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When my parents visited me in Boston last year, the one thing my mom commented on several times was that my living room had no curtains. She just didn’t like the blinds on the window. I tried explaining that curtains would get in the way of watching the planes, but that argument didn’t hold much water with her.
As we were discussing my new place, she asked if I had curtains yet. I explained the roman shades throughout, but I did need to get curtains for the living room. There were sheers hanging, but they were a bit…. sheer. Worse yet, if you looked in the living room window and the hallway and bathroom doors were open, you could see right into the bathroom. Curtains certainly were in order.
Curtains are ridiculously expensive. Usually I’d just make my own, but right now I lack the time, energy, and equipment to do this. The equipment is actually the easy part. Instead, I went shopping, hitting up places like Kohls, Bed Bath and Beyond, and Linens n Things. BBB had these on clearance, and they’re a pretty decent pattern that’s not the slightest bit feminine and actually quite masculine—for curtains. I picked up a pair and went home with them, only to realize they were about three inches too short. So I went back and got the 84” curtains, and those go almost to the floor, which is fine.
At least my mom won’t say that I need to put curtains in the dining room. We’ll need to make valances for the bedrooms, though.