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It's curtains for me
Sep. 2nd, 2007 10:10 amThis morning, the painters finally succeeded in ringing my doorbell before I was up and dressed. (And I wasn't sleeping in all that late.) Evidently my primary contractor was all for taking the weekend off, but some of the hired crew are juggling multiple jobs and had time off from the other over the weekend and wanted to get the hours in. I haven't double-checked about whether they'll be working the labor day holiday tomorrow. It might be nice to have one day of the long weekend that didn't involve pounding, clanking ladders, and having to keep all the windows closed (on the hottest weekend of the year ... not that it's made it out of the 80s, of course). On the other hand, I feel quite disinclined to complain about contractors getting work done to fast.
Yesterday I went out and bought all the misc. stuff I needed to do the living room curtains (I had the primary fabric, but needed everything else). The local Jo-Ann's had home decorating fabrics on half-off sale, so I made out like a bandit on the sheers and lining. Two of the three sets of hardware are installed. The two sets of sheers are done and hung. One pair of curtains is completed except for attaching the hanging-rings and another is just begun. I'm still doing some design work on the insulating curtain for the doorway to the stairs, since I want the optimum combination of draft-blocking when in use and non-existence when not. The walls around this opening form a sort of Z, so I can't put rod brackets up on one side of wall over the opening and have decided on a "closet pole" arrangement. Hmm. It suddenly occurs to me that since the pole itself can be removed easily from the pole brackets, the curtain can be entirely put away during the non-winter months, which solves the "non-existence when not in use" part admirably. Today I'm off to hang out with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xrian for the day (in the valley; on the hottest weekend of the summer so far), so I'm estimating that tomorrow can see the curtains completed and the pre-organization for the Big Garbage pickup done, but probably not the bedroom closet campaign.
Yesterday I went out and bought all the misc. stuff I needed to do the living room curtains (I had the primary fabric, but needed everything else). The local Jo-Ann's had home decorating fabrics on half-off sale, so I made out like a bandit on the sheers and lining. Two of the three sets of hardware are installed. The two sets of sheers are done and hung. One pair of curtains is completed except for attaching the hanging-rings and another is just begun. I'm still doing some design work on the insulating curtain for the doorway to the stairs, since I want the optimum combination of draft-blocking when in use and non-existence when not. The walls around this opening form a sort of Z, so I can't put rod brackets up on one side of wall over the opening and have decided on a "closet pole" arrangement. Hmm. It suddenly occurs to me that since the pole itself can be removed easily from the pole brackets, the curtain can be entirely put away during the non-winter months, which solves the "non-existence when not in use" part admirably. Today I'm off to hang out with
xrian for the day (in the valley; on the hottest weekend of the summer so far), so I'm estimating that tomorrow can see the curtains completed and the pre-organization for the Big Garbage pickup done, but probably not the bedroom closet campaign.
