Do you ever drip house paint on your clothes and notice that the resulting splatter stays forever, despite your best laundering efforts? Admittedly, my laundry skills are weak. But my wardrobe is seriously starting to morph into that of a house painter who forgets to wear their work clothes to the job site. Turning that unfortunate knowledge into a positive on this curtain project for our thrown together guest room. I had a pair of boring white Ikea curtains from our last house that had no purpose here. I have secret dreams to one day be a textile designer (screen-printed barkcloth, obviously) so instead of giving these away, I went to town with a paint brush and house paint. I didn’t have any fabric paint lying around in cool colors, but I’m stinkin’ rich in cans of house paint. I mixed up some colors until I found the just right shade of bile.I drew my design lightly in pencil first and then painted right over it. There are no do-overs in this process so if a painterly aesthetic sounds gross, this isn’t the project for you. This probably goes without saying, but the paint will bleed through the whatever is underneath so protect floors or furniture. I have washed these and, as predicted, they are colorfast.. And here is the thrown together guest room. I’m not even sure it can be called that, more like the storage unit for all the leftover pieces of the house. One day soon it will get a hardwood floor upgrade and become a kid’s room (sharing a room currently), but for now it’s doing the storage/guestroom job alright!