Dining Room: Spring Window Refreshing

What is it about spring that makes you want to change things up?  Something fresh and new for your house or wardrobe always seems like just the thing to forget about winter.  Of course, the weather is not really acting like a normal spring, and my wardrobe is in shambles.  Soon enough the long 90 degree DC summer days will be here and this wacky winter-spring will be just a memory.  But I digress...

In this case, I bought some new curtains for the dining room.  There was nothing wrong with the old ones other than that I was tired of them.  Woops.

I was coveting some Anthro curtains but couldn't justify the price.  Then I found these. 

Here's a picture before...

And now...

I looked high and low for some decently priced curtains in a fun print.  The old ones just seemed a little stale and fuddy-duddy to me.  Their shininess also irked me.  As with the living room, it was too formal and just not us me.  

The curtains look really good with the rug.  Maybe too nice together.  It almost matches too closely so I may or may not be looking for a new rug.  Maybe.