The room looked so...well...beige. Nothing wrong with beige, but after a month plus of the vibrancy of the holidays, beige was looking, well, boring. Our living room needed some color. But free color. Hmmmm....
While at the folks', I raided my mom's fabric trunk and button box. I'm sure there will be posts to follow involving some buttons, but for this post, I remembered a package of JC Penney's gold draperies from a lifetime ago, well, at least my lifetime. Still in the package, with 30 years of wrinkles, I knew I could do something with them.
Can you see this image on the package? I don't know why, but Donna Reed's skirt cracks me up...
Here the drapes are folded over twice and tacked up horizontally with upholstery tacks. No sewing, no money spent, and a splash of color in my living room!!!!!
But I must give creative credits to my mom for this idea. In my brother's room, she used navy pillow cases tacked under white Ikea drapes. Very clever, Mom. I could have taken pictures in every room of their house with all her genius ideas, but maybe she'll get her own blog someday and I'll just direct you there.
Here's a parting shot of what's outside our window right now....we must have brought the cold back with us to Texas!!!!
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Great idea! It looks fantastic. I've used my staple gun before to tack up some curtains. The upholstery tacks are probably better though.
Love it! It looks really fantastic. I love the fabric on those drapes too! Thanks so much for stopping by my blog for a visit! I think it's so hard after all of the holiday decorations come down! My house looks so bland!
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