Let me back up. We need window treatments in our dining room. The living room area, which is separated only by a double archway, has traditional German lace curtains, gifted to us by my sweet friend Isabel. The dining room has large windows as well, and since we have little wall art, I wanted to put some color in there. Living room furniture is the aforementioned slightly lumpy denim Ikea sofa and loveseat, with a bold blue and white striped club chair and a dark red leather recliner. Dining room set is dark cherry, as is.....the new sideboard! I would take a picture for those of you who have been following this torturous drama, but at the moment the sideboard is stacked with dishes waiting to be washed for Thanksgiving dinner.
AAAAnnnyway, it was decided by those who care (me) that a pop of red would be good, and that these drapes could come home and live in SC comfortably as well. Then the agony of the colors began. Who can know what a swatchthesizeofyourthumbnailonthecomputerscreen will really look like when it is fourteen feet wide on your wall? I kid you not - it's a 14-foot wall. I had to buy seven of one valance; four of another, just to span it. The curtains will actually only be down the sides - no need for them to draw all the way across.
SO - I have eliminated Brick, as Sir came home, saw it and said, "That looks like dried blood. Or rust."
And I eliminated New Orleans Red, because although I liked the color, the valance came with fringe embellished with rather large crystal beads, and the total effect was a little too bordello-ish for our taste.
And we have left for your voting pleasure
Cranberry on the left and Spicy Red on the right. Please vote early and often, so that poor Sir can come home from work tonight and slave on threading 85 pounds of drapery into the thin slits in the ceiling designed by the ever-efficient Germans to avoid the EASE and GOOD LOOKS of actual curtain rods.
I need your help. Please forgive the rumpled quality of the photo - I basically threw each panel up over the top of the window to give you the idea.
Love,
Nest On A Deadline
Well I am the worst person to be commenting first... but my eyes are so bad Ms. Wendy that I for one can't tell a difference in the two shades of colours! Nor can I believe that you had FOUR SHADES of red imported! Ha! You are so cute... indecisiveness at its finest. Good luck though choosing! I am sure whichever one you choose will be juuuusssttt fine.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I strongly support secret ballots for such volatile topics, the great curtain controversy of 2010 requires each of us to take a bold stand. Therefore, I proudly declare my support for the spicy red candidate. Although a lovely color, cranberry has obviously been colluding too often with eggplants and thus, her hue has been tainted by the nightshade family.
ReplyDeleteWendy... You have impeccable taste so what ever you choose will be perfectly beautiful!! If it were me, I would choose the spicy red just because of the name "spicy red". It's so you!!
ReplyDeleteI also like the spicy red. Love, Aunt Edie
ReplyDeleteI vote for the 'Spicy Red'. I think against denim, the more red the better. Send back the cranberry, it reads a little purple-y on my monitor.
ReplyDeleteBarb V