"Fluff" post: describe your shower curtain
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Comments (21)Well, we live in a mid-19th c farmhouse with most of its original details intact, so I am somewhat constrained by that. I want a plain, workman-like space for the kitchen essentials, with nothing pretending to be something it isn't. (No faux wear marks or fly-specking details on my cabs for instance - at least none applied at the factory; we're not talking about what will happen naturally if someone leaves the doggone screen door open again! For those I've got my Spic 'n Span bucket ready.) I know this sounds drab and dull, but that's not the case since I have details like 14" tall skirting boards with deeply curved moldings; an open staircase with a second-floor gallery and the underlying (also rigid) balance and symmetry of a full-on Greek Revival building. With such strong elements never out of the picture, I have just had to learn to get out of the way. Since almost all our stuff is passed down from our families, (some period antiques and but mostly just old pieces, approaching legal antique status of their own, but not period, IYKWIM) my "style" of decorating is pretty much "what we found in the attic", combined, now, with what we've inherited from our parents. I can't really imagine what it is like to choose to decorate in a defined "style" or go out intending to purchase stuff to go with a particular style. When I read or see pictures here of what people are working on, I often wonder how you ever decided which one to choose. Seems like a lot of energy is expended working out those details. I just concentrate on 1) What do I need to make this room work for how we want to use it? 2) What do I have that will do the job? 3)(If I have more than one option for #2) Which piece looks best (mostly scale) with the other stuff in the room? 4) What can I/do I have to do with it (or to it) to spiff it up enough so make it presentable, if necessary? (If I can't find a suitable piece for some use, then we usually do without until a solution appears.) In general I find that my old stuff tends to look well with my other old stuff, providing the scale of the piece is right, particularly in the context of it all being old stuff, in an old house. And to some degree, after attending to comfort and practicality/feasability and cleanliness (which can include cleaning up a wood finish or redoing upholstery), I really don't care to do more. The only place where I can fall in with the forum's decorating mania, is color. That really lights my fire! I can spend weeks and months thinking about, testing and generally feeding the decorating part of my brain while contemplating which color to put on my walls. L...See MoreYour experience of shower curtains ? (instead of glass)
Comments (10)long shower curtainI chose to use a shower curtain in my new master bath. I had glass doors in my old master bath, and NO WAY would DH squeegee the doors ever! So I ended up doing the daily cleaning, and after I got sick of it, the doors looked terrible! All spotted with soap and hard water spots! I cleaned them once a week, but the rest of the time, they looked awful! So, in my new shower, I do have a curb that's 4" high. I have a tension rod, but when I get organized, I'll get a solid brass fixed rod. I'll have my handyman put it up. I'm not worried about drilling into the tile because he's super-meticulous and will do a great job. I have a very pretty cotton shower curtain that stays outside the curb, and a polyester fabric liner that stays inside the curb. The liner does get that pink mold on the bottom, so every once in a while I wash it in hot water, and the mold comes out. I have several of these (very cheap, purchased at TJMaxx), so I just put up a clean one and toss the moldy one into the laundry. Water never gets outside the curb, but the liner does get wet. The decorative shower curtain outside the curb never gets wet either. If I didn't have a curb, I would NOT let the shower curtain trail on the floor. Use a bathmat outside the shower to collect water if it seeps out under the shower curtain. If you let the shower curtain trail on the floor, it will stay wet and will get moldy very quickly. I know because my tension rod was hung too low for a while, which meant the shower curtain liner was trailing on the floor. It became disgusting very quickly. If I were you, OP, I'd hang the curtain so it just brushes the floor. That way it will dry out after your shower, but it will prevent water from splashing out onto the dry area of the floor while you are showering.Here's an 8' polyester shower curtain: long shower curtain...See MoreFluff post: Slipcovers
Comments (22)In the living room, we have a Pottery Barn Basic Sofa and Pottery Barn Basic Arm Chair. When you purchase them, you choose which color and fabric you want for the slipcovers. You can purchase additional slipcovers at any point in time in whatever fabric/color you choose. We change the slipcovers with the seasons. Easy way to decorate. (We also change the drapes.) We have a slipcover on the sofa in the family room. We've had it for so long that I don't remember where we got it. But, I do remember that the slipcover came with these nifty things that tuck down in to hold the slipcover in place. They're very similar to these Slipcover Tuck Grips, but ours came with a "tool" that helps you to push the grips into position....See MoreFluff post: uses for old dishrags
Comments (26)Yay, Rhizo! I was going to mention that. I cut up old cotton fabric into the compost now and then. My garden buddy (we exchange seeds, plants, rides to the garden shop, harvests, tools, and sometimes even weeding chores) is finally starting a compost pile this year. He says he remembers watching me cut up into the compost an old rug that had belonged to my grandmother. That must have been many years ago. I don't remember the rug. My grandmother used to knit dishcloths and some of those definitely hit the compost pile. I'm thinking the rug must have been a very small cotton loop rug done in a floral pattern. P.S. I prefer the term dishcloth to dishrag. Somehow, dishrag sounds ugly and nasty to me....See More
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Caseynfld. Your shower curtain is beautiful. Here is mine which I will change once autumn arrives.
- 9 years agoThis rental has an off white one. It's Pottery Barn, Waffle Weave.
This rental has a tan fabric curtain.
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