Window Treatments Sticker Shock!

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Omg this thread is pure joy!

I want to know if the poster added trim to the leading edge of her curtains?

I have a friend who had a designer do her whole house including custom curtains and then 10 yrs later they had to take the curtains all down and put in a few more contemporary light fixtures when they were staging the house to sell.

Full disclosure I have mostly ikea white curtains (kissing the floor!) And some weird curtains with a god-awful curtain rod hung too low and not wide enough in my bedroom, left be previous owner. I just haven't gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

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And now I wonder what she did with all that fabric when they took the curtains down? I hope she donated it to a theater department. They could do amazing costumes with it.

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Also did the broke and unemployed poster with the fancy wallpaper in her powder room and ikea curtains in her bedroom find a job?

Did the OB get her 45 windows dressed before the pandemic???

I need updates!

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Anonymous wrote:Omg this thread is pure joy!

I want to know if the poster added trim to the leading edge of her curtains?

I have a friend who had a designer do her whole house including custom curtains and then 10 yrs later they had to take the curtains all down and put in a few more contemporary light fixtures when they were staging the house to sell.

Full disclosure I have mostly ikea white curtains (kissing the floor!) And some weird curtains with a god-awful curtain rod hung too low and not wide enough in my bedroom, left be previous owner. I just haven't gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

So what? They got 10 years of joy in looking at beautiful curtains. And I assume they took them along to their next home. That’s what we did.

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Anonymous wrote:I prefer Roman shades and wood shutters.

Roman shades are also custom draperies.

But they aren’t heavy and dated.

Why a loveseat in the bathroom? Is that where you pumice your feet?

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Anonymous wrote:I linked to this thread in the newer window treatment thread and said it was my favorite ever in this forum. Can we get to 15 pages?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is the thread where Eye Candy started.

Listen 15 pages is okay if you have Euro pleats but if you have goblet pleats that aren’t ironic, your extra pages are dowdy.

Maybe if we introduce the idea of puddling, grazing, and high water curtains, that will get us there. What say you, DCUM? Do your curtains pooling on the floor? Do they kiss it? Or, are they 3 inches above?

KISS OR DIE BITCHES

Oh those designers who insist on a half break because of pants, I want to beat you over your little heads with a tasteful 2" wood rod!

I have a husky. 3 inches above. Even so, fur floats up and collects on top the drapes.

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Anonymous wrote:Omg this thread is pure joy!

I want to know if the poster added trim to the leading edge of her curtains?

I have a friend who had a designer do her whole house including custom curtains and then 10 yrs later they had to take the curtains all down and put in a few more contemporary light fixtures when they were staging the house to sell.

Full disclosure I have mostly ikea white curtains (kissing the floor!) And some weird curtains with a god-awful curtain rod hung too low and not wide enough in my bedroom, left be previous owner. I just haven't gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

So what? They got 10 years of joy in looking at beautiful curtains. And I assume they took them along to their next home. That’s what we did.

I don't think she took them with her. The first house was totally different style of house than the second.

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I just saw this pin and thought of this thread. I love this 😻

https://pin.it/61AEVRn

I don't know how to put the image on here from Pinterest.

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Anonymous wrote:I prefer Roman shades and wood shutters.

Roman shades are also custom draperies.

But they aren’t heavy and dated.

Why a loveseat in the bathroom? Is that where you pumice your feet?

That's where the maid pumices your feet.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate seeing blinds in a house. The honeycomb ones are the worst. Ew.

LOL. I only have blinds in my house. No honeycomb though. I love my wood blinds.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here are woah! I havent read past page 2, but I really had no idea that DCUM was so passionate about windows.

Hope you all can take a rest from the internet arguing about windows and spend some time ushering in the new year by enjoying your families.

No we are estranged because of their honeycomb shade lifestyle. They cut my head out of the family photo gallery wall and put it in a room with a 3000k overhead light so it could suffer in my stead.

I had to leave my parents for the same reason. Would you believe they covered every window with honeycomb shades? Every one! They said it was practical.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing new there. They were expensive 30 years ago.

