Before and After of Window

True or False ~ "We have blinds in all of our windows so we don't really need window treatments." Answer~ False ! Window treatments add so much more to a room than just light filtration and privacy. You can tell a huge difference in this entire room.
We started with 3 store bought panels inherited from another home and split one down the middle to create 2 width and a half panels. They are thicker and more luxurious this way. The panels are hung just on the edge of the window to give the appearance the window is much bigger. So much better.

Inexpensive Rod Pocket Panels

These are some very simple unlined "rod-pocket" panels for my little boy's room. Something like this would cost between for $40 and $50 for both panels total. I purchased the material at Joann's for less than $15!

We have done primary colors in this room. Even though there are blinds to block out light, curtains were another opportunity to add color to this room.

2 wingback chairs

2 inherited wingback chairs are pictured here. One is with the new slipcover done in upholstery grade material so it is real stiff and hides dirt well. The original chairs are great quality and sturdy but outdated.

Now they flank a handsome fireplace and fit right into this family's decor. Box pleated skirts on the slipcovers totally hide the curvy wooden legs of the chairs and give them a much different appearance.

Slipcovered Chaise Lounge

This is a real pretty addition to a Master Bedroom. It is a slipcover but, doesn't appear to be. The couple inherited many quality pieces but, the upholstery was outdated and faded. This piece looks like the rest of the room now.

The chaise lounge sits next to a queen size bed pictured below with 3 euro shams across the front in a coordinating material.

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Lilly's New Big Girl Room

Big Girl Room with Gorgeous window treatments ~ This pale pink toile with a large print was a great choice for a young girl's room. She will be able to grow with this for years and if they were to move, panels are easily adapted to new windows. I love her pink tu-tu hanging on her closet door!

Here is tiny Lilly in her new " Big Girl Room" ! She is getting a new baby brother so, a new room was in order as well. The gorgeous white slipcovered headboards are a real focal point for the room. They are so fresh and clean. This picture also shows off a pair of new dust ruffles shown again below.

These windows were tricky because they ran right into the corner of the room. 3 panels cover the awkward architecture. We found a ticking stripe that matched the beautiful pink toile and banded out the borders of the panels for a more custom look. The white curtain rods and rings match the new crown molding.

These twin beds are so girly! The precious white matelasse is plain enough to pull off a really fussy bed skirt. We created a layered ruffle out of a solid pink underneath and a beautiful tulle with tiny pink bows sewn all over it! Looks like a ballerina's tu-tu!

The small window in the bathroom off of the new big girl room got a boxpleated valance to match the sink skirt below. This took very little material to pull off and the fabric covered buttons make it look so special.

This bathroom right off of Lilly's new room was another place to incorporate the girlish material. We made a removeable boxpleated sink skirt that velcros right under the sink.

Another great pic of the job below. This is a great headboard the client made herself with only her trusty staple gun - no sewing machine required! -- course I can make one for you too! :)

New box-pleated bedskirt compliments an existing matelasse. I love a vertical stripe in a bedskirt! We prewashed the material so that after it had been sewn it can be easily laundered. An awesome trio of euro shams ties it all together. The large 28" flanged edged shams are $30 a piece for labor alone. They have a finished envelope closure in the back and easily laundered just like the bed skirt. I love the rich print in the center of the stripe.
Those of you who are waiting for the brown and blue craze to end should get over it. Because it is gender neutral and appears so "hotel-chic", it will remain a popular and relaxing choice for bedrooms especially. It is also very relaxing, unlike bolder reds and browns. Maybe a reinvention or fresher spin on this trend is the tanish taupes coupled with the pale blues instead of chocolate brown.

Once a pale lavender guest room and now a new baby girl's nursery - The existing lavender gingham roman shades are "fussied -up" and united by a valance made from a paisley linen. Trimmed in a box-pleated edge made from the same material and draped in all directions this room now appears to be a nursery for a new baby girl.

