Home Decorating Question

Hey ya'll. I was just wondering. For curtains with the extra material that is supposed to 'stand up' am I supposed to heavy starch it? I'm having some floppy curtains and I'm so frusty after painting all day (and seeing all the paint on my ceiling) that I could cry. Also... what is an easy way to get the paint off my ceiling?

I don't have any good answers for you as far as the curtains go, but as for the paint on the ceiling...what I would do is paint over it in the original color of the ceiling

As the queen of home disasters:

I can say that paint on the ceiling is a frustrating little thing. Just wait til the walls are dry, then tape them off & go around with a small paint brush and touch up the ceiling paint.

Or just go commando ("no tape") and go around with the brush.

RE: curtains, if you want them to stand up, either starch them like ya said or use that iron-on stuff that is used to bind seams. If you iron that onto the side facing the wall, it'll stiffen it up & make them stand.

OR forget the whole stand-up thing; and just put a garland of ivy or roses up there!!!

Thanks Ladies. Unfortunatly being in military housing I have NO idea what paint they used in the house and when I asked housing they said that they get what is on sale and all the houses are different paint!!! Do I just guess at a ceiling paint? I really don't want to paint the entire thing!! ($$$$)

I'll looking into the binding. My room is blue so I don't see ivy going well in there.

what colour is your ceiling?
You could get a small bucket.
here for a big bucket of paint is 5 - 10 euros.
I got ours for 7 euros and it did a good job!!
We didnt have the ceiling problem as we did top to bottom all white.

TALKING ABOUT DECORATING!

We are moving back to frankfurt at the end of the year
and i so cannot :censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor: wait!
i want a bigger house! with an appartment, i already know which area i want to live in... i just cannot wait!
paint, plants, furniture! ohhhh

Usually places paint ceilings with latex but "flat" sheen. I would not ever use the "flat" paint as it is very difficult to clean. I think it goes: flat-eggshell-stain-semi gloss-gloss. I usually use eggshell or satin. My painting boo-boos I touch up with artist paint brushes it might need to coats to touch up. For the curtains-are the lined? Would it be possible to iron on some stiffer interfacing on that area to give the fabric some stability??

I have no idea I hate to paint, had someone do it lol,My hubby did crown molding and really nice big baseboard
But I do like to sew curtins and such, I bought the same fabric that matched my sofa and lounge chair for the family room down stairs. I did the curtins in the master bedroom to, anymore I can't seem to get moviated

The ceiling is an offwhite color. I did a small touch up with the extra white paint from the trim. If anything its a good primer to cover the blue boo boos and I can get a ceiling paint over the white. Tomorrow I'm going to try and heavy starch the curtains and see what that does.