We’ve been in the house for a few months now and I understand why other people kept telling us our house would always be a work in progress. We haven’t officially completed any room but we’ve done a bunch of stuff halfway. The big problem is the unexpected. We fix one thing then another goes haywire. For example, we finally bought a washer and dryer, installed it and have been enjoying it then our heater went out. This whole house has been a bunch of wins and losses.

One recent win was finding a solution to our door problem. We’d been debating whether or not we’d buy doors for 3 rooms and wait on the rest or if we’d replace all the doors in the house at once so they could all match. We came up with an affordable quirky solution.

We received 3 sets of window panels from family that sat in a bag in the corner for longer than I’d like to admit. After putting it on the back burner for a while, I bought curtain rods and decided which curtains would go where. Then hubby came up with a great idea. Sure he was kind of joking (I hope) but it was a good idea. He said to hang a bead curtain up as a temporary door. Of course I wasn’t going to do that because it didn’t fit in with the rest of our house but it got me thinking. I could use the extra panels as doors. They’d be fun, effective (blackout curtains) and cute. Later on the same day we went to my favorite store and bought the spring loaded rods pictured below. I love them!! They were the right price and perfect length for our hallway. It’s not the fanciest thing in the world but it is a great temporary solution that instantly made our house feel a little more put together.