Okay, so kind of a lame blog topic...but, Dave and I bought curtains for our family room windows and I was pretty happy with how they turned out. So, for everyone that keeps 'bugging' me to put updated pictures on the blog of what we've done to the house, you'll have to be satisfied with these pics for now. Although, the pictures don't really do the curtains justice since our lighting is terrible in that room, you can't even see the colors! Also, we did get a scarf to go across the top windows, but we need to get a tall ladder to put those up..so, this is the halfway complete picture!
But, silly story about these curtains. I brought in two women to look at the windows to give us suggestions on what we could do to make them look good and after I got the first quote back, I immediately went to "plan b" which was the JCPenney catalogue. The lady wanted more than $3k to do 3 roman shades and a scarf across the top three windows!! We spent less than 10% of that and I'm happy with what we did!! So, word of advice, try to bring our your creative talents yourself when it comes to window treatments!!
For those of you interested in the house, I'm hoping to get the master bathroom painted by the end of the month (January is so darn busy for us!!), so I can add those later.
3 comments:
Jamie - the exact same thing happened to us when I had an estimate given to us for the deck doors off our kitchen, it was like $5K, so we got a curtain from Pottery Barn for much less than 10% of that cost. Those custom curtain places are so rediculous, way to go for using your noggin' and saying NO to getting ripped off! :)
Oh, I forgot to say the curtains look great! Good Job!
love the curtains jamie!
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