With Ten Thousand Beside: Curtain Call!

It has been entirely too long since I've written an update, even by my standards. That's the problem when you're so busy updating the house...no time to update the blog! Today is different though because it's a snow day! We're home waiting for the 8-14" they're calling for and have some extra time on our hands. We have made some major strides though, so here we go...

Yes! My curtain dreams have become a reality! If these curtains look familiar, it's because they used to be in the living room. We just decided that they looked way better in here, which is funny because we chose the paint color independently of the curtains. If you haven't been following since the beginning, here's a recap:

The closet behind these doors spans the entire length of the wall, which is great! The closet doors are not so great, in fact, they are very ugly. And asymmetrical for that matter, so I knew I had to think outside the box to redeem this wall. So, as you can see, I decided to place the bed on the center of this wall with the hopes of removing the closet doors, adding some curtains that would hide the closet, and install light sconces to make the wall symmetrical.

And so here ends the closet journey. In fact, this room is almost completely finished except for crown molding. Let's turn out attention to the windows, one of which you can see in the left of this picture.

I knew I didn't want to put curtains on the windows in our bedroom because 1) We had a whole wall of curtains and I didn't want the room to look too curtainy (just to throw in some technical decorating terms for you) or for the curtains to compete with one another and 2) There's not enough space on the other window in this room to fit a curtain rod. Originally we went with plantation shutters but I just didn't love them. They weren't quite white enough to match our ultra-white trim that we painted so instead we went with woven wood blinds.

This picture makes them look like they let in a lot of light, but in real life they are really good and blocking light. They also have a privacy liner, so no worries there.

Here's a close-up on the window itself. Such an improvement from the 42 year old windows we inherited when we bought this place! They're beautiful and fresh, but more importantly they've made a huge difference in conserving heat which is great because it's been a cold winter.

This is the new sliding window we installed in the half bathroom of our master bedroom. As you can see, it's still pretty rustic because we haven't installed trim yet, but I'll take visible insulation if that means this room is a little warmer! It's still known lovingly as the "zombie bathroom" but at least we can leave the door open without getting hit with a wall of frigid air.

There are a few new things going on this room. 1) We painted the ceiling white, 2) New front door, 3) New curtains! Here's a close up of the front door...

We've got a curtain rod up, but we're still looking for the perfect curtains to hang over the door window. You can see on the left side of the new molding that there's some touching up that needs to be done and of course we haven't painted it yet.