What a Difference a Few Curtains Can Make!

Curtains....hmmmm....yeah.....we haven't really been friends in the past.....in fact if you were to visit my house you would find that there is only one room in our house that has curtains......and that would be my daughters room.....only because we found that she would sleep later in the morning if it was darker in her room (genius....pure genius......seriously all you sleep deprived parents.....try it.....it works!).

I remember a few years ago (ok, really like 10 or so.....back when we had time to kill) when we (yes....I forced the hubs to go with me) attended a little local decorating class on a Saturday.  The lady teaching talked to us about the levels of decorating.....you know like Level 1 is getting your furniture......Level 2 is maybe some accessories......and it went on until Level 4, which was putting up curtains, etc.....and the hubs and I both laughed......and said......well.....we'll never get to Level 4.....since we were pretty much hopeless pitiful.....well......let's just say we were struggling just to get the furniture.

SO....fast forward 10 years or so.....and we still don't have any curtains.......BUT something happened a couple weeks ago that has inspired me to get on the curtain bandwagon.....

We were visiting my parents - who just recently renovated almost their whole house - and my Mom asked me to help here do a little shopping (no problem....I am an expert shopper) for some accessories.....and (dun, dun, dun) some curtains......

Mom and I picked out some super cute curtains with a cool geometric pattern (oh how us Engineers love our geometric patterns)......and honestly.....I'm not sure if I would have been brave enough to buy them if I was alone.....but my Mom is one of these "Go Big or Go Home" types......she's got guts people......so after a couple minutes of discussion.....there they went into our basket......Rock on Mom!!!  She's SO cool!!

And let me just tell you.....these curtains literally transformed her room......

Here is a little peak at "the after".....

SO cute and modern!!  BUT you really cannot appreciate the after pics until you see the before pics....so here is a before pic.....

And here are a couple before pics of the other side of the room.....

And here are the afters.....

AND....no worries....she's not done yet....she is still working on getting pictures on the walls, etc....BUT don't you love the curtains?  I think they added SO much to this room.....the room just felt SO much warmer and put together.  Plus they added a little modern flair and some texture.  I just LOVED them!! 

SO.....when are we getting curtains for our house.....hmmmmm.....soon I hope......I'm sure you'll be hearing more about it in an upcoming post :)

Until next time.....

XOXO-

Kristal