Splash of Color

In the wintertime everything seems to lose its color. We get a little tire of seeing the same white landscape, and there's not much we can do about what's outside. So instead we like to put up fun colors around the inside of the house.
This is a close up of the fabric we used to make new curtains for the kitchen. Lulu found a fabric designer she likes on the interweb and we've ordered a variety of interesting stuff from them.

Here's a little less of a close up. Some of the silvery parts are threaded with shiny metallic thread. This is just a simple one-piece curtain hanging on a spring-tension curtain rod, so we can move it around and take it down with no hassle. In the summer, the cats like to hang out in the open window, so we like to be able to move the curtain however we need.
So you end up with this. Our kitchen window looks out over the alley, and occasionally there will be folks walking by (more often when it's not minus 20 degrees...) and it's a little weird to be making diner and have someone walking their dog five feet away, looking at you. Maybe I'm too conditioned to the space you get living out in the sticks, but for me, the curtain is the way to go. It lets in some light, it's bright enough to liven things up, and I can make my morning coffee in my PJ's and not have to be accused of flashing anyone.