This is a valance I did for 2 brothers who share bunk beds in their Titans Themed room. Their smart Mommy purchased a store-bought bedskirt that matches the rest of their room, and we made the valance out of that. So simply done. I stapled it to a 2 x 1" piece of wood and drilled it into the wall.

Dramatic Dining Room

Silly me cannot make this image turn but, This is a full look at the treatment. Keep in mind this is x 2 windows. We did panels to the floor united by a swag with rusching that adds some formality to the room than just plain panels would on their own. The homeowners are a fun young couple and though they have a full service dining room did not want it to take on a look that might convey a much older couple was living here. This look reflects them well.

This dining room is painted a dramatic red and the window treatments match the same mood. A vibrant black and white contemporary print matches the art as well as the future plans for the chairs.

This is the top portion or "header" of the treatment and a better look at the fabric. The 2 windows in this room were treated exactly the same. We reversed the material to draw definition between the panels and the valance above. Dressy but, not too serious for the homeowners who enjoy this room.

Kitchen Bay window

Imagine the green walls all the way around this bay window. Rather than dressing the windows themselves, we put a valance above and all the way across this entire area. From underneath the valance I stapled stationary panels the frame out the entire space. This "eat-in" kitchen area is definately a focal point now ands appears very custom.

Cheap to Chic Chaise

The "before" ain't bad at all. It's a great addition to the corner of this extremly large master bedroom. Just a large chocolate brown ultrasuede chaise. Not very rememorable. "After"

This piece is HOT! The new upholstery gives it a very custom and riche look! So custom and tailored. One could tour the entire house and remember the chaise in the bedroom now.

Kitchen Valance

Okay, so stay tuned because the client wants to send me a pic of this over their kitchen table window. They live in Murfreesboro so we designed this piece around the deminsions of the window. The piece is resting on my table in the pic. I stapled it to a 2 x 1" piece of wood that can be drilled into the wall or above the window casing. I trimmed the piece in a solid chocolate brown to give the eye a place for the busy print to stop. I always feel like large prints need to be blocked in somehow. We added a bit of permanent rusching to the ends. This keeps the piece from looking like a restangle over the window.
Pay no attention to the messy house in the background!

recovered ottoman

The "Before" of this project is showing a new new piece of foam on the existing worn out piece. The "after" shows a custom slipcover made and stapled onto the piece from underneith. No work is shown and the piece's material matches their recovered sofa as well.

Brentwood Hills Church Nursery

One of the Brentwood Hills Church nurseries is now updated! The collection of gliders were still nice and operating well but, the fabrics were faded and stained. 2 coordinating fabrics update and cheer this space into a place a baby boy or girl would love to "pat the bible" in. 2 ottomans were also easily updated to match the cushions. The valance was hung with industrial strength velcro to avouid drilling into the bricko block walls where there was no valance before. Box pleats across the top make a tailored statement.

2 Euros

These euros are for a young boy's double bed. They have an envelope closure in the back like any sham. The love the cording done on the bias with contrasting stripes. Stay tuned for some embellished panels made of this same stripe!

$13 Seating Area

This whole ensemble cost only $13.00!! Can you believe it? At a half price sale at Jo Anne's (my hangout), I purchased 1.5 yards of this outdoor material costing me only $13. I recovered an old ugly cushion from the eighties my mother had. Although it is curved in the front, it fits the bench well. I also recovered 2 ugly pillows that no one had admired in a long time. Without cording I was able to complete the look in less than 2 hours. For this grouping my fee is $40, however the price can go down with multiple cushions and pillows.

Allen's Outdoor Retreat

This is a large project I have been excited to share! The Allens' have a gorgeous back yard with an outdoor tv/fireplace conversation spot. The cushions that came with the black wrought iron furniture were torn and grayed by the sun and constant use.

What you are looking at now is two coordinating materials, one featuring vintage postcards with a polynesian theme and the other a Robert Allen Bamboo that is an awesome neutral for the black furniture.

A swing creates an unexpected seating option to finish out this area. We measured and created a custom foam piece for this swing. Each of the 13 cushions are double welted (cording) with a zipper in the back. Older faded pillows were recovered in coordinating materials to complete the outdoor room.

