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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Wanna Save a Buck?

I don't know about anyone else out there, but I sure get tired of looking at the same old things in my house. The last couple of weeks it's been my curtains. I was sick of the gold color and thought of how i'd really like to change them. That was until I started pricing curtains that are 120" long. UGHH! So I came up with this fabulous idea to dye my gold velvet curtains brown. I was too chicken to dye them in my washing machine at the risk of ruining my machine, So I took them to the laundromat, paid $4.00 and dyed them in those machines. The results...incredible. They turned out this really nice milky chocolate brown and I love them!! So, I have a new look in my family room and saved a buck or shall I say $100 bucks.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

So proud of you for being so frugal! I can't wait to see them in person! What a great idea for a quick and easy makeover!

Allie Thornbrue said...

Nice!

Marc and Ingrid said...

Wow! I would of never thought of that!

Amy said...

wow! I love success stories like this. just goes to show that frugal can still be very chic.