Decorating Oasis

Ready for some fun decorating ideas?

After you check out the ones below, scoot on over to the Nester where you will find all kinds of ideas.  She is having a blog party for window 'mistreatments' with lots of links to follow!

 

 We recently redecorated our downstairs bath.  I love the light that comes in the window above the shower, so I didn't want to cover it completely.  I was dying to use this fun fabric so I just used two shower curtain rods:

My daughter's bedroom has a very large double window.  I wanted to keep things soft, so rather than using a curtain rod, I simply covered a long pvc pipe with fabric.  This is only half of the window, obviously:

My manly man's one request when we built our house was that he have a 'trophy' room (he already has his trophy wife, hehe). In order to keep the room manly, yet warm, I made these window mis-treatments.  It is a cornice board (that he cut) wrapped in batting.  I then wrapped the whole thing in fabric and stapled the panels to the back of it.  Yep.  No lining.  Just seams and staples on those babies.  

We did the same thing with our bedroom windows: cornice boards wrapped and stapled with batting and fabric.  BTW: this is the 3rd fabric these babies have been covered in.  I told you I like change!
My most recent 'mistreatment' has a funny story.  Last summer we gave my mom a metal gazebo for her birthday.  It was great and enjoyed by all.  Unfortunately, we had a huge windstorm this early spring and it toppled the whole thing over their fence.  Most of it was bent and damaged beyond repair.  She did, however, salvage the four corners.  She asked me if I'd like to have one of the corners to use as a lattice for my garden.  Of course, I jumped on that!

But after looking at it, I decided it had a better purpose: 
We split the L-shaped corner in half and put them on either side of our foyer window.  Since it is on the 2nd story, and only accessible by ladder, I wanted something that wouldn't attract much dust (i.e. fabric).  It was only after we got them up, did I realize the scrollwork matched our chandelier!