Curtains: Before and After

DINING ROOM: BEFORE

Anyone who's been in our house the last year has probably realized that sometimes small decisions can be paralyzing for us. We redid the walls and added crown mouldings in February, and in that process took down the old ratty curtains and threw them away. Now for 6 whole months we've been without curtains, with the whole world looking in on our house every night.

DINING ROOM: AFTER
So what's so hard about picking out curtains? My problem was that I wanted curtains that we'd be happy with for forever...or at least for eighty years and I didn't want to mess up.

LIVING ROOM: BEFORE

Our living room looked so barren without any curtains and I'm not going to mention how we also took down all of the pictures in February and still haven't hung them up ( you know--since they need to look good for eighty years)--so we're talking a VERY barren living room.

LIVING ROOM: FIRST AFTER

But barren no more. We still haven't hung back up the pictures, but the curtains actually add a significant homey feeling to the room and have inspired me to start looking at our pictures again to think about where to hang them.

LIVING ROOM: AFTER AFTER
Since the birthday photo was taken in July-- we changed our mind (*gasp* what a surprise)! In this darn darkened picture (my poor photography skills are to blame) you can see that we've made the striped valance go all the way across the top with the floral valances peeking out from behind the stripes...which is how it looks today [and for the next eighty years]!