Finally put up some curtains

Living in a bottom floor apartment doesn't always offer the best privacy and with cats in the family mini-blinds can get pretty mangled very quickly! At one time, out of  five sets of blinds, we had kitty 'peep holes' in all but two of them. So, needless to say, when the maintenance crew very generously replaced them all, we had to figure out another solution.

Worn slipcover to the rescue! I hunted down my old holey couch slipcover and found that there was enough new looking fabric to it after I cut around the holes that I was able to make cafe curtains with it for the two windows in the living room, where we needed the privacy the most. The cats aren't allowed in the bedrooms any longer so we can use the blinds in those rooms. So, an old couch slipcover, an unused tension rod (only had one so I had to buy another)and some ribbon out of my stock that someone had given me from long ago, and we now have privacy! We can still use the blinds on the top half of the window and with the curtains on the bottom half it works rather nicely. An added plus, we can close things up in stages so if it is still light out but dark enough for people to see in with the lights on we can close the curtains and leave the blinds twisted open and still let in some light but not be in view. Once it gets completely dark we can then close the blinds as well. I was also able to find some flower garlands that I had left over in storage from our house to dress up the top half of the window a bit.  It might not be Martha Stewart-like but it adds a bit of homeyness to our temporary place.