Curtains and Stools!

It's been so long! At this point today, our whole house is almost TOTALLY done!! I need to catch you all up quick! With all the work on the house, and trying to plan the wedding all before coming to the US in a week, I have not been keeping up wit the blog updates! So here goes. 

Let's start with the stools. It all started a looooong time ago when I went to the fabric store for the first time. (I blogged about it here.) I saw this stool there, and it was metal. I don't know why I was stuck thinking stools had to be wood here. But they're metal all the time back home! 

When I realized I could get creative with my stools, I did some internet searching and asked Patrick (from the maintenance team, my second favorite Patrick!) if it would be possible to make some stools in a new modern shape. He called the welder... and it turned out to be possible! 

While it turned out not to be easy by any means, it was possible to get close to what I was looking for. I landed on the look of these stools and thought they would be perfect to go with our island. (See our visualization board here and drawings here.)

I drew this up as well, and tried to make the design a little simpler. 

I was so excited! I waited about a week or 2. Since I wanted 3 total stools, the welder sent one of them to me to see if he had it right before he worked on the next 2. Check out what we got back!

 

Haha, close! But no cigar. I drew on the back how I wanted it to look, and I explained that the legs were definitely a little off. Not to mention, the stool was brown instead of black, but that might have just been a first coat? I sent it back and waited a few more days...

 

Here we go, a little closer! Now this was so close, that I almost just said forget it, I should just keep them. The legs were fixed, they were black, and they were all 3 ready and in my house. But I just didn't like them enough. All I could see when I looked at them was missing potential. So I sent them back again. This time Peter the welder was not very happy with me. But I mean, he had the same drawing I did from the start, right?

Well, I knew I should have faith in him! Once I got our curtains sewn, he came back to hang them (Yay, curtains!) because he made the metal curtain rods as well, and with him were 3 beautiful black nicely shaped modern metal bar stools! You can see one to the right of the kitchen window. 

Here it is again:

And you can see as the curtains are being hung too! Here's the bedroom:

Always hang the curtain rod higher and wider than the window or door itself to allow for all the sunlight to come in, and to make your window appear larger! :)

So now smaller accessories are coming in, and we're still waiting for bigger furniture pieces. What a game changer those have been! Next up, you'll meet the carpenter behind all of my drawings and how I'm actually getting these pieces!! Thanks for reading!

Love,
Teri