Cafe Curtain Call

When we moved into our new apartment I originally had envisioned long VELVET drapes in a deep jewel tone for the three windows in the living room. 

Inspiration: 

Ina Garten's Manhattan apartment. Silk, velvet, orange a-mazingness. 

Link: hookedonhouses.net

Pottery Barn eggplants. 

Pottery Barn

However, because we have 3 windows in a row, it would have called for a lot of curtain and would block all the gorgeous sunshine that floods the room during the day. 

So this was my next inspiration:

Cafe Curtains.

Provides Privacy but also lets the light shine in! More Parisian chic than Country though.

Last night I just decided to experiment and yank my current curtains down to half-way.

I like the concept...

I just need to replace these with shorter, white, breezy curtains and it will look 19304039494 times better.

The view is pretty good too, I pretty much wanted to live in Manhattan for the cityscape, why cover it up ?

Thoughts? Are cafe curtains cheesy? Are my windows too ugly? 

Its Cute, no? xx

Follow-up Friday

Just wanted to post a quick follow up to my weekend project #1: Table a la orange..

Those windows are probably my favorite part of the apartment, they let in SO much amazing, glorious, spectacular sunshine. 

One more vignette for you...

A couple of interesting tidbits about these items:

A) That lamp is from Ikea and the product name is "Jonesbo Egby". 

B) The cloth on the table is actually a pillow cover a co-worker brought back from India for me.

C) The un-identifiable black piece is actually a bust of an Egyptian pharaoh that my grandfather gave to me last time I was in Greece. His family lived in Alexandria for many years and this was something he had from those times.

D) The porcelain sea urchin's were a birthday gift from my lovelyyy friend Anna :) They are super cute with little tea-lights inside. 

So this weekend's goal:

 Fix my framing issues; gallery wall (see previous post) and these (courtesy of mom) :

I think they are too high and wayyy crooked. GRR.

Well... Happy Friday!

It's cute, no? xx