I resolved to do something today about that back hall mess that I (and guests) can see when sitting at my dining table. I wrote about in December. As I'm trying to gussy-up the place as I work on the kitchen redo, I wanted to come up with an easy and inexpensive way to hide the mess.
I'd been stewing on it for awhile, plowing through Pinterest for ideas, shopping online, looking at all different sorts of put-together closet storage solutions, armoirs, etc. and all cost more than I wanted to spend. The ridiculous part is -- I believe I had mentioned just hanging a curtain on a rod back in December -- and then proceeded to ignore this simplest and least expensive idea!
Finally, sick of looking at it as I sat hacking through my income tax returns with a machete, today I had enough! ENOUGH! I took a short walk to the Family Dollar near me and bought a tension rod that I knew would fit. Within a few minutes after I got back home and unwrapped the rod, voila! The mess was hidden away. I should have done this a long time ago, duh!
Now you see it:
And now you don't!
It doesn't get much simpler than this. I think I'll press the curtain, though. Maybe shop for something a bit more "elegant." This is one of the curtains that was taken down from my Shezebo outside when I winterized it. It's a little hard to tell in the photo, but the stripe colors are darker and ligher grey, cream, blue, a sort of goldish olive green -- all colors that "go" with the colors used in both the kitchen/dining area and the back hall. The rings make it super-easy to move the curtain back and forth on the rod and one curtain fits the opening just fine.
I keep staring at it, LOL. I think I'm in love...
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