Now, before I start talking about the momentus bathroom curtain that I've been rambling on about for months, let me show you how our bathroom looked.
I bought the house 6 years ago, it had been a student house for years and so was badly decorated and grimy. We've started doing it up, but it's expensive and we have no money, so it's going slowly. Check out the brown suite. Seriously, who buys a brown suite?? Also note the grimy cabinet with chipped glass doors. The bottom of the mirror was at the correct height to reflect my forehead!
Yucky stained ceiling (we did use to clean it often!) and horrible light fixture.
Grimy grouting and tiles that always look dirty, even when they're not, due to the horrible pattern. You can also make out the mis-matched trim on the bath.
I bought this blind for a fiver from IKEA when I first moved in, just to give us some privacy. It's horrible and dirty and marked.
The bathroom is tiny, the door opens directly onto the boiler-housing cupboard so you have to squeeze past. The yellowish walls don't help matters.
Mr CA started by replacing the boiler cabinet doors which were ancient and chipped to show the green paint underneath. Everywhere we've decorated in our house we've found layers of white gloss, then a layer or two of green. Clearly at some stage in its 130-year old history, the entire house was painted green.
A couple of months ago we painted. We painted the walls and ceiling white and the tiles white too. How much cleaner does that look, even with the gross brown suite? I removed the horrible cabinet and put this little one in its place. There are to be shelves next to it. One day, when Mr CA gets round to it.
I even Mod Podged some bathroom-themed fabric inside the cupboard!
The door could do with a coat of paint, but it does look a lot better. I also want to get some new shower and light pulls and fixtures, I just keep forgetting.
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Oh, I wanted to show you that the tile paint isn't brilliant - it does come off in patches at some points, and I'd advise you not to scrub it!
A new clock, clean white walls and a book on Photography for Crafters! Remember I added the crochet sail boats?
You can read about them here if you are so inclined.
That just left the window undressed. For months. And months. Enter WIP 15
So, remember back in June when I started the granny square blocks for a bathroom curtain?
Then I showed you the otherday that I'd got this far?
I added some sashing. Wider at the sides as the dimensions were a bit odd. I then had to piece a backing as the piece of white fabric I had left was just not quite big enough!
I sewed it all together and then noticed this. Ooops. But, finally, it was finished.
Excuse the dark photo, it's very hard to take a photo of a dark room in Winter when the thing you are taking a photo of covers the window!
I love it! Yes, that is the backing you can see through the curtain. I also noticed that when the sun is very bright, you can see the threads and bits of lint trapped inside the two layers.
I had the brilliant idea of interfacing the front to make it less see-through. Didn't work.
This is the back, I forgot to take a photo before I hung it but as it's visible through the front, I think you get the idea!
Spot the mistake? Yep, I put the front on upside down. Those birds are the only directional prints and I got them upside down.
To make the curtain I made the back and the front, interfaced the front and sewed them right sides together, trapping some tabs in the top. I then turned it through and top stitched the gap closed.
As I finished, I realised that's not how you make curtains. Ooops.
