Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It (Find Me Some New Curtains)

What movie is that from? Mission Impossible? I think so. Charlie’s Angels? I’m not sure. Anyway, I need your help. Your mission: Help me pick out new curtains for my family room.

  
When we first moved in, I thought deep red would be part of my color scheme, mostly because I found these panels on clearance at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. However, the colors have strayed far from red, and now its grey, yellow, and a little turquoise.

So I desperately need new curtains. Plus, they’re about as fashionable as Urkel’s pants. Even when I was still into the red color, that was my mom’s first reaction: “They look like high-water pants.” Duly noted.

(Ignore the khaki curtains to the left. I’ll do something about those after the kitchen remodel.)

I can’t decide if I should get stripes, a solid color with a textured fabric, or just plain white. I’ve got a lot of patterns in the room so I am shying away from a wild fabric. The red curtains feel really heavy here, so I’m looking for something lighter (either in color or fabric), but I am open to any ideas! I just don’t have any brilliant ones of my own yet.


What do you guys think? What style curtains should I go with? Any great ideas? 

(Mom – help!)

PS. I can’t wait for all the big Portland garage sales in June. Several neighborhoods have sales with 100 houses! Look at this wooden box I found last year for $2.50. Love it!
 

Get Out Of The Dining Room

Look who moved outside today, and got the hell out of my dining room? :)

 
The coop isn’t quite done yet, so they’ll still need to take over the dining room at night. But now, they are outside chickens in the daytime.


The run is protected from vicious predators.

 
That’s about as vicious as Diego got. Just checking out his new friends, I like to think. And that is not the run! Just a temporary holding area while we finished putting up the hardware cloth.

They like all the extra room. Maude found and ate an earthworm! I put a tree stump in the run, I thought they’d want to perch on it, but so far they just want to eat the moss.

 
I plan to finish the coop this weekend, so they can be permanently-outside chickies.

(They do not like posing for photos.)

Any other newbie chicken people? What is your favorite and least favorite parts about your new pets?