From Spare & Cold to Warm & Cozy

In preparing our house for the market, I had removed floral arched balloon valances from these windows in our great room/den. It's a very large room that is great for entertaining in. The valances just screamed 90's to me and I intended on getting plain red valances to bring some color into the room.

Needless to say, that never happened {as you can see from the MLS pictures of the room}. After three months of living with it like this {or basically avoiding the room because it felt so spare and blah}, I found drapes on clearance at Target in a red that I really liked and with a design that broke up the solid look a bit.

The pictures below I took tonight right before hanging the drapes.







We took the house off the market for the holiday season because I want to decorate to my hearts content and not stress anymore than I have to. So, with drill in hand, I mounted the hardware and put them up.

I was really liking it with just one window done! I actually started wondering why I never went with drapes in the first place!



Here they are all up. I actually have two more panels that I had bought for the window seat windows, but thought I'd see how I like them this way. I can always add them if I feel it needs it.







I also added a table {that we weren't using} behind the loveseat, and lamps which were originally in my living room.

I think this room is a warm and inviting room again, and these are all things I can leave up for when the house is on the market.

Edited to include pricing: The long panels {54 x 84} were $10.48 per panel; the shorter panels {54 x 63} were $8.74 per panel.

Linking up {as they occur} with:


Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch


DIY Day at A Soft Place to Land

Frugalicious Friday at Finding Fabulous



Saturday Night Special at Funky Junk