" What's your theme in decorating the room?"

" The theme here is country, a little less formal, and I started with the country pattern paper that we talked about a few weeks ago. It's a white background, the reverse living room, and we still got some of the red in here."

" Right."

" I used the matching fabric here on the napkins, leftover garnet red from the living room tack the 2 together----"

" So you just----"

" and got a very nice----"

" take the fabric and you just hem it and you're done, yeah."

" Made a 20-inch square, hemmed it, put some napkin rings. It looks very decorator."

" Yeah."

" Okay. And then we had used the same fabric again on our seat cushions, tied them on with simple bows."

" That's neat."

" It is pretty, and then used the leftover garnet red again as welting here to add a nice little detail."

" And you even used some of it up there."

" It's also on the balance, right, just simply sheared it on to a pole."

" Now, the furniture that you brought in here is very pretty."

" This is fruit wood. This is an antique table."

" Yeah."

" And then we used country French reproduction chairs."

" So the chairs are new?"

" The chairs are new."

" Beautiful turney."

" Yeah."

" Yeah. The back of the chair is what's called the wheatsheaf or wheatback chair."

" Yes, I can see it."

" Country French."

" Okay. And then you've got a terrific-looking pine hutch here."

" This is an English antique pine hutch."

" More leftover fabric?"

" More leftover fabric. These are simple little 10-inch squares. We didn't even saw them, Bob. We just did use a pinking shear and pinked along the edge."

" How neat."

" Placed in these triangles in here. It brings a little color."

" Yeah."

" A little fabric in here."

" And it's useful in our kitchen although, you know, we did some work on the kitchen. It was a budget story so that we didn't enlarge it. All we've done is really re-laminate the countertops that were here out of the sink and build new doors in so that we created kind of, again, a country look."

" It's wonderful."

" And some new appliances, dishwasher, stove, and refrigerator and----"

" The white just lightens it all up. It looks great, Bob."

" Yeah. It makes it all look much larger."

" And white is a color that I can work around, any designer can work around that."

" That's true. You were gonna give us a tip on how to make those swags?"

" Let me show you. Come on down the hall. Oh, wait a minute. Let's check out the bathroom before we go in there----"

" Okay."

" because you----"

" It's wonderful."

" You know, you never saw this bathroom when----"

" No, I didn't."

" we first got here. We got this space here because what we found was a tired room that had broken tile on the floor. It was kind of a dark yellow and avocado green bathroom. The tub needed to be replaced and we changed the layout of the bathroom so that we can enclose the toilet and an extra lavatory and still, you know, have a tub and lavatory in this part of it."

" It looks wonderful, Bob, and it looks to be a good size. I took the grey and blue from the tile and repeated it in this shower curtain, grey and white ticking stripe."

" Very nice."

" And then this accent blue tile is repeated on the rug, on the rag rug on the floor which is again very simple to launder."

" Yeah."

" And then the grey, I was lucky I found the same grey color of the tile and the towels."

" Well, I tell you, it's always a good idea when you've got a small bathroom to keep things simple and to use a lot of white, light tones and grey."

" This is very tailored and simple. I think what appealed to any man, too, no flowers in this room."

" Let's talk about this window tree. What's that pin in the middle for?"

" The pin marks the center. I found the center simply by folding the fabric in 2 directions."

" Oh, sure."

" Once in half this way----"

" And once the other way."

" once this way and that gave me my center line."

" And so why do you need the center point?"

" It's where I start----"

" Okay."

" working from---- alright, coming up from that onto our 1 x 4 board. I just need to staple right there, Bob, if you could help me."

" I'll be your stapler, sure."

" Okay. You know, I think it helped. I'll just do one more there and one more here. Okay. What we're gonna do right now is start the actual folds or what they call pleats of the swags by holding the center and folding it up maybe a couple of inches. You really have a lot of options with it. It depends how full you want it for your window. There's no real hard [unk]"

" Place another above or below?"

" No, I'm gonna bring this piece up above. I'm trying to keep it as tight as possible----"

" Yeah."

" even on both sides and one more. I'm just gonna do 3. Normally, I have 4 or 5 folds in the swag. I'm just gonna do 3."

" Okay."

" Okay. Now----"

" How are you doing with them?"

" Some people like to pin them, Bob, to keep them together, but we're just gonna wing this right now. I'm gonna keep my hand on the center of it, and with the left, I'm gonna bring this up but then one at a time. I'm gonna bring these folds over."

" And staple them?"

" Staple one. See how we're already creating the V of the swag?"

" Yeah."

" Okay. Now, let me just place----"

" And then we do the same thing on the other sides?"

" Uh huh, that's as simple as that."

" Great."

" Okay."

" Okay. Now what?"

" Okay. Let's put it up to the window."

" Okay, so how---- the 1 x 4 goes----"

" It goes flat. It's almost like a cap on the top of the window frame. "

" So you'd need a couple of angles."

" Angle brackets, right."

" And that would go like that."

" I can't reach."

" Yeah, like that."

" And there's your simple swag."

" Yeah."

" It's as simple as that."

" Now, we get the idea and then while you take the time to do them right, they'll look like the ones----"

" They're wonderful."

" you did for us in the living room."

" Okay."

" Nice tip."