It has been rainy here today so was a good excuse to do some inside jobs.
The curtains in the family room are now properly hung. It took a bit of tweaking of both the rod and the curtains as well as pressing with a steam iron.
It is an improvement on when I first put them up.
Every small step makes it feel more like home.
Since my last post we have continued to make progress in setting up our new home. A huge achievement has been to pass all of the unpacked boxes and packing materials to other people for reuse.
Meanwhile, I have continued to successfully trawl Facebook Marketplace to source items I need.
Today we picked up this dining table and chairs. We plan to sand, paint and update them at some stage but at the moment we don’t have any workspace in the shed – and it is too cold to consider working out there. I think that will be a project for the warmer weather.
Hanging the artwork above the table was another achievement for today.
The curtains were a new buy as I decided that the semi-sheer ones that were already hung were not really suitable as we approach winter. The creases have not really dropped out yet but once they do we will adjust the position of the curtain rail to suit the length of the curtains.
A couple of days ago we picked up this desk to use in my sewing room.
I am working on finding homes for everything in the kitchen and the office and will share a bit more about those spaces in upcoming posts.
When we moved into this house 6 years ago there were no curtains. There are still no curtains.
Since we moved we have had all of the windows replaced and redecorated all of the rooms except for the bathroom. We live on a local road in a rural area with no immediate neighbours. The native shrubs planted on the verge provide quite a good screen and privacy is not an issue.
I have half-heartedly debated the need for curtains and until recently my laziness has won. However, a couple of months ago I was actually contemplating getting blinds/curtains to suit the living room as well as 2 of the bedrooms and the study. Sanity prevailed and I realised that I would be spending money on soft furnishings that would make the rooms look smaller, need maintenance and were really not required. What was I thinking?
We have stunning views of our gardens and surrounding vegetation which are far better than the fanciest window treatments so we are going to keep the windows ‘au naturale’.
The only exception is the living room where it would be nice to draw something across the wide expanse of glass during the winter evenings. Now I have to try to decide what is the most suitable covering. There are floor to ceiling louvres at the end of the room as well as other louvres immediately above a low bookcase and yet more near the fireplace. Whatever I choose needs to be simple and streamlined to stay in keeping with the style of the house and be safe near the fireplace. I would love to hear your experiences and suggestions.
These are the louvres at the end of the living room. It is very obvious that they definitely need cleaning which is the only downside of no window coverings. Today I have done the kitchen windows as well as the laundry and toilet windows. I hope to finish the rest of the house on the weekend.
A view like this makes washing up almost fun.
I need to work out a schedule for cleaning windows and I think that I need to do the kitchen and living room every 2-3 months. The bedroom ones can probably go a little longer. How often do you clean your windows? Do you do all of the windows or do you completely clean room by room?
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