HGTV.com Feature… Unique Hardware

A few months ago Marian from Miss Mustard Seed asked if she could use a photo from my quirky Tractor Steering Wheel Curtain Hangers post in an article she was writing for HGTV.com on window treatments.

((it’s the post where I couldn’t decide how to hang the curtains…

so I asked for your help… and gave a ton of options… remember??))

Click HERE…

Anywho…

I love those emails!!

Of course… as I was reading it… I was all like…

What??  Are you serious?  YES… YES!! 

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!  WooHoo!!  

Happy Dance! Happy Dance!

And then just the other day… I saw where it was showing up in my stats…

And wow… here it is…

http://www.hgtv.com/window-treatments/18-clever-window-treatment-ideas-under-18/pictures/page-13.html

So thrilled and honored to be included with some amazing, creative talent in this article on window treatments!

Thank you Marian and HGTV.com for the feature!

((click here to also see my mantel featured on hgtv.com))

Tractor Steering

 

OK… so I think I have a thing for old tractors now…

I know what your thinking… but nooo…

I didn’t put a tractor in my house. 

Although… Hmmm

((Just Kidding))  I wouldn’t do that!

But I would put an old tractor steering wheel in my home!

I found these three at the local feed and seed store…  aren’t they beautiful?

Beautifully rusty is what they are!!

The owner sold them to me for $3.00 a piece… YAY!

I had no clue what I was going to do with them but I knew I had to clean them up… they were nasty dirty!

First things first… I had to get rid off this dirty, black plastic stuff that covered the wheels… oh… and the water hose… it had to go, too.

I found just the right tool to get it off… my yard clippers.

And while I was clipping away…  it hit me… a white room! 

Or, well, an ivory room.  I’ve been drooling over some white rooms I’ve seen in blogland.

I just can’t do it in my home because I don’t have the furniture for it…  BUT… I could do it on my screened in back porch!!

Eureka!!  That’s it!

So… off to Lowes I went… for this…

 

Color : Soapstone

I don’t know if you remember seeing my porch color in previous posts, but it’s dark brown. 

Next it was off to Hobby Lobby for some fabric… I bought muslin.

Now… you gotta know… 

I don’t sew! 

That’s why I had to use this…

 

Stitch Witchery… it works everytime!

So I “stitched” some hems and made me some curtain panels.

(That sounds really country)

And then I used my steering wheels as…

TA DA…

Curtain rods!

 

OK… BEFORE YOU GO ANY FURTHER…

I WANT YOUR OPINION.

The next few photos are different “looks” of the curtains and steering wheels…

Curtains folded behind the wheel (no overhang), curtains folded out (with overhang), some with flowers, some with ribbon ties and some just loose and plain…  

WHAT IS YOUR FAV?

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So you maybe wondering why all the pics are tightly cropped and you can’t see the whole room…

Well, I haven’t finished painting the deck… only the area where these curtains went.

I believe this will be my next BIG project this summer…

making my screened back deck a white room…  I mean an ivory room! :)

To Be Continued…

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