Home Improvements: Part II.

I wrote the first installment of my home improvements back in April,
with my new coffee table made from an old window.

Back in the spring we had our windows replaced at my house here in Ruston.
It was quite the endeavor, but it taught me a few things.
The main thing it taught me,
was that our mini blinds were DISGUSTING.
They were ALL broken,
dusty,
crooked,
and just plain nasty.
So we decided to forgo the blinds and replace them with curtains!

Only problem was...
we didn't have any curtains.

So my task over Easter break was to fix that!
I found some relatively inexpensive fabric at Wal-Mart and went to work!

With help from Mom,
(lots of help)
I started sewing curtains for our living and dining room.
They weren't too complicated,
just time consuming!

The edges of the fabric had a nice selvage,
so all I had to do was make two nice big seams at the top and bottom,
and there you go!!

The Before:

The After:

The living room

The dining room.

On my way home from Kamp, 

I stopped off here in Ruston to spend the night.

I found that our next door neighbors had cut down the 3 or 4 trees along our side fence,

leaving my room no longer hidden by lush foliage. 

So I was needing some better window coverage! 

So I set out again to make me some curtains!

I bought some discounted fabric at a local store in Lake Charles,

and to work I went. 

(With lots of help from Mom and MomBond)

We decided to make tabs out of ribbon to hang them, 

instead of the big seam like the other curtains. 

This material also had a nice selvage, 

so no side seams!!

Wahoo!!

We used hem tape to be able to make the bottom seam look larger without losing length. 

So a couple seams, and a few tabs later here's what we got!

I decided to use the new curtains I was making, 

and the ones I already had up, 

to make my room that much more private. 

So hopefully these do their job and keep what's inside in, 

and what's outside out!