Curtain Call

A few weeks ago, my sister and I ventured to Dallas to go to a fabric outlet so that I could buy some material for curtains. When I bought the house, every window had new blinds on them, but obviously no curtains. Soooo.......2.5 years later I'm finally getting around to putting some up!

Some friends from work told me about an outlet place in Dallas - Golden D'or - so we went there and they have an entire clearance room (huge!) and they were having their semi-annual sale in which everything that was up to $7/yard was $0.99/yard!!! And then if it was $7-$10/yard, it was on sale for $1.99 and so on. SPECTACULAR deals!

I bought a TON of fabric for DIRT cheap (and even went back for a second trip before the sale was done) - now I have curtains on every single window in my house except for the 2 windows in my super tall stairwell. I don't have access to those windows unless I somehow got a very tall ladder and with my klutziness, I wouldn't trust myself to get the job done without falling!

Anyway, here goes:

This is the office -

I loved this pattern - the swirlies match the yellow walls perfectly....

And no sewing required for any of my curtains - we just put nails/pins in the walls and draped the fabric. YES!

Here's my master bedroom. This is my favorite fabric - it's shiny green with little silver metal balls on it. SUPER PRETTY.

Here's a close-up of the fabric....it is gorgeous, but very heavy, so it was a challenge to get these hung with only 2 hands!

This is the upstairs loft/living room. I got a bunch of cream-colored gauzy material and it looks nice in the tan room - very peaceful.

I think I need to go back and make the 'swoop' lower on these.....

Here's the guest bedroom - going along with the blue/yellow theme. This was a really lightweight fabric, so it was pretty easy.

Someday when I learn to sew, I will get more creative with different types of curtains, but for now, it's the swoopy drape thing!

And here's the kitchen - went with black since the countertops are black. I like them, but I'm not completely sold on them......but until I stain the cabinets and see how that looks, I'm going to leave them.....

And last but not least, the living room. I think these curtains are cute, but they are too 'pinky' red and not 'orangey' red enough....we'll see. I like the texture of the fabric, but I'm not sold on the color yet.

Overall, I love that I now have curtains and accomplished another project! And I got all of those curtains/material for under $100! I still have a ton of fabric left over as well, so I could make pillows or something else out of it. It was such a smokin' deal!!!