Tough Drapery Decisions

Yep, we are still changing in the closet and turning out the lights before jumping into bed to ensure some privacy in our wide-open-to-the-world bedroom. Why? Because we are still catching up financially to our furniture we bought and also because we have had a hard time coming to agreement on fabric for the drapes. We like plenty of swatches at the fabric stores we've been to, we check them out for a week and bring them home and then they transform in the natural lighting into something at least one of us doesn't like. But we have come to agreement at last! Our favorite is the one on the left here:



Up close....

Versus a second runner up. This one ended up looking too dark when we put it up next to the window, especially because our furniture is dark. We want some dark brown, but not too much.

Now we are just holding out for a sale to go on, and then we'll buy the fabric. In the meantime, I've been sewing a lot this weekend. We got some inexpensive lace for the bedroom windows and two small windows by the front door. These aren't real private, but they will be put up in addition to the drapes to help filter the sun a bit for when the drapes are open during the daytime. They only had enough to do our four bedroom windows and the two downstairs, but I'm keeping my eye out for more of the same kind to put in the two living room windows, to give uniformity to our windows from the outside.