Yes, we posed through a curtain. We're committed to the bit.
"Every morning I needed two hands to open the curtains. Sometimes I needed a second person. The curtains were winning. I was not okay with that."
We are Austin and Brynn — a husband-and-wife team from Austin, Texas who bought beautiful heavy linen curtains and then immediately regretted it. Not because they looked bad. They looked incredible. It's just that they absolutely refused to open.
After six months of the daily curtain battle, Austin said the five words every spouse dreads: "I have an idea."
What followed was three months of 3D modeling, a 3D printer going absolutely feral in the garage at 2 AM, and seventeen increasingly confident prototypes. Brynn remained skeptical but supportive. ("I just wanted to open the curtains," she has said, multiple times, on the record.)
Then one morning — one finger, all the way across. He called Brynn over. She watched. He did it again, slowly, with very deliberate eye contact. She said: "Okay, make more."
The clips went up in every window in the house. Then our neighbor's house. Then a friend texted asking where she could buy them. And that's the moment you start a company instead of just saying "oh, I just 3D printed those, no big deal."
Every clip is still 3D printed in our garage in Austin, TX. The printer still makes those sounds at 2 AM. We have made peace with this.