But you know what? I always come back to design. I love it. I do it for fun. I would do it for free. I AM doing it for free. And I would probably even do it for you FOR FREE right now, just for the joy of seeing a room transformed. It's kind of a rush. Email me if you'd like at modernhaus@gmail.com.
So this little project I'm working on is basically a zero-budget makeover, which is pretty much my forté. Paint, an $80 dresser from Craigslist, some vintage thrifted accessories, and these DIY dip dyed, faintly ombré drapes:
They are shown here in my dining room, not their final destination. My SIL is young, had requested a beachy vibe, and the room needed a lot of brightening up, so I decided on a totally-out-of-character shade of coral-pink. And you know what? I'm super into it now.
The dye color was actually "tulip red." In my first attempt at dip-dyeing, I found that the dye color needs to be much darker than the color you want to end up with. So although this had a dark red-fuschia-orange tone in the dye bath, once rinsed the color was more subtle and painterly.
Here you can see how intense the color was before I rinsed and dried the panels.
And if you missed it, here is my first attempt at dip dyeing. Get the tutorial here!
{After I had worked out how to enlarge photos from Instagram, they went and changed the format. Maybe to prevent publishing? I don't know. I'm working on it and will get these enlarged soon!}
