On the way to some curtains

We have an infinite amount of projects and, even though we have been living in the house for 7 years, in a sense, it feels like we have been just moved in.
We lack curtains, carpets, some things are still in a very temporary state.

One of the things that are crucial though are the curtains, not only for the sound, but of course mostly for the light. When the spring come, the longest days can be unforgiving.

The focus has been now the tv/piano room, as it has been impossible to play the piano when the sun has been hitting the room.

Where one of the curtain rods will be. Some of the supports have been already mounted. 

As the room has a circular form, due to the tower, we can't go for an ordinary solution and when thinking if we should have wood or metal, we went for a metal solution. 

The same kind of style will be applied to the curtain on the other window in the room.

The curtain rod

Our blacksmith, after few reminders, started to work on the curtain rod, which has to have the right shape. Sadly, it is not yet perfectly following the wall, so we will have to do some adjustements next time the blacksmith is home.

Support for the rod and end of it

There were a lot of discussions about the design of certain details. I thought we had been clear on it during the autumn, but everything couldn't be found, so we had to start from scratch and even though I wanted some other more "jugend" shape, that was the best we could agree upon.

Given the design of the curtain rod, we need to look into the curtains per se'.

And here we have some ideas that are not completely fixed yet.

Possibly 2-3 linen quite plain, as central curtains and then some drapery on the side, with the right kind of textile.

We thought of having something on green, to be a good match with the red of the wall. And from the initial idea, I am more convince that it should look as jugendish as possible, so the samples I have got I think will be discarded.

But I am volitile some things might change.

The first samples for the curtains

Apart putting up the curtain rod to get help in the shape, and decide the textile quality and style, I have also to find something to old the drapery together and rings to have the curtains on.

For the first, I might be asking the blacksmith as well...

We did it!

It took few weeks and we have finally made a room in the basement look decent considering circumstances (with the tiles we have and the little furniture we have and what we have to do in the basement, I guess we can't do better than this).

The room is actually finally clean and offer good surfaces for painting

The main problem with this is that the actually "ordering" of things have been pretty limited. Mostly of the chaos has just been diligently been moved by someone (guess who...) into another room that now will have to be completely sorted out/cleaned/fixed/whatever.
That is, this is just a partial achievement close almost to an illusion!

Shelves for the paint and a table where to store the things I need to work on