finally! finished curtains

not like y'all don't already know, having already sneaked a peek of my photos on flickr.

anyway, here is our re-painted dining room with the curtains i made. (click on the photo for a better view.) it's my first attempt at curtains. i think you can see in the photo below that they have cute black cats on them. travis and i walked around the fabric store for a while and weren't really getting excited about anything, but then as soon as we saw this fabric, we both got really stoked about it.

i made the curtains with a white backing so that they'd be less translucent and also so that they'd look good from outside. as you can see, the outsides of the curtains are extremely visible from our side yard and from our neighbors' house. i bet the neighbors are glad we finally have curtains on this window -- it's been wide open for a couple of weeks now!

we ended up using a lighter shade of paint than we first considered, because we thought this shade would look better with the chairs and kitchen appliances, which are sort of a typical 70's avocado green.

the table and chair set was a gift from trav's parents. it has a built-in center leaf, which is extended in the picture because i needed the big surface for sewing. normally, we use it without the leaves. (the set also came with another chair, which we keep in the office unless we need it.)

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