productive weekend

Monday, July 14, 2008

Besides three Senior sessions, a little shopping and dinner with my husband, church, a nap, some reading, movie watching...I also crammed in some time to work on the house.



My house came with really nice efficient windows that also happen to be the weirdest sizes you have ever seen. I could not find curtains for the kitchen that were the right length. This weekend I found a nice tan set that were 54 inches long. Longer than I needed but long enough that they'd work! On Saturday I hemmed the pair for by the kitchen sink and we got them hung. I bought a matching set for the other window. And voila, finally..curtains in my kitchen after almost three months!



The kitchen windows were mostly normal, especially compared to our bedroom windows. The bedroom windows are set pretty high. One is 67.75" by 27" and the other is 50.75" by 27". I mean, really...what is that about? I decided to use the curtains from our apartment bedroom and repurpose them. So I cut off the tabs, turned them the opposite direction and sewed a hole for the curtain rods. It somehow worked out really well. I can also now say that our bedroom is done!

I'm really making progress on my To Do list for the house. I'm down to finishing up the crafty area but it was totally useable this weekend. I also have the guest room to finish which will be done by August. The baby's room is also coming along and I even got the blinds ordered for it yesterday. (That room also has a weird size window so I ordered custom mini blinds.) It is such a relief to be getting things accomplished.

Labels: home owning

posted by kimberly, 7:45 AM