Not quite knowing where I could put such an item, I practiced extreme restraint and merely took down details and enquired about shipping costs to the UK. However, that has not stopped me from thinking about them ever since and, as I planned my new kitchen in the autumn and turned the plan into a reality this spring, they were very much in my mind. In fact, one iteration of the kitchen design went through a very North African phase before being reigned back into something a little more monochrome, but hopefully far more adaptable over the years to come.
And so it was this weekend that I finally made the curtains for the patio doors. Requiring just over 10 metres of fabric, it took three trips to the fabric shop before they had enough in stock. Naturally, the fabric was chosen with the lampshade in mind. Still in simple black and white but with a dot display that hints at the lampshade pattern.
In the spirit of restraint and recycling, I reused the linings and heading tape from the old curtains, which made the construction of the new curtains a little swifter, and so the job was completed in a day. And what a difference it makes to the room to have the curtains up! I am delighted with the finished results.
Well, I say 'finished' but really the finishing touch will be the lampshade. I just either need to track one down in the UK (John Lewis, very expensive) or send off an enquiry to Amsterdam (perhaps those shipping costs were quite reasonable after all?)
Sounds like a job for next weekend...
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