of home furnishings etc.

I moved into this new home more than 6 months ago. The place has an open kitchen, airy and spacious living room, huge wardrobe, enough furniture for me to never think about buying anything new, a terrace and lots of plants. Yes, my generous ex-owner thought she could leave all her non human living co-habitants with me. Thanks to the super nice cleaning lady they are alive. And thanks to aai, who cleaned a lot of pots, cut away weed, they are thriving. I take credit for all the beauty and life these plants add to the home. Simple. Ok I am not that neglectful, I do water them every now and then and do make sure the weeds are thrown out. I just wanted to convey that plants are not dying on me or I am not causing anything harmful to them and those things changed in this house and hence this is special! May be I am too naive to take this all personally but you get the gist, or need more rant?

Anywho, the move happened as I wanted and I loved the new place, but I never quite settled in. This, that and a lot of laziness. I lived almost 4 months without a refrigerator and with a makeshift kitchen. So much so that, that was the excuse I used few times to avoid unwanted guests. Over time things had to change because how often could I crash other people's dinner or self-invite myself to their homes ? After many other measures to procrastinate, I now have a fully functional kitchen with refrigerator and appliances and what not.

book nook!

The only other part of the home, which was fully functional from day 1 was this book nook. I love how light played on the books from this window. Window. This window. The window which streamed abundant sunlight as the sun started setting, since it faced the west. The window without the curtain. The window by which KT and I sat and discussed, how it needed a dreamy curtain. 

Dreamy curtain. It all started that day. The quest to drape this wistful window by a dreamy curtain. How you define dreamy is up to you. To me, some fabric which would let the light flow, not block it fit the bill. A fabric with flow and lightness. I turned all home decor shops in my neighborhood upside down. Ready made curtains got rejected for obvious reasons. I sat by pile after pile of reams of cloth and inquired about how I would get a curtain stitched. Nothing felt like 'this is it'. You know the magical moment, when everything starts making sense ? Somehow google became aware of I needed a curtain and one thing led to another and I started exploring online options. I was reluctant because, how do you buy a fabric without feeling its lightness ? Just by description and pictures ? I put few things in my cart. Started taking opinions. And then went on a 3 week work trip. When I returned the contents of the cart were not available any more. The question of the elusive but curtain-less window remained.

Around 10 days ago, I finally placed an online order for a curtain, irrespective of what lay in store for me. To make matters tougher the website people decided to take their own sweet time to process and deliver the goods. I started tracking the order progress every day. Day before yesterday when the order progress bar had not moved even a tiny bit, I grew impatient and in a desperate bit, let it go. And then by some uncanny magic, yesterday in the middle of a meeting I got a call that the delivery person was out. I told him to leave the package by the security guards, only to realize after few hours that my much awaited dreamy curtain was here!

half dreamy

I finally collected it and hurriedly opened the package and oh! it was really a dream! The fabric was soft, light and had flow. I knew my dream of a dreamy curtain had fulfilled. 

Of course everyone including me would want the story to end here. But my handicapped home furnishing knowledge had made me order 1 curtain for a 2 paneled window. So in short this is how the curtain looked on the window (<-)

So after adorning half of the window, I frantically opened my laptop, searched for the product online. Thankfully it was in stock. But now they were selling it in pairs instead of single piece! Grinding my teeth, pulling my hair, I placed another order. Now in another 10 days or so, I'll have my perfect pair of dreamy curtains. And of course, one unwanted dreamy curtain.

So moral of the story, don't settle unless half or 1 1/2 of your dream is fulfilled.