When my husband and I were younger, we were always home owners. Now being in our senior years it is better for us to rent. We are now renting a two bedroom townhouse, 1 1/2 bathrooms and a nice sized basement for my washer and dryer. I sewed all my own drapes for the townhouse. I had a pair of drapes from our former apartment that I had shortened and now the drapes are on my kitchen window. The most difficult job was making the drapes for the living room. Since I wanted the drapes to be full. I had to mathematically figure out how much fabric to buy. It’s always better to buy extra fabric than to short change yourself. Since I had some remaining fabric left over, I made three matching pillows for my couch.
I sewed a valance at the top of the drapes using a sewing machine ruffler. I figured that it cost me $100 for the fabric and the thread to cover all the windows.
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