And the light came...

I eventually changed the living room curtains. They used to be one you find in offices, yes those, the horrid ones.

I hated them each time I walked in the living room. They reminded me of an old dirty office and since I'm only a tenant I didn't want to ask the landlord to change them. I kept the fixture of the original curtains with all the tiny hooks.

I needed to find a very light fabric that let the light through.  I found a lovely cream coloured Egyptian cotton. After stitching the first side, I found out whilst removing the original curtains that they were a lot heavier than what I'd previously thought.

I first tried to stitched little loops to hang the new curtains, but it wasn't falling nicely. I then stitched a long strip of fabric at the top with little gaps to slots the hooks in. It means that under tension the curtains fell nicely. I made mitered corners for a nice finish.

The first side was great and fitted well, on the other hand, the left side was a nightmare. It was too short...

Grumble, mumble, sulk, sulk.

I went back to my favourite fabric shop and bought a stripped (did I say stripped? I looove stripes) and I finished the curtains. I did things by the rule with many many pins, the iron and Pik-pik's help.

You can see the results below (unfortunately with back lighting).
Rasta is delighted, she can bask in a new patch of sun.