says
Look what I just found on urban outfitters! Too matchy matchy to actually put in the room (not to mention expensive) but I immediately thought of your dining room when I saw this chair in the same print as your curtains and had to tell you about it! Here is the link: http://m.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/mobile/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=17995671&pushId=A_FURN_FURNITURE&popId=APARTMENT
Hillary says
Haha it seems as if I’m not the first to notice the chair. Guess I should read the comments before I post next time. Feel free to delete my comment!
YoungHouseLove says
Haha, no worries! Isn’t that so funny?!
xo,
s
Sandra says
Hey, there’s nothing wrong w/looking at your newly painted wall and grinning…I do the same!!! ;)
Back to your post…
I am sooo jealous! :) I want that fabric for my family room, but will not pay a fortune for it! You are soo lucky to have found it at a great price!! :)
rmg says
I was browsing the internet for curtain ideas and found the following curtains on a site….thought the pattern looked similar to your dining room curtain fabric (although significantly more expensive than what you paid per yard): http://www.wayfair.com/Niche-Hathaway-Curtain-Panel-CU65-NCX1108.html
YoungHouseLove says
No way!!
xo,
s
jimmy philbrook says
Very nice Sherry!
Nicole dyk says
That table is awesome! Where is that from or did u guys make it?
YoungHouseLove says
It’s from a local furniture outlet here called The Dump!
xo,
s
Kim H. says
I was just going through some old posts, I can’t get over how odd it seems to see your dining room pre-opening! such an amazing change, I love the current florr plan :)
Amanda says
Great curtains- I’ve been trying to find the right color bamboo roman blinds- what is the color you found worked best from the Wal-Mart selection?
YoungHouseLove says
So sorry, we don’t know the color name and have actually heard they might not sell them anymore but I’d just go there (or to a place like Lowe’s who we also hear has them) and look at them in person to see which one you like!
xo,
s
Maureen says
Sorry, I know this post is a year old so I hope you don’t mind me commenting (or asking a question, really). I have a HUGE window in my living room. 101″ WITHOUT the trim. I bought curtains for it and planned on possibly getting a shade but it is extremely difficult. I was wondering if you guys plan on getting a shade like you had in the living room of your first house, or if you will be leaving just the curtains in here. Also, if no shade, should I layer it some other way? Faux shade valance type thing perhaps? (If you even understand what the heck I am talking about! lol) Thanks!
YoungHouseLove says
I would just do curtains on a long rod. No shade necessary! I would keep it clean and let the view be the star. So lucky to have a big window!
xo,
s
Maureen says
Sherry, thank you SO much. I really needed to hear someone else’s point of view, as I have been obsessing about it for a couple of weeks now. I appreciate it.
YoungHouseLove says
So glad!
xo,
s
Megan says
I think the chairs match the drapes . . .
https://www.onekingslane.com/product/18588/1052560
Kathy says
I like the room change-up. If you put weights in the hem of your curtains, they’ll hang better. Great job!!
megan says
hey there, love the curtains. I have a large window in my bedroom that looks to be about the same size as the one you made curtains for. I didn’t see if you listed the width of your window. Mine is 120 inches, do you have a suggestion for how many yards of fabric I should buy?
YoungHouseLove says
I just use the width of the bolt (which is extra wide since it’s upholstery fabric – maybe 56″? 64″ I forget!). Then just see how tall you want your curtains and figure out yardage that way (using the width of the bolt).
xo
s
Taryn says
Your fabric made a TV appearance! It covers the banquette in the kitchen on Switched at Birth http://hookedonhouses.net/2013/03/04/switched-at-birth-the-real-kennish-manor-guest-house/ The characters sat down there and I knew I recognized it from somewhere…had to double check, and sure enough – you are owners of curtains with celebrity status!
YoungHouseLove says
So funny!
xo
s
pj says
Hi guys, your curtains are beautiful ! I found this fabric online on faric.com but it seems that it’s “dry-clean” only. I would love to know if you guys have washed your curtains and if they held up OK. Thanks so much! ( I have 2 little girls so everything in my house needs to be washable.)
YoungHouseLove says
Hmm, I don’t think I’ve washed them, which is a testament to how much that pattern must hide! With a 3 year old and a dog, we’re a pretty messy family, but they still look great! Hope it helps.
xo
s
Laura says
Hi! I was wondering what the name of the wall paint color ( and brand) is. My husband and I are redoing a bathroom and this is the only blue we have both seen and agreed upon. Thank you, Laura
YoungHouseLove says
It’s Moonshine by Benjamin Moore.
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