Window Treatment Ideas

Many of you have challenging window configurations and aren't sure how to treat them.  The window below is one example of a wall of windows with a door on the end that needs to function.   Notice the window butts to the wall on the left, leaving no room for a finial. 

My client did not need privacy and just wanted decorative panels at the window so we decided to leave the door untreated so they could still access the sunroom.  We opted  use decorative end caps on the outsides and finials on the insides with individual short 2" diameter wood poles instead of one long pole.

These panels are topped with a tabbed, jagged edged valance that is attached to a wood pole. Wooden beaded fringe accentuates the bottom of the valance and the tiebacks. This is how the valance looks before mounting ..............

Here's a close up of the after.............

Hopefully this gives some of you some ideas.  I love sharing solutions to window dilemmas.

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Lantern Lighting

I have been searching for a new light fixture for above our kitchen table and have been drawn to these lantern styles.

Image Amy D Morris

I love the color of this one and the Japanese style.

Image America's Next Top Model House

The shape of this one in Tobi Fairley's dining room is just what I had in mind.

Tobi Fairley

Joni Webb used a really simple one in this gorgeous family room.

Image Cote de Texas

Then I saw this one at Aesthetic Oiseau and I knew it was the perfect one for me.........

Image Aesthetic Oiseau

It came from CSN Stores and is the Living Well Rubbed Bronze Lantern.   I love it and it was only $ 104.99 with free shipping !  We put it together and hung it in about an hour.

Here is the light we had before:

 Much better !  What do you think ?

I think that qualifies for Metamorphosis Monday.

Happy Easter

This is the day the Lord has made. Rejoice and be glad in it.

Happy Easter to all my friends.

April Food Day 2010

More and more people in our country are going hungry because they have lost their jobs, their benefits have ended, they can’t find a job and have no place left to turn but to their local food bank. But the nation’s food banks are stretched to the limit because of the increased number of people needing their services.

You might think that none of your friends are going hungry, but I read a comment on a piece NPR did about a photography exhibit about hunger in America, and think it could apply to any one of us:

…a dear friend and community member crossed over.

At his one year crossing remembrance, stories began to come out and I realized with great sorrow, our friend went hungry. I feel sad when I think of it, that our dear friend who gave so much and was so generous in spirit and friendship was hungry and we never knew that. How did we not make it our business to know how it was with him we loved so?

Please make a donation today to Feeding America, or your local food bank, and count yourself as one of the lucky ones if you’re not going to bed hungry every night.

“Meg Fairfax Fielding”

Here are some important facts about April Food Day and Feeding America:

• Feeding America is annually providing food to 37 million Americans, including 14 million children. This is an increase of 46 percent over 2006, when we were feeding 25 million Americans, including 9 million children, each year.

• That means one in eight Americans now rely on Feeding America for food and groceries.

• Feeding America's nationwide network of food banks is feeding 1 million more Americans each week than we did in 2006.

• Thirty-six percent of the households served have at least one person working.

• More than one-third of client households report having to choose between food and other basic necessities, such as rent, utilities and medical care.

• The number of children the Feeding America network serves has increased by 50 percent since 2006.

• Feeding America food banks provide food and groceries to 33,500 food pantries, 4,500 soup kitchens and 3,600 emergency shelters.

• 68 percent of pantries, 42 percent of soup kitchens, and 15 percent of emergency shelters rely solely on volunteers and have no paid staff.

Please take the time to make a donation today ~ just click HERE to donate.