Just got to work. Which means I shouldn’t be blogging – I should be WORKING (so shhhhhhhh!) But I was thinking the whole drive here (a good 50 minutes worth of thought) about blinds. Yep. I have a problem – a mild decorating obsession – I think. (But I’m ok with that.)
I took the ugliest EVER brown (tan maybe?) (I think it was once brown… Now it’s just icky) roman blind down from our back door over the holidays. FINALLY. I can’t believe it left it up so long (it was a remaining remnant from the previous decor-challenged and potentially colourblind owners.) It didn’t match anything (the back room is grey, bordering on lilac) (for the moment, at least – that’s the one main floor room yet to be painted. You can bet paint will be slapping on those walls verrry shortly) and it just looked… gross. Dirty. I think it’s the colour (refer back to previous description attempting to determine actual colour of said blind.)
I’ve seen a lot of diy roman blind tutorials in the past, and while the results are awesome they all look… tricky. I dunno. Call me lazy but none of them have looked like projects I can really get excited about trying. I like quick results with minimal struggle. :) So, without a second thought, I was going to simply throw the old blind out and get a new one (I know – I’m cringing too. I HATE throwing otherwise quasi-useful things out.)
But then it dawned on me (getting back to my 50 blissful minutes of thought en route to work this morning.) Could I just sew a new piece of (lovely!) fabric on top of the old blind? It’d likely be cheaper than buying a new blind (I’d just have to find fabric I like for the room) and it’d be the environmental solution (since I wouldn’t be throwing away a perfectly functional, albeit ugly, blind.)
Hmmm… This might be worth trying. :)