Curtains

 

Another sunny day with "spring in the air" feeling yesterday (although frosty in the morning), and I decided it was time to take down my ("winter") red gingham curtains in the kitchen and put up the new summer ones that I bought a couple of weeks ago. (A job also involving washing the windows in the process.)

I've actually been on the lookout for new summer curtains for the kitchen for years, without finding any (that I liked) of the shorter length that I want there. For some reason, the fashion nowadays seems to be floor length curtains everywhere - but I don't find that practical in my kitchen. (One could of course buy long ones and cut them off - I do have a sewing machine - but that's a bigger project, and also feels like a waste of fabric.)

But recently when I searched online, I found these, of the right length, and also available in a store in my town. So I went there to have closer look, and ended up buying them.

Yesterday, when I finally got them up at home, they turned out to be more "see-through" than I had anticipated, with very bright sunlight outside. I'm not 100% happy with that, but I guess it will take a full summer season at least to see how I feel about it in the long run...

 

In the evening, dark outside and light turned on indoors, the impression is a bit different.

 

And yet another photo this morning, with a grey sky as background. Now I'm also thinking that the impression may change again once the trees outside are back to being covered in green leaves.... (In summer, from my favourite place at the kitchen table, I see nothing but green leaves when I look out the window!)

 

 Close-up of the clover pattern
 

I also bought a matching table runner - it's a different pattern (tulips) but "matching" in that it has the same shades of green and red/pink as the curtains (but also a bit of yellow added). 

 

(I can also use the table runner in my living room if I like.) 

 

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Below, for comparison, a photo of my old kitchen curtains taken last spring.

Photo from 2024

Those curtains too have a flowery pattern printed on white; but they are a thicker quality of cotton, more opaque than the new ones. I still like those too, but I've had them a long time, and somehow I feel the pattern and colours have begun to feel a bit outdated. And probably also by now a bit (gradually) faded from having been exposed to several sunny summers + washed a few times. Anyway, I felt I wanted a change - and the new ones will no doubt be staying up through this summer at least... 

Luckily, I do not feel any need or wish to change the curtains in any other room! ;-)