Dee, It depends on what kind of bouquet I'm making as to what stem length I cut. It's not often I can match the length of a sunflower, so I usually don't add zinnias to those bouquets. I find the zinnia needs to be worked into the center or slightly out from the enter of the bouquet, rather than the outer edge because they will crease at the top of the stem and then flop over in your bouquet. (Usually noticed when you are handing the bouquet to the customer.) Some of my zinnias had great stem length this year due to the wet July weather, then when the sun finally showed up in August the stems took off. I still have to sacrifice one or possibly 2 future flowers, but I never take 4. When I do a "all zinnia" bouquet, the stems are a bit shorter than say when I'm making something colorful using amazon neon and other flowers. I had never made just all zinnia bouqeuts up until this year, and only took 3 with me to the market but they sold pretty quick. I seemed to have customers last week that liked the idea of an "all one flower" bouquet. I did another with all pink asters and that one sold as well. You just never know. Cheryl

I purchased my first home a few months ago and bought 94 inch curtains and liked them. I hung them, then bought more 94 inch curtains for the dining room. Months later I read that curtains should hang to the floor. :( So I should have gotten 108 inch curtains I guess. Since I spent a few hundred dollars in curtains- these are here to stay. Here are pictures:

I would do like the inspiration picture and hang the roman shades up by the ceiling, just below the crown. Those will mount to the wall. Then you can get the traverse rod that will be in front of the roman shade. You will most likely want to mount that to the end walls. I'd suggest that, even if you don't buy the drapes now, that you buy or at least decide on all the drapery hardware so you can engineer the project properly the first time.

roorezzi, I think a spicy color in your art somewhere would pick up the energy nicely. Your dishes are lovely. You could hang nine squares of fabric unframed on stretcher bars. We have nine small square flower prints on canvas unframed in our MB. I made several tries at googling to find something similar, but didn't have any luck. A place like Hobby Lobby or Michael's though would likely give you some ideas and maybe show you how to do it.