Wedesday, Day 13
Hitching post for those who are renewing this month. Name your project, speak, ask & listen...
(6 Comments Monday, including pics of Mary's new curtains (in the daylight too) and Christine's new bathroom shelves)
I got a new shower curtain. So it's a mini-renew.
Cool shelves!
Is that a picture of a squid, or a picture of a...uh...
Mary, your curtains are just fantastic...I love them. What is the fabric? Where did you buy it? How did you hange them, with aircraft cord?
Congratulations!
P.S. - I meant to reply to Pixie's earlier comment, too...I can't believe I've done so much either. I think I've been afflicted with an illness! But to be fair, I started on Labour Day weekend, before AT posted the challenge...
Dorianne...I am appalled! :) It's actually the Taipei 101 bldg in Taiwan...I think the world's tallest these days. Pretty ugly building, actually...but impressive in it's own way, and I kind of like the way it looks in black and white from the angle it does, and not because it resembles...anyway....
Thanks sewingfan!
I bought some light grey and light yellow lining fabric -- that poly stuff you use for lining clothes. Mine was the relatively thick, shiny type that you use to line cotton, rather than the thinner stuff that you use to line wool. Still, it was the cheapest fabric in the place, which is important since I bought a ton of it... I bought mine at NY elegant fabrics in Midtown, but pretty much any place will have something similar. I shredded them so they're in strips around 2-5 inches wide, and they're hiding behind some thin gauzy curtains from IKEA. I used to have normal curtain rods that fell out of the wall all the time, so I tried Maxwell's tutorial:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/081704/how-to/how-to-hang-curtains-across-any-space-000829
...although I added in extra cup hooks so that it won't sag with all the extra weight.
*blushes in Christine's general direction*
Although you have to admit, a wet bathroom would've been a great place for a squid. :P
Mary -- cool! Thanks for the details; I want to try something like that. My apartment is about the same layout as yours -- trouble is, it's rather dark. I've got to figure this out. Congratulations on the window treatments, and on the clever hardware solution. Enjoy!
Christine, it looks like your walls are the same plaster ones that are in my bathroom. How did you hang those shelves? (i.e. what kind of hardware, and what tools?)