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Warning: These inexpensive panels of fabric are addictive?and on sale The space I am fortunate enough to call home is a two-bedroom apartment inside a pre-1906 earthquake Victorian in San Francisco. The five bay windows in my living room are hallmarks of this architecture.
For 13 years, I have spent too much time and money trying to make my abode look effortlessly stylish. It wasn?t until I discovered the quiet minimalism of Nicetown sheer window curtain panels that I understood my misplaced design prerogatives.
Living in a top-floor Victorian that gets a healthy amount of sunlight?a rarity for this type of home due to the narrow architecture and asymmetry?requires that I hang blackout curtains in the bedrooms. (My vitamin D-deprived neighbors below likely have no such requirement.) In the living room, however, I keep the bay windows bare. They provide a power-line emblazoned vista of the I-80 overpass and downtown skyline. At first the naked fenestration was unintentional; I simply had bigger tasks at hand in order to make my living room come to life. A coffee table, a new flatscreen, a sofa, art, minimal bric-a-brac, and low-level lighting were all higher priorities.
For more than a decade, the windows were appreciated and left bare. A few plants were placed in front of them during the early aughts, and a tangle of Christmas lights adorned them during the holidays. Their circa-1900 character deserved to be undisturbed. I was like the Alice Waters of dec...