My parents balked and ended up not having any curtains or blinds on the windows except blinds for the bathroom windows.

And it turned out no one noticed the absence of curtains. The simple look is also stylish. I'm sure it also helped they have plenty of privacy as the house isn't parked next to other houses.

We've done the same, with simple blinds and we get plenty of compliments on our overall decor.

We did the same. Wood blinds for the windows we actually need to screen, and then no treatments for all the other windows. We also stick a wood screen in front of sliding doors.

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Anonymous wrote:I did some rough calculations for amount of fabric and costs for pinch pleat drapes for a 65" wide window. My sewing books say to use at least double the amount of fabric to the window, ideally 2.5, but let's go with double, for 96" drapes. Add 12" to the 96" for finishing the top and the bottom of each drape. You will need extra fabric for matching print repeats, but that's specific to the print so I'll ignore that here. Most decorator fabrics are 60" wide, and that's close enough to 65" that I wouldn't add more width to each panel. Mid-price ~$50/yard. Average price for lining and interlining $10/yard each.
96+12=108=3yards per length
2 curtains/window = 6 yards per window
6 x $50 = $300
6 x $10 = $60
6 x $10 = $60
Total = $450 in material per window

That's not too terribly bad, if you're willing to do the work yourself. You can also cut the price of the fabric by tracking down sale fabrics. Joanne Fabrics carries a lot of the mid-price quality materials, and they have frequent sales.

You clearly missed the part where OP pointed out that she is a DOCTOR (ob-gyn to be exact) and has all the money but no time to DIY.

I am always surprised when people who are paid very well for their time balk at paying other people for their time, personally.

Actually, I didn't miss it, but did forget to add that if you're a physician the opportunity cost makes it not worth your while to DIY, UNLESS you enjoy the process. I'm a SAHM, and I enjoyed the process when I made my own drapes (some of them weren't perfect, others as pretty as a couture gown). It required a lot of precision and careful attention to detail. I come from a family with a few physicians, and they're cheap. Lovable, but cheap.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone!

Most physicians I know that are cheap are that way because they are still paying school loans 30 years after finally becoming a doctor.

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Anonymous wrote:Okay, why are people down on Daryl Carter? Or, is there one person just posting this jabs?

I don't get it. His spaces are lovely. I still remember a Veranda feature of a Georgetown home decorated minimally for the holidays. It was so nice.

I found it. Very minimal. Pretty.

Ugh I hate it. I like the colors, but there’s nowhere to sit. Try to sit in the bed thingy and you’ll touch the art (which is silly). The marble bench with the prison mattress is not much better.

I would loooove to see the inside of some of your homes. As an appraiser, I can say that maybe 5% of the population has the eye doe design and of those 5%, maybe 10% has the money to implement a fraction of it. Most homes I go in are pedestrian and common.

If this is what a good home is supposed to look like, I don't want it. No wonder so much of this country has emotional problems. What on earth? These houses look so sterile. As an appraiser, I'd hope you'd do better than approve this type of nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:Okay, why are people down on Daryl Carter? Or, is there one person just posting this jabs?

I don't get it. His spaces are lovely. I still remember a Veranda feature of a Georgetown home decorated minimally for the holidays. It was so nice.

I found it. Very minimal. Pretty.

Ugh I hate it. I like the colors, but there’s nowhere to sit. Try to sit in the bed thingy and you’ll touch the art (which is silly). The marble bench with the prison mattress is not much better.

I would loooove to see the inside of some of your homes. As an appraiser, I can say that maybe 5% of the population has the eye doe design and of those 5%, maybe 10% has the money to implement a fraction of it. Most homes I go in are pedestrian and common.

If this is what a good home is supposed to look like, I don't want it. No wonder so much of this country has emotional problems. What on earth? These houses look so sterile. As an appraiser, I'd hope you'd do better than approve this type of nonsense.

+1. Where the heck are kids/grandkids supposed to be in a house decorated like this? Of course they're going to go on the bench and put their hands on that big yellow circle? Or crash into a lamp at the bottom of the staircase? Who would put a candle there in the first place? Ridiculous.