I have lived in my apartment for over 18 months. Hanging curtains in my bedroom has been my nemesis. Apparently, although the walls between apartments are made of paper, the exterior walls seem to be made of approximately 5′ of steel. My previous attempts at drilling the necessary holes for the curtain-rod brackets have met with limited success. I have blinds, ugly ugly blinds, but they only filter out, oh, 2% of the outdoor light. And there’s a lamppost right outside my window.

Finally, after the gift from my dad of a new cordless drill plus his previous gift of new drill bits, I set to work today. This is what the window looked like before. It’s a large window, about 54″ across, which is especially large considering my bedroom isn’t all that big.

Then, after some elbow grease, a little luck and a whole lot of screwing (wink, wink — well, drilling, but screwing sounds cuter), behold!

I think I like the curtains better down, but I’ll leave them tied back for now. Hopefully it will all hold together LOL.

The curtains are from Tar-jay, can you believe it? I have two more panels, too, leftover from my last house — the master bedroom had three windows in a row. That was a biatch to deal with, but shocker, did that by myself too! ; )

Ah, here are my lovely drill bits. For such a girly-girl, I can be such a guy sometimes too!

∗ Posted by Monique on 07.28.2006
∗ Accomplishments, Family