CURTAINS

Our windows are dressed

The valance.

Some of you may recall that I got curtains made. This was the source of a not-insignificant bit of stress, because I never do anything like this, and because it involved a lot of skills I do not have: selecting the right materials at the fabric store, giving the dry cleaner the right measurements, and just generally knowing what would work in a space. I cannot think in 3D, and I can only think visually when it comes to my own clothing, or to actors in Britcoms.

Well! The drapes (are these drapes? what even are drapes?) were ready early, and thanks to a lot of complicated manoeuvring involving a stepladder, here they are!

The kitchen one I wanted to be full-on storybook classic kitchen curtain. Not farmhouse-farmhouse with actual chickens printed on it, but red-and-white gingham. Does this make the kitchen a little red-white-and-blue? Maybe! Is the material itself a bit boring, relative to what’s in the powder room? Could be! But I think it works. It’s at any rate what I was picturing. And the dry cleaner went above-and-beyond with how it’s all sewn together, such that it is far better than the sort of flap of material I was picturing.

Next, the powder room. This one was the actual privacy-requiring curtain, but also needed to let some light in. I was imagining something like a sheer-ish tulle, in fuchsia or I don’t know, didn’t want to go too sheer, but then the fabric store had something so much better.

The material.

I saw it and was like, this is it, it’s like the best onesie, a Uniqlo x Marimekko we have. As ours is who knows where (laundry) or in what condition, a screenshot of the style:

The reference.

It’s also, maybe, a bit Lilly Pulitzer, a bit preppy Florida lady, but also not so much so that I’m turning the toilet into the country club that it most definitely is not.

The powder-room curtain, with its accompanying flamingo.

And now, behold, in all of its installed glory! What is unfortunately not clear from any of the photos I took of this, light-on or -off, is that the walls are peach, so you can’t quite see how the colors work together. But I did manage to get a picture of it that does not also show our toilet paper, so all told, feeling pretty good about this.