In my severe nesting phase, I've finished up work on the window treatments of my house. If you've ever talked about home decor with me, you know that I absolutely loathe mini-blinds, and since I bought my house I've been attempting to rid myself of decades old mini-blinds room by room.
My hatred of mini-blinds goes back to my time as a teenager when I would clean houses to make a few extra bucks. I mostly cleaned family homes and helped others with spring cleaning projects. These almost alwa
ys involved cleaning mini-blinds. You can use special cloths and tools to clean them. You can take them out to the clothes line and spray them with a water hose and then let them dry. You can clean them in the bathtub and then hang them up to dry. Any way you cut it, it's a pain-in-the-you-know-what to get all of the dust off them.
I'm not sure what designer came up with them and thought they were a good idea, but I think they are absolutely ugly. That pretty much sums it up.
So, room by room over the past year and a half, I've been redoing, taking down, sewing, and sewing some more. I loathe sewing too, but I can do it and it's cheaper than buying curtains.
This is the breakfast nook
of my kitchen, the site of the mini-blinds last stand. I redid the kitchen to reflect a french quarter type of feel with wrought iron detailing, and I'm pretty proud of it. We painted the white kitchen 'tea cake' with white-white cupboards. The curtains were actually shower curtains I found on sale that I sewed a fabric border on. We got rid of all the brass fixtures, handles, and faceplates. When I get rid of the ugly fake green marble countertops, I think it will be complete. I love the way my kitchen looks on a sunny day.
To top off the kitchen, I have a memento from my Grandmother Dale's kitchen. My mom embroidered this
wall hanging years ago, and it hung in my grandmother's kitchen for several years. I took it, cleaned it, and had it reframed to hang in my kitchen where I hope it stays.
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