My New Kitchen!

We moved! The house we moved into is a little bit of a project. The kitchen had been gutted prior to us moving to the house. Mr. In the Mid-west rigged up a sturdy little kitchen for me. It has a nice large section of counter top, a refrigerator, oven and sink. He salvaged one upper cabinet for me and built rugged shelves under the counter top. The whole thing is very robust and functional.

I decided to make some curtains in lieu of cabinet doors. I went shopping in my fabric stash and found two kitchen-ish fabrics. I didn't have enough of either one to make all the curtains out of the same fabric. I had to use both and I like them both, so, I am happy! 

After hemming my curtain panels I installed snaps on the corners. I screwed the mate snap pieces into the wood. I had to rummage around in a junk box for screws. I was able to find screws that worked perfectly and all matched!

Before I could get all the curtains put up, disaster struck. My two year old pulled down on the top of the curtain and the snap ripped right off of the fabric. I was so devastated!

At first I thought, "This is why I can't have anything nice." And I had a good deal of self-pity. Then it dawned on me that instead of framing this problem like: this goes to show that children tear up everything, I could frame it like: this goes to show that I should have reenforced the fabric with a couple layers using snaps of that style.

And, the latter is a fact. These types of snaps need a heavier fabric or lighter material needs to be enforced. Before the day was over several more of the snaps had ripped through the fabric just in normal use. 

I could kick myself! Why didn't I know better? 

I thought using snaps would be brilliant and I hate giving up on the idea. Mr. In The Midwest suggested using Velcro and I think that it will work better with my fabric. I will be patching the holes in the curtains that I have made. Then I will see what I can do to attach Velcro.