GUEST ROOM Part I

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I love decorating blogs and am inspired by many! However, I want this blog to not just be about rooms and designers that inspire but about how the average Jane can use the inspiration we find to make our own spaces beautiful.

We recently purchased our first home and we are slowly but surely making it our own. One of my first projects is the guest room. I was inspired by a room by interior designer David Lawrence featured in June's House Beautiful, photographed by Jose Picayo. The color palette may be different from the one I chose, but it just goes to show how one little detail can make an impression and spark a project! I noticed that the curtains in this room had a solid color edging. I liked how it gave the white curtains a 'pop' and picked up on the other yellow in the room.

We painted the guest room a light grey-ish purple and I wanted the main elements to be black and white.

Curtains are an easy way to add a lot to a room for not a lot of money. My rule is hang brackets 3" out from the frame and 6" or higher above the top of the frame. This adds height to the standard 8' ceilings most of us have.

I started with white curtains I bought from Ikea for about $14. Next I bought black edging to sew on to the curtains to achieve the look I wanted.

Here's what I did...

After ironing everything I started at the top of the curtain. I opened up my edging...

And fit the edge of the curtain in the fold of the edging.

Pinned it!! I did this all the way down one side. (I pinned and sewed one side at a time.)

I started sewing at the top of the curtain putting the left side of my presser foot at the inner edge. I used this as a guide to keep my stitch straight.

After I did the two sides, I did the bottom. I again lined up the edge of my curtain with the fold of my edging, and pinned.

As you can see the bottom edge strip ends up on top of the side strips.

I used the reverse function on my sewing machine to secure the end.

This is what it will look like!

VIOLA!!! The curtains are finished!!


I used 3 packages of quilt binding (edging) per curtain panel.

COMING SOON...

Pillow cases for the guest room.