I have been on the lookout for curtains for my living room for well over a year now. I’m starting to get a teeny weenie itty bitty bit irritated. I cannot find what I want and I cannot finish giving the living room a face lift until I find them. I have gone to every store in town and I have been on this blasted computer an insane amount of hours looking. I have also been looking at drapery fabric in much the same way…and that too is turning me into an insane crazy person. It will not take much at this point for me to blast some freaking cans of Krylon on my current curtains and be done with it.
This Serafina fabric from Pottery Barn is my favorite so far, but at $30 a yard, I don’t think I can do it. I can’t see myself smiling at a $400 pair of curtains you know? (it’s a pretty big window : / ) My friend Molly has the shower curtain PB made in this fabric and it is gorgeous in person. I really kind of love the fabric honestly but I know it’s not practical. ( I still loooove it anyway. )
I did find a fabric that was similar and ordered a few swatches. I got an opportunity to see a roll of it in person this past weekend and I was underwhelmed. The colors were a little off from what I wanted… and I don’t know. My friend Tina and I feel like, well, that it’s a little *creepy* somehow. Like Wonderland-acid-trippyish creepy. Did I mention yet that it’s $13 dollars a yard? There is a slight chance I could overlook the ‘shroom kool-aid affect for that price.
Tin foil is becoming an attractive option. It goes with everything and I have the supplies needed on hand. I wonder if it would make the house hot? Or make it smell like a baked potato.
4 comments:
Maybe you should try a nice light neutral color and then use some of the pottery barn fabric on accents in the room.
But this is coming from the girl that has no curtains on her huge ass, covers a whole wall, window. Just lots and lots of blinds...
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WoW! The swatch does look totally different from the "big roll" in person. I'm determined to find your Seraphina!
You kill me! haha Just reading your post had me reliving some very trippy teen times. Sigh. Those were the good 'ol days!! haha I hope you find what you are looking for, I know it's such a pain when you know what you want but can't find it!!
I think you can make the "real" fabric work. Maybe a smaller amount as an accent. I can see pillows too. The foil sounds better than the Wonderland-acid-trippyish creepy fabric. Just me though.
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