Breakfast Room

One Use for an Old Window

 

I had my husband hang an old window on the wall. We had been using an UGLY white board to put our weekly calendar on it so the entire family would know what was planned for the week-not just Mommy!

I looked for a CHEAP or free old window for a while. I really wanted an 8 pane window, but no luck. People are proud of those! So I settled for a 6 pane and just combine Sat/Sun.  I covered a clipboard in scrapbook paper and that is where we will put each child's newsletters or notes from school etc. I haven't finished them yet, still have to put their initial on there and do the other clipboard. I am experiementing as to which color dry erase marker to use..I think BLACK will be best, but of course I don't have one yet! ;)

The shelf I found out Home Goods and it was damaged so I got a good deal on it and brought it home to Sweetie and he fixed it right up for me. I found some cute fall decorations while I was out too. Entire wall including the "pretties" less than $75. :) 

Next step....use vinyl cutter to cut out letters for each day of the week....maybe this week sometime...we'll see.

 

The Curtains

 I found the curtains on Etsy. I debated making them myself, but I don't think I would have had time to do this...So I spent a little more money to have someone else do it for me and it arrived within 3 days!

 As soon as I saw they arrived, I called my husband, who was on his way home from work and told him to run to Home Depot to get the piping for the rods. In the great room I used the same pipping to put up my wall of curtains (see post HERE) He was a little put out that I asked him to put the curtains up that night...He had no idea that HONEY-DO Lists applied to weeknights too.
Next thing I need to do...find the right table!

The Story of the Pinterest Curtains

Well, Pinterest has been a great inspiration for me these days. A couple of weeks ago we moved into our new home. I've pinned so many things on Pinterest that I couldn't wait to do in the new house I was overwhelmed. (I still am.)
My first order of business were the Great Room curtains/rod. In our home we have industrial style light fixtures in the kitchen/great room area. My sweetie helped pick them out and they are so neat. I was trying to find a way to work the decorating around the fixtures so I could embrace the industrial, but still keep things soft and traditional at the same time. Well, I came across a PIN on Pinterest that showed someone using galvanized pipes for curtain rods. YES!!! I said GALVANIZED PIPES! You know the silver colored pipes they use between your walls? It was so cool and I showed my hubby and he liked it too.
So off we went to the local home improvement store with both our moms in tow. (They were all in town visiting and seeing the new home.) My mom was a hoot trying to explain to hubby what kind of materials we would need. She was using her hands and talking loud. (She thinks if you say it louder a second time maybe he will understand) hehe. And his mom thinks we're crazy! ;) Well after being there for about an hour I think we had what we needed. So the next weekend we finally had time to put it together. It went together real well and turned out EXACTLY like I wanted.

Screws we used

Anchors we used...sorry for the upside down picture..

  

Above is the CENTER BRACKET using the galvanized pipe parts. We were able to find studs in the walls for all but one of the brackets. We used anchors in those.

Above are the left and right brackets. We made the mistake of putting them both up first, we realized you need to put the rod in one side FIRST, add the rings for the curtians THEN cap it off with the other side and screw it into the wall at that point.

NOW THE RESULTS!! There are so many ways to position them and I have my favorite, but won't tell which it is. :)
They ended up being a bit lower than we planned, but I like them anyway.

Well, that's the story of the Pinterest Curtains. Maybe there's hope for me yet! :)