living room magic.

I’ve pretty much wrapped things up in our living room and now I just need Donovan to hook up the entertainment center electronics and we will be sitting in pure living room heaven. Ok, thats pushing it a little, but I am quite in love with how everything has come together so nicely in our little home. Yesterday, I worked on a project that completely transformed my living room (hence the living room magic heading!). What I am going to share with you today is a little best kept secret I would have to say. Curtains + curtain rods! Ok, thats not the secret, but what I discovered yesterday while getting mine up is truly phenomenal. (Some of you probably already know this – I on the other hand did not.) For those of you who don’t, the secret to making your living room look MUCH bigger, much prettier and more GRAND is to hang your curtain rods almost up to your ceiling! I did this yesterday and my living room got bigger immediately! High curtain rods = living room magic! Take a peek and let me know what you think!

{ BEFORE }

{ These are just the cheap curtain rods the house came with, I was using them till I got mine up. }

{AFTER}

{ A huge difference! Sorry, I didn’t have a better before picture, I got excited and forgot to take more! I hung them 4″ down from the ceiling and 5″ out from each side of the window. }

{ I got these cute little tiebacks from Urban Outfitters on Sale for very inexpensive, they turned out great with these curtains, now I just need to find something for the other side! }

{ My curtains are from IKEA and I believe the curtain rods came from Target. I’m not sure if you can tell or not, but since I like to create a little difference in everything I do, I painted the hooks that hold the rods black, so now the curtain rods are a brushed gold on black brackets. I think it adds another layer or interest! }

Move those rods up if you haven’t already done this!