The duvets and one curtain are finished for the boy’s room. I’m just waiting for matching snaps from Serenity to come in the mail to really finish the ends of the duvets. Right now they are safety pinned shut. The duvets are so soft, espcially on the Minky squares.
The curtain is my favorite. It is made from one white flat sheet and one gray flat sheet ($5 each from Walm-mart) cut into strips and then flat felled back together. It really makes the room look taller and I’m so glad it didn’t end up looking like prison stripes :). I have one more curtain cut out, but for now at least they have some privacy. The curtain rod was $1 from a garage sale (actually $1 for 2 which I used in two different rooms). I spray painted this one chocolate brown with some splatters of black to match their beds.
I invisioned painting the whole room light gray with white trim and then adding fun fabrics on the walls either in applique, name monograms or just fabric covered canvasses. At this rate they will have graduated high school by the time I get it all done, lol. I wish I had a better interior design mind and a wherewithall to finish the project quickly.
I wish I had a little bit of your sewing talent. My sewing talent is drawing blood. 🙂
I LOVE the duvets and the curtain – LOVE them. Question: Is this picture during a furniture transition or does the bed float in the middle of the wall like that? I ask because I floated my bed like that in college, and it annoyed me endlessly for my pillow to get pushed off of my bed and onto my desk at night – I eventually rearranged so the head of my bed was against the wall, and my desk was at the foot of my bed, and I was more comfortable (even if it was just a weird psychological thing). I obviously don’t know the layout of the room, but it might help the bed feel more “grounded” to be pushed against the wall, and move the shelf to the foot of the bed to form a “footboard” (or even to push the shelf against the head of the bed to create a storage headboard). Forgive the unsolicited advice, but every time I see a “floating” bed, I think of the mornings in college finding my homework on the floor from my pillow pushing it off in the night.
Renee, Alas, the bed does “float” on the wall. The reason is there are only two air vents in the room and if I move the bed even an inch in either direction it will start to interfere with the flow of air. If I turn the bed away perpindicular to the wall, it will touch the other bed (the room is fairly small.) I’ve played around with different arrangements and can’t figure out how to make it work with the awkward vent placement. I’m open to advice though. I’m personally ok with covering one of the vents, but DH won’t hear of it.
Hey Angela,
I totally understand! Silly air vents! I don’t know that I have a solution anymore. Bunk beds? Some kind of day bed “rails” built onto the bed? Maybe all it needs is a headboard? I didn’t mean to stir up trouble 🙂 Could you cover one vent with a magnetic cover prevent air-conditioning the underside of a bed (I’ve seen them in Skymall magazine, I think…)? Admittedly, I don’t know if those have any bearing on electric bills or the efficiency of HVAC systems. Any way you shake it, though, the duvets are amazing!
Very nice job! It looks like a boys room without being a theme room. I think it will grow with them well, as it could easily be a young boys or a teenagers room with the color scheme and patterns. I do agree with Renee that the bed is floating. I would suggest treating it as kind of a daybed by putting a few pillows against the side leaning against the wall to give it sort of a couch feel instead of just one at the end. That wouldn’t help with the pillows sliding off, but it may make it look less “floaty”. I think you did an amazing job though!
Oh, and what is flat felled? I would love to imitate your design, and would just like to understand the term. Thanks!
Katrina, Flat felled is a special sewing technique. It’s best seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq57ugbKkH0
Thanks!
I really like those panel curtains. They drape beautifully and it’s style that works with any fabric choice, too 🙂 🙂
I was surprised at the low cost 😉 🙂 That’s awesome 🙂 Have a great week. Love and hugs from the ocean shores of California, Heather 🙂
I love these curtains! I am going to make these for my son’s nursery. If you don’t mind sharing, how many inches in length did you cut each stripe? The proportion looks great! Thank you for the idea Angela! You always have great, frugal ideas… Very inspiring to a newly married and soon to be first time mother 🙂
Congratulations on your new marriage and sweet baby! The strips were cut 6.5 inches wide. I used 5/8 inch seams and then flat felled them. I kept the side seams of the sheets in tact so after flat felling there was no other hemming to do. I also used the wide hem end of the white sheet as the curtain bottom for a nice weighted hem already done for me! That strip was cut only 5.25 inches plus a 5/8 inch seam allowance since the hem was already done for me. I have standard 8 foot ceilings and hung the curtain as high to the ceiling as the finials on the curtain rod would let me.
Thanks Angela! I just got the sheets out of the dryer and I’m about to give them a whirl.