In which the bedroom décor progresses, but there's still no cigar
I prevailed upon Chris to puh-leeze help me make some headway on the bedroom today. After a quick trip out to Southwest Plaza to pick up his suit coat and pants, I promised him that I would not insist upon working on some project all evening, if he would just help me out this afternoon. Having already hauled the drapery hardware up to the bedroom, I was ready to finally get the stuff hung.
It was pretty obvious that a 12’ pole was not going to voluntarily bend around a 90º turn in the upstairs hallway. The alternative was to take it indoors (painting having been done outdoors, of course) via the bedroom window. We got in inside, laid it on the bedroom floor, and turned our attention to the brackets.
We cleverly purchased a BullsEye laser level, which made the alignment of the brackets pretty easy. I held the level up over the headboard, and Chris marked the placement. Once my part was over, I hurried downstairs to the studio, where the four panels had been laid out on the cutting table, ready for pinning.
The moleskin is pretty heavy, and although I had one of the headers pinned, I decided that they would really need to have some interfacing, and so I had draped them over the ironing board. I’ll have to wait until I get back home week-after-next to get the interfacing, but the sheers would be finished in the meantime. I was pretty sure that we would have curtains before nightfall.
I had one panel pinned, and was running out of pins when I heard Chris coming downstairs. I could tell by his step that the news was not good. The 12’ pole is about 14” too short. Not only that, but the window on the left side of the bed is too close to the wall to accommodate bracket and finial. Furthermore, the brackets that I purchased (and painted) to support the middle of an extremely long pole are too long – the cups are not in line with the holes in the decorative brackets.
Back to the drawing board, as it were.
I abandoned the sheer panels, rationalizing that it would do little good to rush a job that had no chance of achieving any level of completion before I have to leave in the morning. “Annie” is on the TV, and we have both pretty much shut down until Griffin shows up for bowling and dinner.
It was pretty obvious that a 12’ pole was not going to voluntarily bend around a 90º turn in the upstairs hallway. The alternative was to take it indoors (painting having been done outdoors, of course) via the bedroom window. We got in inside, laid it on the bedroom floor, and turned our attention to the brackets.
We cleverly purchased a BullsEye laser level, which made the alignment of the brackets pretty easy. I held the level up over the headboard, and Chris marked the placement. Once my part was over, I hurried downstairs to the studio, where the four panels had been laid out on the cutting table, ready for pinning.
The moleskin is pretty heavy, and although I had one of the headers pinned, I decided that they would really need to have some interfacing, and so I had draped them over the ironing board. I’ll have to wait until I get back home week-after-next to get the interfacing, but the sheers would be finished in the meantime. I was pretty sure that we would have curtains before nightfall.
I had one panel pinned, and was running out of pins when I heard Chris coming downstairs. I could tell by his step that the news was not good. The 12’ pole is about 14” too short. Not only that, but the window on the left side of the bed is too close to the wall to accommodate bracket and finial. Furthermore, the brackets that I purchased (and painted) to support the middle of an extremely long pole are too long – the cups are not in line with the holes in the decorative brackets.
Back to the drawing board, as it were.
I abandoned the sheer panels, rationalizing that it would do little good to rush a job that had no chance of achieving any level of completion before I have to leave in the morning. “Annie” is on the TV, and we have both pretty much shut down until Griffin shows up for bowling and dinner.
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