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Creating a Swag Window Treatment

Finally, we tour the kitchen and dining area of the finished house with the designer. And she teaches Bob how to create a swag for a window treatment.
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Creating a Swag Window Treatment

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" What's your team in decorating the thing here -- country a little less formal and I start with the country pattern paper that we talked about a few weeks ago it's a white background in reverse of the living room and we -- some of the red in here I -- the national fabric here on the napkins. Left over Garnet red from the living room -- the two together had a very nice take that fabric and you just haven't -- donated twining square hand it puts a napkin -- it looks very decorator -- looking. And then we -- the same fabric again on our seat cushions. -- on his simple Beaux asked me it is pretty and then use the left over Garnet red weekend is melting here to have nice and pizza and even it used some loaded up there it's also on the balance right just simply shared -- Now the furniture and if you Brian used very pretty. This is true or at this is an antique table yeah and then use country French reproduction chairs to the chairs are new the chairs are no beautiful -- The back of the chairs that's called the -- shaft Romney backed chair yes I can see it country French OK and then you've got. Terrific looking time cut you have to think English antique pine -- Ireland or memoir leftover fabric into simple little ten inch squares we didn't even seldom we just it used to thinking -- paint along the -- how. Placed in this triangle thing hear it -- color yes little African here."

" And it's useful in our kitchen -- you know we did some work on the kitchen live with the budget story so that we didn't enlarged it always done it. Really we laminate countertops that we're here at any mistake and build new doors in that we created kind of like a country that wonderful -- new appliances dishwasher stove and refrigerator and."

" The white to slice it all up it's great yeah it makes it all look much larger and why is -- color that I can work around any design and her bath you're gonna give us a tip on how to make those flags let me show you mind at all."

" We'll witness -- check out the bathroom before we go there to give you wonderful you know you never saw his bathroom when I first got here we gutting the space here is what we found it was. I was tired of that room that had broken tile on the floor it was kind of a dark yellow and avocado green -- Bathroom that top needed to be replaced and changed the layout of the bathroom so they're getting close the toilet and an extra lavatory and still you know have. Tub and lavatory in this part of it."

" And it looks wonderful Bob it looks -- good sized. I took the great and blue from the tile and repeated in the shower curtain. Great white ticking stripes very nice and this accent glue. Tile is repeated on the -- And the rag rug on the floor which is again very simple to want -- yeah and then granite Lafayette and the same great. Color the tile in the towel."

" Well I tell -- it's always a good idea when you've got a small bathroom to keep things simple. And use a lot of white like tones of gray."

" Isn't very telling central I think would appeal to any man -- no flowers of this for us."

" Let's talk about this window tree."

" Puts it -- work then marks a standard. I found the center simply by falling fabric into directional sure once they have this way was -- once this bank. And I can -- underlined why do you need the center point. Let's start looking all right coming up from that currently are won by four board. I just need savoring their bottom of your favorite shirt. OK now I think to help existing. -- air and one war here. OK and then do right now is start the actual folds are what they called cleats on the flags -- holding the center. Folding up a couple of inches you really -- a lot of options that depends how fully -- to meet her window there's no real hard -- and a lot of or aluminum bringing this piece. Above. I'm trying to cool bit. Tightest possible -- even on both sides and one more than just industry normally have four or five folds. And this flag. I'm just gonna do history. Okay okay now do something like depend on Bob keep things together that we're just gonna -- this thing I'm going to keep my hand and a center of it. And with the left -- bring this up but at one at a time. And bring these falls over and -- them stay awhile and things are already creating the dean of the slab yeah. OK and evidently did the same thing on the other side. That's it took for that great OK. OK now let's put up with a one out. Look at how the when my work goes it goes flat it's kind of like a cap on the top of the window right a couple of angles. Angle brackets right that would go ahead and it -- And there's a simple slack as simple as that target yet again and meditate tentative but it looked like the wanted to bring it was in the living room campaign --"

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