Target

I have a Target less than 2 miles from my house. That said I go there a lot. And I always find something great that I wasn't expecting. I heart Target!!

5 years ago when we bought the house, we put Enje roller blinds and the Kvadrant panel curtain rail systems from Ikea up in every window. I never really liked the Kvadrant panel curtains in our bedroom but somehow a way more important project always took priority over getting different curtains in there. 5 years ago Mark was also smart enough to buy a bunch of different options for the Kvadrant rail system including two packs of hook things. I think his thought process at the time was "I'm just going to buy all the little extra things Ikea sells for the Kvadrant curtain system so I do not have to come back". And now Kvadrant has been replaced at Ikea by something different so if I needed them now I would have been out of luck!




Not sure how this happened but I actually put those hook things someplace where I was able to find them 5 years later. I bet they were compatible with some line of curtains Ikea sold at that time. I took a good look at them and figured out how I could use them with the $14.99 curtain panels I had just purchased at Target (beacause I left Ikea exhausted and without new curtains for our bedroom and Target did not let me down!).



So I got out the trusty Viking and a roll of twill tape and MacGuyvered up those curtain panels to work with the hooks. Totally easy.




And now I have curtains that I love!




Because I'm still using the old rail system, I was able to put each curtain panel on a different track (there are three tracks on this rail) so one panel can completely cover the other one if I need to double them up for some privacy. These new curtains are pretty sheer...we do have a giant lilac bush in front of this window so privacy isn't a huge issue.

While shopping for the curtains I also picked up these $29 suede shoes...