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I love how you are having so much fun decorating and making that space yours... It is true what you say about the fabrics... There are so many different colors and textures... most are so beautiful... it is hard to choose but your project seems to be coming along beautifully Be well and good luck with the rest! xoxoxo
posted by
Sinome
on February 14, 2013 at 7:19 PM
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Sounds like you have beautiful creative ideas for your home, good for you! 
posted by
Collene
on February 13, 2013 at 11:50 PM
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Have never seen it, but like the idea of half & half. 
posted by
adnohr
on February 13, 2013 at 7:09 PM
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It sounds wonderful.
posted by
UtahJay
on February 13, 2013 at 3:41 PM
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Re: JimmyA,
Happily, I don't get to/have to choose the paint, the owners did that, and it's a nice off-white with the faintest tinge of beige, maybe. Choosing fabrics for windows is limited by expense and number of windows. Doesn't make it that easy, though. I have chosen a fabric for the front window, but it took some time to decide that's the one I want.
posted by
Ciel
on February 13, 2013 at 2:05 PM
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Re: Naut,
Confronting the actual window with the actual fabric, the plan has changed a little, but I think it will work. There will now be the leafy panel over the non-slider, plus a narrow flat panel of the same stuff over the other end, with the gauze in between, so ruched up in so many folds that it will essentially be opaque. There will be some sort of tie-back on that side, to pull the gauze out of the way when going through the door.
posted by
Ciel
on February 13, 2013 at 1:59 PM
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It sounds like things are progressing nicely. Just one thing though . . . try not to make a decorating mistake my wife usually makes: giving yourself too many choices! One day she got some color swatches to paint a room in some shade of tan, and the swatch page had something like thirty examples, most of which were extremely close in value and tint! I think 5 or 6 examples would have sufficed! It took her a week to decide! 
posted by
JimmyA
on February 13, 2013 at 1:30 PM
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Ciel
I like it. The one-half-of-this-and-the-other-half-of-that treatment of that one window/door is particularly interesting...
posted by
Nautikos
on February 13, 2013 at 6:16 AM
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Re: Pat,
Either that, or you're about to go into labor...
posted by
Ciel
on February 13, 2013 at 6:14 AM
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I can just see these fabrics. Makes me want to rip down mine and
redecorate. It's like a visit to a furniture store makes me want to dump the old couch and that one ratty recliner and upgrade. Is this a sign of spring?
posted by
Pat_B
on February 13, 2013 at 5:36 AM
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Re: Katray,
by all means, go for it! Perfect time of year, to chase winter away!
posted by
Ciel
on February 12, 2013 at 8:44 PM
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Sounds so lovely and your pleasure in decorating may be contagious
if I'm not careful..:) 
posted by
Katray2
on February 12, 2013 at 8:36 PM
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Re: Kabu, yes,
that's what I have in mind. An inner sheer, and outer privacy curtain. Just haven't decided what look to go for. I have a mostly-red oriental carpet to lay down there, so I have to keep that in mind, too.
posted by
Ciel
on February 12, 2013 at 8:23 PM
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WHAT ABOUT OVER THE GAUZE IN THE ROOM YET UNDECIDED,
HEAVIER DRAPES THAT CAN BE PULLED CLOSED AT NIGHT TO GIVE A COZY FEEL WHEN IT IS NEEDED.
posted by
Kabu
on February 12, 2013 at 8:11 PM
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