General Chat

im fed up in haveing to buy cheep curtain :-(
i want to re-decorate the living room and get new curtain
BUT i have to get 3 sets has i have 3 window in the living room
so i have a limit of spending no more than about £30 a set
but this time i wanted to buy realy nice quality for about £70-£100
but i cant its just way to much for 3 set of curtain

FED UP FED UP FED UP :-( :-( :-( :-(

I'm also FED UP re curtains!

I bought a lovely pair of curtains to go up in my lounge last year. But before they went up, we were emotionally pushed by our Grandson into taking in an abandoned cat who had been living rough in a hedge for some time.

Just as well we hadn't put them up, as the old ones still up there he commenced in clawing and "mouthing" to mark his doorway (the window):-0

And just as well we love the cat! :-| :-D

Anyone have any idea how I can stop him doing this as I am desperate to put the new ones up?

He has a scratching post and various other things he is allowed to scratch :-D

Jem you can by a deterrent spray from pet shops. I also found anything lemon scented near the offending spot works.

Watch out in the Dunelm stores if you have one near you Shelly as I have had some great bargains from there. If there is not a store near you try online <3

get a spay bottle and give the cat a little spay with out the cat seening you
this i beleve is how you get cats to stop doing some think you dont want them to do

but just to be on the saft side try google and see what come up

Thanks both :-)

B & M Bargains often have some very nice and reasonable priced curtains :-)

I had the ones for my bedroom from there as well as the pair for the lounge

Have a browse on Ebay UK and or Amazon. There are bargains to be had :-)

LaGooner just been looking at Dunelm stores thay have some nice blinds

david i dont have ebay but i get my nets from amazon

i realy want to look in shops to see the quilty and colour whan iv re painted the room

The other good store for curtain bargains is the Range Shelly. :-)

I make my own sometimes
If I cant find exactly what I want :-D :-D

LOL joy
i come down a long line of Taylors and dress makers maybe it time i go a sewing machine

I always make my own curtains Shelly, they are very simple especially if you use plain fabric or something easy to match up. You can make hook-in linings from thermal liners that keep heat in and light out, if required.

I found some lovely curtains in a charity shop recently, some people change furnishings very often so the curtains are barely used and only cost £3.95 but buying several pairs to match might be difficult.

With lots of stores closing down you might find some really good bargains. Good luck.

Lizx

It only takes a moment to open an account with Ebay then you can browse any category from a needle to a house :)

The only trouble with buying from websites is you cannot look at what you are buying which I and probably most others like to do :-)

Dunelm make your curtains for you at a reasonable cost if you buy the material from them. My daughter has just done this.

I used to watch a BBC presenter named Sarah Moore. She used to browse among what was being thrown out at tips. If something caught her eye she would take it away, with the owners permission. She had a knack of doing things up and selling them at
upmarket prices. Her profit from the sale she sale she would give to the owner.
Her ingenuity and natural talent were/are very entertaining :-)

Jemima, is the scratch post near the window he is guarding/marking, so he can use the scratch post for that purpose, and also, is it a decent size, not one of those tiny things that are ok for kittens but wobble and/or are too short for a grown cat to have a really good strop?

Mine prefer the 6 ft cat trees, but I appreciate you may not have the room for one of those.

I've got 2 cats - and wooden ventian blinds!

The front room window is very wide, so I have 2 blinds there (cheaper than buying one very large one), but this also enables the cats to stick their heads between the two blinds, and look very cute from the road! :-D

FEDex and Ups are to merger and be known as Fedup (?)

I also have two cats, and wooden venetian blinds, but the cats stick not just their heads but the rest of their bodies through the slats of the blinds so they can climb through and bask on the window sill in the sunshine, on days like today.

They are Singapuras so small enough to slip between the slats easily, albeit noisily, though I suspect other cats with the will to do so would also succeed. :-D