New Curtains

Here's another small bit of the Bedroom makeover. The curtains that were in there were some run of the mill Merete panels from Ikea. They were fine, just boring. I don't know about you but I don't like spending a lot of money on curtains. Why are they all so expensive? Why is it like eighty bucks to curtain a room even if you're being cheap?

So being the cheap resourceful girl that I am I went about this project trying to use only what I had. I dug out an old US Navy wool blanket. It was perfect! But I only had one of them and needed two. I scoured the interwebs and came up empty handed for a match. Then gave up and just looked for something that I could find multiples on. On a side note, isn't it ridiculous what some people are trying to sell vintage wool blankets for?

After I struck out there I headed to my local Army/Navy Surplus. It was a exercise in futility. They weren't much better in prices. It was a total 'LA' surplus store. Fancy Displays, Clothes on mannequins. Definitely unlike any other surplus store I've been in. Their lowest priced blanket was pretty much just a moving blanket and I wasn't too excited about the prospect of that being on my windows. So back to the internet drawing board. I finally found these. "Wool Utility Emergency Blanket" Sexy, no?

They were big enough, grey enough and cheap enough so I bought. They're about half wool, half other material. Probably newspaper or hair trimmings. I dug out my bag-o-scrap leather and cut enough tabs for drapes. I used a simple zig zag stitch on them. With the material and the raw end of the leather I thought a simple stitch like that would be best. I was right.

 Here's the finished product. A super textural, super easy DIY and super cheap:

They let in a lot of light which is great for pictures, bad for sleeping past 5am. I bought some blackout fabric (also on the cheap) and solved that problem with a quickness.

On Friday I'll show you the whole bedroom.