About time!

A while back I promised to share pictures of the Roman Shades I was working on for my kitchen windows.

I saw this great tutorial on Pintrest on how you can take a cheap plastic blind and make a fast and easy Roman Shade. Of course the girl made it look so easy, and it really was....if you start out with the right type of fabric!

She had used a cute tablecloth she found at Target and cut it to make two shades. Easy right???

So I went to Target and found a curtain on clearance, only 9.99 and in my color, score, so I thought. I couldn't wait to get started, I cut the curtain in half and only had to sew one seam on each piece. Next I layed out the shades and remove that plastic blinds that I didn't need. I took fabric glue just like the tutorial and glue my fabric to my 8 blind slats. Easy right. I let it dry for several hours and turn it over to find the glue had bleed through. My fabric choice was too thin.

Back to square one!

I went to every fabric store, home store, Target, looking for a heavy fabric, tablecloth, or curtain that would work. I was getting very discouraged.

In the mean time my husband sent me to Lowes to pick up something he needed for a project and I was passing the window treatment isle I thought, what the heck I'll check it out. Can you believe I found what I was looking for!

I purchased one panel and one valance and hurried home to start my Roman Shades once again.

Love the look!

Not the best picture, but you get the idea.

I had enough fabric left over to cover my two counter stools.

I am thrilled with the outcome, and can't get over how they changed the feel of my kitchen.