HELP...I've been looking for the right curtains for almost a year!
Ffion Francis
9 years ago
Hi everyone, yes this is true! I had it in my head that I wanted blush pink velvet curtains which I couldn't find anywhere. I impulsively bought some rose pink curtains which don't look right at all so I am now back to the drawing board! I actually think that blinds would be better however we are on a busy street with bright street lamps (yes I can only sleep with an eye mask!) so would really need some noise cancelling black out ones - any suggestions or experience of these? Do they actually work? The photos aren't great but the walls are dove grey with wallpaper on just the wall with the window. I am also considering painting the window white but would need to be 100% sure as we paid a lot of money to get new sash double glazed sash windows...which do not cancel out much noise at all! Any advice or suggestions would be much appreciated.
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9 years agoAnd what are the rest walls of the room look like? May be it's possible to move bed to the left? So half of the bed would have the wall behind (as feng shui says) and you could do something like model on img.
As for color try to think about coral or marsala. They pretty work with grey and are not so nipped as yellow, pink or orange & grey.
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