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Create Academy | How to Make Beautiful Curtains by Gemma Moulton 

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If you’ve been following Café Design for some time, then you know how much I love Create Academy and their course offerings so, when they reached out to ask whether I was interested in taking a few of their classes and share my opinions with you, I leaped at the chance. Taking a Create Academy class feels like chatting with incredibly talented friends who are willing to share their wealth of knowledge and experience with you, and are cheering you on as you discover your inner crafter and decorator. Today I’d like to share my thoughts on a relatively recent class added to Create Academy ’s Arts and Crafts curriculum  – How to Make Beautiful Curtains, by Gemma Moulton. Gemma is a prolific curtain-maker and owner of East London Cloth, a workroom specializing in bespoke window treatments and soft furnishings.

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Last Week’s Finds & A New Course from Create Academy

Good morning, friends! I hope your weekend was a good one… The weather has been on the mend lately so we took a couple of walks on the nearby trails but, for the most part, we busied ourselves indoors and made good progress on our dining room renovation. (Pictures to follow.) Just to give you an idea, after installing French doors between the dining room and the kitchen, the decorating dominoes started to fall and we went on to add wainscoting on the lower part of the dining room walls (simple beaded paneling topped with pine nosing). We finished the construction phase this weekend and are now onto the fun stuff- caulking, sanding, priming and painting. I hope I’ll be able to share a prettier picture with you next week. Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn a commission on all qualifying purchases. Thank you!

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Create Your Perfect Home – A Create Academy Course by Rita Konig

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In December of last year Create Academy launched an intriguing course called Create Your Perfect Home, taught by renowned British decorator Rita Konig. Like many of you, I’m sure, I was very excited at the idea of having Rita Konig pull back the curtains on her projects and share a glimpse inside her processes. We’ve seen her genius at work in one of the most talked about and admired homes ever published – a Mill Valley camp turned family home by architect Gil Schafer in collaboration with Rita Konig, so this Create Academy course definitely has us paying attention. I have just finished watching the entire course this weekend and I thought I’d share a short review here on the blog, in case you are interested in taking the class but unsure of whether or not it’s a good fit.

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