Boat curtains

Sometimes it’s the small details that help make a space feel like home. This is especially true if your home (full or part-time) is a boat. There generally isn’t a lot of room for personalization i…

I came up to Briar Rose this morning, as I have a boat test to do up this way tomorrow. It turned out to be the slowest and most difficult journey since we've been coming up here, thanks to torrential rain for most of the route. I hope it's been doing the same on the reservoirs which feed canals like the Oxford, which are exceptionally low at the moment. After lunch on the boat, the first job was to take the old oil from our first oil change to the recycling centre in Rugby. It's less than…

Before our long journey begins, it is time to start to create our new home from “the boat”. So it’s time to change the curtains. The first curtains came with the boat for 25 year…

A classic blue and white palette with nautical details energizes a family's lifelong love affair with their 54-foot wooden sailing yacht.

How we made custom blackout curtains for our vintage camper.

i almost started a whole new category for the experience of sewing these tricky, little boat curtains called “fml.” if ya don’t know that acronym, google it. it accurately describ…

Spacing the hooks Well after two years, isn't it about time!??? Let's just say that my procrastination skills have not waned since moving aboard in November, 2012... Interior decoration is not one of my strong suits either, unfortunately... So, when we finally decided to drag out the Sailrite and get to work on that curtain project I've been studiously avoiding, the hard work had already been done! Our first attempt... Choosing our mounting method proved to be most difficult for us, and the…