In a busy world, there’s rarely a good time to renovate. With Christmas coming, the end of the year creeping up and a dozen other things on the go, I’ve decided it’s finally time to give our family home a little attention.
You’d think choosing curtains and blinds for my own place would be easy. I do it every day. But I can be my own toughest critic. I’ll look at a fabric in the morning, come back to it in the afternoon and still want to see it one more time. I care as much about getting it right in my home as I do in yours.
Our walls are painted Snowy White and the architraves are Vivid White. I’m going with Snow White shutters to tie in with the existing whites, and mixing things up with an Oryx sheer in Parchment. Oryx is a thicker sheer, so it has a bit more body. The Parchment colour softens all that white and gives our family spaces the warmer feel I’ve been looking for.
Then there are the Primrose trims. I want them to blend in a little more, so I’m using light filtering blinds to soften how much they stand out while still letting daylight through. In the bathroom and toilet, I’m choosing opaque blinds for privacy.
Working through these choices at home has reminded me how different a fabric can look once you hold it up against your own paintwork. Parchment was the one I kept coming back to. Against all those whites, it gave the room just enough warmth to feel like home.
