I Done A Very Stupid Thing

[jennyjoan]

Last year when I got the kitchen done up I had lovely beige curtains in the dining area with matching pelmet. During the whole upset I threw the pelmet out - but you know it matches the one in the living room.

I would love it back but I am sure the material would be out of date now - any other ideas for a nice pelmet. Friend was to blame for this - oh surely you are going to throw that out and I bloody did. I am like a backward girl sometimes - I always do what I'm told.

Do think friend was jealous - and I was stupid funker.

[EcclesCake]

Get two new pelmets in contrasting fabric with matching cushions to compliment your overall colour scheme.

[Mamyalynne]

If you cannot get the same material, try a toning fabric to pick up the beige with a hint of another colour so that is does not look like a bad attempt at a match.

[mikey4444]

Pelmets jenny ! They are so last century ! Get one of those bling poles, with the crystal end-pieces !

[Retrochic]

doll the place up you don't need pelmets. Get two nice curtain poles and treat yourself to some new curtains. No, your friend was not jealous -she was telling you the truth -a rare thing these days!

[mikey4444]

In the 1962, I can remember my Mum glueing vast lengths of material, to a hardboard cut-out pelmet, that my Dad had made in the shed. She managed to get ruddy Copydex everywhere in the process...never again, she said.

[craft1948]

Pelmets are dreadful. Having said that, I live in a house with no curtains...

[Bathsheba]

@ Mikey...I bet you remember Barry Bucknell on the TV, don't you? ;)

[mikey4444]

Here he is Bathy, the man who practically invented the phrase DIY !

(blast him)

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/feb/27/guardianobituaries

[Bathsheba]

Yep,.....my Dad worshipped him, and made fitted wardrobes in my bedroom, + I remember being woken up on countless occasions by him bringing his friends up to see them ;)

x x

[ummmm]

I also think pelmets are dated and unattractive.

[anneasquith]

i have been viewing new build properties recently, guess what is on the windows ? yup pelmets !!!!

[jennyjoan]

well I like them dated or not - they are old but until I get my head round to the living room decorated - they'll stay. Sure I am old and dated myself. I truly think the pelmets finish the curtains. That's that.

[mrs.chappie]

I like to see matching curtains and pelmet.

[jennyjoan]

retrochic - my friend was jealous - if you see what she lives in - I call it the Bare Necessities - it would truly put you in black depression.

She has got loads of money from the sale of a house - but no, refuses to decorate the house. My back is breaking from an oul suite somebody gave her - she isn't interested in houses - I am just glad it happened in the dining room and not my lovely living room.

[jennyjoan]

that is removed pelmet. by way run over to fabric place but couldn't even a colour remotely like it. However, would love to be getting my living room done as there were truly absolutely fabulous curtains - oh so gorgeous.

[jennyjoan]

and to be honest to you if I was to get them new ones - pelmets will be there too - so there

[anneasquith]

if you want pelmets conne, you get them :)

[jennyjoan]

oh I will Anne - but need living room done up badly and right now can't stand workmen in my home. no no no decoration at the mo lOL

[ummmm]

The fact that she chooses not to do her house would suggest that she's not really interested...so unlikely she's jealous.

[RandyMarsh]

Curtains are not important, wooden floors are important.