Begin challenging your own assumptions.
Your assumptions are your windows on the world.
Scrub them off every once in awhile,
or the light won't come in.
~Alan Alda
Did you make a pie yesterday for National Pie Day? I'd love to see your photos! Would you e-mail them to me? I share my e-mail address in my profile, "About the Driver."
Click here to see yesterday's Windows Week, Part 1!
Click here to see yesterday's Windows Week, Part 1!
Now, for some downsala drama. First of all, we call this space the downsala because it's the sala (Filipino, "living room") and it's in our townhouse rental's first floor.
BEFORE
October 2011
Yes, more impractical Roman shades, plus the furniture in the photo, above, eventually was removed by the owner at my request. I also removed all the clip-on lampshades from the chandelier (visible in upper right corner)-- much easier than the dining room's chandy.
Before he left for a short trip to Amsterdam a couple months back, I asked Hot Lips to install the curtain rod hardware.
This photo gives you an idea of the height of these windows.
I still can't believe I climbed that ladder and removed the Roman shades myself so I could wash the windows. Like yesterday's post, cast your eyes on the water. And the cloth.
*sigh*
After I sewed the new panels of camel linen, the pressed panels inched their way over the dining room railing from the second floor to the first floor.
Each panel is four yards long.
Yards.
Lined.
After the panels were hung, each window was then sheered in creamy gauze because I just can't handle the view...
Left window
Front window
We require at least a little privacy and lots of light. Here's what one window looked like at Christmastime 2011, before neither the panels nor the gauze were hemmed.
December 2011
Annie and I at work on the candy cane mice
AFTER
January 2012
I hemmed the panels like a good sewist would.
I hemmed the gauze sheers
with pinking sheers.
January 2012
Still no furniture in our downsala
except two of the eight
new dining room set chairs,
but there's plenty of time to furnish this room!
I like the new windows. I really do!
Yesterday: Windows Week, Part 1: Cornices Anew
Tomorrow: Windows Week, Part 3: Grrrr! The Kitchen
1 Comments:
Alas, I did not make a pie. I had wanted to, but then I thought about wanting to EAT the pie and decided against it.
I love your curtains. That's the kind of look I would really like in my living room. Right now, I have valances a la the 90s. I want panels and neutral ones to boot.
I love the height of yours!
Now I have to go and read part one. I'm nothing if not backwards.
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