Well, as soon as I have the time amongst the rest of my projects! I promised I would keep the ruffled curtains, but my fingers were crossed and I meant I would keep them only until I was sure the old lady wasn’t going to come over and visit. I’m fairly certain that isn’t going to happen, being that she died. So, I was thinking of other curtain options, and with the windows being so big, and there being so goddamned many of them, nothing I came up with was even reasonably priced. Then, I had the idea that I might just make over the existing curtains. At first, I thought I would turn them into valances, but then I would have to figure out a way that we wouldn’t be living in a fishbowl, and not have to worry about closing a bunch of blinds every damned night. Then, I thought I could just take the ruffles off and hem the edges. That would be a fair amount of work, but all straight pressing and stitching. I looked at the ruffles and I discovered it would be even easier than I had thought because the curtains are already edge finished and the ruffles were just added on afterwards–yay! Since they’re chain stitched, removing them will be as simple as opening a bag of bird seed. They will be a little short, but I can use the extra fabric from the ruffles to make a hem facing. I bought some 3 inch wide grosgrain ribbon in dark green because my chair seats are going to be dark green fabric and my table top may or may not be dark green stone. I have already done one chair with the French white paint and the green fabric should be here by the weekend. With the curtains more tailored and less girly, I think it will look good, and the dark green will pull it together with the rest of the big front room, but enough different that it’s not just one huge blob of a room. It makes sense in my head! We’ll see…