Decorating Kiko’s nursery has been a challenge since we live in a small Japanese rental town house. Her room is a Japanese room with tatami mat floor and low ceiling. On top of that, the ceiling is in wood pattern paper, so when I taped something on the ceiling and pealed it off later, the wood pattern came off! I think the traditional Japaneses room could be nice if you are not trying to make a colorful nursery out of it.
Anyway to brighten up her small room, I made a curtain in pink polk-a-dot pattern fabric the other day. I bought 5 meters of the fabric in Nippori. It was 100 yen (about 1.20 USD) a meter.
I just hemmed the both top and bottom of the fabric, and added the tie strings on top to tie the curtain on the curtain rail. With the left over fabric, I made the curtain straps.
I also made the window seat cushion cover. The inside I put the old mattress. Not the big bed matress, but the kind you use underneath futon in Japan. I cut the matress to the size of the window seat and sewed the edge.
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[…] As a starter, the window seat cushion was made using an old mattress. Japanese mattresses are thinner than what they call mattress in the U.S., and can be easily cut with scissors. I cut the mattress to fit in the window seat size, and made the cover. I accented the cover with the red piping all around the seam lines.The polka dot curtain was also made by me as I blogged here. […]