Choosing the right curtains for a bathroom can become a task. The marketplace offers one a wide array of curtains, which doesn’t make matters easier. We do have options however. The options enable us to choose style, colors, patterns, and so on. The most important thing a person can do however is to investigate their bathroom first. Your investigation will help you choose coordinating colors and patterns.
How do I choose the right color for my curtains?
When choosing the right colors, you want to use information you have gathered, since choice of style, color, and patterns. You may want to go online, or to local department stores to view, the variety of curtains offered to you. Having a visual always helps one to choose patterns and designs.
Once you have chosen your style and patterns, it will be easier to choose your colors. The basic concept is to make sure that the colors match the colors of your existing bathroom accessories, windowpanes, doors, floors, rugs, wall covers, etc.
How will I know if my curtain fits?
To make sure that your curtain will fit you must measure your window first. Use a standard craftsmen-measuring gauge. You want to measure lengthwise and widthwise starting at the center of the fabric. If you are creating your own by hand, measure across the length and width. Leave a bit of allowances for your seams, which should always be around half-inch to a quarter inch.
How do I choose hooks or rings?
When deciding the pattern you can consider hooks and rings once you finish. Like curtains, you have a wide array of curtain rods, rings, and hooks to choose. You have the choice of hooks, or rings such as the looped items, which loop around your rod. Remember however, that the rod should fit the style of your curtains, hooks and/or rings.
Your choices include the round pine and maple rods. The rods will add a twist of charm to your new atmosphere.
How do I install my new curtains?
Installing the new curtains is not difficult. Keep in mind that your brackets are straight. To do this you may want to use a tape measure to gauge the distance down from the ceiling. Make sure that you start on both sides, starting on the same side. Once you finish, use artisans pencil to mark the spot. This will help you to remember where you need to drill holes for mounting. If you want you can choose common brackets to mount your curtain rods, screws, etc, which you will need to mark you spot so you don’t forget also. Once you finish, you can then hang your curtains.
When you start to measure, your curtains start in the room, measuring the window, measuring the window length to width. Keep notes so that you do not loose your information. Once you have your curtains mounted, you may want to consider shades, top treatments, home accents, coordinating pillows, and more. If you added flowery curtains to your bathroom, you may want to purchase and/or build a corner stand. Sit the stand in the corner of the room and add a flower vase and coordinating artificial flowers. In addition, you can add a few wicker baskets in your bathroom to store decorative soaps, perfumes, fancy toiletries, and so on. The baskets filled with fancy items will leave a lasting impression on your visitors.
Speaking of curtains, you may want to review window binds instead. Window blinds give a natural feel to the atmosphere; as well, the blinds are easy to wash. If you have a loved one in the home with a handicap, you may want to consider showers designed to accommodate the disabled also.
John Pawlett
http://www.articlesbase.com/home-and-family-articles/choosing-curtains-and-bathroom-accessories-89282.html
What do you think of my story? Be brutally honest?
Chapter One – Clockwork
Tuesday 14th May
Outside Her House
That’s what I love about her the most. The way I can predict her every move, she’s like clockwork. She is clockwork.
I’m in the same bush that I was in yesterday, the low branches hide my figure but I can still see her beautiful face. Sometimes she comes close enough for me to smell her perfume. It’s times like those when I become intoxicated and it takes me a while to become aware of my surroundings once more.
By this time, she’s taken out the trash and gone back inside and my hopefulness of seeing her for that much longer has been taken away from me, snatched from my hands before I can even get a firm hold.
It’s the same routine for her every single day. From the outlines I can make out from my spot in the shrubberies, she wakes every morning at 6:45am. No earlier, no later. From here she immediately walks to the bathroom to begin her morning rituals of showering before brushing her long dark hair and cleaning her teeth with the Mickey Mouse toothbrush that she bought for a dare from the convenience store on the corner.
On certain days she spends longer than usual choosing an outfit, but she never takes more time than needed. She’s never been one to dwell on beauty or accessories, and she’s never realized just how beautiful she is without the poison of make-up and pink hair bobbles.
After a small breakfast of Lucky Charms cereal with whole fat milk, she proceeds to watch an episode of SpongeBob Square Pants before I receive my reward. The time that I wait so patiently for every single day arrives between 8:00am and 8:30am, a time where she feels she needs to make her presence known. Whether it’s just to check on the rose bush in the top corner of the garden or to take out the trash or even to simply get some fresh air, between these times I can finally see her beautiful face without the filter of glass or curtain.
