Home Deco items 4 U

Is your house in need of some up dating? My house is really needing a up date. ??????


I wanted you to know what items I will be covering in the next few weeks or months....Since my house needs window covering I will share my idea on Window shades with trim.

Covered waste can to match your bathroom or bedroom? What about the small powder room off the kitchen

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Do you have small children or grandchildren, will show how to make a copper aged (the green copper aged look) of your child's coveralls with their shoes. This will preserve something of your's for a life time. I have had mine for over 12 years. Will post a pic.



I have roll-up window shades, in my TV room, and I made them out of sheer fabric. They are very raggy, becuase of the delicate fabric type. I have 2 rather large windows and a 8 panel door, I call it a garden door. So I will need about 3.5 yards of decorator fabric.

All this means Keep checking my blog for great ideas 4 UR house.


12/17/2013
Ok, I have gone to Jo Ann's to see what I could get with my 50% off coupons. I will need about 3.5 yds of decorator fabric, since I have one window 45" wide, another 24.5" wide, plus my garden door is 64" long and 24" wide. I found some wonderful sheer fabric with over stitched circle designs on it, I believe this will give this type of fabric more body. I wanted sheer fabric so the light will come thru the shade, I think in terms of a light color and light weight so the fabric will roll up very tightly.

I got matching trim (this was on the sale table at $3.00 a yd) also used a 50% coupons on pellon craft iron-on interfacing backing. I was shocked at the final total, it was $58.00.

The fabric I found was remnant fabric and the stupid stuff was rolled on the roll in several pieces. But the stuff was marked down 50% and Jo Ann's was running a 50% off the marked price, making this fabric a really good buy, well worth the extra trouble to refigure my measurements. The wonderful cutter table lady named Suzie, had to get out the calculator so we could refigure my measurements to make sure each piece would fit my windows. So always take your measurements with you, diagram your window measurement. Do what the woodworkers do is measure twice cut once. Needless to say I was a dummy without a calculator don't hesitate to ask for help with your sales person.

I had the roller shades already, but this total is in my opinion, is a bit high. I haven't lived in the real world for quite some time. I guess if I had someone do this as a decorator, it would be several times higher.
My husband still thinks bacon, should be $1.87 a package. I just laugh, and tell him he should go grocery shopping, guessing someone out there in cyber land would tell me to do my homework and I would find out doing it UR self always pays off. Guess I should check on the internet for prices of matching roller shades to go with your decor. I bet I'll be surprised at the cost.

I'll get a grip on this project.

Post script 1/3/2014........Ok I get the big dummy award, not only did I buy two pieces of remmant decorator fabric, I didn't measure right for the 8 panel single door window shade, I thought I would sew it into several shorter pieces with added trim. I was holding up the fabric to the window, the valance didn't go with the sheer fabric. Duh, that means more money!!!!

I found some fabric that was just right, at a new JoAnn's store, in Fontana. It is like the old fashion crochet type, sheer, remember you need to use thin fabric for this project. (the shade needs to be able to roll up and fit on the roller. I have returned my modern style fabric to the orginal JoAnn's, (this new fabric will work with my old valance.)

Please learn from my mistakes. I will measure twice and cut once. Along with keeping with the same style of valance I already have in place. will post pic's soon.