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Why a Roman Shade with Cafe Panels was the Right Choice
The other day I showed you the ‘Anthropologie’ inspired bathroom. In that room we made a roman shade with coordinating café panels.
By cleverly mounting the roman shade way above the actual top of the window trim, it instantly tricks the eye into believing the window is larger! (I am always amazed with that trick!) click here to read the rest of the story
Window Treatments in the Master Bedroom, How I Accomplished Form and Function
All of the windows in ‘Our House’ are treated according to what the privacy and light control needs (function) are for each space, as well as treated for the aesthetic quality (form). In most cases it’s difficult to accomplish all those needs with only one treatment per window. Usually, I have a treatment for the privacy and light control, and a separate treatment for the ‘look’.
In the master bedroom, the Hunter Douglas plantation shutters on the windows are on read more…
Our House… Spare Bedroom, Home to the Orioles
A few weeks ago I switched the two spare bedrooms around at ‘Our House’… it suddenly dawned on me that both rooms would benefit by switching the furniture. One room is larger than the other, yet the smaller of the two rooms housed a pair of twin beds leaving the larger room with the queen bed.
When I first started blogging, I was getting my ‘posting legs’ with a series from the West Bedroom… that was where the queen bed used to be… but now that I switched it to the other smaller bedroom, this is what it looks like. Read on…
