Far Ago Farm

 Hi everyone! If you read my  last post , you know I had hoped to take a (very) inexpensive (& too short) pair of drapery panels from Amazon and customize them to work in our new den (home office). This post will show you how they turned out as well as give you a look see of the room.  As always, thank you so much for stopping by my little blog!  Now heeeerrreee  we go! A picture of the bottom hem with hot glued trim added.  The six inch fringe gave just the right length to my once too short drapes.  Here they are in all of their glory - what do you think?  This is my husband's den, so it is filled with things he likes such as golf, horses and fishing! The center picture is from a race run at Turfway Park in Florence, KY from the early 1990's. Our daughter and sil found it rolled up in their attic rafters when they bought their KY house and gifted it to us for Christmas 2020, a few weeks after we also had decided to move to Kentucky. We had it...

Hi everyone! As some of you may know, we built our current home late last summer. And, if you have ever moved you know how expensive it can be to outfit a home in window treatments - especially when there are so many other costs involved in moving to a new place.   Our new house has 9 foot ceilings, so finding off the shelf, ready made curtain panels has been a daunting task.  In our home office (we call it the den), I only wanted curtain panels to frame the window. I chose a single panel for each side, hung from pretty burnished brass short rods.  We did splurge on custom blinds for the windows - something we have never done. Our Budget Blinds are gorgeous and perfectly installed. We have an expanse of south exposed windows, so light control is a must.  Now, back to those curtain panels. I found some beautiful navy and cream panels from Amazon for just $27.00 - for the pair! They are blackout panels and although I want using them to cover my windows, the blacko...

Hi friends! Hope you all enjoyed the weekend - it was glorious here in northern Kentucky. It finally felt like spring! Today I want to have a heart to heart about break ups. Not a Dr. Phil kind of break up, but breaking up with your house when you have decided it is time to sell. I've read many blogs and watched equally as many vlogs where the author laments their realtor's suggestion to undecorate and depersonalize the home they wish to sell. I hear them say over and over, "it won't feel like my home" or "we still have to live there."  Folks, you really need to break up with your house and start thinking of the sale as a business transaction (which it is) and not your home. If you want top dollar and a faster sale, you really need to do this even though it may be hard to do. In today's market, many will tell you it is not necessary to do anything to your house and you will still find a buyer if it's priced fairly. This is very true, but if you w...

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