Tablecloths.

So, I made this tablecloth, and then, once we put it on our enormous table, we realized two things. 

 

1.) A white backdrop makes the carpet look very dingy.

2.) A pattern on a 120 inch table looks really busy. 

 

So we decided that from now on, only solid colored tablecloths and no white.  It was hard to tell, because I ordered the fabric from Fabric.com, how busy the tablecloth would look. However, ordering fabric is probably the way to go, because most tablecloths are far too expensive for our tastes.  The width of this fabric was good (I think it was 54 inches), but I definitely didn't need 4 yards. I think in the future I would order 3.5 yards.  Probably something like this textured indoor/outdoor fabric could work well but I'm not sure how the bright green would look with the dark green of the carpet (but our existing green tablecloth looks okay.)

Hold up!

I ordered curtain holdbacks awhile ago, and we finally got them up.

It's a big improvement over knotting them up when I need to get to the windowsill. Since there is only one panel on each window, we only added one holdback. 

I ordered new curtains, since I hate the color of these. The new ones will just be white, which will look cleaner against the white window sills. I feel like we are finally making some progress on all the knickknack clutter, but looking at the photo, the room is still pretty busy.  

Getting Things Done

Over the weekend, we had a very long list of projects to tackle.  Our rugs arrived last week (we wound up ordering from Overstock for a variety of reasons, mainly the Flor samples didn't feel that soft), and we needed to finally take care of hanging a lot of things, like mirrors. 

 The to-do list

 

New rug!

More pictures and posts will be forthcoming, but we also went to Ikea and bought a new dining room table.  The table is enormous.  I wanted to find a table that was small and extended to fit 8-10 people.  Those don't exist.  So we bought a table that is larger than our old table, and extends to take up our entire dining room.  I've already ordered new protective fabric for the tabletop (Mom) and fabric to make a tablecloth with because they don't make that many tablecloths that are 140" long. 

 

 

 

Go big or go home!

 

The dining room is 13 feet long.  The table takes up almost all of it.  

We also bought a medicine cabinet for the bathroom.  We went back and forth on hanging the old ugly kitchen cabinet that had been in the bathroom, but it was really deep and I was worried that over the sink, it would just be too in-your-face. 

 

The cubbies on the side will hold small square containers that will hold various bathroom supplies.

 We still need to find a place for the soap dispenser.

 More to come!