curtains are my nemesis.

For those of you who have been following my blog for awhile now (thank you!), this post will not surprise you. I am, once again, having curtain issues.

(sigh)

I thought I was done with the curtains for the boy's room. Turns out that while two panels serve to cover the window, I think that it really needs 4 panels to adequately bunch, at least to my standards. I have been hunting for some cute panels that match the navy panels and yellow and navy plaid valance I already have up. They don't necessarily have to be navy, or even blue for that matter. Other accent colors I'd be happy to include are red, brown, tan or black (yes, black).

Hit three stores today. At the third one I picked up some super cute panels with red, navy, light blue, tan and other various stripes. I knew fully well that they would not match the valance, but I figured if I liked them enough I'd just switch out the valance to something solid or chuck it all together and do a cute decorative rod.

I get home, hightail it up the stairs and hang those suckers.

(groan)

They are not at all what I had expected. Even though the colors seem like they should match my accents, they just don't. At all. Wrong shades of color, too chaotic. I preferred the two navy panels by themselves.

(sigh)

So they are going back to the store. And the hunt is still on. Have I ever told you how much I hate curtain shopping?