Whoa, Double-Header!

As is my style, it's either feast or famine! After a day of watching season 4 of The Walking Dead with a friend, Hubby and I came home and attacked the curtain project in the bedroom. I'll keep this short and sweet. We went from inherited, ugly red curtains on a wire track to our navy thermal curtains from the apartment on the wire track. Now we have real curtain rods with crisp, cottagey white curtains

The sellers left these red curtains and the Ikea wire track. We initially left them up cuz it was just easier.

There's the matching red curtain over on the side window there.

Then we transitioned to this...

...and this.

Pretty new hardware! Mercury glass finials = vintagey and fun.

Yes.

So nice and crisp! They remind me of sailboat fabric. Which is just fine with us.

The sun rises and comes in this window--should give us some lovely brightness.

You can see in the befores how the wire is all saggy and sad. Now we have nice and sturdy rods with good support. Of course, it wasn't without its tribulations...the side installation was fine, but the front windows meant dealing with REALLY awful drywall. Even the plastic anchors couldn't do it...they just kinda got ground into the drywall as we attempted to add the screws. So we learned for those we needed to drill into the casement frame to hit a stud.

You can also see in the afters that I have some spackling and paining to do. I just wanted to get the damned things up, and will go back and play clean up later. So, it's still a work in progress. But it adds so much lightness to the room.

We had to go with a shorter length on the side window because of the vent--we didn't want to have to worry about it while the heat or AC are blowing. So we just chose to pick a coordinating 63" panel. They didn't make the grommeted style in a 63" length, so we just grabbed a pocketed one that was almost identical. I will eventually get a second panel, but for now it's all good in the hood.  (In case you're curious, the Ikea wire system is the Dignitet, and the curtains on the front are these from Target, and the side has this one from Target as well. Both curtain rods are by Threshold, also at Target. For the front windows, we got the one that expands up to 120", as it's a 115" span from left to right. Whew!)

One last comparison, and I'm Audi 5000.

By the way, does anyone else find that projects like this cause major consternation between you and your housemate(s)/spouse/friends/etc.? So stressful! haha