F-I-N-A-L-L-Y...A Reveal Post!

For a while now, you guys have heard me talk about all this "progress" that was happening at our house, but I never posted any reveal pictures to back up all my jibber-jabber.  Well I'm finally able to start showing off what my parents and I {mostly my parents :) haha} worked very hard on.

First...we started with the curtains.  We rolled all 18 yards of our fabric out and made our cuts. 

Then my Mom got down to pinning...of course, Perny wanted to help out.

And before I knew it, my Mom was able to crank out 4 panels.  Yup, that's right, I'm still scared of my sewing machine...and my Mom is a total pro, so I left these up to her.  I did not want to make any mistakes on my expensive-splurge fabric.  So I stuck around and consulted on hem lengths and the look I was going for.

A couple days later it was time for me and the hubby to hang our off-the-shelf Home Depot blinds and put up our curtain rods.  Instead of using the support brackets that came with our curtain rods, we chose to use Kwik-Hang brackets.  My Mom found these online and had me look into them.  They're great, and don't require any drilling into your walls.  That is a huge plus because we didn't want to do any unnecessary drilling into our plaster...although, there was one downside to these brackets for me.  I originally thought I'd hang our curtains from the very top of the wall, not the top of the windows.  This would help to add height to our room..but after thinking it over, I decided to forgo the extra foot of curtain and use this nifty little invention.  It comes out of it's mailing box looking like this....

And the brackets look like this....

You simply hammer the little teeth into the top of the window frame, and you're done!

So our windows have gone from dark black holes....

....to this!



And I'm sure you spotted two of my furniture projects in the room during those pictures.  Last night I finally got the doors and hardware back onto the buffet in the living room, which means I'll be sharing it soon!

So, what do you think?  Do you give the made-over windows a thumbs up or down?!?

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!  Happy Friday! :)