The Painted Fixed Roman Shade

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend. Memorial Day Weekend is my fav weekend of the year because it usually means that we are celebrating my birthday! I'll spare you all of the pics from the weekend, but it was a good one. Thanks to my lovely family and friends, I had a girl's night, birthday bbq at my house (I didn't have to cook a thing), and I received some lovely presents.

Last week a left you with a peek at my latest project. Did any of you guess that I was going to make a faux fixed roman shade out of a shower curtain that I spent way too many hours painting?

The door that leads to the garage from our den isn't pretty. At all. There is a weird screen over the window that needed to be covered up. In true Nikki form I decided that I would try to cover it very stylishly without spending much money.

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I am a big fan of the chipper pattern, but I needed it in navy.  I couldn't find it in navy, but my friend Liz painted the pattern on her breakfast room chairs. She is brilliant like that. This is why I like paint so much. It comes in any color. Armed with a no longer used white canvas shower curtain, leftover navy paint from the built-ins, a small piece of cardboard cut out in this pointy oval shape, and my paint brushes, I painted my own chipper pattern.

Let me just say that while I am very happy with the end result, the process was pure torture. I traced each pointy oval with a pencil and then filled them in with paint. It took forever! It wouldn't have been bad if I was good a pacing myself and had spread this out over a few days, but I did it all at once. I just couldn't seem to stop until it was done. Not pacing yourself = torture. Otherwise, it was quite simple.

 I chose to do a fixed roman shade because I didn't need it to function. I just wanted the ugly screen/window covered up. I followed this tutorial from Centstional Girl.

Later this week I plan to show you a true before of this room and another little update that I made.

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