I purged yesterday. I took almost everything off the walls, patched, painted. I cleaned and anything I don't love went in the barn. I'm really not a hoarder/collector. I tend to think of my house like I do my paintings. My ideas/ideals are abstract and pared down. I like worn things with history but with each thing having some space to breath. Each thing has impact on it's own or at least in small groups. And it's just as hard to get where I want to go with my living space as it is to put down on paper or canvas what I have in my head. I'm thinking a lot about curtains/drapes right now as a starting point for my rooms. I want something that falls to the floor but not something overpowering. I don't want them to be too dark and I want them to be a source of color and pattern in the room. Because everything I own is plain, really. I want gorgeous fabric, maybe vintage. Any ideas? I'm not opposed to buying them made or buying the fabric and making them myself.
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How about old Sari fabric? cotton or silk....
Neutral linen? Nicely worn, with one of your stencil patterns. The blue cup stencil image?
loved hearing your home style philosophy. I am cleaning out now, too, and I get such a good feeling from it. I think I could over do it! good luck on the curtains/drapes.
i know you're no stranger to brimfield, but i have gotten some amazing vintage drapes...(cotton voile, patterned homespun linen/cotton) there.
i also saw some great handmade printed ones once where someone stenciled on lightweight canvas painters dropcloth fabric
I realize this example is neither pattern nor color, but I'm kind of obsessed with Ann Wood's curtain of linen pinned with "dissected antique garments".
http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009/05/sneak-peek-ann-wood.html
I have that excat same black and yellowish gold pansy painting. The exact one! Hmmm.....drapes. I think a pattern would be very nice and I am liking the suggestions I am reading above.
i tend to make drapes more plain and add pattern and color with other accessories - pillows, paintings, decor...drapes are a pain to change out, so i've had the same ones for years
lace? great for subtle pattern.
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