I finally got some curtains up over the kitchen windows. We had roman blinds for the longest time, but they didn’t do anything to block the view of the neighbor’s deck, which had a clear line of sight all the way through the kitchen and the main room of the house. And since everyone is out on their decks all summer, it was getting to feel just too, too neighborly.
So – I was going to make cafe curtains, the kind that clip to a little rod that hangs across the window, but then read Miss Martha and read that vintage tea towels can work too, since cafe curtains are really just fabric panels hanging in the window. Of course, vintage in Western Canada means about 1972, so I just found some cotton off-white plain curtains with the word “abode” embroidered on them in white, for a bit of design panache, and tried it out. Worked great. Voila, curtains, that look a bit like this.
Photos of our very own curtains to follow someday when it’s sunny, the light is right, and I have the camera in hand, all at the same time.