salads and drapes

quite a title, somehow i'll tie it all together.

yesterday i was practically craving this salad wrap.

it feels so good to get back to *regular* eating after all the rich food we ate the last few days.

just mixed lettuces, cherry tomatoes, avocado and sunflower seeds with a little salad dressing all wrapped up in a tortilla, it was just what i needed.

yesterday while i was having this for lunch i was reading some older comments on this post and i saw one that i had not noticed before.   it was on the length and width of my drapes.

so you don't have to click back to find it, here is the jist of gloria's comment.

"your curtains need to be hung higher and wider."

yeah, i know.

but...

here's the thing.  i have 3 windows in this room so that is 6 drapery panels.
these 6 cost $600.  remember how that killed me?  i start to hyperventilate just thinking about it.

let's address the width first.
if they were hung wider which would make the window look bigger then i would need 4 panels per window.
$600 just turned into $1200.

next, the height.
if i wanted them to be hung higher which would make the room look more grand (ha) that means i would have to size up to the 96" length.  those panels were almost $50 more.  $50 x 12 = $600.

it may as well been a million dollars b/c if $600 causes me to hyperventilate what would $2000 do to me?

on top of all that nonsense then there is the issue of the walls.
this house is 120 yrs old and has very fragile plaster walls.
a teeny tiny nail going in crumbles the plaster.
so screwing the hardware into the woodwork was the only real option.

so gloria that is why my drapes are not hung higher and wider.

the end.

xo
janet

p.s.

while i'm here i may as well address the other comment i get a lot.
which is why don't i add more color to the room.
the most honest answer is i don't know how to and when i attempt it - it just looks wrong.

this room

is probably the most beautiful room i've ever had the privilege to stand in and there was only one pattern and 2 colors - brown and cream.
plants would make it 3 colors.

and suzanne rheinstein is a genius.


xo
janet