It's curtains for me.

Getting well and truly into the pretty stuff now. First of all, I met with up with the lovely Tania to explore a massive showroom of divine fabrics. The goal was to make selections for all of our drapery requirements. Colour-coded according to price, I naturally gravitated to the appropriately Code Red-fabrics.

Even Tania tried to re-direct me to the more financially-soothing Code Blue fabrics. Contemplating the neutral for the colour-fickle older girls, the blue-grey for the coolly elegant grown-ups, and the unashamedly pink for the final baby of the family. 

Let us digress for a moment and explore a little Goldfields history: back in Victorian times the grandest home was built in Castlemaine for the grandest family in town. To this day, that grand home sits as the jewel in the town's tourism crown (apart from its title as Hot Rod Centre of Victoria). 

The estate was fringed by more humble worker's cottages, simple in design. In fact, the Homemade House Northern Estate is one of those humble Victorian miner's cottages, harking from 1863. 

In an interesting coincidence, one of the direct descendants of the grand house family now comes to the owner of the simple cottage, as purveyor of carpet for the Homemade House.