As everyone who peeps in our windows is already aware, our dining room curtains have been up for about three weeks. They’re handmade, but thanks to Missy’s deft touch with a sewing machine, they look absolutely professional. Watch out, Sri Lankan 8 year-olds – you’ve got competition.
Since our kitchen only has one window, we went with cafe curtains for the dining room to bring in more light. Fortunately, our foundation is tall enough and the windows are set high enough that no one can see over them. Foiled again, voyeurs – ha ha!
Those look good. I have thought about something similar in our bathrooms and kitchen, but not in the Diningroom. Now I wonder why I didn’t consider that too! Our house sits up high compared to the ground and no other houses are really close enough to see in the windows except at the old folks home in the back. I would like to be able to see the decorative top halves of my windows from the inside, as well as the outside.
Our PO left some beautiful lace curtains in some of the room, but I’m just not a lace curtain type of girl. I’ll cut them up and make something out of them. My Irish friend calls them “Mick Mother Curtains”. lol Apparently if there is an Irish woman over 35 in your house you have a pair somewhere!
I’m a little confused about what I’m looking at, two different curtains – are the lace(?) ones on the left the before and the bottom ones on the right the after because the upper half of the window is uncovered?
I think I might use a rod that fastens inside the righthand window instead of outside, so the curtains would be even less noticeable, just imho.
Trudy – yes, the curtains on the right are the During photo (the second one went up right after this one – we didn’t leave them cockeyed for very long). We considered interior tension rods rather than cafe rods, but in the end, we went with these because we want the ability to push the curtains wide open to let in light from both sashes. Interior-mount curtains block a few inches on either side, even when they’re open.