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Posts tagged “curtains”

Best Tip For Dealing With An Oddly Placed Window

We shared Joe and Kristin's Craftsman house tour with you yesterday and wanted to point out how the couple handled an oddly placed window in their bedroom. Since the only bare wall in the room was too...

Window Coverings for High Ceilings?
Good Questions

Q: My husband and I recently bought and moved into a house. I have to choose the curtains for the living room, but I am not sure which is the best option…it has high ceilings. Please does anyone who...

A Little More Privacy In Your Home

When living in the city, privacy can sometimes can be hard to come by since buildings tend to be just a few feet apart. One way keep your home more private while letting in the natural sunlight and fr...

Small Bedroom Solution:Use the Window

In our tiny bedroom we just don't have the option of putting our bed against a plain wall; every single wall has a window, a door, a couple of windows or a closet. And the whole thing is already bare...

Look! Trompe L'Oeil Curtain Room Divider

We love the effect of Bauke Knottnerus' trompe l'oeil curtains, being both a room divider while also fooling the eye perceptually into believing a larger space exists, thanks to the print of a room wi...

Good Questions: Reader Recommendations for LA Home Decor Stores?
Los Angeles

Curtains and local home decor stores are on Chris' mind: Does anyone know where to get the curtains in Lauren Conrad's bedroom on The Hills, and matching pillows and accessories in her bedroom? I'm al...

Look!: Curtains Made Out of Film Strips

We absolutely love this creative reuse of old film strips as curtains. Not only are they breezy and light, they are a nice, warm color palette. We could also see these film strips partitioning off a...

Inspiration: Community Patchwork
Austin

This being the month for bedrooms, we felt this awesome community patchwork project we stumbled across during Austin's famous First Night celebrations was worth showing. It reminds us of curling up u...

Do You Use Exchange Stores?
Melbourne

We’re a big fan of our local Fabric Exchange. Not only do they have an amazing range of vintage and rare fabrics but you can also earn some extra money for any excess fabric you have lying around. Y...

Apartment Therapy LA Flickr Group Pool

It's summer, so it's a good time to jump into the pool...our ATLA Flickr group pool, that is. It's where we saw this idea from pool member, missabbyjean and her hideaway feature. What's behind the cur...

Simple Green: Draw the Drapes

We couldn't resist the reference to one of our favorite books as a kid, Amelia Bedelia. Hired as a maid, Amelia's given a list of things to do, including "draw the drapes" which she does. Literally....

3 Steps to Curtains

Curtains, the finishing touch to a room, can be expensive. But you can knock down the price a few notches and sewing's not even a part of the plan! Simple steps after the jump......

Grono Uplights at Ikea for a Party

Have you thought about the lighting for your party? With an eye towards our own housewarming in two weeks, we'd been looking for can lights, also known as uplights, for a while. We want to uplight t...

Look! ASCII Code curtains by Nienke Sybrandy

We always have loved the silhouette of the tree outside our house on the curtains. Every morning it's so beautiful to see the shadows it makes. When we saw this print on these curtains, we thought thi...

LA Good Questions: Local Curtain Experts?

ATLA reader Karyn wants to know about any personal recommendations for curtain installation: "I have French doors and I would like to have curtains for them like the ones below. However, what I reall...

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