New Window Treatment!!

I have to tell you!! I got only one thing done today–but it feels like I’ve done a ton! The curtains in our home are being shredded by age and by my children. I’m not a big “drapery” fan–but it came with the house–so they’ve stayed for nearly 5 years. We have a big dog, that is getting more and more paranoid with age, and will bark incessantly if anyone is outside of our house. So I told my husband yesterday that I wanted the window film that made your windows look like they were stain glass. So we headed to Home Depot. Now, I knew the rolls were expensive-but I was hoping to be able to get 2 windows per roll. Nope–1 window per roll–$20 each–10 windows. OH MY HEAVENS!! I’d pay to have them stain glassed for that much. But I was desperate-so I found a beige shelf paper with a brown marble print. Huge roll, $17.50. So today I pulled all of the draperies down, and put this shelf paper in the windows. It is beige, so it lets light into the room, but the dog can’t see out. Then at night, if you are on the street-the light from inside passing through makes it look like the old fashioned opaque stain glass windows–anyway–the design of the living room itself is charming–and this window treatment really is charming and fitting too. I was mostly surprised that with the long draperies down, and the windows “highlighted” the room not only looks bigger-it looks cleaner! I LOVE IT!!