When the time finally comes for me to ignore the stab of pain as she goes back inside, I switch places to the bus stop down the street. Ten minutes later – sometimes fifteen if it takes longer for her to find the coat that she usually shoves in the back of her closet – she walks past me and walks the three blocks to the Starbucks on Green Street. Sometimes, I can smell her perfume as she walks by. Sometimes, she smiles at me. But as I watch her as she walks away down the street, perfect hair blowing in the morning breeze, I know that she’ll never see me for me.
I’m just the person on the corner who waits for the bus every morning.
I’m just the person who waits in her garden for her to wake.
I’m just the person that she loves, that she pines for but just doesn’t know it yet.
I’m just the person that is going to make her realize who I am.
One way or another, she should know how I feel.
The story in general is about a girl who has a stalker. At the start of each chapter, there will be an extract from the stalker stating his point of view. This is the extract from the first chapter. I haven’t gotten any further, because I want to know your opinion first.
Constructive criticism is love. <3
Thanks in advance!
xox
Actually that was good. I started getting goosebumps and was getting sort of disturbed. Just in the sense like ewww he’s a stalker. That’s a good blip especially just for his commentary if it’s not constant and just an insert into the girls story. Good job, I would love to read it when you’ve got more.
I know you asked for criticism but this is really well done. You could try and drag it out a bit more, give it a bit more detail in some areas, like saying ‘but I could still see her face through the network of branches.’ But it’s very rarely needed. And the sentence ‘when the time finally comes for me to ignore the stab of pain as she goes back inside,’ could be rephrased a bit, it just feels a bit awkward.
Again, good job
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Very good. I like it! Keep going. It’s a unique story.
Please help me?
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I LOVE IT!!!!
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i think you have a great start on your hands, i think it was interesting, Good vocabulary, and it has a nice flow. If anything, i wouldnt go into so much detail about her daily life everytime you do an extract from the stalkers point of view, people may find this a bit boring or as if the story is falling flat, other then that i dont see a problem.
Good Luck : )
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It’s good, but it’s been done before. Countless times. By Mary Higgins Clark and a ton of other suspense writers. Maybe you should add something to make it a little more original?
But your writing is excellent. Keep up the good work.
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Sounds addctive to me
I would defenitelly buy the book
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That guy is creeeeee-py. No lie. At first I was like, what the heck is he doing in her freaking backyard? And then I got the fact that he was a stalker and I literally said "ew". Very good, very descriptive and interesting. It’s not the kind of stuff I normally read but I like it a lot.
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It’s much better than I expected. Most of these "Read my story/poem and be brutally honest" questions are just, to be honest, brutal.
It’s hard to judge the story or the characters, since this is just a fragment. So, I’ll focus on the language.
You have a few "lazy" constructions here. These are cliches that you drop into your writing without realizing it, because you hear them so much. But, they aren’t your real voice, and they are old and worn, so you should take them out. Say something fresh instead — something that sounds like you. Some examples:
* "intoxicated" to describe the feeling caused by a beloved person
* "see me for me"
* "just doesn’t know it yet"
* "make her realize who I am"
But, overall, you use a fewer cliches than most people. Good job.
I really like the way that you consider each of the five senses.
Ordinarily, stating people’s motives instead of implying them ("She’s never been one to dwell on …") is weak. But, here, seen through the lens of a stalker, it works really well, because, of course, he is the one ascribing the motive to her. Nice touch. I’d use it even more. In the course of the story as a whole, it will be even more effective if the motives he ascribes to her are incorrect, but that is never overtly told to the reader.
Overall, if this was the story hook, I’d keep reading.
Have you tried posting to http://www.thenextbigwriter.com/ ? It’s a free site where aspiring writers trade reviews of each other’s work. You’ll get a lot of feedback there, and it will be from other writers.
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I LOVED it! it was really creepy, (in a good way lol), i love books like that and if that was a full book, i would of been captured from that and wouldn’t want to stop reading, you should definetly carry on! and get it published for me to read Lol,
Good Luck with the rest!
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FYI Whatever you don’t want stolen don’t publish.
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I enjoyed reading it. I wanted to know what would happen next. I love the idea and wish I would have thought of it.
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i loved it!!
it was really good, the kind of book that grabs my attention from the first sentence.
welldone, i hope it gets published:D
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