I purchased inexpensive woven bamboo roman shades for both our playroom and our upstairs bathroom windows. It was easy to find cheap shades in the width I needed (27 inches), but the standard length (63 inches) was way too long for my 44.5 inch windows. Just check it out. Yeah, that’s sloppy. Before I ordered […]
Curtain conundrum
I made these curtains for our upstairs bathroom. My initial thought was to make them long enough to hang just below the top part of the window to simplify the lines of the window. But now I think they might be a bit too long. I know this is a personal preference, but I can’t […]
$100 Bathroom Challenge: Curtains made from a tablecloth
I’m not a big curtain kind of person, but this bathroom needed some color and something to soften all the hard edges. This fabric started life as a cotton tablecloth I picked up on clearance a year or two ago. I can’t remember how much I paid, but it was probably under $10. I never really had intentions […]
Clear Con-Tact paper doubles as frosted glass privacy film
This project isn’t as much about aesthetics as it is about… um… cleanliness? Good housekeeping? An unfinished basement is no place for curtains, if you ask me. Case in point, check out the fabulously awful specimens from two windows in our basement. These photos can’t quite capture how disgusting these curtains were. They were coated […]