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Very nice.

love the curtains, and those fabulous lamps! great job as always Lorijo!

thanks- I actually uploaded the wrong picture- I had another view I liked better than this. oh well. I am not a frilly kind of gal and neither is my Mr.
I looked at this line at Target and I liked it, just not the price. So I searched my favorite fabric shops and got the black and white brocade fabric on clearance for 1 dollar a yard and sewed up curtains. The striped panel at the headboard is a Waverly curtain I bought on clearance. The white frame around the painting was free at a garage sale- a bright coat of spray paint and I love it! Now, I just have to find a new ceiling fan...

I have been looking for a frame similar to the one on your wall. Where did you get that?

a free pile at a yard sale. It's an old frame that I think held a mirror sometime in the 70's.

I won't say that it's bad, but I definitely wouldn't call it romantic. "Romantic", to me, has to be something that takes one out of one's everyday life, hinting of some other time or place. With plaster walls to decorate and chain stores to shop in, that's a hard one to pull off, I suppose, but this one to me says "late 20th century post-corporate improverishment".

As would most of our rooms, I imagine.