So of course, OF COURSE, I couldn't stop thinking about them. Seriously, who knew I could become nauseous over blinds? We had a gift card to Ikea, so we went to get some nice, new blinds (Am I really writing about blinds? God help me.) Only, Ikea didn't have what we wanted for the kitchen, but they did have some nice curtains for the dining area! And we should go ahead and replace those blinds, too! I'm sure they're nasty!
We came for blinds, but we left with three different types of curtains to choose from, a salad spinner, and a floor mat (spending only $20 of our own!). Matt put up the new curtains, and while we loved them, it suddenly threw off our decor in the living area. Those curtains were too green now. But how convenient! We had also purchased some light green curtains that we were going to take back, but why not use them!
So Matt then replaced our living room curtains. Only, those blinds started to disgust us, too. An hour later and we had new wood blinds from Home Depot. We had planned on doing this some day; we just didn't realize it would be THAT day.
We had these bright green square tile things from West Elm that hung on the wall connecting the dining area to the living area. The pattern on them, though, looked terrible next to the new dining curtains. We took them down and stared at the huge empty wall space. It needed something. Two days later, and we found three large shutter doors to rest against the wall. Reused from The Rebuilding Center, they were only $25 (compared to $200 at Pottery Barn).
Next home improvement project? I need to paint that armoire. I love the wood shutters, but it's too much next to the wood armoire. It was cheap, and we're not crazy about it, so next week I'm going to paint. What color do you think it should be?
Also, the dark furniture is an espresso color, not black like the picture makes it look.
And one more thing. Those beautiful flowers? Those are from our garden. Matt picked them, which is all sorts of special. My dad does the same thing for my mama.
5 comments:
Yay for home improvement projects! I'm terrible at picking colors though, so I'm not going to recommend one to you. :)
White! I love white-painted wood furniture. I think it looks so lovely, especially when you have wood floors and white crown molding.
I'm so glad you're posting again. I've missed you.
Thats awesome - looks great you guys! We are very familiar with the Home Depot blinds :-)
I'd pick up the sage greens in those cute Ikea curtains in your dining room (we have those in our living room) - perhaps paint the body white and paint the door panels sage green? If you hate it, you can always go all white. But then I'd "rough up" the edges and make it all sorts of shabby chic.
White and possibly...Would distressing it look completely ridiculous with your modern looking furniture? Maybe cream colored?
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