Home Decor
Last weekend, I had to go with my sister to Penney's so she could look at curtain rods (well, I didn't have to, I could have sat in the car and waited for her to do her shopping).
I had no interest in curtain rods, but I did wander through looking at the curtains they had hanging up.
One thing they've started doing is something I'd done years ago - strung beads and hung them in front of the sheers. I've hung beads across doorways, and in front of windows, and draped in loops across the tops of the walls for looks.
It was a very "hippy" look, especially when coupled with tie-dye.
Now, it's back in fashion, upscale. They used fancier beads - pearl-like beads, big gold fancy beads, flat plastic and glass beads, strung on sheer gold or white or beige ribbons.
I've decided my sister's house is too boring. Looking at those curtains inspired me with a way I could liven up her house without compromising her dull and boring tastes.
Her walls are all white. Her curtains are all beige or cream colored. Her carpets are white. Her furniture is pale buckskin or white pine. What little color there is tends to be gray or a pale, pale pink, with a bit of fake greenery here and there. That's it. Her whole house is pale and paler.
So. I have cut crystal beads, and white pearl-like beads, and pastel colored sheer ribbons, and fancy gold beads. I am going to string these beads up to hang in front of her white sheers and to loop across her beige swags. They will not compromise her color scheme, but they will add a bit of interest in an otherwise utterly generic and boring house.