We renovated the bathroom recently. It badly needed an update, and we were finally able to get it done. We replaced the vanity, sink, faucet, medicine cabinet, light fixture, and added a cabinet over the toilet for additional storage. The bathroom looks so much better and I contemplated doing a post about it, but I thought home improvement like this wasn't really the style of latent chestnut. But, when I made the shower curtain and valance (look in the mirror) and thought that would definitely be worthy of a post.
I don't know where we came up with the idea to make a shower curtain, but I'm glad we did because I am so happy with the way it turned out. There are a lot more fabric options than shower curtain options, so we were able to get something we really wanted. I decided to do big stripes because there weren't any pieces of fabric big enough to make the curtain out of a single piece.
I was able to finish the shower curtain in one afternoon, and it came together rather quickly and simply. Once I finished the front, I sewed a piece of muslin on the back and it was almost complete. Our old shower curtain had button holes on it for the shower rings to go through, so I looked in my instruction book on my sewing machine, and sure enough, I could make button holes!
The button hole making process was a lot of fun. I practiced on a fabric scrap to learn the technique and then I lined up the new shower curtain with the old as a template to see where I needed to but the holes. It was a little time consuming to do all those holes, but it was done in no time and the new shower curtain was complete! The room couldn't look better, and I never thought I would have such a sense of pride walking into a bathroom.
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