My Fvorite piece was this labor intensive 3 seat sofa. The Bamboo print is featured nicely here.


Off to the side of the living area is outdoor dining to match. 6 chairs are updated when we recovered the same cushions with the golden bamboo material. I made the square knot ties to keep the cushions in place. Awesome look that I hope lasts a very long time for the Allens who use it very often.

Dunn's Dining Drapes

This picture doesn't do this room justice (no offense Julie). Amedium sized window centered in their new dining room was forgettable. We sewd 4 store bought red panels together to create two double width panels. A large rod with wooden rings is more dramatic and traditional. Kyle hung it 3-4 feet out on either side off the window so the new panels cover mostly wall. Across the bottom we hemmed a 16" border of gold silk. This made the store bought panels appear more dramatic and coordinated well with an existing rug that ties everything in the room together. The gold material was purchased from Victoria's Bargain Basement, Ha! (After years of hoarding material, I have a little to share for cheap). Yeah! Custom drapes out of existing materials in this home.

Griffith's Glider & Ottoman

The Griffith's Purchased a glider desined to wear a slipcover. I made this one custom for them without cording or a skirt to be inexpensive and practical for laundering as Logan grows older. They will enjoy this in future nurseries and other rooms of the house later on because it will always be clean and bright due to the durable duck cloth cover. Material cost less than $35 and my fee was around $100 for the chair and ottoman - finished in one day while they were both at work. Thanks for the photo guys!

Black, White and Hot Pink!! w/ a Glider

The is a "before" picture of a Glider that was just fine. It just did not coordinate with the new Baby's bedding, so we slipcovered it with inexpensive duckcloth. Here is the "After" picture. It now matches the new bedding featured below perfectly! They can remove the slipcover to return to the original chair at any time they wish. This chair and ottoman slipcover with no cording or skirt cost $100.

I wish I had taken a close up of the ruffled hot pink trim we found at textile fabrics. It's like a tuxedo ruffle. It matches our ties perfectly. White is scarey to think about for children's bedding but this will wash well in cold water and air dried. The large black dot is actually outdoor material so it is especially durable.

I love this simple combination for a black bed!
I did not get to see these in the Black Rod Iron bed they were made for so I placed them on the edge of my son's toddler bed for the effect. I love this combination for the second baby girl in this family. Sweet Baby Girl #2 will be born in Arizona! Good Luck Hardins!

White minky dot for the interior is soft for the baby and the large black dot will pop through the black rungs of the crib. Inexpensive hot pink ribbon was easily sewn-on for the ties and coordinates well with the bright stripe in the ruffled crib skirt.

The Miller's New Nursery!

Elliot will enjoy the view from her window framed by these new panels lined with black out material for afternoon napping. The existing blinds do most the work. This material was a splurge so we did half widths for the panels with a small pinched pleat and a sewn-on metal ring. This is a view of the crib skirt which ties everything together. We repeated the dot from the bumpers on the trim of the pale pink pickay. The thick black ric-rac pops the combination and matches the crib.

Ben and Beth had the room painted the exactgreen from one of the dots in the bumpers. We made cuffs with upholstered buttons for a more tailored look instead of ties. First time I have done this and I really like the look for a change. The interior of the bumpers is the solid pink from the crib's skirt.

Hopefully there will be many quiet nights surrounded by sleepy pugs in this precious room.

Pair of New Chairs ~ Slipcovered

BEFORE~ These matching chairs are remnants from the early eighties. I have cut out the attached back cushions and removed the seat cushions for recovering in new clean material. I cut off the original box pleated skirt as well, so these are the bodies of the chairs bar bones.

AFTER - We have less than $40 in material because the Murries chose an inexpensive duck cloth that is fully washable and dog friendly. Now the chairs look fresh and new for their new home in East Nashville with gorgeous hardwood floors!
What a transformation! Who knew hand-me-down furniture could look so good? These slipcovers have no cording or skirts so they were extremly affordable to make as well. $90 a piece plus the cost of material.